Sorry In case you still haven’t figured it out The colonels says Tetsuo-o after Tetsuo escape from the facility. Basically Tetsuo has two personalities, Kaori has 1 personality split across two bodies. Kaori and Tetsuo are Akira’s. They are his feline and masculine counterparts embodied as individuals. This is also the case in the manga. Tetsuo’s character is an optical illusion. Listen to the voice overlay of Tetsuo’s laugh when Akira’s chamber is opened. Kaori is a victim but she is as much a villain as Tetsuo’s is.
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That's quite a unique theory. Not sure I follow exactly what you're saying (is feline meant to be feminine, or do you think Kaori exhibits uniquely cat-like qualities in the film, and this somehow contrasts with Tetsuo's masculine traits?). Also, I'm sorry, but I don't really see a connection between The Colonel elongating the final vowel in Tetsuo's name and Tetsuo having multiple personalities.
If we're solely discussing the movie, I don't really think there's much evidence to support the reading of Kaori as a villain, nor Tetsuo as an optical illusion. After all, the destruction he brings to Neo Tokyo is very real, and destruction is one of the main themes in Akira. Unless you're suggesting the movie is depicting a very unique case of mass hysteria in which an entire city is enduring the same hallucination?
While both the movie and manga definitely use strong visuals that, occasionally, evoke certain effects (like speeding around on a motorcycle, or being disoriented while under the influence of drugs), I don't think Tetsuo himself is meant to be an illusion, nor do I see how this relates to Kaori being a villain.
So, I get that Tetsuo and Kaori both have names with the letter "o" in them when you translate their names into English. But, again, I don't see any connection here to the ideas presented in your first ask. Granted, I'm not super familiar with kanji, hiragana, or katakana to know if there's any similarities between the characters for Kaori and Tetsuo at all, so there is that.
Another thing that confuses me about this theory - The Colonel doesn't know who Kaori is by this point (unless you're suggesting she's also a part of the Akira project - for which we get no evidence of that in either the film or manga), and they don't ever talk directly to each other. In the movie, they hardly share any scenes together until the stadium. Even then, in both the film and manga versions of the stadium scene, The Colonel is barely aware of her existence since he's focused on trying to kill Tetsuo. The most I recall The Colonel saying to Kaori in the movie is to get away from Tetsuo as his mutation gets worse.
Okay, so the only video by Supereyepatchwolf that I'm aware of that focuses on Akira is the one titled The Impact of Akira - The Film That Changed Everything or something like that.
I've seen that video, and I don't know that there's any point where optical illusions or the scene where Kaori watches Tetsuo on TV is discussed. The video is more about the film's overall production and its impact on bringing anime to a wider audience outside of Japan. Again, I don't know what the connection is between Tetsuo being an optical illusion and Kaori being a villain.
But in that scene, Tetsuo is talking directly to Kaneda. It's Kaneda being addressed in that scene because it's an adaptation of the scene in Vol 1 where Tetsuo nearly beats a rival gang member to death.
Kaori (who was not originally in the manga version of that scene) is standing behind them, Kai, and Yamagata while she recovers from the attack. After Tetsuo's outburst, though, she walks forward and stops just behind Kaneda to talk to Tetsuo. To me, it seems pretty clear that she's talking to Tetsuo, but doesn't want to get too close since she can tell he's upset.
All in all, I just don't see any of this as evidence that Kaori is actually meant to be a villain in either the film or manga, or that Tetsuo is somehow an optical illusion produced by Akira (who is shown to be dead in the film).
If there's one thing about Akira's story, it's that it's fairly straightforward in its messaging (at least, in my opinion). If Kaori were truly written as a villain, the signs would be a lot more obvious, and the message behind her villainy arc would be clear to understand.
