His sense of smell lets him read his opponent's movements and track them down, then Transparent World stacks another level of Analytical Prediction on top of that by slowing down his perception of time and letting him see his opponent's muscles and blood vessels in fine detail.
again this is base analytical predication at best for the smell as it requires a specific sense that can be thrown of pretty badly, the transparent world is where its at as it actually allows for fine detail on the opponents movements and is actually better than being able to see atmospheric shifts.
People like
Gyomei and
Muichiro after sustaining multiple injuries were able to counter Kokushibo's prediction and land multiple hits on him when they were able to use Transparent World too.
Tanjiro was already capable of countering Akaza before learning Transparent World (only sustaining damage despite blocking Akaza's attacks due to Akaza's overwhelming strength)
Yeah, right after Akaza stopped decided to talk to tanjiro for a bit and then after tanjiro barely block this attack at the last moment he decided to praise tanjiro and gloat
Don't know about you but to me this doesn't seem like the behavior of a guy trying his hardest to kill, Akaza was for all intents and purposes playing with his food and it can be seen in the next chapter 149 that he indeed was because the moment akaza started to get even remotely serious, he started rag dolling tanjiro
Hell tanjiro himself even says that he is unable to predict Akazas moves.
He manages to land a single blow on akaza through a specific technique that make his blade waver like its in a haze
and this intrigues akaza to the point where he starts playing around again
and even with akaza not going in for the kill with say a kick (which would kill tanjiro at this point) he just stands there and lets tanjiro try escaping to the point where tanjiro has to get saved.
And this is even more clear a chapter later where tanjiro can't even get off a surprise attack on akaza while he is fighting Giyuu
while Akaza was using Compass Needle (which allows Akaza to predict his opponent's movements by sensing their fighting spirit and enhances his Instinctive Action, awareness and accuracy to the point that his attacks are described to be like a
magnet pulling towards his opponent's vitals) once Tanjiro did start tapping into Transparent World,
he outright dodged one of Akaza's unerring blows.
Tanjiro's instinctive action also allowed him to dodge Muzan's attacks which faster than his eyes could track while he was injured and fatigued from his fight with Akaza.
In every one of those scans tanjiro has transparent world and it is the ability that makes this fight actually interesting
I don't see how Toji's movements are going to pose much of a problem for Tanjiro, an injured Beginning of Series Tanjiro could dodge
Kyogai's Rapid Drumming spamming claw attacks while spinning around his environment, flinging him around the air, and he even had
the prowess to avoid stepping on any sheets of paper flying around the room.
Cool? I mean he didn't step on a piece of paper while he was falling and that whole fight boiled down to a very basic pattern, room spins, there is a smell of mold which means the claws are coming repeat. This is not at all impressive against an opponent that has literally endless options to approach you with and one tap you with a single strike of his weapon.
Toji still has to travel toward Tanjiro like
this to hit him which Tanjiro
yeah and unlike Kyogai he can come from literally any direction he could be going right at you instantly jump into the air, hop right off the air to be above or behind you and unlike Kyogai this doesn't have a pattern of just "room spins, claws shoot out" This isn't even comparable.
(and worn out Teen Gojo) can easily counter.
my man gojo had blue which can literally say no to any physical movement due to its attracting force tanjiro ain't got that (and even then toji's movements where so fast and unorthodox that gojo even with his six eyes which themselves provide a great deal of analytical prediction couldn't actually keep up to the point where gojo went for his nuclear option of lapse blue)
Mid-air manoeuvres are something Tanjiro can do even after going 5 days without proper food or water although it's not as freely moving as Toji's air jumping.
they are not where near as impressive, he has the most basic air maneuvering one can has while toji can basically fly through air hops.
The amps don't have to close the x2 gap entirely, they just make it smaller which is more than enough for this matchup because a gap like that is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to a sword fight where the weapons are supposed to slice apart the things comparable to them.
the gap is at least 2.6 times and while yes sword can do more damage to comparable opponents with ever increasing gaps it becomes less and less effective tanjiro upscales from doma (which is already a bit of a take if you ask me) to slightly above baseline 8-A or 100 tons of TNT while toji massively upscale to a pre realization Maki who was able to tank an attack worth 261 tons of TNT while still recovering from a sever injury she took prior to her heavenly restriction being fully realized and then she proceeded to actually rip out the attackers throat with her hands without even trying. The actual gap in power here is massive something that unspecified stat amps can't close at all.
Tanjiro blitzed Gyutaro by combining Water Breathing with Hinokami Kagura
despite Gyutaro being able to blitz him before not to mention that Breathing Styles can extend his range to Several Meters.
yeah small problem, Gyutaro wasn't focusing on tanjiro and was outright underestimating him when this happened.
and tanjiro couldn't keep up with gyutaro throughout the rest of the fight prior to the mark
Also this stat amp isn't used by this key as it required tanjiro to use water breathing in combination with sun breathing because his body couldn't handle sun breathing at that point and this key is constantly using sun breathing to actually be on the 8-A level, unless you want to claim that he is 8-A without any breathing styles which would be a hell of a take I'll tell you what.
again more his base speed now.
which
masks the actual reach of Tanjiro's sword with a heat haze and allowed him to get a cut into Akaza's neck despite him seeming to dodge it. The idea that Tanjiro wouldn't use a technique that increases his speed if he can't hit his opponent is pretty silly.
this is a specific technique that allows tanjiro to confusing his opponent, I mean Akaza was outright speed blitzing the poor shmuck prior to this moment and after it.and while this specific move will let tanjiro hit toji it isn't related to speed.
Toji's regen isn't going to be a factor here.
A cut in the gut at the end of her first fight with Ogi was
still affecting Maki in her fight against Naoya and it would take her
5 minutes to recover from internal damage.
One the cut was literally done a couple of minutes ago to a maki that didn't have regen at all as she didn't fully unleash her heavenly restriction yet. I mean it literally went maki V Ogi, she gets her intestines cut up with a few of her organs to boot and she got up when she her heavenly restriction was fully in effect, killed a whole room full of cursed spirits and then proceeded to blitz and one tap Ogi with the soul split, she then fought the whole Zen-in clan and when she fought Naoya it was stated that due to all of that, she would be at a disadvantage against a speedster in a prolonged fight hardly an anti feat. The internal damage didn't even take her 5 mins to recover as was stated by kamo a bit later;
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even though she hasn't fully recovered she was already in a good enough shape to actually fight again in less than 3 mins after having her insides ruptured by vengeful sprit naoya to the point where she couldn't even stand even though she was able to fully fight unhindered after having a flaming sword cut through her intestines, liver and kidneys looking at the placement of the slash.
I'm not sure Toji should even have Low-Mid regen
considering the injury that killed him is within the ballpark of his regen tier and Maki and Toji don't have RCT levels of regen to be regenerating lost limbs or disembowelment.
My man, that is the extreme of Low-Mid, Low-mid is regen that at its base allows you to recover from heavy internal damage like ruptured organs, split intestines and shattered bone all of the things that maki has demonstrated, you are talking about the absolute peak of low-Mid that basically allows you to regenerate a fully destroyed body its big jump.
Maki has low-mid just on a lower scale of it and toji scales (also both of them can survive disembowelment cuse maki already did, hell high-low can let you survive disembowelments) So the regen is still a big issue for tanjiro in this fight.
