The absolute center of this film is the friendship between Kaneda and Tetsuo. The essence of the dichotomy between Kaneda and Tetsuo is Tetsuo is naturally timid, careful, and intoverted where Kaneda is bold, reckless, and extraverted. They are opposites, but Kaneda is kid-hearted and saves Tetsuo from harm when they first meet. He is a natural leader. Tetsuo sees this and resents him and the care Kaneda shows him. He is perpetually emasculated by Kaneda, though Kaneda only is doing what he knows how to do. Knowledge of this does not stand in the way of Tetsuo's resentment. He attempts to make up for it with skill and sneakiness, but this only gets him in trouble. Tetsuo's deficit can be summed up in his inability to "corner" when turning a bike at high speeds. To do this, you have to get a "feel" for the way the tires "bite" into the asphalt. This cannot happen at low speeds. The forces are not great enough. To learn this, you must be willing to push the limits of your physical body and you must do away with your fear. If you succumb to your fear, you will try to slow the bike down as you enter the curve or else nit lean the bike over as much. Both of these lead to disaster as you will either flop over because the centripital force is not great enough to keep you above the ground, or you will rely upon your mechanical turning of the wheel to shift direction, which encourages incorrect balances on the bike resulting in an incomplete turn. When Tetsuo gains access to great power, he believes he has all he needs to best Kaneda, but he is still missing that crucial element. Just as cornering on the bike requires a kind of "surrender" to the energies and forces at play, the power of Akira requires the same. This is the same power that allows an artist to make fine art, an engineer to build a city, or ateam of artists to make a dazzling film. For this reason, the film is aesthetically complete. It shows within its core that which is on its surface. Note that this power is also destructive. It allows for military mastery of a populus through manipulation and weaponry, holding institutional (political, religious, or educational) sway over a people, or using drugs to "ride a high", to say nothing of sex. Though the film is clearly science fiction with a substantial sprinkling of body horror, we are all aware of how these forces come into play as we master or fail to master the changes that come over our bodies during adolescence, and later our minds as we enter adulthood. Mankind stretches with every passing age slightly nearer to the sky as we approach our ultimste powers. No one can say if when that happens we will have prepared ourselves through diligent meditation and caring for our fellow creatures or if when this power is granted it will find us grasping at nothing, scrambling wildly towards apocalyptic cataclysm.
@Willibeolder8 ай бұрын
Canada is so cool
@pinkimietz32438 ай бұрын
Yeah I wish it would be a real place.
@nickjohnson4998 ай бұрын
For real eh
@dataghost23078 ай бұрын
🇨🇦 eh
@TopsideCrisis3468 ай бұрын
In the words of Wayne, "Too much fun." 😎
@madmanonyt99437 ай бұрын
If only it were real! 💀
@justinharvie81268 ай бұрын
Great video, dude. Loved the movie my whole life. I enjoyed your perspective of it.
@Hairlesswookie628 ай бұрын
Fantastic academic work. Great essay.
@Gilbert_Dice_Gottfried6 ай бұрын
Otomo is such a good illustrator. Akira is such a good story and the movie is iconic, so his skills as an illustrator are underrated. His drawing skills are at the level of people like Kentaro miura. Tetsuo is a pretty deep and relatable character in some ways. I think his insecurity is a pretty realistic thing for most of us. Kaneda is such a good foil for him because kaneda symbolizes being above insecurity and believing in yourself no matter what kind of obstacles society puts in your way. He’s an embodiment of the rebellious spirit. I find kaneda to be one of the most inspirational characters of all time. Tetsuo and kaneda’s rivalry is one of the best anime rivalries and it’s often underrated. I feel like kaneda and tetsuo were an inspiration for goku and vegeta, especially because dbz became more sci-if than the earlier parts of the story when vegeta was introduced. Tetsuo always reminded me of vegeta because of how he looked when his hair spiked up but they’re also similar as characters. Both have a strong sense of honor but are cursed by an inferiority complex and they both have a rival that triggers their insecurities. Kaneda is pretty underrated as a protagonist because I consider him up there with the best protagonists of all time. He’s so charismatic and cool and he’s also very funny. He’s not some super smart or super powerful hero or anything but he’s an everyman and he possesses the best traits a regular person can have. More people should get into the manga because the movie is such a small part of the whole thing.
@hawkbirdtree36608 ай бұрын
This was so well done. Great job
@Panicman968 ай бұрын
Loved your perspective on the story, this made me want to watch it again! Thank you so much!
@ZenLyteZen8 ай бұрын
i finally understand. Tetsuos transfiguration into that mammoth of a meat baby could be in relation to gaining too much power then realizing the consequences of it until the end. Having that in comparison with the nuclear bomb really makes sense to me. I love akira man
@animeevergreenathena8 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for making this beautiful video! I tried to watch “Akira” a few times when I was younger, but I didn’t understand what was going on. However, thanks to your analysis, I do. I would love to check out more of your work. ❤❤❤
@brandonhickman34778 ай бұрын
only 117 subs? (I'm 118) keep it up man you'll be at 25k+ by 2025 with consistent content of this quality
@madmanonyt99437 ай бұрын
This was an excellent breakdown of the film! Great work! 🔥
@DennisStachel8 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting to reddit. Great piece. I hope my friend will like Akira and I can watch your analysis with him :)
@chanceschimel56758 ай бұрын
Thoughtful work Ulixes! Your writing is notably smooth, as if you painstakingly wrestled with each syllable. Good job man. Really. Thanks for putting effort into your work, it’s not unnoticed. (Popped up on my YT suggestions alongside the usual tennis highlights and ski clips… glad it did) -your work reached the High Rockies. (Vail, CO)
@ioshinigami21658 ай бұрын
great video, looking forward to more of these
@jeffgallardo32428 ай бұрын
another banger video bro, im loving this!
