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Kaneda, you've always been a pain in the ass, y'know. You've been telling me what to do since we were kids. You always treat me like a kid. You always show up and start bossing me around, and don't you deny it!
~ Tetsuo Shima to Kaneda.
Shima: KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Kaneda: That's "Mister" Kaneda to you, punk!
~ Tetsumo Shima and Kaneda's iconic confrontation.

Tetsuo Shima is the main antagonist of the 1982 manga Akira and its 1988 anime film adaption. He is an emotionally unstable teenager who, after a bike accident, is kidnapped by the military and experimented on, developing psychic powers as a consequence.

He was voiced by Nozomu Sasaki (who later voiced K9999 in The King of Fighters) in Japanese, the late Jan Rabson in the Streamline dub and Joshua Seth in the Pioneer dub in English.

Personality[]

In the beginning of the story, Tetsuo was one of the youngest members of a motorcycle gang led by his lifelong best friend, Shotaro Kaneda, and was constantly frustrated with being seen as little more than an inexperienced "junior" member, weak and introverted. He was enthusiastic and rapturous about motorbiking, despite the frustration of not being able to "catch up" to his friends most of the time.

He is perceived both by himself and others, somewhat, as a runt, though this is not necessarily a correct assessment of his character. Tetsuo is also very stubborn and naive about the consequences of his actions, two traits that often lead him into unnecessary trouble with others.

Tetsuo was abandoned by his parents as a young child, this fact led to him developing an inferiority complex that was aggravated by his posicion as the "younger brother" of the group and Kaneda's bossy attitude.

After being incarcerated by the government and developing psychic powers, Tetsuo begins to take on an extremely corrupt, arrogant, and degenerate attitude as he becomes more and more accustomed to his new found powers, seeing them as a tool to finally achieve the validacion and authority that he always wanted.

Biography[]

Film[]

One night, during a gang war with the Clowns gang, Tetsuo suffers an accident after almost hitting a young boy named Takashi. While the gang was arrested, Col. Shikishima took Tetsuo to a lab. They saw during this time, that Tetsuo was beginning to have intense powers.

After Tetsuo awoke, he ran out of his hospital bed and told his girlfriend Kaori to leave town with him. They unsuccessfully stole Kaneda's motorbike and are intercepted by Clowns members. When Kaneda arrives, Tetsuo goes nuts and admits that he won't always be on the receiving end. He then suffers a breakdown and is taken away. That night, Tetsuo was attacked and tortured telepathically by the Esper children, who used models and toys to try and kill Tetsuo.

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Tetsuo's power greatly overtaking him, transforming his body drastically.

He then used his new powers to kill security guards, and staff trying to keep him from the Baby Room. After a short battle, Tetsuo discovered he could also fly. At the Harukiya bar, he kills the barkeep then Yamagata. Tetsuo then began a rampage to find Akira as he kills soldiers, and destroys army vehicles. Most of the citizens of Neo-Tokyo believed Tetsuo to be Akira. Upon realizing Akira was dead, Shikishima decided to use the SOL satellite on his subject. With his right arm severed after a fight with Kaneda, Tetsuo sends the SOL out of orbit. He then retreats to the Tokyo Olympic Stadium but then begins losing his control over his powers. Eventually after Kaneda's arrival, Tetsuo mutates into a monstrous mass that kills Kaori and almost kills the colonel and Kaneda. Akira then somehow awakens thanks to the Espers and then takes Tetsuo with him. Before the credits, you can hear Tetsuo saying "I am... Tetsuo.".

Manga[]

Tetsuo's background is largely the same although unlike the anime Koari is one of Tetsuo's sex slaves.

In time, he fights Kaneda again. During the battle, he also has to face the US military who try to assassinate him and fail to do so. Finally, he witnesses Kaori's death which leaves him devasted. Shortly after that, Tetsuo begins to mutate more rapidly over his controlled powers while Akira, under the influence of the psychic trio, a final explosion. This blast marks the end of Akira, Tetsuo and the remaining Espers, swallowing all of them in its wake to finally cancel out their powers during the explosion. Kaneda was trapped within Tetsuo during this event and caught glimpses into his memories and past, letting the two make peace with one another before Kaneda is pulled free from Kei. As the two made peace he his goodbye towards him.

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Trivia[]

  • Tetsuo heavily inspired K9999 a minor antagonist from the The King of Fighters video game series. This ran to such an extent in K999's first few appearances that the two shared a voice actor and all of K9999's attacks were once named after Akira quotes.
    • Todd Ingram of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World also seems to be inspired by Tetsuo to an extent. However, his mutations are based around vegetables as opposed to visceral.
  • Tetsuo has fought and lost against Magneto in an episode of DEATH BATTLE!.
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