This is the entry the rest of Beast Breathing's naming story hinges on. Every other technique in this style — First through Sixth Fang, Ninth Fang — is written with 牙 (kiba), a word choice that only makes sense for Inosuke: an untrained fighter naming his own invented moves after the tusks on his boar mask rather than the vocabulary of any real dojo. The Seventh is different. The panel confirmed on Volume 4, page 83 spells it out with full furigana over every character: 獣の呼吸・漆ノ型 — 型 (kata), not 牙. It is the exact word used by every formally trained breathing style in the series — Water, Flame, Thunder, Wind, Stone — the word for a technique passed down through a lineage of teachers. Inosuke has no lineage and no teacher. For one panel, his self-invented style borrows the vocabulary of the tradition it explicitly isn't part of.
VIZ's translation choice here matters because it's the harder of two options, not the easier one. Given the anomaly, an English translation could reasonably have normalized it — printed "SEVENTH FANG," matching the rest of the style, and quietly erased a one-panel inconsistency most readers would never separately verify. VIZ didn't. The confirmed page prints "BEAST BREATHING: SEVENTH FORM," preserving the exact word choice of the Japanese even though it breaks the pattern the translation itself has been maintaining everywhere else. That's a rare case of a translation choosing fidelity to a small, easily-missed detail over internal consistency with its own prior choices.
The irony is that this fidelity doesn't last. Two volumes later, when Beast Breathing's Eighth technique appears — also genuinely written with 型 in the raw Japanese, per this hub's Form 8 entry — VIZ makes the opposite call, normalizing it to "EIGHTH FANG" instead of preserving the same anomaly a second time. Read together, the two translation choices contradict each other: once VIZ keeps Gotouge's inconsistency, once VIZ fixes it. Neither choice is a translation error in isolation, but no English-only reader, working from either page alone, could ever discover that the underlying Japanese itself briefly forgets what kind of fighter Inosuke is supposed to be — twice, in two different directions.
Unlike every other technique in this style, this one never gets a distinct strike-name to go with its number. The only text tied to this reveal panel is "空間識覚" ("Spatial Awareness"), Inosuke's echolocation-like sensing ability rather than an attack — suggesting this occurrence may be introducing the Seventh Form as a defensive or sensory technique rather than an offensive one, with any accompanying strike name simply not appearing elsewhere in this corpus.