

Much like a bat, it can be used to counter projectile attacks, deflect attacks, or simply avoid direct collision. The Spirit Sword grew stronger alongside its user, but as the series' antagonists began to drastically eclipse Kuwabara in power, the sword's usefulness began to decrease accordingly.

It has also been demonstrated to easily cut through rocks, trees, walls, metal and many other extremely durable materials. If given a reasonable amount of energy, the blade is shown to be sharp enough to cut D Class and certain C Class demons in half. The first few times Kuwabara performed this technique, its effect was more akin to a bat than a sword: rather than cutting, it generated blunt force. Conversely, the sword is easily shattered if Kuwabara does not put enough energy into it. The power of the sword varies with Kuwabara's will: the more energy he puts in to the sword, the sharper and sturdier it gets. The Spirit Sword is extremely versatile, usable in both offense and defense. As such, the form does change throughout the series, sometimes taking on a much more narrow form resembling a katana. However, outside a few promotional images and despite being called a 'sword', the Spirit Sword has rarely been shown to have any defined form, more like a slightly tapered oblong of energy. The Spirit Sword looks somewhat like an English broadsword composed entirely of Spirit Energy that possesses a sunfire hue. After training himself to better use his Spirit Energy, Kuwabara manifested the sword by channeling his energy into a ball in the palm of his hand and squeezing it until it narrows and grows, taking the form of a sword. Initially, Kuwabara channeled his energy through a broken piece of Musashi's sacred sword, expanding and manifesting the sword mostly by accident. From there, he continued perfecting and creating new and stronger variations of the original technique. After the tournament, Kuwabara underwent rigorous training and learned to manifest a more powerful sword without the use of a conduit. Kuwabara used the sword once more to fight the psychic "Shorin", who later turned out to be the demon Rando.
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Picking up a piece of a broken sword plus the anxiety of the moment allowed Kuwabara to manifest his Spirit Energy, creating a fire sword using the broken piece as a conduit, due to its sacred properties. Kuwabara manifesting Spirit Sword with the hilt of Musashi.ĭuring the tournament held by Genkai, Kuwabara fought Musashi, a demon hunter wielding a holy wooden sword.
