Shinobu Oshino

Shinobu Oshino is one of the main characters from the Monogatari anime and light novels.

Shinobu is a mysterious vampire girl who acts as Meme Oshino's companion in the ruins of Eikou Cram School. Later in the series, she resides in Koyomi Araragi's shadow during the day.

She was formerly a human child princess named Rola (likely meant to be Lolita or Laura in English) who was cursed into causing anyone in proximity to her to commit suicide. She then took the name of Acerola before meeting a purebred vampire that turned her into a powerful vampire named Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade. She now takes the form of an eight-year-old girl with another new name after losing most of her powers. She refers to herself using "washi", which is often used in fictional settings to represent characters of old age.

Appearance
Shinobu is a young female with yellow eyes, pointy ears, sharp fangs, and long blond hair whose ends curl outward at the end. During the course of the series, she takes on several changes in appearance depending on how much of her vampire powers she possesses. Through most of the series, she assumes a younger form as an 8 year old. She wears a loose dress and a pair of sandals, with an aviator hat as an accessory in Bakemonogatari.

As demonstrated in Nisemonogatari, she can suck blood to become older; she appears as a girl in her adolescent years, tying her hair into a ponytail and wearing a black camisole inside a purple jacket, a black skirt and black hosiery. In Kizumonogatari, obtaining her stolen body parts causes her to age. Her true form as Kiss-Shot depicts a woman in her late 20's wearing a large, red and black dress.

Personality
After losing most of her vampire powers, Shinobu falls into a long period of stupor. She is frequently seen in Oshino's place with her hands tucking her knees in, her face always in an emotionless state. She often spends most of the day in one spot, doing mostly nothing with a bitter expression. Shinobu also does not talk to anyone, but she is familiar with Koyomi Araragi and Meme Oshino, and would follow requests from either of them.

Later she reverts back to her brighter personality after "reconciling" with Koyomi. She is rather talkative, and often asserts her superiority through her archaic speech. She mostly plays with Koyomi's tendency to act as the follower between the two. During sometime after Koyomi Vamp, she appears to find a liking to donuts and they become her obsession.

Due to being around Meme for many hours while performing her silent treatment, she's obtained a bit of knowledge about different types of oddities, but she's still no expert.

Abilities
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Shapeshifting, Matter Manipulation, Weapon Creation, Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Regeneration (At least Low, her regeneration could be less than it was at full power, but it's at least strong enough to instantly heal a scrape), Enhanced Senses, Darkness Manipulation, Healing, Absorption, Creation, Cloth Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Weight Manipulation, Life Manipulation and Regen Nullification with Energy Drain (Should be superior to a Meddlecat's energy drain, which can stop Low-Mid regen), Durability Negation, Death Manipulation, and Non-Physical Interaction with Kokorowatari sword (Can cut through any supernatural being and kill them with a single scratch, including ghosts and selectively tangible beings, useless otherwise, as it simply phases through targets without dealing any harm to them), Weapon Mastery, Body Control, Limited Mind Manipulation, Duplication (Created a second equally powerful copy of herself in Shinobu Figure), Adhesivity, possibly Resistance to Death Manipulation (Vampires can recover from Kokorowatari's induced death through sheer regenetion) | All previous abilities plus Regeneration (At least Mid-High. Should be greater than or at least comparable to Seishirou Shishirui who can regenerate after being burnt to ashes), Telekinesis, Flight, Intangibility (As fog), Weather Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Corruption, Resistance to Death Manipulation (Vampires can recover from Kokorowatari's induced death through sheer regeneration)

Attack Potency: Varies (Becomes more powerful as she sucks more of Koyomi's blood). At least Small Building level (Superior to Suruga Kanbaru and comparable to Tsubasa Hanekawa), possibly higher | At least Small Country level (Kiss-Shot Travelled all the way from Antarctica to Japan with a single jump, the recoil of which nearly destroyed the continent of Antarctica. The impact of her landing obliterated a lake. She emits powerful shockwaves just by laughing. In an alternate timeline Shinobu wiped out most of humanity on a whim by infecting a few people with faulty vampirism and letting them spread the infection, turning nearly the entire world into vampires-zombies), likely far higher (All these feats are casual and the true extent of her powers when serious is unknown)

