Gai Nagareboshi/Former Powers and Abilities

A list of Gai Nagareboshi's former and planned powers and abilities. Note that this page is only for storing ideas as of now.

Part II Zanpakutō Complete: Harusame
Harusame (春雨, "Spring Rain") is the name of Gai's true Zanpakutō. After absorbing the Infernox Core that Mitsuru entrusted him with, Harusame refused to invoke; a direct reflection of his shattered state of mind. It wasn't until he was able to gather resolve after hearing of a way to save Yuu Kimitsu that he was able to awaken Harusame. The Zanpakutō shares a symbiotic relationship with Gai's body. When sealed, Harusame appears as the Infernox Core, a phoenix-wing-shaped shard embedded in the back of his left hand, which causes his entire left arm to appear black, scaly, and deformed, which white flames scatter off of. The absoprtion of the Infernox Core sparked the single part of what was left of Gai's Awakened Form within his soul to re-emerge, absorbing the Infernox Core and replacing the core's golden purifying flames with its own all-devouring silver hellfire, as the Envoy of Destruction's hold over him grows tighter with battle, leaving Gai wrestling with wanting to destroy everyone and everything whenever he utilizes Harusame, as the Envoy of Destruction was born with the single purpose; to destroy, leaving the Mototsu struggling with the fact that he is both savior and potential destroyer of all life whenever he invokes Harusame.

Shikai: Harusame is activated with the creed, "Become hope! Invoke! Realize your true form...A weapon I can use to set right what once went wrong! Let's do it!" (希望になろう！起動する！あなたの本当の形を実現する...私はかつて何が悪かったのか右の設定に使用できる武器を！やってヤルゼ！, "Kibō ni narou! Kidō suru! Anata no hontō no katachi o jitsugen suru... Watashi wa katsute nani ga warukatta no ka migi no settei ni shiyō dekiru buki o! Yatte yaruze!"). It should be noted, that the creed was only used to invoke Harusame the first time, and afterwards Gai always releases Harusame with merely the phrase, "Let's do it!" (やってヤルゼ！, "Yatte yaruze!"). Harusame's flames expand, swirling around and enveloping Gai's left arm, before erupting in a flash of light, forcing the shard embedded in the back of his left hand to resonate with the flames, configuring his left arm into a monstrous adamantine claw with a singular, stark-white wing composed from purgatorial flames at Gai's scapula-joint. Gai can configure the arm further into the form of a massive arm-cannon, with his fingers becoming a sort of reishi spikes. Its unique construction creates a tremendous concentration of reishi, giving Harusame undeniable power.

Shikai Special Ability: In Shikai, Harusame's ability, designated Shisetsu no Honō (使節の炎, "Envoy's Flames"), allows complete control over the element of fire. They are the exact same silvery-white purgatorial flames Gai utilized in his Envoy of Destruction/Awakened Form, and they are comparable in intensity to the prominences that jet out during a solar eruption. The material he creates with these white flames defies the Laws of Physics. Gai's ability is focused around utilizing flame attacks with powerful aftereffects to quickly gain an advantage. Gai also uses several trick abilities with his Zanpakutō to protect himself from being hampered and negated so he can continue his onslaught. It is noted that while Harusame's fire abilities are powerful, utilizing them in conjunction with each other increases their lethality and potential expotenitally.

Bankai: Kagerō Harusame (陽炎春雨, "Heat Haze, Spring Rain"): When in Bankai, Gai wears an orange fur-hooded cowl which covers his shoulders and right arm, and is always open, with two protrusions coming out of his hood. The cape of the cowl has multiple fleur-de-lis on the trim, in addition to a white flame pattern on the sides. The monstrous adamantine claw becomes slender and golden, clad in armour with razor sharp claws, giving it a more streamlined appearance. This transformation also changes Gai's usual hairstyle from flat to a spiky rear. Kagerō Harusame is able to manipulate Gai's entire body like a marionette when incapacitated, or simply assisting in evasive tactics. Kagerō Harusame's attacks are an offensive form of reiatsu nullification. The claw "purifies" souls and spiritons which means it does no physical damage.
 * Shining Onslaught (炯然躍進, "Keizen Yakushin"): A variant of Gai's signature technique. Gai amasses purgatorial flames on his left palm and compresses them, in the process forming a constantly rotating self-preserving sphere of white flames. The compacted nature and moving speed of the flames allows this Shining Onslaught to grind into whatever it comes in contact with to inflict major damage. This tends to launch Gai's opponent backward after being hit or, if his opponent is knocked to the ground or being launched towards the ground, the destructive force is enough to form a crater. When utilizing Harusame's arm-cannon form, Gai can launch Shining Onslaughts out of the barrel like an actual cannonball at a rapid pace, compared to a carpet bombing or a gatling gun. The Shining Onslaught forms within the barrel in arm-cannon form, and it forms almost instaniously, reiatsu is channeled into the barrel, which then rapidly spins which creates the spinning sphere. A line of reiatsu is sent through the barrel, which causes the rotating reiatsu to form around that point, as it accelerates through the barrel, before it is released. In addition, Gai can shape the Shining Onslaught into many different weapons and the like by decompressing the flames and forcing it to take on a new form through mere thoughts.
 * Funshutsu no Tsume (噴出の爪, "Claw of Plume"): Gai is able to form ethereal arms of white flames from his scapula joint, which are able to strike at an opponent at incredible speed. Gai can vary the blazing arms' use from grappling hooks, to either grab onto objects or enemies from great distances, to offensive means. Gai, the arms, or any part of his body can divide into two or more fully operational appendages. Gai can release flaming arms in a small or large scale and they have the strength to shatter steel with just a grip. With the aid of Funshutsu no Tsume, Gai can force the arms to grasp his Shining Onslaughts and with a singular command, launch the arms at his foes at incomprehensible velocities at his foes, allowing for a bombardment of destructive spheres to be unleashed.
 * Hyper-Speed Combat: Gai's Shikai can perform high-speed combat by amassing massive amounts of purgatorial flame on his back and forming gigantic wings of flame; also granting him the ability of flight. His new speed is so great, that it also enhances his Kōshinho prowess and allows him to create dozens of afterimages to confound his opponent. Unlike regular afterimages, these images still contain mass, allowing Gai to pull off numerous blows to his opponent from all angles. At a single thought, Gai can disengage the mass, reverting them to normal afterimages. These afterimages can also be utilized in a similar manner to Utsusemi. With the aid of Zankaen Ningyō, Gai's hyper-speed is given a fiery twist, giving the foolish opponent who attempts to attack one of Gai's afterimages minimal chance when it comes to dodging the incredible burn contact damage of a Zankaen Ningyō.
 * Zankaen Ningyō (残火炎人形, "Lingering Blaze Puppet"): Gai is able to shape a large amount of purgatorial flames into his exact likeness, which function as if they were Gai himself, even able to bleed. After sustaining enough damage, they become miniature phoenixes and rise to the heavens before turning to ash. Gai often makes use of these puppets to utilize some of his stronger attacks and to act as diversions or support in the heat of battle. Zankaen Ningyō is by far, Gai's most useful technique.
 * Byakuya Senmetsuken (白夜殲滅剣, "Midnight Sun Annihilation Sword"): Gai amasses purgatorial flames from the arm-cannon's barrel, forming a solid gigantic white flame in the form of a lance from the barrel, thus giving Harusame the ability to cut through anything. He often uses this as a series of seven consecutive blows, called "Kanki Tenshōku" (喚起天翔駆, "Evocation Soaring Drive") where Gai slashes his opponent several times from different angles at incomprehensible speeds, with each slash causing a fiery explosion, before blasting through them. While Byakuya Senmetsuken is in effect, Gai can utilize Shining Onslaught in a similar manner to that of when he utilized it with Kakusei. Byakuya Senmetsuken is Gai's strongest attack in Shikai and the Mototsu only utilizes it when facing an opponent he cannot defeat by any other methods.

