Kanaguri

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Kanaguri
Biographical Information
Japanese Name	京かなぐり
Aliases	KANAGURI.M The Pioneer of Assassin Movies
Personal Description
Gender	Male
Height	190 cm
Eye Color	Green
Hair Color	Black with brown fades
Professional Status
Status	Alive
Occupation	Movie Director
Affiliation	Order (Former) JAA (Former) X's Organization
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 13 (name only) Chapter 59 (full appearance)

I'm not an assassin. I'm a filmmaker. I don't have killing skills or weapons. All I have is my ability as a first-rate filmmaker!

Kanaguri (京かなぐり, Kanaguri^?) is an undercover member of Kei Uzuki's organization and a former member of the Order. Aside from being an assassin, he is renowned for his films that pioneered assassin movies and is the founder of Murder Films.

He is a recurring antagonist in the series, being a major antagonist in the JCC Transfer Exams Arc and one of the main antagonists of the JCC Infiltration Arc.

Appearance

Kanaguri is a tall man with short bowl-styled black hair with brown fades and a film-reel shape shaved onto the left side. He has green eyes with long lower eyelashes, wears black pants, shoes, a white shirt under a long black coat and analogue film wrapped around his neck like a scarf. After he lost the use of his right eye after being stabbed by Etsuko Satoda's last act, he now wears an eyepatch over it.

Due to his passion for filmmaking, Kanaguri always carries a film camera with him.

Kanaguri's color scheme as seen in the Volume 12 cover.

Personality

An eccentric filmmaker, Kanaguri is an avid lover of the craft of filmmaking and seizes every opportunity he can to score some footage to the point of obsession. He seems to have a short attention span, gravitating to whatever is most exciting to him on a moment-to-moment basis and bringing some more action into it when he considers something too boring. To him, film making is his life, and any time he isn't creating a film he regards as "not worth living". Additionally, he is hated by Osaragi for his strange and loud personality.

Kanaguri's mood greatly depends on his camera as he enters a manic rage, becomes a fierce fighter with determined mentality when trying to film a pivotal moment, and gets depressed when his camera breaks (thus losing all footage), as well threaten to kill anyone who insults his movies. Despite this, he is perseverant, quickly calming himself down and embracing the setback as a challenge.

Kanaguri's love for filmmaking surpasses his morals as he has sided with Slur to film the conflict between the JAA and the former, not caring which side will win as long as it produces a great film. This stems from his belief that the universe is a one giant movie set, and its inhabitants are actors. He can also act as remarkably and eerily calm, even calmly pondering about the production of his film in the middle of plane crashing from the sky. While freefalling from 20,000 feet, he remained focused on what he was filming.

Skills & Abilities

Overall Skill Level: Kanaguri is a remarkable combatant that in his own words isn't an assassin and doesn't possess an ounce of skill in killing. However, his abilities are superhuman in his ability as a "first-rate" filmmaker. Before becoming an assassin, he was able to fight and kill his good friend who was a first-class professional assassin as a member of the Order. After which, he was fast tracked into becoming a member of the assassination organization for the act.

As an ex-member of the Order, he is one of the strongest assassins in Japan. His abilities are partially linked to his camera, he becomes weaker due to a lack of motivation if it's destroyed but will become stronger if he gets a replacement camera.

Filming: Kanaguri is a filmmaker at heart, even when killing he is keen to turn the scene into a movie. He uses his assassination expertise to produce very well-made and popular movies with inhuman determination. This is so strong that his overall physical capabilities seem to improve, whenever it would improve a scene. For instance, when Etsuko Satoda wasn't able to move Kanaguri's arm that is holding his camera, because it otherwise would have ruined his shot.

Expert Marksman: Kanaguri was able to kill a JAA plane pilot with a headshot through a closed door while hip firing from afar.

Enhanced Strength: Kanaguri was able to decapitate 8 JAA applicants using his clapperboard and crack Sakamoto's bullet-resistant glasses with a smartphone. Later fighting on par and matching with the legendary assassin.

Enhanced Speed and Reflexes: Kanaguri once decapitated 8 JAA applicants in an instant. On an airplane, he moved behind Sakamoto and Akira Akao so quickly both failed to notice him, and subsequently managed to dodge Sakamoto's attack, stealing his and Shin's bullets while grabbing an oblivious Akira and taking her with him. Kanaguri's speed is so fast Shin's clairvoyance is unable to predict his movements, almost as if he was changing the future. He is also fast enough to contend with a retired Sakamoto and Etsuko Satoda, landing near-lethal hits on their necks. He was also able to dodge Sakamoto's myriads of attacks and land several blows on the veteran assassin.

Enhanced Durability: Kanaguri took a strike from Sakamoto that sent him skidding across the greenhouse but left him unharmed.

Enhanced Endurance: Kanaguri has an incredibly high pain tolerance, being completely unfazed after a knife was thrown into his eye.

Equipment

Clapperboard: Kanaguri possesses a clapperboard. The board is sharp enough to decapitate someone and withstood a shot from an M60 light machine gun. Kanaguri tends to aim for the neck when using it.

Camera: Kanaguri possesses a camcorder that he carries at all times which he uses for filming.

Video Camera/Cannon: On one occasion, Kanaguri wielded a bulky professional video camera capable of firing high focused energy blasts. This camera was powerful enough to punch a hole through a plane, causing it to break apart midair.

JAA Bullets: During the JAA application test, Kanaguri was given three bullets with "JAA" inscribed across them. These bullets were to be forcibly taken by JAA applicants as a test.

Etymology

• Kanaguri means "capital city" (京).

Trivia

• Kanaguri's clapperboard reads "MURDER FILMS" as the production name.
• One of Kanaguri's favorite films is Roman Holiday. He loved the film enough to visit one of the filming locations, the Bocca della Verità, in Rome when he was 10 years old.
• In Chapter 102, Kanaguri's childhood home was shown to have paraphernalia from popular movie franchises:
  • Models of the Death Star II, TIE Fighter, Millennium Falcon, R2-D2, C-3PO, Darth Vader's helmet and a lightsaber from Star Wars.
  • Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, Chucky from Child's Play and what appears to be Ghostface from Scream.
  • Coffee mug with a picture from A Clockwork Orange film poster.