Shogi Mastery

Shogi Mastery
Rei Kiriyama (March Comes in Like a Lion/3-gatsu no Lion) is a 6th-dan ranked professional shogi player, widely lauded in the shogi community as the fifth shogi player to become a professional during his middle school years.
Power/Ability to:	Be a master of shogi.

The power to be a master of shogi, either innately or through training. Variation of Board Game Mastery.

Also Called

• Shōgi Expertise/Intuition/Proficiency
• Pro Kishi/Shinekenshi
• Japanese Chess Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency

Capabilities

Peak Human Level

The user, either innately or through training, is a master of playing shogi, a two-player Japanese strategy board game.

Enhanced Level

Users have an intuitive mastery of all the associated shogi skills and techniques granting them major leverage in any shogi situation. Users can perfectly and without a single flaw or mistake play any and every type of shogi game there is, was and will ever be, whenever they want with zero effort by themselves in a short amount of time.

Supernatural Level

The user is so good at playing shogi, they can play any shogi game perfectly. User can easily play so flawlessly that it instantly hooks everyone that’s sees it And every person that sees it instantly thinks it’s the very peak of shogi. Each move the user plays in a shogi game will be objectively and unanimously perfect in every facet aspect and detail. Each move the user makes will be an immediate unmatched success in every way.

Absolute

This also allows the user to dominate any and every shogi-based competition on any and every competition level at any time in all aspects easily.

Applications

• Advantage Creation
• Anxiety Inducement
• Doubt Inducement
• Detail Detection
• Path to Victory
• Pattern Sense
• Psychological Mastery
• Strategy Adaptation/Strategy Manipulation
• Tactical Analysis/Tactical Genius
• Enhanced Adroitness
• Opportunity Sense
• Luck
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Enhanced Wits
• Mental Pressure/Intimidation Mastery
• Weakness Detection

Variations

• Chess Mastery
• Go Mastery

Associations

• Board Game Manipulation
• Game Manipulation
  • Game Theory Manipulation
• Patience Manipulation
• Victory Manipulation
• Trickster
• Child Prodigy
• Seinen Protagonist
• Shōnen Protagonist
• Old Prime

Limitations

• May require a certain amount of training or exposure.
• May require a high level of patience.
• May take time to achieve mastery.

Known Users

See Also: Shōgi

Anime/Manga

• Various Characters (81 Diver)
  • Kentarō Sugata
  • Soyo "Ukeshi" Nakashizu
• Aida Ichigo (Dragon and the Strawberry/Ryuu and Ichigo)
• Miyamura Fujigasaki (Dragon and the Strawberry/Ryuu and Ichigo)
• Shukichi Haneda (Detective Conan/Case Closed)
• Takara (Hirake Koma!')
• Shikamaru Naru (Naruto)
• Asuma Sarutobi (Naruto)
• Ōnoki (Naruto)
• Various Characters (March Comes in Like a Lion)
  • Jingūji Takanori
  • Rei Kiriyama
• Various Characters (Moonlight Shōgi/Gekka no Kishi)
  • Himuro Shousuke
• Various Characters (Mononofu)
• Various Characters (Shion's King: The Flowers of Hard Blood)
  • Yasuoka Shion
  • Shinji Yasuoka
• Seijuro Akashi (Kuroko's Basketball)
• Yaichi Kuzuryuu (The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!)
• Hinazuru Ai (The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!)
• Ayumu Tanaka (Even so, Ayumu Draws Closer to the End Game)

Video Games

• Hifumi Togo (Persona 5)
• Shogi Master (Valkyrie Crusade)

Gallery

Anime/Manga

Kentarō Sugata (81 Diver)

Asuma Sarutobi (Naruto)

Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

Members of Kayane Manor (Mononofu) are aiming to become professional shogi players.

Aida Ichigo (Ryuu and Ichigo)

Veldora Tempest (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken)

Ifrit/Charys (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken)

Vides Games

While not on the level of real professionals, Hifumi Togo (Persona 5) is still a skilled shogi player in her own right.

Shogi Master (Valkyrie Crusade)

Videos

Aesthetics of game - shogi, Japanese traditional culture-GAME CHRONICLE-IS JAPAN COOL?(羽生善治)

Let it out Shikamaru!

Love, Loss & Shogi - March Comes in like a Lion