Shinkenger — How Genta Improved Mojikara
The way Mojikara works in Shinkenger has always fascinated me, especially the core five’s written Mojikara compared to Genta’s Denshi no Mojikara. Without Genta, the Samurai wouldn’t get the latter half of their arsenal. And I rarely see people discuss why Genta was able to take them to new heights. It’s hugely impacted by how he improved the information system in a way that’s more effective.
Traditional Mojikara — A Limited System
Mojikara is a really powerful tool that can create anything the user imagines. But this also comes with disadvantages. Because the effect of Mojikara is impacted by user interpretation, multiple people writing the same kanji could create completely different things.
And I think that can be a weakness of the traditional Shodou-based Mojikara used by the samurai. If a time comes where they need to really combine their Mojikara, if their ideas aren’t aligned perfectly, they won’t achieve good results. We even see this in Shinkenger a couple times:
In order to use their mecha, the samurai need Mojikara. And the team once created an oden-like form of Shinken-Oh without the shishi origami because they weren’t all on the same page. They similarly combined with Daigoyou under the same conditions. This time, Daigoyou is another intelligence that factors in aligning ideas — The more brains needed to align ideas, the more risk there is for error.
I bring this all up because these limitations are probably part of why the Inroumaru wasn’t completed until Genta took a crack at it.
Electronic Mojikara — A Modern System
Genta’s new Electronic Mojikara (電子のモヂカラ, Denshi no Mojikara) overcomes these limitations. Without calligraphy training, Genta texts characters through his Sushi Changer cellphone to create Mojikara. As Genta describes, it’s like programming. And just like how code can be stored, the characters Genta wants to use are on his phone and can be copied whenever he needs to use that exact character again.
This is probably part of why he was able to complete the Inroumaru.
In the past, the samurai would have had to write each kanji out by hand, requiring multiple “spell casts” from multiple people, each with a chance of being slightly different due to human error.
In order to get enough power, multiple samurai need to work together. But each time they work together, they have a chance of making mistakes synchronizing due to human error.
Instead of having to spend energy re-writing kanji and aligning ideas with other samurai, Genta has it copied exactly in his sushi changer. He gets to save it on a computer like saving code. So, he can just keep sending power to the Inroumaru. It still drains him, of course, but not as much as it would for a traditional Mojikara user. This means he can work more. So he doesn’t need to work with others as he has the power to keep working, eliminating the synchronizing problem too.
The efficiency Genta can achieve with his Electronic Mojikara is so much better than traditional Mojikara for creating the Inroumaru.
It’s like comparing a modern bookkeeper with spreadsheet software to an accountant with a physical ledger from the ‘70s — We can achieve much more, much quicker with Microsoft Excel. And we see that in Genta’s improved Inroumaru.
A Complete and Improved Inroumaru
The Inroumaru Genta creates is actually more powerful than what was originally conceived by the past Shinkengers. The original records for the Iroumaru just showed the Shishi, Ryu, Kame, Kuma, Saru, Tora, Kajiki, Kabuto, and Ika origami.
However, we know that Genta created the Ebi Origami and it becomes a vital part of the Inroumaru’s power for the Shin Samurai Gattai, DaiKai Shinken-Oh.
Additional, the concept of the Inroumaru is similar to what Genta already did with his electronic Mojikara. Like how the past Shinkengers planned to store power in an Inrou, the commonly carried pocket box, Genta stored kanji in his commonly carried cell phone, the Sushi Changer.
Before Genta showed up, all transformations were done directly by writing mojikara each time. But with the Inroumaru, it’s like they have saved code for preferred mecha combos because it stores “data” of all their Origami.
This is why it was intuitive to him despite not understanding the records. He effectively did the same concept before when he created his Mojikara, his Sushi Changer, and the Ebi Origami.
So all in all, the Inroumaru was finished and improved by Genta through an intuitive and more modern understanding of Mojikara and the Inroumaru!
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