I still don't know what motivated the school hallway knife attack.

Why did the two male transfer students wear blue instead of khaki

They're not from the same school, so they don't wear the same uniform. In Japan, every school has its own uniform, and they're usually quite distinct.

were they more genuine killers?

I don't know. What's a "genuine killer"?

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In both the book and movie, Kazuo was evil. He was a "genuine killer." The movie didn't have time to get into this, but he was in a accident prior to birth that gouged out the area of his brain that controlled emotions. He doesn't have any, so he's basically a sociopath.

Shogo, in the book and the movie, is not evil, he "volunteered" for the Program (in the movie) to get revenge on the government for putting him in the Program before and causing him to lose the girlfriend he loved. In addition, in the book his father was killed by the government for protesting when Shogo was selected for the first Program he was in, so that gave him more motivation to hate the government. Shogo only kills when he has to, he is a good guy.

That hexagon-face bitch, she's so passive-aggressive.

-SpencerFan

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I still don't know what motivated the school hallway knife attack.

There's not much explanation needed--this is a dystopian culture we're talking about, after all, and despite being a sympathetic character in other aspects, nothing precludes Kuninobu from being a violent little punk. The entire class has no respect for Kitano, and one can infer that Kitano and Nobu in particular had some beef with each other as Kitano had once told him never to come back to school (presumably before the knife incident).

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