but was originally removed from the game and replaced by Nameless after a series of lawsuits where the company was accused of basically ripping off the character Tetsuo Shima from the film Akia.

K9999’s design pays homage to the character Tetsuo Shima from Akira, the hit cyberpunk manga written by Katsuhiro Otomo that eventually became an animated feature film. K9999’s bulging ...