Kagerou Daze/Eye Abilities

Eye Abilities (目の能力 Me no Nōryoku) are powers derived from Azami's snakes, which are the physical manifestations of her wishes. Each snake's set of abilities is based on the wish that created them. After Azami gave the Snake of Combining Eyes to Marry, the snakes began to leave the Kagerou Daze by joining with deceased humans who entered it and have similar wishes to those that created them. This, in turn, gives these humans a surrogate life to return to the real world with and the snake's Eye Abilities. Generally, those without Combining Eyes initially do not have much control over their Eye Abilities and can only perform its basic function, but they can train themselves to control and further use their powers. When the abilities are activated, the users' eyes turn red and become similar to those of a snake.

Tsubomi Kido

 * Kido can use Concealing Eyes to divert attention away from herself, people, and objects within two meters of herself at standard usage, making it seem as if they are invisible.   Physical contact, however, can break the effect.   Furthermore, it is weak against people who are familiar with the person(s) and/or objects that are being concealed, such as Shintaro to his sister, Momo,  or the Snake of Clearing Eyes to the Mekakushi Dan. When she was younger, she had trouble controlling her ability and would have parts of herself "disappear" when she was upset.  She feared that she would ultimately disappear and be unable to be found. She has since practiced to control her ability and can even use it to suppress Momo's own ability.  Kido can also vary the intensity with which she hides herself or others, as she could make herself invisible even to others already being hidden with her ability. When using her ability at full strength, she can apply it to objects outside of a two-meter radius, especially when the objects are interconnected, like a building. Kido's ability also allows her to conceal her own memories, though she does this with Azami's guidance in the Kagerou Daze. It can also affect virtual objects, such as Takane's crosshairs and/or the pig enemies in the Headphone Actor game.  When using her eye ability on a chatroom in Mekakucity Talkers, she can make parts of her messages appear deleted on the spot.

Azami

 * Azami could use Concealing Eyes to not only fade out of notice, but to also "conceal" someone's senses from themselves. She could do this to such an extent that the targeted person would no be longer capable of recognizing sound, light or even their own heartbeat. Kano speculates that, when used alongside a strengthened Combining Eyes, Concealing Eyes could make it impossible for all people in the world to recognize anything in the world.

Marry Kozakura

 * In both the Novel Route and Manga Route 2, Marry gains the Snake of Concealing Eyes and is able to use its abilities to their full extent with Combining Eyes. She, just like Kido and her grandmother, uses it to conceal herself and others. In Manga Route 2, she uses it to conceal her and her target's surroundings, making them perceive the world as only white emptiness.

Kousuke Seto

 * Seto's ability allows him to read information from his target's mind.   He can also understand animals with his eye ability, though they cannot necessarily understand him. When using his ability at full strength, he can read people's true feelings and memories,  even from past Routes. Before he met Marry, Seto would have trouble controlling the intensity and radius of his eye abilities. He would sometimes be able to read the thoughts and emotions of everyone in the entire city; one incident causes him to run away to the forest, where he meets Marry. In Mekakucity Talkers, he can use this ability to vaguely "read" others' thoughts regarding certain messages in the chatroom.

Azami

 * Azami could use Stealing Eyes to read the minds and thoughts of animals, humans, and even plants. However, even she did not have full control of this ability and sometimes activated it without intending to. In the Anime Route, she uses this ability to read a person's specific memories to find out what happened to her missing husband.

Shuuya Kano

 * Kano's ability can change what people around him see and show them something different, but he can only use it on himself, meaning he cannot change the appearances of others.  To transform into someone or something else, he needs to know as much as about it as possible, including appearance, sound, and even smell. Pain usually nullifies his ability because it is how he is able to identify "himself". Kano learned how to control his ability relatively early compared to his other two siblings.  He is unable to truly change his physical characteristics and has so far failed to be able to transform himself into inanimate objects like soumen or Australia. When using his eye ability on a chatroom in Mekakucity Talkers, he can "edit" parts of his messages on the spot.

