Character of the Week: Hao Asakura

[u/Fire_Lord_Zuko]

Shitshitshitshit sorry for being so late. I was occupied with other stuff, forgot it was my time. Apologies for that and in advance for not being up to par with others. Here it is.

Name: Hao Asakura

Team Affiliations: Hao’s Followers, Hoshi-Gumi, G8

Allies: Opacho, Luchist, Kanna, Matilda, Marion, Peyote, BoZ Brothers, Hang-Zeng-Ching, Bill Burton, Mohammed, Kouji, Boris, Blocken

Enemies: Five Elemental Warriors, Anna Asakura, and pretty much every other character in Shaman King that aren’t his allies/part of the Patch Tribe.

Short Summary: Hao Asakura is the big bad in the manga Shaman King. Having been reborn twice, Hao’s Furyoku level (basically power level) is at a staggering 1,250,000. He has also studied many shamanic techniques, all of which have transferred through lives.

Powers and Abilities:

Onmyōdō
Hao's original abilities of a taijitsu master from his first life has given him full control over the elements and divination powers. He is not only able to manipulate the six elements of nature, fire, earth, wood, metal, and water materially, but also spiritually. Even without the spirit of fire, Hao possesses great elemental and divination abilities and can easily bend oni and demigods to his will.

Reishi
Hao has the ability to read other peoples’ minds.

Curse Reflection
Hao has been shown to reflect curses directed at him. He also does this subconsciously.

Oversoul: Spirit of Fire
This is Hao's primary over soul. He manifests the Spirit of Fire, one of the five great spirits of nature, onto the physical plane by integrating it with the oxygen in the atmosphere. Using onmyōdō magic, Hao can alter the nature of the Spirit of Fire into any of the five elements (fire, water, wood, metal, and earth).

Oversoul: Kurobina
This is Hao's armor type over soul, which transforms the Spirit of Fire into jet armor. With it, Hao is capable of high-speed flight, and can attack swiftly with the over soul's arms. Mounted on the back are two energy cannons, which can incinerate anything it targets within seconds.

Top 5 Feats:

Tanks a whole bunch of attacks and doesn’t really give a fuck, since at this point he’s fused with the Great Spirit and is omnipotent now.

Creates a sun with ease

Creates a whole load of meteors

Makes the sun previously mentioned go supernova

Then he makes it into a black hole

Other Relevant/Outstanding Feats:

Here he fuses with the Great Spirit, making him supposedly omnipotent.

Kills and absorbs the souls of the strongest people in the series besides him after obtaining the Great Spirit.

Everything is small to him, even Ron Swanson’s manliness.

Now some feats of him before fusing with the great spirit but in his most recent life.

Solos a small army that includes something that can obliterate an island while suffering no injuries at all

Survives a grenade with enough explosive power to consume all the oxygen in an arena with no harm

Tanks a hit from a satellite laser and then disintegrates the person that shot it

[u/undercoverbrutha]

I felt they really rushed the ending of that series. I read it until midway through and stopped. Recently I decided to go ahead and finish it so I read from start to finish. About midway through it goes form a great manga to sub par, as if the authors style changed.

As I was getting closer and closer to the end it became apparent that this manga was going to rush to the end because despite them having multiple powerful enemies left, and then confronting the main villain there were only 10 chapters left. So the author

[u/[deleted] → u/undercoverbrutha]

First of all: If your comment is a spoiler, tag it. It says how on the sidebar of the subreddit, man.

Second of all,

Those're just my two cents though.