Speed: At least Supersonic (Easily broke the sound barrier) | At least Supersonic+ (Casually blitzed Koyomi "So saying, Kissshot jumped lightly. The next instant after she jumped, she appeared right in front of me -- in a position with our legs crossed alternated." ''(Kizumonogatari, ch. 17)'', likely Massively Hypersonic (She traveled all the way from Antarctica to Japan with a single jump, even assuming the jump took a whole minute that's still mach 682)

Lifting Strength: At least Regular Human (Can lift Koyomi Araragi with ease) | At least Class 5, likely higher(She should be astronomically stronger than Koyomi)

Striking Strength: Varies. At least Small Building class, possibly higher | At least Small Country Class (The recoil of her jump nearly destroyed the continent of Antarctica), likely far higher

Durability: Varies. At least Small Building level, possibly higher | At least Small Country level, likely far higher (Her extreme regeneration and immortality make her very difficult to kill)

Stamina: High (Her regeneration further compliments her stamina.)

Range: Standard melee range normally, several meters with Kokorowatari, tens of meters via throwing swords | Standard melee range normally, several meters with Kokorowatari, much higher via throwing swords, shockwaves, shapeshifting, fire manipulation etc

Standard Equipment: Demon sword Kokorowatari

Intelligence: Average normally, Genius when it comes to supernatural related things.

Weaknesses: Sunlight causes vampires to catch on fire. Weak vampires will turn to ash instantly, while stronger ones can last longer. Once a vampire is out of sunlight, the flames immediately disappear and no burn marks are left on the body or clothes. Although not mentioned directly, silver materials normally, not limited to just bullets, touching silver matter in general harms vampires. However, Shinobu states that for her a weakness isn't a weakness, but overcoming those weaknesses takes energy. Kokorowatari sword only works against supernatural beings, it cannot harm normal people or objects. Certain special rituals can prevent her from regenerating. Vampires and other aberrations slowly stop existing if they stop being observed and recalled.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:
 * Regeneration: As immortal beings, most injuries have little significance to vampires due to their intense regeneration skills. While the speed depends on the vampire, almost any injury can be healed within minutes. If a body part becomes decapitated, it will evaporate and begin to grow back from where it was cut off. In addition, application of vampire blood or saliva can also heal wounds on humans. Seishirou Shishirui, one of her minions, was able to regenerate himself from just a severed piece of his hand and later attempted suicide by jumping in front of sunlight only to regenerate later from nothingness, albeit it took him several centuries to recover fully. Kissshot being the most powerful vampire in the world should obviously have unparalleled regenerative abilities. Kiss-Shot is virtually immortal. An alternate-timeline version Kiss-Shot attempted suicide by burning herself in the sunlight, but her regeneration made her unable to die.


 * Shape shifting and matter generation: Vampires can not only generate matter of their own but can also shape-shift their bodies. Dramaturgy uses this ability to forge his arms and legs into swords for combat, while Episode transforms into fog. During one fight, Koyomi uses this ability to turn his arms into tree branches. Kissshot can easily do the same feats mentioned above and more, she casually created a shrine and several buildings with her powers. The demon sword Kokorowatari most commonly seen in the show is a replica created through matter generation. She can also create wings to fly. However, any matter created will eventually break down on a molecular level if it gets too far away from Shinobu (Nekomonogatari Kuro, ch. 12).


 * Shadow submergence: This ability allows vampires to go inside shadows. Once inside a shadow she is free from outside physical shocks and stimuli, the area within is supposedly however the vampire inside perceives it to be. Shinobu has a royal couch inside the shadow she resides in.


 * Ceiling walking: Vampires can stand and walk on ceilings as if they're on the floor. Shinobu sometimes does this in Araragi's room.


 * Mind Searching: Vampires can search for memories that they can't remember by forcing their hand into their brain, a somewhat messy process where blood and spinal fluid constantly spurt out, though the fluids evaporate instantly.