Bankai Special Abilities:

Anteishi Setsura: Avuārāku (アヴァラーク, "Avalark"): During the final stage of the battle with Kakusa re Shisha, Kagerō Harusame transformed further, Gai's right arm begins glowing golden, as a golden phoenix emblem appears on the back of his hand. Gai then transmutes his entire right arm into an exquisite broadsword the length of a surfboard with a large golden cross emblazoned on the face of the silver blade, which he declares "Avalark". This form is referred to as "Anteishi Setsura" (安定し雪羅 lit. "Stabilized Second Shift") due to have finally assumed control of the highly deadly Setsura state; obliterating all the hazards associated with the Mototsu's state of "surpassed limits" by freeing himself from all the fears and doubts in his mind and his heart. In releasing Anteishi Setsura, Gai's right shoulder is capped with a cross-shaped emblem, and his cowl usually forms a cloak to cover the missing arm. The's sword's hilt is golden with phoenix wings at on the sides, and the pommel is shaped like a small golden cross with a green gem in the middle. The end of the cross has a red ribbon tied to it. Along the cross emblazoned on the blade, there are several interesting symbols. Avalark can cut what cannot be cut, such as deities or planets. Gai is shown with the ability to telepathically recall Avalark to himself, should it be separated from his body.
 * Ultra-Speed Combat: Gai takes all the power of his flames and amasses them further, forming six sets of wings upon his back. Then, he uses the power of the Bankai to perform astoundingly high-speed combat and even faster flight. His newfound speed is so tremendous, that it also greatly enhances his Kōshinho prowess drastically and allows him to create hundreds of afterimages to confound his opponent.
 * Enhanced Shining Onslaught: In Bankai, Gai can still utilize Shining Onslaught, however, he utilizes it in the same way he used to when he possessed Kakusei a spinning, 'X'-shaped blast of purgatorial flames from a single talon. However, the attack is flawed. The blast's power is inconsistent, as its appearance varies from jagged and threatening, to frail and laughable. If fired in succession, the 'X' becomes more cracked, with the attack becoming more fragile with crack it gains. If the attack has anything less then seven cracks, it can be shattered with ease. Gai came to the conclusion that if he fires seven shots in row, he leaves himself wide open to attack. Gai can also unleash five Shining Onslaughts at the same time from his full hand.
 * Enhanced Zankaen Ningyō:
 * Enhanced Fushutsu no Tsume:
 * Enhanced Byakuya Senmetsuken: In Bankai, Byakuya Senmetsuken is drastically enhanced, though it is now so powerful and destructive that it has been shown to slice through dimensional barriers- specifically, the dimensional barriers which Kakusa re Shisha generates with its ability, which are known to have extremely tremendous endurance capabilities.
 * Enhanced Bankai Duration: Furthermore, the fact that all of his energy is "compressed" means that usage of his Bankai doesn't expel as much spiritual power as other Bankai from the point of activation; thus allowing him to use Kagerō Harusame at a much longer duration than any other Bankai users of his level.
 * Hanahikari Kagayaku Ken Kissaki (華光耀劍鋒, "Blossom Light Shining Sword Point"): Gai's usual finisher. Focusing five Shining Onslaughts upon his talons, absorbing the spheres into his claws, Gai unleashes a swipe of raw destructive power, which is drastically enhanced by the white purgatorial flames flowing from the talons. The swipe itself is powerful, and capable of tearing through enemy defenses to deal tremendous damage. Upon making contact, Hanahikari Kagayaku Ken Kissaki's impact upon Gai's opponent results in a widespread chain of destruction that reduces anything caught in its wake to remains that explode after a few seconds, to where the explosive effect persists and transfers to anything said remains come into contact with, obliterating them in return. This means that abilities such as regeneration are effectively negated. The downside to this seemingly almighty attack is that it is extremely short in it's range, requiring Gai to utilize a Zankaen Ningyō to distract his opponent before dealing the blow, thus usually ending the fight.

Anteishi Setsura Special Abilities: While in Anteishi Setsura, Gai can presumably utilize all of his former abilities; though on a greater scale, on the one occasion he is seen accessing this form, he has only utilized a single ability. However, his flames also gain the ability to devour offending Zanpakutō and Kidō, even that of Harafumei's ultimate attack Sekishiki Tenryōha.


