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Spoilers for Tekkaman Blade (analysis under the read more)

I think something really interesting in Tekkaman Blade about Shinya and Takaya's relationship that goes unnoticed for most of the anime is the contrast between the 2 brother's view of themselves in relation to their family. How Takaya percieves his family as ultimately good and well-functioning. Obviously he's aware his mother died but he seems to believe everyone has been able to heal and move on from that, assumes shinya's "rivalry" with him has no deeper meaning. Shinya on the other hand, knows his family is broken. Knows that from the moment his mother told Takaya "boys don't cry", the moment she shut Shinya in the burning clock so that he would survive, from the moment his father treated him differently from Takaya, from the look in his eyes when he blamed Shinya for his wife's death, however hidden and subconscious it was. And even though the Radam possessed Shinya into doing their will, I think they also exxagerated what was within, which was his desire to fight, to justify, to finally be enough- to himself and to others. Because deep down he's felt responsible for what happened his entire life, for being not good enough, strong enough. And while Takaya thinks this desire to duel to the death, the visceral anger, was just another aspect of what the Radam had done, I think Shinya knew, in his dying breaths, what was under the surface was never going to go away. In their battles he repeats "I need to fight you, I'm glad I have the opportunity to do it like this" (instead of back home, where he would have to direct all of this at himself) - and Takaya would never see the layer of truth in that. In the end Shinya's standards for himself were never going to be met, because they were based on an inherent state of undeservingness that he felt he needed to prove himself out of. He was never going to match up to Takaya, to find that true victory because he could still never go back and undo all that happened when they were kids. As he bleeds out he finally reaches that understanding. Without the Radam's interference he can fully see that he would never be able to win because was fighting against his own hurt, that life is a circle and Takaya would feel the guilt that he felt tenfold. That there was nothing he could do about it now, and there was never anything he could do about his issues to begin with. It seems fitting I guess.

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tekkaman by hinomars19

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