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In _Final Fantasy VIII_ , if you have the Odin GF (I don't know if this still
happens if you don't have him, I always got him), Odin appears when you fight
Seifer at the end of Disk 3. Generally, when this happens, he comes in with
Zantetsuken and kills all the enemies, never works in a boss battle except in
this scripted sequence where Seifer kills Odin.

When Odin appears and kills enemies, there are 3 kanji that appear, each one
appearing by itself as the scene of the strike is replied. But when Seifer
kills Odin, there is a fourth Kanji while Gilgamesh (who also uses
Zantetsuken, replacing Odin) shows nothing.

So I wonder, what is the relationship between Odin, Seifer, and the kanji that
appears when they attack?


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What is the relationship between Odin, Seifer, and the kanji that appears?


The kanji that appears when Odin uses his special attack is
[**斬鉄剣**](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%96%AC%E9%89%84%E5%89%A3) (
_Zantetsuken_ ).

However, when Seifer kills Odin, it shows **斬鉄剣**[
**返し**](https://jisho.org/word/%E8%BF%94%E3%81%97) ( _Zantetsuken-gaeshi_ )
which literally means "Zantetsuken Reversal". _-(k/g)aeshi_ is a common suffix
to mean "reversal/counter", especially in martial arts like
[Judo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_judo_techniques) (e.g. [_Tsubame-
gaeshi_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubame_gaeshi)).


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