 * Jōshō Hinotori (上昇火の鳥, "Rising Phoenix"): Gai condenses stray reishi into his body, before converting it into flame. After several seconds, the flames expand into the form of phoenix wings which unleash an explosive burst of flame to launch Gai at his target at near light-speeds. Upon making contact with his opponent, Gai unleashes a powerful thrust with Avalark which "purifies the very soul". The flames released during this technique resembles that of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Gai makes use of this ultimate attack during his final battle with Harafumei. Jōshō Hinotori is most useful when activated towards the end of a battle between high-level opponents, since the area will be saturated with excess energy from their attacks. It is a recycling of the reishi just used and spread over the battlefield. Therefore, even though Gai has been exhausted from reishi, the ability can still be invoked. This is also described as Gai's strongest attack, as not even Hanahikari Kagayaku Ken Kissaki was able to defeat Harafumei's strongest attack, Mu no Sekai, however, Hanahikari Kagayaku Ken Kissaki focuses upon mass destructive damage instead of piercing penetration.

Part II Zanpakutō First Draft: Koshinsi
In Turn Back the Pendulum, Kakusei's parameters had dramatically increased due to constant use of Setsura, as shown with Gai's fight against the Cero Espada, where Gai killed her by slicing her in half while she was Resurrección: Segunda Etapa with ease, but it is found out that Kakusei's releases fade 30 seconds sooner than normal. A few chapters later, it was revealed that Gai has a rare case and Kakusei will soon fade away, which comes to a head in the climax of Turn Back the Pendulum, where after Gai defeats Eienrai, Kakusei breaks down into reishi particles and scatters to the winds. In PersonaSuperiorDeus' and Koukishi's storyline, Gai has obtained a new Zanpakutō, which is actually Gekkō Utsukushi's Zanpakutō, who had merged with him during her death.

Koshinsi (弧紳士, "Arc Cavalier") is the name of Gai's new Zanpakutō. It takes the form of an golden exaggerated two-handed double-sided sword in its shape and appearance, in addition to being wrapped in an ornate white and blue filigree in a pattern slightly reminiscent of fish bones, though Gai always wields it with only one hand, invariably his left one, despite its apparent size and weight. It consists of a long hilt wrapped in a red material, a distinctively large handguard, a wide length of blade, and an equally long but thinner length ending in a point. Koshinsi is not necessarily intended to serve the role of a slicing weapon as a nodachi such as Haruko's Akkio. It is capable of slicing, however, as Gai is capable of using it to cleanly slice through his opponents and reinforced concrete. As its appearance is not as long and sturdy as Kakusei's, Gai demonstrates the ability to strike his opponent slightly faster with his new blade. As a result of merely being a 'fragment' of the extremely powerful Kakusei, Koshinsi, in all forms, is rather weak, since it is made up of very little reiatsu. Nevertheless, it is powerful enough to subdue an Espada-Level Arrancar, completely blocking a Gran Rey Cero from her. It is even able to upturn the ground with a single strike. Because of its status as a 'fragment', Kagirinai Nagareboshi was able to easily cut off most of the blade during his first encounter with Gai and Gunha Teishin subsequently slices it down to the hilt during their sparring match, forcing Gai to attempt to reform it several times.

Kōkagai (煌加害, "Brilliant Assault"): Using the memories of Kakusei as a focus, Gai can unleash spinning, cross-shaped blasts of reishi. Gai compared the feeling of using these blasts to that of using Shining Onslaught, but later stated "it's far weaker".

Sabitan (さび端, "Rusting Edge"): As Koshinsi makes contact with the opponent's Zanpakutō, it slowly begins to make the blade rust, and after a few minutes, his opponent's blade will seal itself.

Shikai: Koshinsi's release command is "Let's do it!" (やってヤルゼ, "Yatte yaruze!"). When released, Gai's attire completely changes, surprisingly. He gains a skintight black bodysuit with crimson stripes down its sides, and a small dark red armored top with white ringed shoulderguards that jut out a few centimeters. He also wears heavy, crimson knee-high boots with a diamond pattern at the cuffs. Gai also wears a unique crimson helmet with a fin at the top that bears six prongs on either side of his head which point backwards. In addition, Gai's helmet has a transparent light green visor that covers his eyes, and exposes his mouth at all times. Two angelic wings protrude from Gai's back, which grow in number depending on how much damage Gai has taken in battle. The maximum number of wings is six. Gai has a golden buckler shield on his right arm. In his left hand, Koshinsi manifests as an odd blade. The blade has a curved motorcycle handlebar on each side, and it has a shield with red wing shaped decorations with golden feathers and a green crystal in the middle on both sides of the cross-guard. The pommel looks like an odd shield, with a golden 'Y' shape engraved in the middle, with a green gem in the center. Two small shields with an eagle's claw are just above the pommel. The blade has a red crystal at the tip, and the cross-guard is coloured blue and orange.

