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For previous threads about this see here and here.
Background
Kokorowatari is a sword from the Monogatari series with two wielders. It's only effective against supernatural beings, phasing through any ordinary matter like a ghost. But against these supernatural beings it's stated multiple times to be able to cut through any of them. But new evidence has recently come to light that, more than just being able to cut through any of them, a single scratch from it would kill a supernatural being.
Now, the question is, should this be classified as some sort of Conceptual Destruction, Death Manipulation, or Durability Negation?
Conceptual Destruction
It should be conceptual destruction since aberrations are lesser realist conceptual beings, and the sword only kills those types of beings.
The form that aberrations take is based o how humans perceive them. On top of that, aberrations encompass beings such as non-living dolls, and already dead ghosts, which kokorowatari is also supposedly capable of killing with a single scratch.
However, kokorowatari doesn't destroy the entire concept itself, it destroys an object that partakes in that concept. Aberrations killed by that sword have later had their circumstances come back and resurface, one regenerated from this death (even though it was explicitly being "killed" by it), and one was resurrected after being killed by it.
Death Manipulation
It should be death manipulation since it kills beings with a single scratch. This has some strange implications for the potency of it (it should be able to death manip ghosts and lifeless beings, since those are aberrations too), and for scaling to other characters (a character with low-mid Regenerationn was constantly getting "killed" but stayed alive due to his immortality.
Durability Negation
It should be durability negation due to the problems with the other two proposals. This itself is a bit weird, since an aberration was killed by kokorowatari after merely getting a cut on its hand. It seems weird for a sword to be able to OHK by hitting someone's hand to simply be durability negation.
Background
Kokorowatari is a sword from the Monogatari series with two wielders. It's only effective against supernatural beings, phasing through any ordinary matter like a ghost. But against these supernatural beings it's stated multiple times to be able to cut through any of them. But new evidence has recently come to light that, more than just being able to cut through any of them, a single scratch from it would kill a supernatural being.
| 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. |
Conceptual Destruction
It should be conceptual destruction since aberrations are lesser realist conceptual beings, and the sword only kills those types of beings.
The form that aberrations take is based o how humans perceive them. On top of that, aberrations encompass beings such as non-living dolls, and already dead ghosts, which kokorowatari is also supposedly capable of killing with a single scratch.
However, kokorowatari doesn't destroy the entire concept itself, it destroys an object that partakes in that concept. Aberrations killed by that sword have later had their circumstances come back and resurface, one regenerated from this death (even though it was explicitly being "killed" by it), and one was resurrected after being killed by it.
Death Manipulation
It should be death manipulation since it kills beings with a single scratch. This has some strange implications for the potency of it (it should be able to death manip ghosts and lifeless beings, since those are aberrations too), and for scaling to other characters (a character with low-mid Regenerationn was constantly getting "killed" but stayed alive due to his immortality.
Durability Negation
It should be durability negation due to the problems with the other two proposals. This itself is a bit weird, since an aberration was killed by kokorowatari after merely getting a cut on its hand. It seems weird for a sword to be able to OHK by hitting someone's hand to simply be durability negation.
