User talk:Mute Massacre

Personality


In the film, Kiriyama is an enigmatic character introduced as the sociopathic transfer student, who signed up as a volunteer for the Battle Royale Program. In the film, his only apparent motive is given by Shogo Kawada, who says he signed up "for fun". Not much else is known, as the wild-haired Kiriyama says nothing and only smiles with glee as he murders his classmates with assorted weapons such as a submachine gun, a wakizashi, and grenades. In the novel, a sharp contrast is given, as well a more debatable motivation in Kiriyama's actions. Having suffered from a brain injury during a car accident while in utero, he lost the ability to process basic human emotions such as remorse and fear, which made him indifferent to the suffering of others. This also makes him an efficient, Terminator-esque killer, with no morals to keep him from callously murdering his classmates, even the members of the local street gang he is in charge of. He also has specifically slicked back hair, which he adopted at Mitsuru's suggestion, leading a false perception by Mitsuru of this being a bonding factor between the two. In the manga, Kiriyama is much like what the novel depicted, mercilessly killing his classmates with neither hesitation nor regret. One of the more notable differences is that Kiriyama suffered cerebral damage when he was a child, no more than six years old, in a car crash that claimed his mother and his humanity. This event is made clear in volume 14 in a sequence where a dying Kiriyama flashes back to his earlier (and happier) years. Also, the manga depicts Kiriyama as a near perfect genius, from his incredible talents when he was a child to his wide range of knowledge as a junior high student. He has been seen reading books about human anatomy and martial arts, and has the ability to quickly grasp anything not yet familiar to him.

Kazuo Kiriyama's Street Gang
Mitsuru Numai, Hiroshi Kuronaga, Ryuhei Sasagawa, Sho Tsukioka. In the manga version of Battle Royale, these are Kiriyama's loyal followers. However, in the movie version, the gang is led by Mitsuru Numai rather than Kazuo Kiriyama. In the film, Kiriyama is not a leader or member of the street gang and is forced to dispatch them, led by classmate Mitsuru Numai, in an extremely violent manner, such as spitting gum into the face of one student and mowing down another girl with gunfire as she begs for her life.

Deaths
Regardless of whichever adaptation of Battle Royale, Kiriyama is responsible for many deaths on the island during the events of The Program, usually killing them by putting a bullet through their head with his MAC-10. Thoughout the movie, novel, and manga, Kiriyama managed to kill the following:

Hiroshi Kuronaga, throat slit with a knife. Ryuhei Sasagawa, throat slit with a knife. Izumi Kanai, throat slit with a knife. Mitsuru Numai, shot four times with MAC-10. Yukiko Kitano, shot multiple times with MAC-10. Yumiko Kusaka, shot multiple times with MAC-10. Sho Tsukioka, tricked into going into a forbidden zone. Yukata Seto, shot in the head/back multiple times. Shinji Mimura, forced him to set off his bomb in an attempt to kill Kiriyama / shot him in the neck(manga version). Toshinori Oda, shot in the head with MAC-10. Mitsuko Souma, shot in the head with MAC-10. Mizuho Inada, shot in the shoulder with Beretta 92FS. Shogo Kawada, bled from bullet wounds recieved from Kiriyama. Kayoko Kotohiki, shot in the head with Walther P99. Hiroki Sugimura, beaten nearly to death in hand to hand combat, then shot with a Colt M1911. Boy #2: Keita Iijima - shot multiple times with Uzi.

Weapons
In the novel he receives a knife as his original weapon and he takes his MAC-10 and Walther PPK from his gang, the grenades from Yumiko Kusaka, a revolver and Class III Kevlar vest from Toshinori Oda and a Magnum from Mizuho Inada. In the film, there are noticeable differences. He receives a paper fan, then takes the Uzi(a place where the film breaks with the other 2 versions) from Ryuhei Sasagawa. He then takes the revolver and grenades from the rest of the street gang, a sword from Yumiko Kusaka, a Kevlar vest from Oda, a Colt M1911 and stungun from Mitsuko. In the manga, things go in much the same way as in the novel, except that he starts off with only the MAC-10. He acquires a Walther P99 from Mitsuru Numai, grenades from Yumiko Kusaka, a Colt Python and a Kevlar vest from Toshinori Oda, a .44 Auto Mag from Mizuho Inida and a Colt M1911 from Hiroki Sugimura.

Kiriyama's Death
In the novel, Shogo Kawada kills Kazuo after Noriko Nakagawa shoots him, non-fatally, in the face. Some people believe that Noriko killed him when she shot him in the face and was already dead when Shogo shot him in the face with the shotgun, as a way to make sure he was dead and reassure Noriko that it was him that killed him, not her. The book does not specifically say what really killed him. In the film adaptation, Shogo Kawada kills Kiriyama, first by shooting him in his leg after he is blinded by Shinji Mimura's bomb, then into his collar, which subsequently explodes. In the manga adaptation, Kiriyama is finally killed in the last volume by protagonist Shuuya Nanahara. He is shot in the stomach with a shotgun, shot in the face with a revolver, stabbed in the eye with a spearhead, and finally shot through the neck.

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