While having overpowered abilities certainly makes a supervillain's job easier, Ririka Umezawa from Sui Ishida's new Choujin X manga, illustrates how sometimes the simplest and most unassuming power can be devastatingly effective in taking out even the most powerful superheroes.
Ririka, who is also known as the «Paper Cutout Choujin», has the awesomely deadly ability to transform anything she touches into a paper-based representation of itself. Once transformed, however, the paper objects retain the same characteristics and traits they originally had. She can make an axe into a paper image that in her hands, will still be able to chop wood. Additionally, she also has the ability to make a paper object, and imbue it with the «real world» attributes normally associated with it.
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The series Choujin X has consistently reinvented shonen tropes, and chapter 18 is no exception. In the chapter, Ririka makes a paper airplane that allows her to fly, and pursue her opponents with ease. While her ability to use paper in an offensive manner is impressive, the more notable characteristic of her power is when she uses it defensively. On the one hand, she can use her powers to avoid harm by making herself as thin as a sheet of paper but still retain the force of her fists, arms, legs, and feet just as if she was in human form. Conversely, if Ririka is close enough to touch an opponent she can immediately transform them into a paper cutout of themselves. Accordingly, any physical attacks launched by an opponent against her would be as effective as hitting her with a piece of paper. Later in the chapter, after engaging in an intense battle, she subdues Ely
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