Analyzing Evil: Tetsuo Shima From Akira

Welcome everyone to the twenty-sixth episode of Analyzing Evil! Our feature villain for this video is Tetsuo Shima from Akira. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

The songs in this video are from the album Call to the Deep by Kurotokage.

#Tetsuo #Akira #Manga

[TheVileEye]

I hope you all enjoy this episode. Reply to this comment letting me know some of your favorite anime villains and shows!

[johncenagaming]

The manga made me tear up when Kaneda goes through Tetsuos memories and says “Testuo you had it all wrong. I just wanted to be your friend..”

[clarencebrowniii]

Tetsuo's story is the antithesis of the Spider-Man mantra "With great power comes, great responsibility". Peter Parker had the love and support of a family, whereas Tetsou faced childhood trauma of family abandonememt, and it really fucc'ed him up.

[corygulley]

I think the movie makes Tetsuo more sympathetic by far. He's more of a victim of his circumstances and it seems that his mind gets warped by the experiments rather than having evil in his nature. Taking out the sexual deviance and drugs from the film also contributes to him being a more sympathetic character.

[geofff.]

I love the big picture message of Akira.

It really is about Japan's post-nuke fears, but it's also admitting that possession of such super weapons is appealing and not something that is just easily forsaken for the moral high ground like we would like to think it would be.

[raaaaaaaaaam]

“Remember before attempting to kill someone. Yell their name as loud as possible.”- Kaneda

[picklesthewise]

I feel that Tetsuo's drug problem in the manga pre-Akira's influence actually makes him more sympathetic - it's done in an effort to cure his uncontrollable pain, and the toxic cycle with his powers serves as a metaphor for the cycle of addiction.

[sevenproxies]

I interpreted Akira as a boy that had been fully consumed by his immense psychic powers. His mind and individuality having been completely blanked out by them, so he's not really human anymore but more like a force of nature.

[andrewryder]

When he killed his friends in the pub I really stopped giving a shit about him but his ending was nothing short of horrific.

[Studiofaeltube]

Tetsuo is one of my favorite characters. I feel the movie presents him as a vulnerable youth corrupt by society and unable to cope with getting so much power. On the manga however, it REALLY feels like he chose to continue down the same path. In both instances, Tetsuo didn't have the tools necessary for what came to him.

[pvpvxfc]

I personally never saw Tetsuo as being particularly more evil than any other person, but rather I feel that Tetsuo is basically a realistic interpretation of what would happen to 99 percent of the human race if they suddenly got extreme powers such as this. What's really frightening too, is I don't think Akira or the other psychics, in the manga, were interested in stopping Tetsuo but rather they wanted Tetsuo to almost reach the next level of human evolution so that they could collectively become gods together, after they transcended beyond our universe. It's almost as if the psychics used Tetsuo and Kei and everyone else, which explains why Kaneda never seemed to die and he always got super lucky, to push Tetsuo to the point of transcending and opening the doorway to the next realm of existence.

[radm.pesoskrew]

You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention.

[AnomalyINC]

I call villains like these "Baby with a chainsaw".
It is difficult to tell if they are evil, or if they simply do not comprehend the ramifications of their actions. Especially considering the fact that Tetsuo is still a child in many ways, and that his brain did not have time to fully develop before it was flooded with drugs.

This does not change what happened, nor does it absolve him were it to be the case, but it may help explain why it happened the way it did.

[ethanmcfarland]

“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”

[jamesricker]

The biker rumble shows Tatsuo's true character. He has something to prove wants to be respected and when he sets a goal he will pursue it even to his own destruction

[NobodyImportant]

Fourth time watching FMA? You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

[manoknowfish]

Akira in the manga:🧒🏻
Akira in the movie:🧬⚗🔋🧠

[sancho]

Honestly in another note kaneda is one of the most badass characters in anime no wonder tetsuo had so much jelousy towards him, in the face of the circunstances and facing an almost god like being he stood his ground and gave him a fight and almost won just being a normal teenager.

[trainzen]

Recommendations:

Johann Liebert from Monster (Anime)

Griffith/Fento from Berserk (Anime)

Lee Woo-jin from OldBoy

Katherine Tramell from Basic Instinct

Esther from Orphan

Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects

[ItsDeebs]

I like the panel where Miyako says "Compared to the power of your will, the energy mankind has used to date is no more than puffs of air".
That's an unfathomable amount of energy.