Shikai Special Abilities: In Shikai, Gai has the ability to create and control feathers for multiple reasons. The feathers have piercing effects, and one is sharp as any Zanpakutō. These feathers are incredibly durable. The material he creates with these black feathers defies the Laws of Physics. Gai's ability is focused around utilizing feather attacks with powerful aftereffects to quickly gain an advantage. Gai also uses several trick abilities with his Zanpakutō to protect himself from being hampered and negated so he can continue his onslaught. All of these abilities are signalled by a cascade of black feathers swirling around Gai's body before being activated. He can even use these feathers to create a propulsive effect. The type of feathers he uses can be changed. For example, they can be solidified to cling to surfaces. Bankai: Reikihaku Koshinsi (零気迫弧紳士, "Zero Drive Arc Cavalier"): In Bankai, Gai's attire does not change drastically compared to his Shikai; the crimson markings on his bodysuit become a glowing neon green, and what else is colored crimson is turned golden with glowing neon green highlights in some places. Gai's helmet gains two horn-like spikes that curve upwards slightly at the back, and a thinner horn is attached to just above the forehead part of his helmet, which extends upwards slightly. Gai's gauntlets and greaves become far more armored. Gai gains several schimitar shaped black wings, whose total lengths vary from 10 meters to 100 meters. These wings emit golden reishi as Gai moves. Koshinsi transforms into an exquisite broadsword with a large cross emblazoned on the face of the blade.
 * Kagayakiha (輝き刃, "Splendor Blade"): Amassing black feathers around his blade, Gai performs a slashing motion, launching an crescent moon of pitch-black down at his opponent.
 * Ame-no-Ohabari (天之尾羽張, "Tail-feathers of Heaven"): Gai forms black wings on his back, and with a single flap, releases a gust of black feathers at his opponent at incredible speeds. Gai can fire these feathers with extreme accuracy, be it directly at the target or the surrounding area.
 * Haguro (羽黒, "Feather-black"): Gai converts his surroundings to the dark of night for one kilometer with the black feathers that are emitted from his jet black wings.
 * Shuyokuha (主翼刃, "Wing Blade"): Gai unleashes a vacuum blade at supersonic speeds at his opponent. Because of the speed of the Shuyokuha's residue, its true colors cannot be confirmed, and it can only be seen as a silhouette shaped like a black phoenix.
 * Tatsumakika (竜巻下, "Down Tornado"): Gai forms a tornado of black feathers along Koshinsi's blade, which he then launches at his opponent at supersonic speeds, as the tornado progressively expands, his opponents slowly begin to become drawn in, at which point, the feathers stop spinning and shoot at his opponents at incredible speeds and force, dealing incredible damage.
 * Umōseiiki (羽毛聖域, "Feathered Sanctuary"): White wings form around Gai's body which negate his opponent's use of an ability that would affect him once per release.
 * Hōō no Toppa (鳳凰の突破, "Phoenix Breakthrough"): Gai can attack equal to the number of wings protruding from his back. If so, Gai can negate his opponents' defenses, Kidō, or Zanpakutō abilities, as well as defenses created by equipment that would prevent him from allowing his attack to connect, and he takes no damage if his opponent had a 'shared pain' ability until slightly later on, and this is represented by the wings on Gai's back vibrating at the speed of light.
 * Tsubasa no Gyakuten (翼の逆転, "Winged Reversal"): If one of Gai's attacks connects with his opponents' and the opposing technique is of a greater magnitude, Gai's technique automatically transforms into his foe's attack and the two cancel each other out. However, this can only be utilized four times per release, this is represented by black feathers surrounding the opponent's attack, before morphing Gai's attack into the foe's own.

Bankai Special Abilities: In Bankai, Gai gains multiple attacks: Teni Muhō no Kiwami: Kakusei no Fukkatsu (転移無法の極み・覚醒の復活, "Pinnacle of Perfection: Awakening's Rebirth"): In his Teni Muhō no Kiwami, Gai gains a sleeveless white shirt with a black and orange mantle adorning his back. He wears white cargo pants and shoes, which are partially armored. Red circlets are placed near his biceps and his gauntlets. Koshinsi transforms into Gai's previous Zanpakutō, Kakusei, which has the ability to morph between default, Shikai, and Bankai forms.
 * Shining Onslaught (炯然躍進, "Keizen Yakushin"): In Bankai, Gai regains the useage of his signature attack, Shining Onslaught from his previous Zanpakutō, Kakusei. Gai is capable of unleashing spinning, 'X'-shaped blasts of white feather-like spiritual energy. However, the attack is flawed. The blast's power is inconsistent, as its appearance varies from jagged and threatening, to frail and laughable. If fired in succession, the 'X' becomes more cracked, with the attack becoming more fragile with crack it gains. If the attack has anything less then seven cracks, it can be shattered with ease. Gai came to the conclusion that if he fires seven shots in row, he leaves himself wide open to attack. Shining Onslaught is a powerful technique with great force, capable of causing large-scale damage and destruction. Gai has used this technique in several different manners, such as striking the ground to create an omnidirectional blast of white feathers to knock away incoming attacks or slashing at the ground to upturn it and crush everything in its path.
 * Hyper-Speed Combat: Gai takes all the power of his Bankai and compresses it into a small, condensed form. Then, he uses the power of the Bankai to perform high-speed combat. His new speed is so great, that it also enhances his Jikyū prowess and allows him to create dozens of afterimages to confuse his opponent.
 * Enhanced Bankai Duration: Furthermore, the fact that all of his energy is "compressed" means that usage of his Bankai doesn't expel as much spiritual power as other Bankai from the point of activation; thus allowing him to use Reikihaku Koshinsi at a much longer duration than any other Bankai users of his level.
 * Sabun Sentan (差分線端, "Delta Ray Edge"):
 * Jōshō Kuchiku (上昇駆逐, "Rising Destroyer"):
 * Shinzō no Owari (心臓の終わり, "End of Heart"):
 * Ku~ovu~adisu (クォヴァディス, "Quo Vadis"): Gai's ultimate attack in Bankai. Ku~ovu~adisu converts Gai's reiatsu into light, intensifying the kinetic energy by convergence and acceleration, becoming a weapon of directive energy. To others, it looks like a titanic band of light, though in practice, only the tip is what can hit, and the light is a result of the "dislocation" of everything that this attack goes through. The tip of the attack also holds heat, making it a wave of light that can mow through the surface of the earth.

Teni Muhō no Kiwami Special Abilities: Kakusei no Fukkatsu regains all of Kakusei's special abilities, gaining access to Kakusei, Shinseina Kakusei, and Zennōsha Kakusei's techniques, at the cost of discarding Koshinsi's abilities. Gai notes these abilities to be easier to utilize.

