BoxAnimeManga > Speed Grapher > Manga Series InformationRelated TitleSpeed Grapher Manga Series InformationCategory: TVDuration: 25 minutesGenres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Shounen and SupernaturalNumber of episodes : 24Rating: R+ - (Mild Nudity)Status: FinishedThemes: corruption, crime, Photography, superhumans, superpowersOriginal Manga : TomozoAnimation Production: Gonzo, TAPAnime Plot Summary:Speed Grapher is japanese anime series about The former war photographer Saiga Tatsumi, who seeks photos what have value. Now he comes to Japan and still photographs and that makes him is in danger. However, he still alive until he investigates the secret club in Japan where the rich seek to do his or her own pleasure. There, Tatsumi meets the club's goddess, Tennouzu Kagura, the daughter of the most richest woman in the world. He receives the strange power from Kagura kisses him, granting him the power to destroy anything he focus with camera. Tatsumi uses this power for helping her escape from her mother and the assistant of her mother for to teach her knowing the freedom.Anime Episode List:Episode 1 : Depravity City (Haitoku Toshi)Episode 2 : Goddess of greed (Unaru Satsutaba)Episode 3 : Film like a bullet (Shasatsu Bakusatsu)Episode 4 : Lethal headshot (Ryakudatsu Shoujo)Episode 5 : Whore of diamonds (Daiyamondo Fujin)Episode 6 : Out of focus (Sayonara Daiyamondo Fujin)Episode 7 : The big picture (Ryouki Doriru)Episode 8 : Dentophobia (Kagura no Tomoshibi)Episode 9 : Into the bath (Yudono Nite)Episode 10 : Suitengu cometh (Suitengu Kuru)Episode 11 : Mother critical (Haha Kitoku Sugu Kaere)Episode 12 : Left hand lullaby (Hidarite ni Idakarete Nemure)Episode 13 : Ginza the Lawless (Ginza Bangaichi)Episode 14 : The wedding photographer (Hitozuma Kagura)Episode 15 : Hell is a wet woman (Nure Onna Jigoku)Episode 16 : Audit the wicked (Hanki Kessan Houkoku)Episode 17 : The reaper and the nouveau riche (Shinigami Narikin)Episode 18 : Fates and fists (Daisan Kyoku)Episode 19 : Lips and lied (Uso to Kuchibiru)Episode 20 : Good vibrations (Guddo Baibureshon)Episode 21 : All hail the glutton (Souri no Choushoku)Episode 22 : Money, money, money (Okane Kudasai)Episode 23 : Tender grave (Satsutaba no Bohyou)Episode 24 : Roppongi crisis (Roppongi Kuraishisu)Anime Songs:Opening 1 (Gravure no Bishoujo - Girls on Film) by Duran DuranEnding 1 (Hinageshi no Oka (Hill of Poppies)) by Shione Yukawa (Episode 1-12)Anime Character List:Saiga TatsumiAnime Info: (The leading actor of this japanese anime series) is the former war journalist. He travels and photographs very great photos. However, after he returns to Japan, Tatsumi investigates a secret club in Japan where rich and famous people can do perverted and violent activities, and there, he met with Tennouzu Kagura, the goddess of the club and received power from her kiss that cause him can blow targets when he focuses with camera. The effect of his ability depends on what type of cameras and lens that Tatsumi uses. His camera is Nikon camera. In this anime series, Tatsumi helps Kagura from golden cage and teaches her about normal things that she never know . He seems have feelings to Kagura and tries to protect her from any danger by her family even if he doesn't get any rewards.Tennouzu KaguraAnime Info: (The leading actress of this japanese anime series) is the student, daugther of Tennouzu Shinsen and heir of Tennouzu Group. Her power can transform people with a virus into Euphorias (people with strange powers related to their innermost desires) but she don't know that she has. In this anime series, Kagura kisses Saiga Tatsumi when he was capture by members of secret club and transforms him into an Euphorias. She got help by Tatsumi, escaped from cruel duties that her mother and Suitengu Chouji (Shinsen's assistant) forced her to do and learned freedom life for the fist time. She also has inoperable brain tumor, causing her to only have six months left to live). Although Kagura don't know about Tatsumi's feeling towards her, she still wants to be at his side no matter what.Ginza HibariAnime Info: A brutal policewoman who falls in love with Saiga Tatsumi and She can do anything she can for protecting him from any harm. She likes to have joking habit as "self-defense" with her twin guns whenever she shoots someone. In this anime series, Hibari likes stealing Tatsumi's camera and forcing him to have sex with her. She is envious of Tennouzu Kagura very much and makes a deal with Tennouzu Shinsen (Kagura's mother) to capture Kagura so she can have Tatsumi but in the later, she realizes that she cannot stop Tatsumi or Kagura.Suitengu ChoujiAnime Info: (The main antagonist of this japanese anime series), is an assistant of Tennouzu group and an Euphoria with the ability to manipulate his own blood and use it at will to attack and defend. In this anime series, he is only using Tennouzu Kagura's power and her mother to revenge and profits. Chouji carries around a music box of his younger