What does “ズオオオオオ” mean?


I am currently reading a story titled “妖艶くのいち～濡れた花弁” (Unofficial translation:
“Voluptuous Female Ninja: Wet Petals”). Early on in the story, a female ninja
named Hasumi foils an assassination attempt on her lord. The assassin, who had
both his hands sliced off, runs off into the bamboo forest. Her lord orders
Hasumi to pursue the assassin and make sure he does not get away. She does
exactly that. In fact, she manages to get in front of the assassin and cut him
in two. However, as soon as she has done so, the following happens.

![Panel showing ズオオオオオ](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAuff.jpg)

In case you are curious, one of the ninjas is gloating that she fell into
their trap, another one is cheerfully explaining that the ninja that she had
just cut down was bait to lure into the aforementioned trap, and one more
boasts that she cannot escape them. By the way, this group of ninjas calls
themselves the “竹輪房殺の陣” (Unofficial translation: “Fish Sausage Link Killing
Squad”), which is actually pretty funny. I will leave it up to you to figure
out why the name is funny.

With that said, the only part that I have not been able to figure out is the
word “ズオオオオオ.” I tried to look it up in The Jaded Network
(<http://thejadednetwork.com/sfx/>), but it is not in there. I also tried to
Google “ズオオオオオ,” but I had no luck there.

If I had to guess, the word seems to indicate the sound of dropping down from
a far height. However, I would very much like to hear everyone's thoughts on
the meaning of the word.




I think your guess is close enough. Generally, ズオオオオオ looks like the sound of
cutting through the air at high speed, which should match (well enough) your
description.

For the real sound, I found the following:

  * [【効果音ラボ】スローモーション終了（ズオオオ）](https://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc278405)

* * *

Totally irrelevant to the question, but _fish sausage_ looks to me more like
[魚肉ソーセージ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%9A%E8%82%89%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8)....




I think your guess is close enough. Generally, ズオオオオオ looks like the sound of
cutting through the air at high speed, which should match (well enough) your
description.

For the real sound, I found the following:

  * [【効果音ラボ】スローモーション終了（ズオオオ）](https://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc278405)

* * *

Totally irrelevant to the question, but _fish sausage_ looks to me more like
[魚肉ソーセージ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%9A%E8%82%89%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8)....

