User:SuperSaiyan2Link/Bleach Cero Speed

In Bleach, a towering creature called the Menos Grande fires off a beam known as Cero at Ichigo Kurosaki.

Once this beam is fired, Ichigo proceeds to actually react quick enough to block the beam entirely.

So it's time to find out the speed of the Cero beam and thus how fast Ichigo's reactions are during the first arc of the series. Right off the bat, we are going to rule out lightspeed, for a number of reasons. Despite being called a beam of spiritual light, there is one major thing acting against this actually being natural light.

Bala is an attack that functions as sort of an upgraded version of Cero. It is explicitly stated that Bala is faster than Cero due to its composition. This immediately rules out the possibility of Cero being lightspeed, since it is completely impossible to change the composition of light in order to make it faster. The fact that Cero is called "Spiritual Light" only supports that it is not natural.

Because of this, we know Cero is not lightspeed, and thus I will have to calculate the actual speed itself. Thankfully, this is very easy. Since Cero is fired from the top of Menos Grande's head all the way down to the ground (thus a direct head-to-foot distance), all we need to find is the height of Menos Grande, and the timeframe of the blast.

Thanks to this handy dandy scene, we know the exact height of a Menos Grande: 153.28 meters tall.

Now for timeframe. Naturally, I'm going to use the anime to find this, since the manga makes it completely arbitrary. As seen here, the timeframe of the blast is exactly 1 second. Literally 1 second on the dot. All we need to do now is put the numbers together and see what we get.

153.28 meters per 1 second

153.28 m/s = Superhuman