@7avish8 ай бұрын
Dude, great video! Was always a fan of watching analysis of Akira, this one was done so well. Even in 2024 hearing the story told is still cathartic.
@JMoore-vo7ii8 ай бұрын
Brilliant presentation, thank you
@sirspeedwagon4678 ай бұрын
Good video, nice voice
@destinymunchkin53018 ай бұрын
Nice video! You explained so well
@someonenotimportant11111Ай бұрын
very underrated
@elia4798 ай бұрын
Great video, I like you others as well. Subscribed!
@treeghost458 ай бұрын
this is an amazing video
@animereactionz29328 ай бұрын
You should do a video on Ghost in Shell! Loved this analysis!
@SkipsFromThePark8 ай бұрын
Great Video! I hope you know that you are destined for greatness
@thalljoben35518 ай бұрын
Literally Anakin's Tragedy and the Nelvaanian Prophecy of the Caves in Genndy's Clone Wars Saga
@MatthewSmith0018 ай бұрын
It also had a great soundtrack!
@TopsideCrisis3468 ай бұрын
It is well established that absolute power corrupts absolutely. We tend to forget, that so too does absolute powerlessness. #livewithoutfear
@danielbloomquist98108 ай бұрын
I've come to realize in recent years that this common phrase needs to be slightly altered. We see in Tetsuo what I mean when I say that power doesn't corrupt, nor absolute power corrupt absolutely. What power does it reveal.
@henocasf8 ай бұрын
good content.
@zena28778 ай бұрын
nice
@zena28778 ай бұрын
do you seen steamboy? it’s same author
@trfyhrghty42226 ай бұрын
👍
@chazzpalmintericlips15498 ай бұрын
Akira was the first full-length feature anime film I saw, this video makes me wanna rewatch it - if I remember right it’s got a planned series that should be coming soon? Last I heard the production was stalled though, anyways good video
@TheGreatJon8 ай бұрын
Anyone know what song is playing over the 'Power Corrupts' segment?
@UlixesSpeaks8 ай бұрын
Hey, I'll find it for you in a little bit when I'm back home if you'd like (:
@TheGreatJon8 ай бұрын
@@UlixesSpeaks I really appreciate that dude, great vid by the by! Always enjoy seeing Akira breakdowns.
@UlixesSpeaks8 ай бұрын
@@TheGreatJon Thank you so much, you're too kind (: the song should be "Machine Learning" by Hertzium!
@TheGreatJon8 ай бұрын
@@UlixesSpeaks thanks dude!
@bigblue3448 ай бұрын
You should compare the manga and the anime movie and how different the two themes are.
@liumellowyellow6663 ай бұрын
Oh Canada!!! 🇨🇦
@burbex8 ай бұрын
Isn’t his name more like “ka-nay-da”???
@UlixesSpeaks8 ай бұрын
I guess it depends on which language dub you listened to, if you go to 8:01 you can hear how he says Kaneda and that's the pronunciation I used.
@tikimillie8 ай бұрын
Thought it said fursuit of power Imagine tho- fallout powerarmor but furry shaped
@UlixesSpeaks8 ай бұрын
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@tikimillie8 ай бұрын
@@UlixesSpeaks sksk don’t act like i pissed on your snowcone
@Floswen8 ай бұрын
Nice vidéo. You could have gone deeper, but good job anyway.
@KingLegendary18 ай бұрын
"kanayduh" not canada lmfaooo
@UlixesSpeaks8 ай бұрын
It depends on which language dub you listened to, if you go to 8:01 you can hear how he says Kaneda and that's the pronunciation I used.
@jmalmsten8 ай бұрын
"framerates, some as low as 12, some as high as 60." Uhm... I would like to see some sources on that. As the film itself (not necessarily the drawings) is at 24 fps. So drawing 60 frames for a 24 fps project would just be incredibly wasteful. As there would not be any film negative frames between the ones we see that could record those extra frames. If we instead are talking about the layers of animation, it becomes another matter. You can easily rack up 4 or 8 layers of cels per frame in some of the more intense crowd scenes where they could be doing multilayer animation. And they often did this in Akira to fake extra frames by staggering the timings. You could have the background pan at 24 fps and have the characters move in 12 fps. But you stagger them so that character A moves, then B, then A again and so forth. That way the frame has 24 frames of new motion but you saved half the drawings for other scenes. Lets say you'd have a scene with 4 layers of animation. At 12 fps on each. That's 12 *4 drawings, 48 in total per second. Make the foreground two layers in 24 fps and you'd have 24*2+12*2=72 drawings per second. But it is a very weird way to count frames for animation.
@izzieb8 ай бұрын
In traditional film making, slow motion is achieved by over-cranking (running the film through at a higher frame rate) and then playing it back at a normal frame rate - usually 24fps. Assuming this videos information is accurate, I think this is the reason for the varying frame rates. 60fps would result in 2.5x slow motion.