Tatsumi Saiga

Tatsumi Saiga is the protagonist of the anime Speed Grapher, as well as a photojournalist who previously regularly covered wars. When investing a mysterious organization in Tokyo known as the Roppongi Club, Saiga infiltrates an underground club meeting, and discovers the club is, in fact a cult of rich Japanese businessmen, which allows certain high ranking members to engage in a ritual in which they are kissed by a "living goddess", and gain superpowers. Saiga is discovered and brought before the club, at which point, the "goddess" mistakes him for the participant in the ritual and kisses Saiga. Two guards armed with swords attack Saiga, who photographs them, hoping to leave evidence of his murder, only to discover the guards spontaneously exploded.

Using this new power, Saiga killed several more guards armed with firearms, and escaped with the "goddess", actually a girl named Kagura, and also fights the club's leader, Choji Suitengu, who reveals that Saiga's powers are based on his inner desires, in his case, Saiga is a sadist who enjoyed watching people die during his time as a war photographer, and secretly desired the power to actually kill with his camera.

Saiga and Kagura escape the club, and, throughout the anime, are pursued by various super-powered club members, including a man who can make his body elastic, a woman who can turn herself as hard as diamond, a sadistic dentist who can sprout drills from his body, a man who can transform into a wolf, and Suitengu himself, who can harden his own blood into deadly blades and projectiles. Saiga faces all of his adversaries, and defeats them using his powers.

The force of the explosion caused by Saiga's camera seems to vary based on the power of the lens he is using, with a small point and shoot camera producing an explosion just large enough to destroy a human head, while a large, high power lens has the power of an artillery shell. Saiga favors a film SLR camera, which, in his hands, has about the power of an RPG. In order to use this power, any camera Saiga uses must have film or batteries (in the case of a digital camera) in it. Saiga's powers also make him invulnerable to anything except severing or destroying his head, or complete destruction of his body.