Bolt Crank

Bolt Crank

**ボルト・クランク**

**Bolt Crank** (ボルト・クランク,, *Boruto Kuranku*?) is the Main Protagonist of *Eat-Man* and it's sequel, *Eat-Man: The Main Dish.*

He's the best "explorer" in the world. Bolt's past remained a mystery in all the series, some stories gave clues about his past, including some characters that appeared in various episodes. In the end of the manga series revealed a lot about who and what Bolt is, but his exact identity still remains a mystery.

## Appearance

Bolt-Crank has the ability to eat anything, then re-create it, whole and functional, from his arm. This is, more often than not. His skin is tan, he has long white hair with long bangs on his face. He has orange eyes and he's shown to be a really wide and tall man, standing at around 6 ft. However, newer depictions of him draws him much more skinnier than before.

### Clothing

He wears a long green futuristic trench coat, with grey buttons, black shirt with blue stripes that goes up to his neck. Underneath it, is a white robe, black dress (sometimes blue) pants with black shoes. He wears a circular glasses with black lenses and grey rims and temple. He also dons a black, fingerless gloves and wears a steampunk green beanie.

In The Mole Arc of Eat-man, it's revealed that the trench coat he wears are uniforms of that of an allied soldier. The Mole Arc also revealed that the coat he's wearing is that of a "Voluntary Army" Soldiers. However, in that arc, Bolt wears a black suit instead of the iconic green coat.

## Personality

A man of a few words, Bolt is a cold person, He rarely shows emotion, giving a cold impression to others. His manner of speaking tends to be very blunt. Bolt's past remained a mystery in all the series, some stories gave clues about his past, including some characters that appeared in various episodes. The end of the manga series revealed a lot about who and what Bolt is, but his exact identity still remains a mystery. He is a man of few words and doesn't show his feelings. Always acting cool, his cynical personality and his "always get the job done" attitude can make him seem like a very cold and dark character. But in the end, he always finds a way to do the right thing. He never appears to look back at the past, never regretting it.

Although he often shows a straight face and a smile that raises the corners of his mouth, he basically doesn't show any other facial expressions, so combined with his personality that doesn't even say what he needs to say, he often cause misunderstandings from various people. His origins are a complete mystery in the work, and even the he himself doesn't talk about it, but he is a reliable man who always fulfills the requests he receives.

Bolt never stays in one place, since his job is to be an "explorer" he is always seen traveling from one place to another looking for a job to see who has the most to offer him. Even as an explorer that does stuff for money only, Bolt can some times accepts rewards that is considered "expensive" like a "2800 years old wine". Bolt some times does heroic stuffs without even being hired. He's also shown to be witty and cunning, tricking Teromea into saving a city from a giant spider, or crab-like robot from destroying this city after Teromea stated that he won't let him help them as he isn't receiving any money from doing so.

Bolt only uses his special ability when he considers it necessary, creating weapons with his right hand, but before he can create them he must consume a metallic object, it is known that Bolt's interior is an empty space, where it is believed that everything he consumes remains floating
here until he summons it with his right hand.

## Story

### **Past**

Bolt's past is clouded in mystery. Who he is isn't revealed in the story, but there are several hints and prevalent theories. One is that he is a clone of a scientist named Leon Field or that Leon is a clone of him. There is a theory that he is a biological experiment or a scientist that performed biological experiments. Another is that he is a cosmic entity known as "The One Who Devours" who is destined to guide humanity. And there is a fourth theory (the one most heavily implied by the story to be true) that Bolt himself is the creator or God of his universe, though Bolt denies it.

### **Plot**

*Main Article: Bolt Crank/History*

Bolt Crank travels the world as the World's Greatest Mercenary. He got that monicker due to his skills, as well as his ability to eat anything, and then reproduce it in his right hand. During his adventures he meets new friends, as well as his rival, another explorer called "Hard".

## Relationships

### **Telomere**

A trap set up by Leon, is a mechanical parasite that Bolt was tricked into eating. He possesses similar powers to Bolt, being able to eat and re-create objects. He can also freely move in and out of Bolt's body, and communicate with him whether he is inside of him or not. Despite being a nuisance and enemy of Bolt, he has a stake in Bolt's survival since he resides inside of him, thus he will help Bolt out. Even if the head that pops out is destroyed, he can reform himself inside Bolt's body.