Former Zanpakutō: Kakusei
Kakusei (覚醒 lit. Awakening) was the name of Gai's Zanpakutō. Kakusei was the first Mototsu Zanpakutō in existance, and as Ayano theorizes, Kakusei could be the first Zanpakutō to ever come into existance, aside from the Soul King's Zanpakutō, due to the Mototsu race's longevity. Kakusei is regarded as an extremely powerful Zanpakutō due to its deadly ability which can be used even in its sealed state. According to Eienrai, Kakusei is currently one of the most powerful Zanpakutō in terms of potential, since it has "over one thousand abilities coursing through its blade", though its level is brought down due to Gai's slightly below-average skills, thus putting him on a slightly lower level than the rest of his team. Gai's Zanpakutō is referred to as Kakusei (廓清 lit. Purification) until it is shattered, and it is later revealed in Tenth Release- Memorization, its name is not Kakusei (廓清 lit. Purification) but Kakusei (覚醒 lit. Awakening). Kakusei, unlike most other Zanpakutō, allows Gai to learn and predict moves of opponents he faces even without being in its released state. In its sealed state, Kakusei is a large broadsword. It has a gear-hilt that can slide off the blade and be used as a flailing weapon. It has an ornately etched based, but its most unique feature is that it has been specially customized with a motorcycle-like gear shift. The sword is somewhat longer than most Zanpakutō, at about 1.7 meters long. Gai obtained Kakusei in Third Release- Kakusei, creating it from the remains of Tōshirō Hitsugaya's Hyōrinmaru, which was destroyed by Nika, with the help of Anki. Kakusei is one of the most mysterious Zanpakutō in the story, with its abilities being incomprehensible. In Turn Back the Pendulum, Kakusei's parameters have dramatically increased due to constant use of Setsura, but it is found out that Kakusei's releases fade 30 seconds sooner than normal. Its been revealed that he has a rare case and Kakusei will soon fade away, which comes to a head in the climax of Turn Back the Pendulum, where after Gai defeats Fumeina, Kakusei fades away and scatters to the winds. Shikai: In Shikai, Kakusei takes the form of a unique broadsword, having a magenta blade, with golden trim around the blade. The hilt and cross-guard are a brilliant white, and the cross-guard has two purple crosses sticking out from the sides. There is a triangle sticking out from the cross-guard, making a sort of triangle as seen from the side, slightly covering the cross-guard. This 'triangle' has a green gem in the middle and golden sides with air vents, similar to a knight's helmet. The grip is red and the pommel has three purple spikes on it. Gai's left hand becomes covered by a crimson glove and the chain at the base of Kakusei's hilt extends out further than it previously did, spiraling up the length of his sleeveless left arm with the additional portion of the chain hanging down freely from his upper arm. On his left shoulder, there is a crimson pauldron that has three curved fins of metal jutting out from his left shoulder blade, each progressively larger as they near his shoulder. The fins can break apart to propel Gai forward at great speed and increase the power of his strikes. Kakusei also gains a crescent-shaped blade attached to its hilt by a long metal chain, which can extend greatly if necessary by force of will. The chain itself can be used as an attack or to entangle a target. The chain can also be used to swing the weapon like a flail and toss it at opponents for mid-range combat. Kakusei's wide blade can be used as a shield from incoming attacks. It's release command is "Let's do it!" (やってヤルゼ, "Yatte yaruze!"). In both Shikai and Bankai, Gai displays the ability to shift Kakusei into multiple forms, including a whip, a jet-vehicle, a spinning-cog weapon, a cannon, a claw-like weapon, a greave, a pair of wings that allow flight, and a gigantic sword of pure reishi.
 * Shining Onslaught (炯然躍進, "Keizen Yakushin"): Shining Onslaught is Gai's signature technique, and the most used of all his attacks. Unlike most Zanpakutō abilities, this technique can be used in Kakusei's sealed state, as proof of Gai's skill. Gai is capable of unleashing spinning, 'X'-shaped blasts of white feather-like spiritual energy. However, the attack is flawed. The blast's power is inconsistent, as its appearance varies from jagged and threatening, to frail and laughable. If fired in succession, the 'X' becomes more cracked, with the attack becoming more fragile with crack it gains. If the attack has anything less then seven cracks, it can be shattered with ease. Gai came to the conclusion that if he fires seven shots in row, he leaves himself wide open to attack. Shining Onslaught is a powerful technique with great force, capable of causing large-scale damage and destruction. Gai has used this technique in several different manners, such as striking the ground to create an omnidirectional blast of white feathers to knock away incoming attacks or slashing at the ground to upturn it and crush everything in its path. Gai has developed variants for this technique, which are listed below.
 * Shining Breakthrough (炯然突破, "Keizen Toppa"): Stabbing Kakusei into the ground, Gai forces thousands of white feathers to erupt from the ground underneath the opponent at extreme force and speed.
 * Shining Paling (炯然囲い, "Keizen Kakoi"): Gai is capable of firing rod-shaped white feather palings from the tip of Kakusei; these stakes are made of hard reishi, which enables them to picket the ground and fence in the adversary, or to pile upon them; Gai may also stand atop of the palings.

Shikai Special Ability: Kakusei's special ability is called Anki (暗記 lit. Memorization). As he initially cannot manifest his own Zanpakutō into his plane of existance, he must shatter and use his opponent's broken sword as a means to materialize Kakusei. As he performs Anki, his Zanpakutō in its sealed state will take on the form of the assimilated Zanpakutō's sealed state. When doing this, Kakusei obtains a majority of the abilities of the assimilated Zanpakutō, which vary from attacks to movement styles. Gai has assimililated thousands of Zanpakutō, however, his techniques are mere fragments compared to the originals. In Tenth Release- Memorization, Kisuke Urahara teaches Gai another way to utilize Anki; by clashing swords with his opponent, and quickly pouring his reiatsu into Kakusei's blade, Gai can copy one of his opponents' attacks. Another way is to headbutt his opponent. After his deep sleep, Gai can only remember one ability, and nothing else. One hundred and fifty years ago, Gai used Anki on Hanegetsu, thus stealing the the ability to create and control an unknown power which is shaped like feathers for multiple reasons. The 'feathers' have piercing effects, and one is as sharp as any Zanpakutō. These 'feathers' are incredibly durable. The material he creates with these black 'feathers' defies the Laws of Physics. Kakusei has a habit of unlocking certain abilities for Gai when the situation desires it, in order to escape from a tight situation. Gai cannot use Anki against his opponent in RPs.

