Rokushiki/Kami-e

But there's no art to being hit...

Kami-e is one of the six techniques of "Rokushiki" that allows superhuman flexibility.

Overview
The Kami-e makes the users' body extraordinarily flexible in order to avoid any attacks, float, and bending their body like a piece of paper.

Variations

 * Seimei Kikan: Kami-e Bushin (生命帰還　紙絵武身): Used by Rob Lucci in his Human-Beast Form. Using Life Return, he makes his Human-Beast Form smaller, lighter, and possibly faster. He is much more agile and harder to hit in this form, as opposed to his normal Human-Beast Form. In the FUNimation dub and in the Viz Manga, this is called Life Return Paper Art Fighting Form.
 * Seimei Kikan: Kaijo (生命帰還　解除): Used by Rob Lucci while in his smaller Human-Beast Form. It cancels his Seimei Kikan: Kami-e Bushin technique, and returns to his larger, stronger Human-Beast Form. In the Viz Manga, this is called Life Return Release. In the FUNimation dub, this is called Life Return Terminate.
 * Kami-e "Slime" (紙絵「」): Used by Fukurou. Instead of the body becoming limp like paper, it stretches and moves in ways slime or sludge would move in order to avoid attacks. In the Viz Manga, this is called Paper Slime. In the FUNimation dub, this is called  Paper Art Slime. The kanji is read as nandei, and literally translates to either "soft mud" or "sludge".

Trivia

 * Despite being Rokushiki masters, Kalifa, Kumadori, and Jabra were not seen using this technique.
 * Using his Hira Hira no Mi to make his body "float", Diamante can dodge attacks in a very similar fashion.
 * Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Boh is very similar in appearance to this technique, which works with him turning off his conscious mind and floating around like a leaf, therefore dodging strikes entirely on instinct. Kami-e differs by not requiring the mind to be "shut down" for it.

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