 * Night Vision: Vampires can see in the dark.
 * Telekinesis (also called "eye power"): She manipulated the clouds to repeatedly produce rainfall.Crumples an iron door like aluminum foil just by looking at it.
 * Weather manipulation: She manipulated the clouds to repeatedly produce rainfall.


 * Time travel: Shinobu was able to manipulate the spiritual energy at Kitashirahebi Shrine to open up a dimensional portal which brought her and Koyomi 11 years into the past. This feat is made more impressive by the fact that she did this on the first try, while mostly depowered. "This was the first time I tried it, but it sure went well. As expected of myself, even after becoming a little girl and having lost most of my power." (Kabukimonogatari, ch. 5).


 * Energy drain: Shinobu can drain the energy from living creatures by sucking their blood.


 * Weight manipulation: Shinobu can freely manipulate her own weight "However, since she [Shinobu] just cried (or rather sulked) because of me, it was hard to refuse, in the end, I gave in (not that I protested enough to say that) and let Shinobu ride on my shoulders. So light! Is she completely empty inside or what! "Hey, how much do you weight?" "Oh, I can freely manipulate my weight, see." "So heavy!" (Kabukimonogatari, ch. 6).


 * Body control: Shinobu can control her body as she pleases (She can change the length of her hair at will.)

NOTE: The only reason the vampire hunters were able to defeat/steal her limbs was because she was suicidal and was just looking for a place to die (Which she despite trying was unable to do.) therefore she was immensely holding back in most of these fights. To provide some context, the vampire exorcists had used a special ritual to prevent her from regenerating (this is why her limbs didn't grow back after they were stolen). Also, the only reason that the exorcist's attack on Kiss-Shot was successful was because Kiss-Shot's heart had previously been taken out of her body by Oshino Meme. Kiss-Shot evidently didn't even notice that her heart was missing until it was pointed out to her.
 * Demon sword Kokorowatari: Koyomi describes it as a sword that surpasses human understanding, A sword which can cut through any and all oddities, it is said to be an unstoppable weapon in front of anything supernatural but useless in front of anything normal. Being cut by it made an oddity like Black Hanekawa scream in intense pain and terror. The Kokorowatari (translates to "Heart Span"), also called the Kaii Killer, is created specifically to kill kaii (supernatural beings, such as ghosts, vampires, etc.). The sword originally belonged to a samurai 400 years prior to the start of the series. The original Kokorowatari has been destroyed, but Shinobu can replicate it using her matter creation power. "The demon sword "Kokorowatari", the Kaii Killer—as the name implied, was a blade for killing the kaii. Just the kaii. A deadly weapon for killing only the kaii. To put it the other way around, it was a deadly weapon that couldn't kill humans—in fact, it was not just limited to humans. The Kaii Killer couldn't slice any lifeforms or objects that weren't kaii. An unparalleled sword in front of a kaii, but if you weren't in front of one it was equivalent to a blunt blade. Someone could say it was even worse than a blunt sword—it didn't even physically collide with what was not a kaii. Just like an incorporeal ghost, it slipped through, it passed by." "Not debilitation. Not incapacitation. It didn't produce those kinds of half-hearted results. There was no salvation faced with it. A single scratch from it could kill an aberration -- that was the enchanted blade Kokorowatari."

Key: Quasi-Vampire form | Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade

Trivia

 * Shinobu always labels herself as around 500 years old; her actual age is 598.
 * In the first trailer of the Kizumonogatari movie, the name of the voice actor who will play as Shinobu is shown only as "××××". Although Shinobu's voice actress in the Bakemonogatari drama CD is Aya Hirano, Maaya Sakamoto took the role of Shinobu in the Nisemonogatari anime series.
 * Her current voice actress, Maaya Sakamoto, refuses to sing character songs. This is why Shinobu Time and Shinobu Mail have unique themes with opera style singing.
 * Her appearance on the cover of Wazamonogatari bares a striking resemblance to her 10 year old form in Kizumonogatari. Assuming the cover is supposed to be her in the first arc of the book, this form could represent her original appearance as a human. Otherwise, the cover could be referring to Karen Ogre instead.