Techniques: Bankai: Shinseina Kakusei (神聖な覚醒 lit. Divine Awakening) In Bankai, Kakusei takes the form of two pitch-black gauntlets. It has a crystal blue emblem in the middle, and an orange cross on top of this, and flame type designs also cover the base of the gauntlets. There is a pair of arm thrusters attached to the gauntlets. In Bankai, Gai manifests massive, black devilish wings that he can use as incredibly sharp blades. Despite constantly attempting to better himself in Zanjutsu, Gai eventually realized that he would fare better if his Bankai was attuned to what he excels at: hand-to-hand combat.
 * Enhanced Shining Onslaught: In Shikai, Shining Onslaught is drastically augemented.
 * Yami Myaku (闇脈, "Dark Pulse"): Gai puts his hands together in front of his chest and fires a beam of black and purple feathers of spiritual energy from in between them at the opponent, or Gai crosses his arms in front of his face and an orb of black and dark blue circles appears in front of them. Gai then separates his arms and the orb moves in front of Gai's chest. Gai then fires a beam of black and dark blue feathers of spiritual energy from the orb at the opponent.
 * Hanya Heki (はんやへき, "Midnight Burst"): Gai's eyes glow light blue and his body becomes surrounded by a crimson aura. He then raises his arms above his head. When he does, the aura around his forearms gets thicker. He then slams his arms down into the ground. A pink and crimson growing forcefield of reiatsu appears from the aura around Gai's arms and grows larger, spreading all around him. The thicker the aura is around Gai's arms, the more powerful the attack becomes.
 * Karasu Tsubasa (鴉翼, "Raven Wings"): Gai can create black feather wings on his feet that grant him the ability of flight and speed.
 * Messenkō (滅閃光, "Destructive Shine"): Gai punches the ground, sending out several black feather clusters in different directions.
 * Hakka Bakushin (発火驀進, "Ignition Rush"): The fins on Gai's left shoulder blade break apart, unleashing a white surge of reishi from his shoulder that launches him foward at inconcievable speeds. The moment Gai begins to move, a sonic boom is unleashed. This technique is often preceeded by a powerful spinning slash.
 * Umōseiiki (羽毛聖域, "Feathered Sanctuary"): White wings form around Gai's body which negate his opponent's use of an ability that would affect him once per release.
 * Hōō no Toppa (鳳凰の突破, "Phoenix Breakthrough"): Gai can attack equal to the number of wings protruding from his back. If so, Gai can negate his opponents' defenses, Kidō, or Zanpakutō abilities, as well as defenses created by equipment that would prevent him from allowing his attack to connect, and he takes no damage if his opponent had a 'shared pain' ability until slightly later on, and this is represented by the wings on Gai's back vibrating at the speed of light.
 * Tsubasa no Gyakuten (翼の逆転, "Winged Reversal"): If one of Gai's attacks connects with his opponents' and the opposing technique is of a greater magnitude, Gai's technique automatically transforms into his foe's attack and the two cancel each other out. However, this can only be utilized four times per release, this is represented by black feathers surrounding the opponent's attack, before morphing Gai's attack into the foe's own.
 * Byakuya Senmetsuken (白夜殲滅剣, "Midnight Sun Annihilation Sword"): Gai amasses white light on his blade, giving it the look of a gigantic white feather, thus giving Kakusei the ability to cut through anything. He often uses this as a series of seven consecutive blows, called "Kanki Tenshōku" (喚起天翔駆, "Evocation Soaring Drive") where Gai slashes his opponent several times from different angles at incomprehensible speeds, with each slash causing a fiery explosion, before blasting through them.