Azami

 * Azami could use Deceiving Eyes to change her appearance. In the Anime Route, she uses this ability to appear as a giant snake. Kano speculates that, when used alongside a strengthened Combining Eyes, Deceiving Eyes could be used to create illusions that extend far beyond their user, with enough reach to affect all people in the world.

Azami

 * Azami's ability allows her to turn people who look at her eyes into stone. She can do this to multiple targets at once when using it with Drawing Eyes.

Shion Kozakura

 * Shion's ability also allows her to turn a target into stone. However, using her ability causes much strain to her body and physically weakens her.

Marry Kozakura

 * Marry's ability is not as complete as her mother's or grandmother's power, as she is not able to turn people into stone, but instead she can temporarily paralyze others when they meet her gaze.  When using this ability alongside a strengthened Combining Eyes, Marry is able to fully petrify her target, just like Azami. In Mekakucity Talkers, she projects Locking Eyes' effect through the group chatroom, which causes everyone's messages to send unfinished as they are temporarily paralyzed in real life.

Marry Kozakura

 * Marry has the ability to combine the powers of the other snakes, allowing her to absorb them when their owner dies or at her own will.  As its name suggests, Combining Eyes allows her to "combine" and simultaneously use multiple eye abilities.  Combining Eyes has reality-affecting abilities that grow stronger with the more snakes Marry has in her possession: with two snakes, she can open a portal to the Kagerou Daze, around five snakes allow her to control the Kagerou Daze, and with more she can rewind the world back to its beginning.   The latter is the result of Marry's despair over losing her friends, which makes her wish to have one more chance to see them again,  and is how she instinctively uses Combining Eyes in Routes where she was not taught how to use its power in a more rational manner.   In Manga Route 2, Novel Route and Mekakucity Actors, Marry was taught how to use this ability to harness the power of the other snakes and control the Kagerou Daze, be it through Azami's memories or possibly through Shintaro's memories from previous Routes, which were transmitted to her mind primarily through Ayano's Favoring Eyes.  With Combining Eyes, Marry can create new snakes based on strong wishes of hers, such as how she did when she turned Ayano into the Snake of Retaining Eyes in Manga Route 2 for the sake of her wish of "never to forget this Tragedy". Whether that was only possible because Ayano was already living a surrogate life thanks to Favoring Eyes or not is unknown. A strengthened Combining Eyes also alters her appearance, causing scales to appear on her cheeks and shortening her hair with long, snake-like projections below it.   Combining Eyes naturally causes the other snakes and their owners to be drawn towards it.

Azami

 * Azami used this ability to keep her snakes and their abilities under control and at full force. She could also use this ability to control the Kagerou Daze, but to change its nature she would need at least half of her snakes with her. Unconsciously, the Snake of Combining Eyes was initially used to create the entire world around Azami to create a place where she could fulfill her first wish to understand herself.

Momo Kisaragi

 * Momo's ability can draw people's attention to her regardless of their preferences.   Her ability has been shown to have a wide radius of several blocks and can draw in large crowds, affecting up to tens of thousands of people when she uses it at full strength.  She can also sense where people's attention is drawn to, whether it be on her or on something else. Up until meeting the Mekakushi Dan, she has had trouble controlling her eye abilities and would often draw crowds and often unwanted attention to herself and her home.    In Mekakucity Talkers, it's been shown that Momo can also use her ability to make other things besides herself to draw people's attention if she applies her power to them, such as with text messages or with webpages, and that she can regulate the amount of attention she earns with her ability.

Azami

 * Azami could use this ability to such an extent that her targets lost focus of anything besides her entirely, making them drop anything they might be holding and fall to their knees. She used this ability along with Focusing Eyes to find the "least noticed place in the world" in an attempt to escape from humans for good.

Marry Kozakura

 * Marry gains this ability in the Novel and Manga Routes, which she can use it to draw someone's attention and make them lose complete focus on their surroundings.