sister, Yui. His real name is Takeshi Ueno. When he fights with Saiga Tatsumi, he realizes the reason that Tatsumi fights for Kagura and he cannot defeat him.Tennouzu ShinsenAnime Info: Kagura's mother and the powerful president of Tennozu Group. But before that, in this anime series, Shinsen had been a model. Her body had been 'remodeled' by a doctor named Kazuki Odawara, whom she soon fell in love with. She chose to leave her fame behind and married him but he never come back to her. That's why Shinsen returned to Tokyo and sees Kagura as the ultimate symbol as his betrayal.TsujidoAnime Info: Suitengu Chouji's right hand man and is loyal to Chouji. He can use Euphoria power to smell anything he wants. In this anime series, His true transforming is a large wolf. In his past, he and Makabe were attacked by local Yakuza but Chouji came and saved them. His nose was cut off and was near death because he lost blood very much in that incident.MakabeAnime Info: One of the men who works under Tsujido. His partner is Niihari. In this anime series, Makabe does duty as the driver, when he, Niihari and Tsujido chase after Tennouzu Kagura and Saiga Tatsumi. He knew those two before Suitengu Chouji met them at the incident involving Yakuza. Makabe feels great gratitude and help Chouji for saving their lifes.Chief EkodaAnime Info: The chief of the Tokyo Police Department. He likes cutting off the legs of women and collecting in his house. His wife's and daughter's legs is in his collection too.NiihariAnime Info: The one who working under Tsujido. He likes talking a lot and speaking with profoundly foul language at times. In this anime series, he's mentioned failed relationships with women in his life; his mother betraying him and his father and then his wife being overly greedy.Ryougoku GenbaAnime Info: A doctor who runs a small clinic and also an acquaintance of Tatsumi's who apparently saved Tatsumi's life when he was nearly crippled in a rundown hospital. His wife died three months ago to cancer.Odawara KazukiAnime Info: Tennouzu Shinsen's former lover and Kagura's father. He was a scientist who worked developing a bioweapon. However, he was killed by the government who tried to eliminate all of evidence. He died in a ravine and the remains of his research lay within Kagura, who can awaken the virus within carriers, and Chouji, who has his left arm.ShiinaAnime Info: Ginza Hibari Hibari's partner, he is very scared of her and follows her orders even if he don't want to do. In this anime series, He does photograph as his job.BobAnime Info: A homosexual who runs an erotic massage parlor. In this anime series, he lives right next door to Saiga Tatsumi, whom he falls in love.Shirogane Katsuya (Rubber Gimp)Anime Info: An Euphoric who Suitengu Chouji sent to retrieve Tennouzu Kagura. He was a ballet dancer who was obsessed with the flexibility of rubber for breaking a young girl's arm for 'being too stiff'.Koganei Kaoru (Lady Diamond)Anime Info: She has the Euphoric power to transform into diamond. Her favorite food is diamonds. Her husband is a talented artist who likes giving diamonds for making her happy and end his life by hung himself.MizunokuchiAnime Info: A dentist and Euphoric who has spider-like limbs with dental devices and can turn body parts into drills. Three yeas ago, he removed Tennouzu Kagura's lower molars slowly for seeing her in pain and kept as his treasure.Yurigaoka RanAnime Info: An Euphoric who can make his tattoos a reality. He can control people with his spider tattoo on his fingers, by merging with skin of beautiful women while pleasuring them, then killing them.Father KandaAnime Info: A priest and Euphoric who gave all donation money of church to the Roppongi Club. He can control electricity and transform into wires. He believes he is a God with great power. In this anime seires, he accept to be the minister in Tennouzu Kagura and Suitengu Chouji's wedding.Shirumaku MiharuAnime Info: A former actress who had a suffering past because her mother trying suicide with her in water. She drowned every man who has fallen in love with her. Miharu can turn herself into a mermaid, control water and transform herself into water.Ochiai SeijiAnime Info: A former photographer and now he is a cabinet member who leads a group (White Eagles) that has aim to bring down the Prime Minister and Suitengu Chouji. He is an Euphoric who can manipulate sound by using speakers embedded in body what can harm internal body and can turn objects to dust.Professor NishiyaAnime Info: A professor in university. He tells Saiga Tatsumi about the retrovirus that has been activated within him and introduces him to Ochiai Kazuki. However, he sold them out so he could do research on Tennouzu Kagura for gaining fame.KamiyaAnime Info: The Prime Minister of Japan and an extreme glutton. He can becomes a huge spider-like creature with a huge head. He was the man responsible for Suitengu Chouji's slavery.Source: Wiki
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