Description

Killy is a fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 from the manga

Manga

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 series Blame!

Blame!

, pronounced "blam", is a ten-volume 1998 cyberpunk manga by Tsutomu Nihei published by Kodansha. A six part original net animation was produced in 2003, with a seventh episode included on the DVD release.- Plot :...

, by Tsutomu Nihei

Tsutomu Nihei

is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop...

. He is tasked by an unknown agency with finding a human in the 32-AU

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 radius Megastructure

Megastructure

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 who still possesses the Net Terminal Gene, a genetic marker necessary for safe access to the Netsphere

Simulated reality

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, from which the functions of the Megastructure may be controlled. He is equipped with a Gravitational Beam Emitter (GBE), a compact but powerful weapon capable of creating holes miles long in the Megastructure. He is soon joined by Cibo

Cibo

Cibo is a main character in the manga BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei. She is the head scientist of the Bio-Electric Corporation in the Capitol and joins Killy on his quest for the Net Terminal Gene....

 in his quest.

Looking to be in his early to mid 20s, he is a glum looking person, never smiling (except madly when shooting on occasion) and has a slight slouch in his normal standing position, he isn't afraid to fight, and readily shoots the GBE. He also often shows superhuman strength and endurance, being thrown through solid walls and floors before standing right back up with no apparent injuries. The GBE is so powerful that he's flung backwards by its sheer power, often into walls and the ground, but he always gets up. Even in its lowest power, his arm jerks up and back from the force of it. During the encounter with the giant Safeguard outside Toha Heavy Industries, he fires at the Safeguard with the GBE at Level 4 Extra power level. The recoil from the GBE is so powerful that he is thrown back a considerable distance, his right arm badly broken and exposing bone and tissue. He heals very quickly, as well, recovering from more serious injuries much more rapidly than an average human. In the times when it's quiet, he injects drugs into himself in the forehead, and when he's low on power, he may inject it straight into his hand.

He has an electronic connector to create signals to stop Builders and to transmit information from one person to himself, and vice versa. He also has no memory of his past, or how he obtained the GBE. Killy distrusts Silicon Creatures on sight, and destroys them whenever possible; whether they are or are not hostile towards him or his objectives does not bear any weight on his judgement. In Blame!²

Blame!²

, subtitled , is a full-color, 16-page one-shot manga by Tsutomu Nihei. Like NSE: Net Sphere Engineer, Blame!² is a sequel to the original Blame!, taking place at a point in the distant future...

, however, he rescues Pcell (part of a new, relatively peaceful generation of Silicon Life) from the Safeguard, indicating either that his priorities have changed or that he no longer considers Silicon Creatures to be a serious threat.

Volume 3 and Onwards

From Volume 3 onwards, it is revealed that Killy was not really human at all. In her attempt to register Killy as a Safeguard, Sanakan, intentionally or not, (re)enabled Killy's Safeguard functions. During the encounter outside Toha Heavy Industries, where he was knocked out from using too much power from firing the GBE, we see from his point of view that he can now scan for the Net Terminal Genes automatically. Zuru asks him if anything is wrong, and we see his viewpoint, filled with little windows and analysing the eyes of the person, along with other unknown elements. His response to her question is "I understand what the displays mean now.", implying that he was able to see these things before but didn't know what they meant.

This is where he leaves the room and immediately scans the people outside, even Cibo, who is unaware of his change. However, he senses a strange reading from one of them, even a small scan (possibly x-ray

X-ray

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) showed up with a metallic endoskeleton. It was Sanakan, as she was one of the Safeguard, she then activates her functions and starts destroying things with her own GBE. He then apparently 'rejects registration with the Safeguard', and Sanakan tries to kill him, only to be defeated for the time being.

Another attack at the same place involved many Safeguard Exterminators, and one large creature, who possessed a GBE much larger than Killy himself. After shooting the creature with the GBE at full power (Level 4), it hit it, but made little damage. He then later powered up further by connecting himself to several of the now dead Safeguard he killed, to power up his GBE to Level 4 Extra, blasting through the creatures own GBE beam, and destroying it completely.

Later in the manga, Killy is shown to be able to see objects as far away as 3,000 kilometers using his naked eyes. This contrasts his need for binoculars in the volume 1 of the manga. Also during this period Killy loses his need to eat and instead is able to gather energy directly from power sources in the NetSphere.

Costume/Outfit

Killy's outfit changes five times throughout the manga.
His first outfit is a baggy, black jumpsuit.
He later receives a tight, synthetic suit for his journey with Cibo.
Next, when he finds a Safeguard armory, he finds a synthetic and moderately plated armor suit similar to that of suit that Dhomochevsky wears.

After losing 40.82% of his body mass, he regenerates a sort of natural and advanced Safeguard armor which looks like that of the Safeguards' that attack him in the final chapter.
This is sometimes referred to by fans as "The Playford outfit" (due to it reading "PLAYFORD" on occasional white strips found on it) and is the final outfit that he uses. It features details derived of all the others, along with something resembling a collared flak jacket.

Killy has been alive for a very long time; when he lost a large portion of his body mass, it took him over 14 years to regenerate; a lift trip took a minimum of 33 days. Tsutomu Nihei has stated that Killy is over 3000 years old and his memory loss is merely a side-effect of his aging.

Eventually, he reaches the edge of the city with the Net Terminal Gene carrier, and in the last frame of the manga, he is shown to be alive and well, firing his gun past the camera, with the Net Terminal Gene carrier behind him, clothed in protective gear against the poison the Silicon Creatures introduced.

Gravitational Beam Emitter

The Gravitation Beam Emitter is a fiction

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al gun

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 used by Killy in the manga series Blame!

Blame!

, pronounced "blam", is a ten-volume 1998 cyberpunk manga by Tsutomu Nihei published by Kodansha. A six part original net animation was produced in 2003, with a seventh episode included on the DVD release.- Plot :...

and NOiSE

NOiSE

This article is about NOiSE the manga. For other uses, see Noise . is a one volume manga created by Tsutomu Nihei as a prequel to his ten-volume work, Blame!. Noise offers some information concerning the Megastructure's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of Silicon life...

by Tsutomu Nihei

Tsutomu Nihei

is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop...

. It is also known as the Graviton

Graviton

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 Beam Emitter or the Graviton Radiation Projector.

Killy doesn't recall the origin of the weapon, though it is the only perfected GBE that can sustain such a high output for long periods. The weapon fires a highly condensed energy beam, which can repel beams from other weapons (seen in the Corporation against the Guardians).

The weapon draws its power directly from the user, meaning it has unlimited ammo so long as the user has power. Inside Toha Heavy Industries, where the Safeguard aren't allowed access, Ivy (one of the Silicon Creatures) states that 'the weapons of the Safeguard are disabled', so the GBE is not permitted to work. This also happens in the alternate universe inside the Gravity Furnace. Later, when Killy meets Dhomochevsky, Iko manages to stop the power of the GBE for a split second, giving Dhomochevsky an advantage in firing his own weapon. Iko calls the GBE a 'Class 1 Critical Effect Weapon'.

Whenever Killy loses the weapon, he always makes a point of getting it back. In addition, he refuses to let anyone else fire the GBE. The weapon is extremely resistant to external damage, to the point of being able to survive submerging in a lava flow (following the destruction of Davine Lu Linvega's NetSphere connection point).

To give a scope of its power, on it's lowest setting, the beam length is over 70 km long.