Takane Enomoto

 * Takane's ability allows her to split her consciousness from her body. She cannot manifest her spirit-self "Ene" in the real world ; instead, it becomes a cyber-being that resides in and can possess electronic devices.   She has been shown to be able of hacking computer systems in several occasions,  extracting information from them at will, travelling through e-mail, deleting files, activating alarms,  taking voice samples and using them to impersonate others   and to track GPS signals. While using this power, her body loses consciousness, and while she does not feel hunger or sleep, her body still requires nourishment, so it can die if not taken care of. She can use her ability to send chatroom and presumably all digital messages as fast as her own thoughts.

Azami

 * When she was in the real world, Azami did not need to eat or sleep to survive, likely thanks to this ability. When she was unable to move her physical form in the Kagerou Daze, Azami used this ability to manifest her spirit-self and stay "alive" there. When she gave it to Takane, Azami lost her spirit.

Marry Kozakura

 * Marry gained this ability in both Manga Route 2 and the Novel Route. In the Manga Route, she uses the ability to project herself over a TV screen, and unlike Ene, she does not seem to lose consciousness while doing so. In the Novel Route, she used it to turn into a cyber-being like Ene.

Hibiya Amamiya

 * Hibiya gains the Snake of Focusing Eyes in most routes and is able to use the eye ability to perceive objects, locations, and people from any distance, from an aerial view. If he looks at an object, he can see a vision of its owner, but it will not work if that person is in his direct vision. In the Novel Route, he develops Focusing Eyes to work over phone waves. This allows him to locate and connect directly to Shintaro's phone in the Kagerou Daze and speak with him and the others there. His ability seemingly requires a lot of concentration and effort to use, though this may be because he gains his ability the most recently out of all the Dan members.

Hiyori Asahina

 * In Manga Route 2, Hiyori gains the Snake of Focusing Eyes and can use its abilities to find anything that she focuses her mind on. However, she is unable to find a specific target if they are disguised.

Azami

 * Azami could use this ability to find things and places from an aerial point of view. She only had to use a description of something to find it. For example, she used Focusing Eyes and Drawing Eyes to find "the least noticed place in the world". She could also use Focusing Eyes to see the real world from the Kagerou Daze.

Konoha

 * Konoha's ability gives him the power to remake his body into one that his body's true owner, Haruka, finds "ideal". Haruka expected to die young from his hereditary illness, so his ideal body was healthy and supernaturally strong to be able to "make friends" with.  However, Haruka rejected the body, which looked like his video game avatar, and his body in turn rejected him because of his "meager" "spirit", so the Snake of Awakening Eyes assumed control of his body instead, leaving Haruka trapped in the Daze.  In the Novel Route, Konoha is able to heal from a fatal injury with this ability, which appears as multiple black snakes wrapping around his body. Konoha is strong enough to break the floor and ceiling above Kenjrou's lab with just his fist in Mekakucity Actors, which requires 0.3 to 1 Ton of force to be accomplished, and he can reach hundreds of meters in the air with a single jump. In Mekakucity Talkers, Momo claims that Konoha is faster than a bullet train, which is roughly 320 km/hour (199 miles/hour). In the tweets accompanying the Seek at Mekakucity event, Konoha swam from Japan to another country (apparently an European one) in just 40 minutes.

Haruka Kokonose

 * Despite being deprived of his body while in the Daze, Haruka still maintains a connection with it, which allows him to be aware of everything that Konoha hears and sees. This extends to what Konoha experiences both outside and inside the Kagerou Daze. However, whenever the Snake of Clearing Eyes takes over his body, Haruka's connection with it is cut down. In the novels, it is said that Haruka's spirit is too weak to handle a supernaturally strong body like Konoha's, which is possibly why, when he retrieves his body in Mekakucity Actors, he remakes it into one that requires the use of a wheelchair sometimes.

Azami

 * Azami's ability gave her the power to remake her body at will, surrounding her with a mass of black snakes. She could use this ability to heal from several fatal gunshots and presumably other otherwise lethal wounds. She first used this ability to create her body from scratch, having changed her form several times before sticking to the humanoid appearance she is known for. She maintained that form as her primary one despite finding it fragile and inconvenient for locomotion, and it is unknown if she could have drastically changed her form from it anymore. When this ability went to Haruka, Azami lost her body.

