Post by Z451 on Jun 22, 2014 17:05:52 GMT
Kazuo Kiriyama
Boy #6 Kazuo Kiriyama (Kiriyama Kazuo) is the main antagonist of the series and the player who kills the most students in the game.
In the novel and manga, Kiriyama is a sociopath with the mind of a genius and the inability to feel emotion, due to brain damage from a car crash in his childhood (in utero in the novel) that led to partial lobotomy.
He came from a rich family, but in the manga profile and the novel it is suggested he is an illegitimate child.
Kiriyama has a great intuitive grasp of everything, enabling him to not only do outstanding schoolwork, but also to master normally time-consuming skills such as painting, playing the violin, and various martial arts at a rapid rate.
However, due to his emotionless state, he tends to set them aside after attaining mastery.
This quick intuitive grasp allowed Kazuo to be the first student to master the mechanics of the Program.
In the manga, he also plucked out an abusive gym teacher's eyeball and crushed it with it still connected by the optic nerve, just to see the color of the liquid within.
He was also the only male student not to fall for Mitsuko Souma's charms.
Kiriyama is also shown to have a high tolerance for pain, such as when, after killing Mitsuko, he cuts his arm open and tapes the muscles that control his index finger back so as to permanently pull said finger back into a position that allows him to fire at a much more rapid rate.
During his time in school, Kiriyama became the leader of his own gang, consisting of Mitsuru Numai, Sho Tsukioka, Hiroshi Kuronaga, and Ryuhei Sasagawa.
Despite their loyalty, he has no attachment to any of them and murders all of them during the Program.
Kiriyama participates in the Program not out of necessity (as with most students), but only because he had nothing better to do, and quickly becomes the primary antagonist and succeeds in killing many of his classmates (fourteen total, fifteen if Shogo Kawada is counted, amounting to the most kills of all students), only to ultimately be killed in the end.
In the novel, Noriko shoots Kiriyama in the head once, and then Shogo shoots him in the head again; at that point Shogo tells her that he killed Kiriyama to spare Noriko the guilt of murder.
In the manga, Shuya ultimately kills Kiriyama by shooting him in the neck, though Kiriyama was able to regain his emotions from an earlier shot in the face, and moments before his death, he muttered Shuya's name.
In the film, Kiriyama, not from Shiroiwa Junior High School Class 3-B, voluntarily joins the Battle Royale program for his own entertainment.
Unlike his novel and manga counterparts, he displays emotion and takes enjoyment in killing students.
Kiriyama is also depicted as mute and never speaks during the course of the film.
In this adaption, the "Kiriyama family" gang members from the novel and manga, led by Numai instead, thought Kiriyama was in the league with Kitano, and tried to bully him to confess, but were killed by him.
Shogo ultimately kills him by shooting and detonating his collar.
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In the novel and manga, Kiriyama is a sociopath with the mind of a genius and the inability to feel emotion, due to brain damage from a car crash in his childhood (in utero in the novel) that led to partial lobotomy.
He came from a rich family, but in the manga profile and the novel it is suggested he is an illegitimate child.
Kiriyama has a great intuitive grasp of everything, enabling him to not only do outstanding schoolwork, but also to master normally time-consuming skills such as painting, playing the violin, and various martial arts at a rapid rate.
However, due to his emotionless state, he tends to set them aside after attaining mastery.
This quick intuitive grasp allowed Kazuo to be the first student to master the mechanics of the Program.
In the manga, he also plucked out an abusive gym teacher's eyeball and crushed it with it still connected by the optic nerve, just to see the color of the liquid within.
He was also the only male student not to fall for Mitsuko Souma's charms.
Kiriyama is also shown to have a high tolerance for pain, such as when, after killing Mitsuko, he cuts his arm open and tapes the muscles that control his index finger back so as to permanently pull said finger back into a position that allows him to fire at a much more rapid rate.
During his time in school, Kiriyama became the leader of his own gang, consisting of Mitsuru Numai, Sho Tsukioka, Hiroshi Kuronaga, and Ryuhei Sasagawa.
Despite their loyalty, he has no attachment to any of them and murders all of them during the Program.
Kiriyama participates in the Program not out of necessity (as with most students), but only because he had nothing better to do, and quickly becomes the primary antagonist and succeeds in killing many of his classmates (fourteen total, fifteen if Shogo Kawada is counted, amounting to the most kills of all students), only to ultimately be killed in the end.
In the novel, Noriko shoots Kiriyama in the head once, and then Shogo shoots him in the head again; at that point Shogo tells her that he killed Kiriyama to spare Noriko the guilt of murder.
In the manga, Shuya ultimately kills Kiriyama by shooting him in the neck, though Kiriyama was able to regain his emotions from an earlier shot in the face, and moments before his death, he muttered Shuya's name.
In the film, Kiriyama, not from Shiroiwa Junior High School Class 3-B, voluntarily joins the Battle Royale program for his own entertainment.
Unlike his novel and manga counterparts, he displays emotion and takes enjoyment in killing students.
Kiriyama is also depicted as mute and never speaks during the course of the film.
In this adaption, the "Kiriyama family" gang members from the novel and manga, led by Numai instead, thought Kiriyama was in the league with Kitano, and tried to bully him to confess, but were killed by him.
Shogo ultimately kills him by shooting and detonating his collar.
Links
Battle Royale Wiki
Comic Vine
Copyright Owner
Koshun Takami
Record:
W:
L: