Blooming Madness

The base critical stabs your opponent, holding them down before driving them away and opening a rushdown window. If the initial stab misses, the second hit crumples the opponent instead.

Shadow Game (Ctrl + M1) forces your opponent into a game: your moves change, a timer bar begins, and both players' shadows become visible. Whoever has their shadow stepped on first is hit with a barrage of slashes, ending the game. While it runs you gain Shadow Slash (vanish into the shadows and reappear in front of the opponent with a double-blade slice that opens a rushdown window) and Shadow Fall (vanish and reappear right in front of the opponent to close the gap).

Mountain Game (Ctrl + M2) points your blade forward and declares that whoever is higher wins. Your moves change and a timer bar begins; the player at lower height when it resolves takes multiple slashes. Its tools are Takaoni (spin forward into a downward double-blade slash that crumples, slightly raising your own height - and lowering theirs by slamming them down) and Flash Flip (a swift mid-combat shunpo into the air that floats you midair through several slashes, gaining height). Video documentation shows the winning line is timing: down-slam with Takaoni or pop the rise just before the timer resolves.

Bushogoma, the Shikai critical, spins both blades forward and sends a wind gust that carries the opponent away; it is treated as Kido damage. After dealing a certain amount of damage your body flashes - the Irooni indicator. Irooni then replaces Ctrl + M2: both blades slash forward as you teleport to the opponent, executing them if their health is low.

Damage: Level 4 makes both Shadow Game and Mountain Game deal more damage to the opponent if they lose; Level 7 lets both games execute opponents on a loss. (Milestones read off the in-game upgrade UI in video documentation.)

Reiatsu Efficiency: Level 10 makes your normal critical attack always Bushogoma - confirmed independently in a second creator's on-camera test after speccing 10 points into the track.

Showboating (also cited as Rate; the track name reads ambiguously in video documentation): Level 3 gives both games a longer duration; Level 7 makes charge toward Irooni build much faster during Shikai mode.

The games cut both ways: whoever's shadow gets touched first in Shadow Game loses and takes the damage - the opponent can win it against you - and touching the marked shadow also ends the mode early. Losing Mountain Game likewise damages you. Shadow Slash and Shadow Fall close distance, but using them can expose your own shadow to the enemy.

Observed values from showcase footage (creator builds, so treat as samples): Shadow Game's cooldown read 23 seconds on the cooldown UI, and a fully charged Irooni hit a dummy for about 133 damage. A shadow icon pops up when the ultimate is ready, and landing M1s in Shikai mode builds Irooni charge; pressing M2 while the Shadow Game mark is out teleports you to the target.

In PvP footage, Bushogoma's very short, spammable cooldown proved difficult to parry, and creators count Blooming Madness among the largest movesets in the game - four game-granted skills plus the ultimate. It shipped in Update 2 as the second 1% Shinigami Legendary, alongside a new dual-sword Shikai weapon type added in the same patch.

Update 2, 2026-07-05 - Blooming Madness (SR, 1% Legendary) was added to the game, alongside a new dual-swords weapon type for Shikai and two new Sensory skills (official dev patch notes).

Update 2 mini-patch, 2026-07-05 - Bushogoma (the Shikai critical) had its cooldown increased; the Dual Blade crit and Bushogoma now count toward spirit charms and crit modifiers (official dev patch notes).

Dev-stated, 2026-07-05 - the developers described Blooming Madness as a large standalone ability that was too big to fully fit into this update; a separate Visionary ability and a new Arrancar ability were confirmed as coming before Update 3 (official announcement).