Bankai Special Ability: While in Bankai, Gai's manipulation of feathers is greatly enhanced, as are his Anki skills. However, Gai also has a secondary ability. Setsura: Zennōsha Kakusei (全能者覚醒 lit. The Almighty Awakening):﻿ Setsura is the result of Gai's "true awakening" after being freed from his true form, which was fuelled by his rage. During his battle with Eienrai, as his nigh-unstoppable foe lurched towards the weakened Hizashi, aiming to kill her, Gai cried out in desperation for someone to help him save her. As the light began to fade from his eyes, a voice called out to him, telling him to stand and fight. The moment he heard this voice, Gai's body stood up on its own, fuelled by his own resolve. His own reiatsu surrounded him, before enveloping him and Shinseina Kakusei completely, as he unleashed his Setsura (雪羅 lit. "Second Shift") for the first time, a state unique to the Mototsu that is equal to a Vizards' Resurrección, which foregoes the use of a Zanpakutō in order to evolve the body. In this new form, Gai's attire changes to a white, two-tailed trenchcoat, with no shirt underneath. Gai also wears a golden divided hakama, with painted golden phoenix wing designs, tied with a magenta sash. A large piece of white fabric hangs from the center of the sash; embellished with the images of three origami cranes. Gai also bears two strips of red cloth that drape over either side of his hips, along with a smaller, black strip of cloth tied around his waist, draped in the same manner. Gai's attire is completed with black sneakers. Gai can summon an enormous broadsword with nine orbs engraved in a zigzagging pattern on the blade and a red orb on the cross-guard. On the sides of the cross-guard, there are golden angelic wings. It has an even brighter trim around the blade, and around the orbs, there are crystals. Gai can also summon a large white fist attachement. Six massive wings of white light, which have galaxies and stars imbued in them erupt from his back. This visage likens Gai to the Seraphim of Judaism, who were said to be the highest ranking angels, and this was signified by their six wings. This imagery also casts Gai as a hero and savior- despite his lazy and unfriendly personality. It is interesting to note that in Setsura, Gai is levitating slightly above the ground.
 * Shield of Black Wings: Gai is capable of wrapping his wings around himself like a sphere protecting him from any attacks. This attack is unusable in RPs, unless the other collobarator wishes otherwise.
 * Hyper-Speed Combat: Gai takes all the power of his Bankai and compresses it into a small, condensed form. Then, he uses the power of the Bankai to perform high-speed combat in the form of exceedingly fast bursts of speed that happen at random times which Gai cannot predict. Nika compared Gai's Shinseina Kakusei's second ability to Ichigo Kurosaki's Tensa Zangetsu, but unlike Tensa Zangetsu, Shinseina Kakusei does not enhance his Bankai duration, but rather shorten it drastically in return for short periods of high speed. During his last fight with Haruko Kiseki, Gai has obtained the ability to time these bursts of speed, and shows great maneuverability, being able to effortlessly dodge all of Haruko's Kōkan Bakufū attacks.
 * Enhanced Shining Onslaught: Shinseina Kakusei retains the use of Shining Onslaught, but in an enhanced form. However, due to the absense of a blade, Gai makes a hand motion releasing the blasts from his hands. When used in Bankai, these potent blasts are blue with a magenta outline and their path can be controlled, with explosively augmented power and speed. Gai can also keep Shining Onslaught within Shinseina Kakusei to augment his punches.
 * Ittō Ryōdan: Genmugai (一刀両断・幻夢ガイ, "One Sworded Double Severing: Phantasm Victory Song"): Gai launches two giant crescent waves from Kakusei repeatedly, which cover the entire area in front of him and can kill his opponents instantly. This technique was only used by Gai in a flashback, and he was invulnerable during this attack. Ittō Ryōdan is the art of splitting someone in half in one stroke, thus proving the prowess of this one hit-killing attack. This attack is unusable in RPs.
 * Genmugai Kai (幻夢ガイ・改, "Phantasm Victory Song Revision"): A weaker version of the above, where Gai releases one giant crescent wave from his fist.
 * Shin Messenkō (真・滅閃光, "True Destructive Light"): Gai punches the ground, and a series of black feather clusters shoot from the ground to the sky at the speed of sound. This attack was only used in a flashback, and is unusable in RPs.
 * Rakuhōha (落鳳破, "Falling Phoenix Crush"): A revision of the above, Gai slams his fist to the ground, causing nine black feather bolts of destructive reishi to erupt in a fanned out manner.
 * Maō Gokuenha (魔王獄炎波, "Devil Prison Flame Wave"): Gai holds his sword pointed towards the ground with both hands clasped around its hilt while he closes his eyes to focus his thoughts, with several black feathers falling around him. When he opens his eyes, he creates a field of dark reishi around himself, granting himself large burst of strength. He begins a mad dash to the opponent, rising into the air and slamming the ground with his sword, causing pillars of fire to rise from the ground and incinerate his opponent.
 * Reiraku Byakuya (零落白夜, "Midnight Sun Faded Glory"): Reiraku Byakuya allows Gai to absorb the Reiatsu of a Zanpakutō, Kidō spells, and even Quincy Arrows. He can in fact absorb anything as long as it's reiatsu. Once Reiraku Byakuya absorbs a power it becomes Gai's to use against his opponents as he chooses. At anytime he can release the absorbed energy as one strike, an exceedingly powerful slash, which is able to ignore any defense and effect. A single direct hit is often enough to force opponents to exhaust their own reiatsu completely in an attempt to cushion the blow, effectively rendering them drained. However, activation of Reiraku Byakuya actually requires a vast amount of reishi, barring the absorbed energy, which is much more than Gai can continuously supply.
 * Ketteiteki no Keizen Yakushin (決定的の炯然躍進, "The Decisive Shining Onslaught"): The most powerful technique in Gai's arsenal, analogous to Ichigo Kurosaki's Saigo no Getsuga Tenshō. Because of his Mototsu heritage, Gai does not suffer the loss of his powers upon utilizing this technique; instead, he loses Kakusei. For the duration of the ability, Gai’s hair turns white, and becomes ankle-length. Dark crimson bandages form around his body, tightly wrapped around his torso, right arm, and face, ending just beneath his eyes. Golden flame-like markings spread across his chest and wrap around his left arm, and the remains of his hakama cover his lower body. In this form, feather-like reiatsu continuously molts off of Gai's body, most of which is focused around his left arm. Being in this form allows Gai to utilize Mirai ni Kagayaku Hikari.
 * Mirai ni Kagayaku Hikari (未来に輝く光, "The Light that Shines towards the Future"): The most powerful technique in Gai's arsenal. First, Gai throws his hands up in the air, and using his left hand, he grabs his right arm, pointing it towards the opponent, screaming the attack's name as he does so. He then jerks his arms back, in the process causing an explosion to spring forth from his right arm and a phoenix emerges from it. Shinseina Kakusei then gathers the leftover reishi from the battlefield, and it begins to glow white. As all the reishi is absorbed, Gai rockets forward at the speed of sound, and a small explosion of reishi goes off behind him. As Gai flies toward, he becomes enveloped in a golden aura, with golden feathers and sparkles trailing behind him. As he impacts, he rockets through the opponent's body.