## Powers

### **Overview**

Bolt Crank is the best "explorer" in the world. "Explorer" in the manga is a kind of mercenary. Although mercenaries in the manga do any job, even assassinations, the explorers were employees with principles. In the manga, it was revealed that inside Bolt's body was actually a void of space. Objects that he has consumed float around in a seemingly endless space.

### **Physicals**

* **Superhuman Strength:** Bolt was shown to be really strong. To start, he was able to rip off a giant Crab Robot's arm, was able to throw Telomere really hard that it crashed to a wall. He has also punched Telomere hard enough to send him reeling back.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Bolt is shown to be fast, he catches bullets with his mouth at point-blank range once, and catches a bullet with his hand twice, or more and dodges few soldiers firing at him. He was also shown catching a bullet mid-air and prevented Shadow from shooting himself.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Bolt has shown to be quite tanky as he was able to tank the Devil King's attack, which, destroyed chunks of walls and he was also unfazed by an explosion. He can also tank gun fires.

### **Abilities**

* **Eating:** Bolt's main ability. Bolt can eat any objects. This includes solid, liquid, gaseous elements, energy, souls, electricity, data, death and destruction. He can consume them anytime he wants, as it was revealed that inside Bolt's body was actually a void of space, therefore, there is no limit to how much he can consume. He also seems to be able to combine things he eats, as seen when he makes a coat with a metal plate after separately eating both items.
* **Expel:** Another one of Bolt's main ability, it is to recreate anything he consumes. He has recreated humans and biological beings, and it has resurrected them, even if they lost an arm, leg, head or torso, it resurrects them fully with them. Also, in the sequel, The Main Dish, Bolt was seen expelling a bunch of robots, or a cyborg in the first chapter. He was also able to consume and create different timelines using this ability. He also can control what he re-creates, as he is able to control a crab robot and turns it against it's creator. Though he normally re-creates objects from his hands or arms, Bolt can recreate from other parts of his body.

## Identity

Although Bolt's past remained a mystery in all the series, some stories gave clues about his past, including some characters that appeared in various episodes. The end of the manga series revealed a lot about who and what Bolt is, but his exact identity still remains a mystery.

Here are some hints in the series:

* Bolt never ages, but the end of the manga series revealed that he is biologically immortal (he does not age but can be hurt and/or killed).
* There is a character identical to Bolt called Leon. His creations include an gynoid (Stella) with human feelings who loved him (an antagonist of Bolt in various episodes, trying to transform all living things into machines) and a weird robot capable of assimilating any mechanical part (it has a parasitic relationship with Bolt and keeps annoying him in various episodes from inside his body). It is implied that Bolt is his clone, or he is cloned from Bolt.
* Other possible origins are shown in other stories, where Bolt "worked" in a research center that performed tests with human beings and created humans with odd powers, like an immortal woman (with instant regeneration), a girl that turns into a monster, and another girl that generates electricity. Bolt's job there remained unexplained, suggesting he was just another test subject.
* The series suggests he was created before the beginning of mankind. In a story about the downfall of two old winged races before mankind arrived (white and black winged from the same species, one called Angels and the other Demons, with the Demons ruling the world), there is a prophecy that said that, with a union of an Angel and a Demon, the world will be free from the rule of darkness, and be guided by "the one who eats" until the end of times.
* The final chapter heavily implies that he may actually be God himself, "the creator" as he is seen throughout his final adventure in the last volume consuming orbs of light given to him by a mysterious angel, which each contain the elements necessary to create a world (life, light, etc.) and at the end, he consumes death to complete the necessary ingredients, (who had taken physical form to hunt him down and kill him due to his agelessness being "unnatural") and at the end of the manga, creates a doorway in the middle of the desert and walks through it, ending the series as he walks into a new universe.

## Favorite Foods

Bolt says that he has a very strict diet, unlike any human, it is only known that he consumes metals and gasoline, but sometimes he consumes wine.

* **Screws**: Bolt's favorite food is a screw. Before battles, or even at the start of chapters, Bolt is always seen picking up, eating, chewing screws.
* **Nuts**: Bolt some times eats nuts, even chewing both screws and nuts at the same time.
* **Gasoline**
* **Gunpowder**

## Trivia

* In Akihito's manga, *Ray*, Bolt made a guest appearance.