The Snake of Clearing Eyes

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes forcefully suppresses the Snake of Awakening Eyes when possessing Konoha,  although Konoha can sometimes resist its influence, even if temporarily.  It uses Awakening Eyes' appearance-altering abilities to change Konoha's color scheme to a black and a yellow one upon possession, and it can make masterful use of Konoha's superhuman strength and speed. , such as when it caused a landslide with a single kick. In Manga Route 2, it changes its appearance further to avoid being detected by Focusing Eyes, and it can become strong enough to overpower bindings created with Combining Eyes. In the Novel Route, it uses Awakening Eyes to rebuild its body molecule by molecule to gain immunity against Concealing Eyes.

Multiple

 * Due to its sentience, the Snake of Clearing Eyes can directly advise its owner on how to fulfill their biggest desire, such as when it tells Azami how to create the Kagerou Daze so that she can stay there forever with her family, or when guiding Kenjirou in regards to how to bring his wife, Ayaka, back from the Daze.   With its human owners, it can take possession of its owner's body at will, presumably only once the sun starts to set, although it has been shown to possess Hibiya to kill Kido after sunrise. The Snake of Clearing Eyes is extremely manipulative and has a wide degree of knowledge, as when possessing Kenjirou it was able to amass a great amount of money and power and even change parts of the city with its influence, alongside building a whole hideout for its scientifical experiments underneath Momo's school and hiring goons to do its bidding. It is also strong minded enough to resist being subjugated by Combining Eyes. The Snake of Clearing Eyes has shown awareness of other Routes, although whether that is to the extent provided by Retaining Eyes is unknown. To prevent itself from losing sentience and possibly its own existence, the Snake of Clearing Eyes avoids completely fulfilling its owner's biggest desire and instead uses them and their wish for its own plan to rewind the world.

Ayano Tateyama

 * Ayano's eye ability allows her to instantly project her own (and possibly those of other people's) emotions, thoughts, and memories onto others, which she refers to as "the power of caring". In Manga Route 2, she first uses this ability to  express her hatred towards Marry directly into her mind. In the present day plot, she uses Favoring Eyes to show Hibiya Azami's memories, which she observed in the Kagerou Daze. . Later, at Shintaro's suggestion, she transfers Azami's memories to Marry, which helps her learn how to utilize Combining Eyes with the other abilities she has, and after that to Kano, so he can impersonate Azami and stall the Snake of Clearing Eyes. She also uses it to ask the forest animals to cause a landslide onto the Snake of Clearing Eyes. This scene also shows that she does not need direct eye contact to send her thoughts to a group of individuals with Favoring Eyes. In the Novel Route, Azami teaches her how to use this ability by sharing her memories with her, which she tells Shintaro about by using the ability on him. In Mekakucity Actors, she transfers certain memories (whether they are Shintaro's memories from previous Routes or Azami's memories is unknown) to Marry to teach her how to control the Daze, based on what Shintaro taught her about it.

Azami

 * Azami created the Snake of Favoring Eyes to be able to convey to her newborn daughter Shion just how much she loves her. She called this ability her 'heart'. In the Novel Route, she uses it to teach Kido how to control Concealing Eyes. Later, she uses it on Ayano to share her memories with her before disappearing, as once Favoring Eyes went to Ayano, she had no snakes left to sustain her consciousness.

Shintaro Kisaragi

 * Shintaro's eye ability allows him to remember everything he sees, as long as the Snake of Retaining Eyes also sees it. Shintaro gains this ability after Manga Route 2's ending, when Ayano has Marry trade her own life, which was substituted by the Snake of Favoring Eyes, to become the Snake of Retaining Eyes. Unlike the other snake owners, he has this ability since before birth in all subsequent Routes. Upon fully activating it, he can remember past Routes that he has experienced. It's implied that he subconsciously uses the ability to remember past Routes and to easily recall things that he experienced during the current Route, explaining how he can obtain 100's on all his tests and video game scores.