Howl's Moving Castle - Sophie

Hello everyone! I am back with a long awaited, delayed, new post! This time this skill is on Sophie, from Howl's Moving Castle. Sophie is a young woman who is cursed by a evil witch and is turned into a ninety year old. She searches for the famous wizard named Howl, hoping that he may be able to lift the curse. There is both a book and an animated movie under the same name Howl's Moving Castle. The book has two other books following it, but the main character of the following two books are different. Sophie and Howl appear in all three books, playing a part in the main character's life. Up to this point mostly everything is the same, anywhere after, the plot is extremely diverse. However, the special skill that Sophie has in this post occurs in the book by Diana Wynne Jones. I recommend reading the book first and then watching the anime. You can easily note the differences but still think that both publications are totally different masterpieces altogether. 

Sophie was merely a normal young woman, not involved in magic. However, she has the ability to talk objects in doing whatever she wants. To be more precise, she does not use magical incantations, instead she just commands what she wants done and by magic it will happen. She can also talk life into objects by just talking to the object. 

Sophie as a 90 year old in the anime, after receiving the curse. She's looking quite different, huh?

Death Note - Death Note (notebook)

Death Note is an anime about Light Yagami. He finds the "Death Note", a notebook, by accident. On the inside cover of the book is a list of guidelines on how to use the "Death Note".  Light Yagami experiments on the "Death Note" and finds that he can kill people. He began to kill criminals and those that he thought should be punished, and they all died of heart attacks. The police and the public no longer think that these deaths are coincidental, rather they believe that there is a "Kira" (Japanese for killer). Many fan websites popped up, supporting Kira's cause as Light continues to kill criminals, making them all die of heart attacks. Light is an extremely smart college student. His studies are unaffected, and he gets a lot of criminal  information from hacking his father's computer (his father's a part of the police). Finally, the police call on "L". L is a famous detective known for breaking the most impossible cases, and it seems as if he is the only one who can find this "Kira".    

• The human whose name is written in this notebook shall die.
• This notebook will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
• If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen.
• If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.
• After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds. 

Death Note: Light Yagami can kill anyone he wishes just by writing down the name of the person and thinking of the person's face. Or else John Smith in Athens, Greece might accidentally be killed when the John Smith meant to be killed is in Beijing, China.

Inuyasha - Tetsusaiga (Tessaiga in original version)

The series's name is called Inuyasha. One of the main character's name is Inuyasha too.The Tetsusaiga isn't really a power, it's a sword that Inuyasha wields. This sword was originally made from the fang of Inuyasha's father. Later on, the sword is broken and is repaired with a fang from Inuyasha to serve as a binding. Inuyasha's father was a demon, so the sword was made that only those with demonic powers, in other words only demons, were able to wield and use the sword to its fullest powers. Inuyasha is a half-demon, his father the demon, and his mother a human. Inuyasha is still able to use the sword even though he is a half-demon. Also, in order to use the Tetsusaiga, you not only have to be a demon, you also have to have the heart of protecting a human. Inuyasha's group is mainly of humans, and he does his best to protect them.

                                                                                   Tetsusaiga : When Tetsusaiga is in its normal form, it appears as an old useless sword with nicks and scratches all over. Whenever wielded by the correct organism (in lack of a better word) it will transform

   

into this. This is the true form of Tetsusaiga and can be extremely powerful. The two moves of the Tetsusaiga are called the "Wind Scar" and the "Backlash Wave". The "Wind Scar" is basically when the wielder of the sword senses the his own demon power and the opponent's clash and form the perfect place to slice and is able to "kill a hundred in one move". The "Backlash Wave" is on a higher level. The wielder has to take the "Wind Scar" and twist it and force the enemy's own power to reverse and reflect on the enemy himself. 

Naruto - Rasengan

Hey guys! Welcome back! This is another skill/superpower that an anime character possesses. Naruto Uzumaki is from the anime named Naruto. Naruto is an orphan ninja and works hard at becoming the head of his village, the Hokage. Since he is a ninja, he has many attacks or different ones he modifies. This is one of my all time favorite ones. He later modifies it into different jutsus.

Rasengan: A blue ball of chakra. Naruto first uses the shadow clone jutsu, making clones of himself. The real Naruto himself starts igniting the ball of chakra and another clone uses his hands to help accelerate the building of the chakra. Very quickly it turns large enough, and Naruto runs toward his enemy by himself and throws the Rasengan at his enemy.

first - kiki's delivery service

Hi everyone! This is Elizabeth Guo and Angela Guo. This is the very first post on this blog, but we will definitely be posting much more. On this blog, we will be posting different skills/superpowers that appear in anime. Be prepared and come back frequently!

This is Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service. I supposed her special skill is her ability to fly, since she is a witch! Her little black cat's name is Qiqi.