Highrise Invasion

Summary

Tenkuu Shinpan (天空侵犯, Tenkuu Shinpan, lit. High-rise Invasion) is an action-horror manga series written by Tsuina Miura and illustrated by Takahiro Oba.

High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracks open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. She escapes from the masked man and tries to reach her beloved brother, who is also trapped in the bizarre world she's found herself in. Yuri proceeds to cross many high-rise buildings and take down every masked man along the way to find her brother and go home in peace. This marks the beginning of her adventure, which will span the wholeness of the realm they're in...and will reveal its truths.

Power of the Verse

The power of the verse started off initially weak, relying on their wits and simple abilities and skills to win battles against super-humans around Wall level. Their speed is also around the beginning Peak Human to Superhuman travel with Supersonic reactions and combat speed. Though as the series goes on it reaches some higher tiers who are Hypersonic and god tiers who are FTL+ and City Block level.

Explanations

• Mask: Masks are code encrypted mask that 'hack' into the wearer's brain and initiate commands. After someone puts on a Mask, they will begin to develop various physical enhancements and given a weapon or a high level skill. The most common enhancement shown is great strength and destructive force, almost every mask has been able to overpower any regular human they come across. However, not all Masks are equal, most can be beaten with numbers or out smarted by taking advantage of their programming. The Strong Masks however, are much more dangerous. In fact, anyone other than a Candidate for God or another Strong Mask has little to no hope of beating them. There are various different types of mask including:

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  Smiling Mask

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  Angry Mask

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  Emotionless Mask

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  Faceless Mask

• • Smiling Mask: Smiling Mask, otherwise known as 'Angels', are the most commonly seen mask type. These masks are known to have three main commands, Despair, Murder, and Suicide.
  • Angry Mask: Angry Masks have been given specific instructions or roles in the High Rise Realm. Their purpose is to prevent the termination of the realm or the creation of god. As of now there are three known Angry Masks, Dealer Mask and the Soldier Mask, and Miko Mask. Unlike the smiling mask, they are able to talk and seems to have a retained consciousness. They are also referred to as Guardian Angels. They do not attack humans unless they sense hostility or an attempt at their life which activates the Protect Command, an order to kill that human. They have knowledge of the locations of vital items through a special program inputted in their masks. In certain cases they are allowed to reveal information to humans, such as defective masks and how to resolve them.
  • Emotionless Mask: Emotionless Mask are Non-Combatant types Masks who provide supplies to those in the High Rise Realm They seem to have also retained the ability to talk as in the case when one of them met with Sniper Mask and Kuon and explained that the one who will become the perfect God of the realm will have his or her desires satisfied, he also wished Kuon good luck as he left them.
  • Faceless Mask: Faceless Masks are Masks which hold the code to becoming closer to god. Upon wearing this mask the wearer will need approximately 10 minutes to install the information. After the installation is completed an order to destroy the mask is automatically executed and cannot be disobeyed. Unlike other Masks, the 'Faceless Mask' respects the free will of the wearer. The Mask writes various abilities into the brain including, 'Ability to Manipulate'. These abilities however will be 'compressed' within the person's brain and requires 'Chemistry' or the person's ability to recall the information to 'de-compress' it and activate the ability. Thus there will be those who are closer to god that are unable to wield their abilities.

• God Candidates: God Candidates are also known individually as a Person Who Became Closer to God, having had the required code installed in their brains via the wearing of the Faceless Mask. They are those who become, literally, candidates to be god: the ruler of the realm of Tenkuu Shinpan and enforcer of its rules and customs, which were all created by an unknown entity for the express purpose of creating a god. The one who becomes the perfect god will have all of his or her desires and wishes fulfilled, as possible by the rules of the realm. The god has even been said to be able to resurrect the dead, but this is never confirmed, and the information came from the Adminstrator, who may have simply been trying to manipulate the candidates. Those who have become god candidates receive abilities which are installed in their brains. Despite installation, they each have to put in the effort to recall and decompress the mental information pertinent to the activation of their abilities. It is also shown that persons who have become closer to god can confirm each other's candidacy through physical contact, as seen between Kuon and Yuri, who shook hands. Kuon felt Yuri's wavelength and knew for sure she was also like her -- a God Candidate.
  • Abilities: Some of the known abilities of a person who has become closer to god are the following:
    • Ability to Avoid Angel Attacks: Angels are forbidden to kill those who have become closer to god; however, it doesn't seem to be a default ability and must be manually activated for God Candidates to become immune to attacks.
    • Ability to Manipulate Masks: If their wavelengths match, or as long as the user's wavelength is above that of the Mask, he or she can control them. The number of masks that can be controlled differs from person to person. Similar to the first ability, it must be manually activated by that person's mental capacity to figure out how to carry it out.
    • Self-Reinforced Ability: This ability strengthens the physical capability of the person who has become closer to god, giving them the power to get rid of a mask. In the case of an emergency measure, such as an attack prior to when the code is fully installed, this ability is automatically activated and will no longer be compressed in the wearer's brain.
    • Hibernation Suspension Ability: Even if the wavelengths don't perfectly match, the person who becomes closer to god can intervene with an angel's brain and retrieve the original consciousness from the weak mask's controlling power, ending hibernation status. However, this requires the god candidate to have stronger willpower than the mask to override its control.
    • Railgun Control Ability: The ability to fire a railgun from the black tower by inputting commands through a cellphone, as seen with Kuon Shinzaki, the only person known to have this ability.
    • Ability to Observe Consciousness: As with Mamoru Aikawa, this ability allows its user to be cognizant of conscious organisms and have a limited sense for where they are in relation to them.
    • Ability to Measure Angels' Strengths: While mentioned in passing, this attribute is known to be useful in intuiting the various "levels" of combatants, a utilitarian skill if ever there was one.
    • Ability to Generate Apostles: Again, though only confirmed in Mamoru Aikawa, this ability lets the user turn humans into Apostles -- greatly increasing their strength and placing them under deep brainwashing such that they follow every order issued by the user. It is never explained if this works on Masks or Angels. Though it theoretically should.

Calculations

• Rika views Great Angel in slow motion: Scales to God Tiers (FTL+)
• Yuri does serious damage to a building: Scales to God Tiers (8-B, 40 tons)

Verse Scaling

Regular characters that have survived against mask are normally Athlete level or 10-A, any regular mask user is Wall level or 9-B via these feats, and god tiers are City Block level or 8-B via the calculation above. All the low tiers scale to Supersonic in reactions via all the bullet dodging feats, and god tiers are Hypersonic, likely FTL+ via scaling to Rika's feat calculated above.

Supporters/Opponents/Neutral

Supporters

• GiverOfThePeace
• SoViewtiful

Characters

Humans

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  Yuri Honjo

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  Rika Honjo

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  Mayuko Nise

Mask

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  Sniper Mask

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  Great Angel

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  Maid Mask