Setsura Special Abilities: Similar to Kakusei and Shinseina Kakusei, Zennōsha Kakusei drastically auguments Gai's feather manipulation and Anki skills. However, as of now, Gai's attacks become attuned to the light element, symbolizing his role as main character of PersonaSuperiorDeus' stories.
 * Enhanced Shining Onslaught: Zennōsha Kakusei retains the use of Shining Onslaught and can be used in the same manners, but can be used in an drastically enhanced form. When Gai first utilizes the Shining Onslaught against Fumeina, it was shown to have a drastically different appearance. Instead of the usual 'X' shaped blasts of white feather-like spiritual energy, it takes the form of a brilliant white arc, or crescent moon, with two angelic wings on each side. This new Shining Onslaught was shown to have enough power to completely tear through Fumeina's Finalidad Asalto, and its blast was able to demolish a large radius of Seireitei and leave behind a huge crater. Gai can also release Shining Onslaught off his sword or his gauntlet.
 * Wing Extension: With a single command, Gai can launch his wings at his opponents at inconcievable speeds. Gai's wings can extend up to one hundred meters long, and they carry tremendous force when extending.
 * Shōene Hakai (省エネ破壊, "Energy Destruction"): If an echleon of supernatural energy other than reiatsu or reiryoku comes into contact with Gai's wings, then it will be instantly converted into reiryoku, though it will still strike Gai with the same force as it normally would. However, certain highly powerful attacks can bypass this ability.
 * Kōshi Nagare (光子流れ, "Photon Stream"): Not Yet Revealed.
 * Hoshishizuku Kippari (星屑きっぱり, "Stardust Finality"): Not Yet Revealed.
 * Bōkō Onsokuheki (暴行音速劈, "Assault Sonic Burst"): Not Yet Revealed.
 * Light-Speed Combat: In Setsura, Gai's physical power is pushed far past the limits and beyond even that, giving him otherworldly physical parameters. With it, he can use the power of Setsura to perform light-speed combat. His new speed is so great, that it also enhances his Kōshinho prowess and allows him to create thousands of afterimages to confuse his opponent.
 * Enhanced Setsura Duration: The fact that all of Gai's physical energy is pushed past the limits and beyond means that usage of Setsura doesn't expel as much reiatsu as Bankai from the point of activation; thus allowing him to use Zennōsha Kakusei at a much longer duration than many other Shinigami, Arrancar, and Vizard with their own releases of his level.
 * Moon-Fang Shining Onslaught (月牙炯然躍進, "Getsuga Keizen Yakushin"): Not Yet Revealed.
 * Hanahikari Kagayaku Ken Kissaki (華光耀劍鋒, "Blossom Light Shining Sword Point"): Not Yet Revealed.

Awakened Form
Due to the nature of his creation and consequent defeat at the hands of Isshin Kurosaki, Gai's full power is sealed within him. In the finale of Part I of Bleach: Rising Phoenix, after Eienrai almost dispatched, stabbed, and severely wounded her, as Gai was unable to prevent this to being near death from his earlier battle with the demon. Infuriated, and cursing the world at why Hizashi has to suffer, Gai lost control of himself, and exploded into his true form, the destroyer of worlds. In this form, Gai possesses otherworldly and peerless power and speed, but his intellect is reduced to that of a snarling beast unable to focus on anything save for the target of his rage. In his mind, Gai is chained to a flaming rock above what looks like a hellish inferno. In this form, Gai's hair becomes much spikier, and it extends down to his ankles. Gai's eyes become reptilian and golden in addition to now being slitted in a 'cross-like' look, and he gains blood-red sclera. Gai's skin is now a pale white, with the addition of black marks all over his body. He also has retractable claws on his fingertips and toes, small furry red tufts, two starting from his collarbone and stretching around his neck, and one each on his wrists and ankles. Gai now has a tail, which is capable of being used as a weapon or to lift and strangle a victim, and seven floating swords of black feathers behind his back. Though Gai confronted Eienrai in this form, it proved vastly inferior to Eienrai's Soul King Form. With the aid of Hizashi, however, Gai was able to convert this form into the orders of magnitude superior Setsura. In this form, Gai does not have access to his Zanpakutō, or any of its abilities, instead relying on near godlike power. During his battle with Kagirinai, Gai managed to gain control of the form for a few minutes, but still suffers the strained but he still suffers from the physical strain resulting from the form, and is was at risk of "letting himself go" if he does not consciously keep control. In addition, Gai seemed to have weakened drastically, as Kagirinai, without releasing his Zanpakutō, was effortlessly fending him off. After achieving the Setsura state, Gai had lost access to this form, and it is unusable in RPs.

Awakened Form Special Abilities:
 * Otherworldly Strength: In this form, Gai is capable of destroying a large portion of Seireitei with a swift hand movement. He is capable of easily tearing off Eienrai's left arm without much resistance from his damage resistance. He is capable of crushing Eienrai's strongest attack and force it to collapse before Eienrai even got a chance to detonate it. He easily slashed Eienrai from his left shoulder to his lower right hip through his damage resistance. He is also able to effortlessly throw a skyscraper with his single hand.
 * Otherworldly Speed: In this form, Gai was noted to have near godlike speed, as he quickly dissapeared and reappeared around Eienrai in a matter of seconds, with his movements appearing as mere twitches.
 * Otherworldly Spiritual Power: When awakened, Gai's very presence causes the very fabric of Soul Society to distort and erode at a frightening pace, which could leak out into the World of the Living and Hell to destroy all three worlds. Gai's reiatsu takes the form of a vicious maelstrom of purgatorial flames.
 * High-Speed Regeneration: After Hizashi helped Gai break out of his Awakened Form, the energy from his transformation went above him and came down as some sort of energy that fully rejuvenated him of his injuries from Eienrai, to who commented on it to that effect.
 * Extra Appendage: In his Awakened Form, Gai is able to grow a large phoenix-beak like appendage from various locations on his body, this appendage will attack trying to consume Gai's current target.
 * Chain (チェイン, "Chein"): Quickly after transforming, Gai was able to call Kakusei back to his hands with just a simple gesture.
 * Inen Bakufū (因縁爆風, "Origin Blast"): While all Mototsu can utilize this technique, Gai only makes use of it in his Awakened Form. It is golden in color and it is exceedingly powerful, capable of completely overwhelming Eienrai's Reiō no Haretsu no Shūryō and causing large scale destruction to large portion of the surroundings. It is fired from between the tips of his fingers.
 * Soul Destruction: With every attack, Gai is capable of damaging severely or completely obliterating his opponent's soul, leaving them unable to be reincarnated.
 * Unnamed Rift Attack: In this form, one of Gai's strangest attack forms is his ability to tear open a behemoth rift from which hundreds of different swords are spawned that attack in a continuous stream of blades at hypersonic speeds. If the attack is blocked, the swords are scattered across the area but remain in existence until Gai is knocked down. Gai can pick up these swords and use them normally.
 * Unnamed Palm Rush: In his battle against Eienrai, Gai grasped his foe's face in his left palm and forcibly drove him into and through the wall of Central 46's headquarters. He continued to push Eienrai back with a massive burst of his reiatsu, propelling him across the landscape of Soul Society and into a large rock formation, all the while crushing Eienrai's head in his grip.