Musashi Miyamoto

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Musashi Miyamoto
Name
Kanji	宮本 武蔵
Romaji	Miyamoto Musashi
Personal Description
Species	Human
Age	400+
Gender	Male
Origin	Harima Province or Mimasaka Province (Japan, Earth)
Status
Status	Alive
Affiliation	Humanity Kojiro Sasaki
Relatives	Iori Miyamoto (Adoptive Son)
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 14
Anime Debut	Episode 9
Portrayal
Voice Actor	Tsuguo Mogami 日本語 Ben Diskin English

Musashi Miyamoto is a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin. Musashi, as he was often simply known, is one of the many swordsman that have fought and won against Kojiro Sasaki.

Appearance

Musashi is a large burly man with black hair, black eyes, a beard covering his entire chin and the sides of his face and an X-shaped scar on his forehead.

For clothing, he wears a dark robe.

Personality

Musashi is a calm and stoic man for the most part, but he does get excited over Kojiro Sasaki. He respects and loves Sasaki as a rival and he even cries in joy when Sasaki wins his match.

Plot

Past

Musashi Miyamoto wins the duel and kills Kojiro Sasaki

Many years before Ragnarok, Musashi fought with Kojiro Sasaki to death, both enjoyed their fight so much that Kojiro didn't give up in the middle of it and continued until the very end, which ended up with Kojiro's death.

Ragnarok: Third Round

Musashi Miyamoto achieves Enlightenment by seeing Kojiro Sasaki's abilities

The fight between Kojiro Sasaki and Poseidon is about to start and Musashi remains with his eyes closed and thoughtful, probably undecided if Kojiro Sasaki was a good choice to represent Humanity.

As Kojiro draws his blade and calms the waves, Musashi is brought to tears and instantly cuts down his book about swordsmanship, stating that Kojiro had achieved all sword practitioners aim for, The Number One Under the Sun.

Musashi Miyamoto urges Kojiro Sasaki to continue attacking Poseidon

During his fight, Kojiro uses Musashi's move, Musashi comments that even after death, Kojiro kept dueling him thousand of times and his muscles must have remembered his movement.

All the sword practitioners show their support for Kojiro, knowing that he has yet to show his full skills, which eventually leads to Kojiro's win.

Ragnarok: Tenth Round

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Abilities

Immense Strength: Musashi possesses immense strength. He can compete with Sasaki and is capable of cutting through people easily.

Immense Speed & Reflexes: Musashi has demonstrated immense speed and reflexes, being able to keep up with Sasaki Kojiro. He was able to dodge a fatal blow from Sasaki's Tsubame Gaeshi, an attack with a speed that exceeds 200km/hr (124mph), however he did end up injured in the process.

Swordsmanship: Musashi is a very skilled swordsman and rōnin, known as the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū, or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship. He has an undefeated record in his 61 duels and is considered a Kensei, a sword-saint of Japan.

Golden Age: As a human soul in the afterlife, Musashi posses the appearance and skills that he had during his Golden Age, the age in which he was at his peak.

Miscellaneous skills: He is also a very talented and famous philosopher, strategist and writer. He wrote the Book of Five Rings and the Dokkōdō.

Techniques

Art of The Long Sword-Ninth Form: Supreme Technique-Tiger Swing: A supreme technique developed by Musashi. It exists within the Nito Ichi-ryū style and it was deliberately incorporated to be used with a single long sword. At the same time as dodging the enemy's attack, Musashi slices them apart with a single concealed swing. However, by pure coincidence the same technique was developed and used beforehand by Sun Jian.

Etymology

• The name Musashi means "military, martial" (武) (mu) and "warehouse, cellar, magazine" (蔵) (sashi).
• Musashi's surname Miyamoto means "temple, shrine, palace" (宮) (miya) and "base, root, origin, source" (本) (moto).