WMG / Speed Grapher

Suitengu is actually Sephiroth!

Just watch episode 10.

• They even have the same Japanese voice actors.

There was no other safe way Saiga could have taken pictures.

Even if he'd only looked to line up the shot and looked away or closed his eyes while he took the picture, the subject still would have exploded, because of the weird way those abilities work.

The Euphoria Factor is like a cancer.

Sure, they'll get special powers but eventually everyone who has it is gonna die in one way or another. I think was made obvious by Kagura's development.

The Roppongi Club is the same secret society from Eyes Wide Shut

Come on, it should seem obvious, a secret society that throws parties where the elite can get their rocks off without having to worry about anyone finding out? Perhaps what Tom Cruise encounters in Eyes Wide Shut is the western branch of the Roppongi Club and, assuming that the movie takes place in 1999 and the anime in the near future, perhaps Kagura wasn't born yet.

Kazuya Shirogane is somehow related to Voldo from the Soul Cailbur gamees

That or Monkey D Luffy

Suitengu's a sociopath, and his Anti-Villain schtick is not a side effect but the SOURCE of his power.

Suitengu's power works by shedding his own blood; by the rules of the Euphoria Factor this implies he literally gets off on being a martyr and bearing the pain of others. His whole plan gets revenge on those who wronged him but achieves nothing, since he just replaces the corrupt people he kills with his own corrupt associates, and rips the reasonably innocent of Japan a new one while he's at it, and kills many people who would be forces for change. He never really believed he was doing good in the first place, but the self-righteous act of pretending to is all that excites him.

• So, like Shogo Makishima, but even worse?

Suitengu used to be Artlier, and is reincarnated as Kimimaro Yoga.

All three of them harm large amounts of innocent people (and in the case of Chouji and Yoga, bankrupt Japan) to take down a corrupt organization, and are (to an extent) treated as heroes for it.

Ted Miyagi was merely another alias of Ueno Takashi. With the death of his parents, he set out to become a movie director and reveal the truth about the Government Conspiracy that victimized him. After the Liar Game failed in its purpose because the government shut down the video, he decides to gain great wealth and accomplish his plan another way- by marrying a powerful rich woman and seizing control of her business. From there, he masterminds and ultimately succeeds in a plan to destroy the Japanese economy, which will eventually bring down the Government Conspiracy with it- and he also kills Prime Minister Kamiya, the man who ordered the Liar Game to be censored in the first place. This sends the world into a mass panic.

Unfortunately for him, the organization known as Midas Bank then steps in and fixes Japan’s economy- using their Midas Money, which has the powers of a Reality Warper. The Magasakis create the Financial District and battling system to see how to distribute the money. The Government Conspiracy, thanks to the Midas Money system, is kept running (and the Magasakis may have even been the creators of the conspiracy, assuming Midas Bank is not itself the conspiracy).

At some point, for some reason, Suitengu is reborn into the world as Kimimaro. He is unaware of his past life, but nevertheless goes on his journey into the Financial District and meets Msyu, Mikuni, and the others. However, when Mikuni puts his plan into action, Kimimaro and his allies rise up to stop him. In the end, Artlier/Suitengu/Kimimaro finishes what he started, and bankrupts Japan for good, hopefully destroying the conspiracy for real this time. And all it took was him ruining billions of innocent lives three times. Way to go, so-called hero.

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