Some basic matters that people seem to miss about Texhnolyze: At its core, Texhnolyze is a hero story. From the producer Yasuyuki Ueda, “The reason for making this title is not about exploring violence… I did it to show what I think a truly heroic man is.” Texhnolyze is not about moral nihilism. Consider the difference between Ichise and Kano. Ichise is the hero because other people rely on him, and in turn, Ichise tries to save them. Onishi and Doc act like parents to Ichise, and Ran sees hope in him. More specifically, “Ichise lost his way after artificial body parts were buried inside of him against his will, and Ran’s strength is a beacon for him, directing him onto a new path. And for Ran, Ichise represents hope. She saw a future she never cared to see, and watching Ichise struggle to overcome the horrors she’d witnessed in visions was certain proof that the bleak future could be changed. She’d seen only one of many possible futures.” Meanwhile, Kano is the villain because he destroys Lux with the Shapes and betrays everyone for his revenge. He tells the Shapes they will be immortal, but brain damage from the robotic limbs will likely kill them. It makes sense that Kano sees himself as a solipsist at the theater scene: he believes he is the only important person in the entire world. Essentially, Ichise is the hero, Kano is the villain. Source of quotes: texhnolyzeillumination.wordpress.com/opinions-and-discussions/abe-and-ueda-share-thoughts/

A shame this channel didn't take off, it's rare to get a good analysis of such a great series. There was a certain scifi novel that had similar themes, but I forgot the name.

i can't believe how underrated this series is :I

I'm just gonna say these Texhnolyze videos are something I appreciate A LOT. It's honestly my favorite anime series and no other videos I've seen about it really touch on the ideas you bring up. In fact these make the other videos I watched just seem like ideas and feelings about the show thrown together sloppily. It's a real shame you have so little subscribers. Haven't seen Casshern Sins, but if I had I would watch your videos on that as well. I noticed someone else said this on one of your other videos but I just agree so strongly I have to bring it up anyways, KZfaq really needs more people like you. Hope you continue to make such great videos and eventually get the recognition I feel you deserve.

This is a fascinating analysis and makes me consider even more about Yoshi as a character in particular - it seems like he became meta-aware of what made the aboveground go extinct and what hope his ancestors put in the first generation of Lux. I like the behavioral sink take on it, although now I'm trying to juxtapose that against obvious 'The Aeneid' allusions in the final quarter of the show. (ex. 'Hades' as a title) Not to mention the Hopper art-style that's actually in the whole series becoming much more obvious here. I bet you've already seen this, but I thought it was worth mentioning since you bring up the idea of strife as a necessary element to the survival of the human species - Kino's Journey. There are two episodes of Kino's Journey, episodes 1 and 5, that explore the ideas you mentioned here. Both involve towns where machines do all the work. In the first scenario, this caused humans to be able to hear each other's thoughts and be unable to be near one another (and likely unable to procreate) as a result. The second scenario was a small story embedded in an even more ingenius episode. In episode 5, Kino mentions a town that uses stress as a currency because machines do all the actual work. In order to maintain some sort of capitalistic ideology, humans do meaningless work that have different levels of stress so that the capital in the town can be 'distributed fairly'. Later in the episode, after Kino meets a few interesting strangers on a railroad, she ends up in a town with one person living in it that in embracing democracy after overthrowing a monarchy the majority constantly put the minority to death until one person was left, and as a result he was the monarch of his 'country' (which is really just a town). Interestingly enough The Class in the underground seems to be running into fertility problems. I find The Class to be another confusing element of the show because of the really odd structures and symbols found within (and the wall itself with the disco ball of doom). But now that I think on this commentary I have to wonder if they represent the aboveground theonormal, as a group of people who are on their way to becoming like the theonormal unlike the city of Lux which the gangs rule because they're the people willing to put themselves through stress and strife. So why would Kano want to take that away from them by pushing them towards becoming something even worse than the theonormal? My guess, based on his monologue, is that it's because he's a fucked in the head solipsist and that he's resigned based on his communication with the theonormal and knowledge that the raffia production was pointless, but what makes me wonder more about Kano is the obvious foil he seems to be to Yoshi. He's clearly the replacement antagonist but why was this narrative structure chosen - how did Yoshi dying enable Kano to do what he did? Or was is just timing?

For the record, there is exactly 1 child shown besides Ran. He is shown with (presumably) his mother during the funeral scene with Sonoda's "botched" assassination. The only women I recall other than Doc, Ran, Yoko, Michiko and Mana are the fight promoter's woman, the women with the men that framed Ikuse, the funeral woman, Kano's mothers, potentially a few other members of the class and a vendor in the market. I've possibly missed some, but that's an extremely small number of women considering the number of men we see. The Racan seem to be the last generation "full" of children.

aged so well

Watching this after finishing the anime made me appreciate it a lot more, there were some things I didn't like about it but the things I did like made watching it very much worthwhile. This video helped tie everything together, and now my own understanding of the themes at its core, and I guess the point of it all, is a lot clearer in my mind. Thanks for making this great video, I'll be sure to check out more of what you've made soon (although I'm aware I'm five years late).

Pretty sad I came across this video and channel so late, having watched Texhnolyze a good 4 years ago. Very deep and insightful analysis of the series, you've earned yourself a subscriber and a like.

Dear BadRespawn Thank you for your hard work, I haven't seen an analysis as deep as yours, I wonder, how much time did you spend in order to collect all the data, apply it to anime and create a video, I believe that you a very productive person thank you

Thank you for these Texhnolyze analyses. You are so perceptive and the content in your videos are far more remarkable than anime reviewers that have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Please continue creating more content!

I've always been uncertain and skeptical of Calhoun's conclusions of his experiments and whether the findings can apply to human society. I do think it is an interesting way to look at the world depicted within Texhnolyze though.

What happens when you separate Aggressivity and Ambition from Passiveness and Conformity? According to Texhnolyze, extinction, failure to find s synthesis between theese opposites that exist within human nature is death.

Thank you for making this, it answered the questions I wanted answers to upon finishing the series and now I can appreciate it even more

Interesting. I always thought that the world above was a lot scarier than the one below even though it was supposed to be 'utopia'. The depictions of societies were so extreme but I really liked that about this series.

Man. This video was so good. Thank you very much for this video. Can't express my thanks enough. This video was prefect.

Tehxnolyze is actually the deepest anime ever.

Thank you very much for this. Texhnolyze is among my top five anime. Unlike series like boogiepop phantom and serial experiments lain that are confusing right off the bat, texhnolyze seemed to be pretty straightforward until I finished the last episode. Then, I wanted to know more and tried to find meaning in all the symbolism. The more I understood the more I got confused. I still do not understand this anime but with the help of your videos, albeit few, things are making more sense. Now, may you please explain the reason why flower montages were shown when the theonormal man was waxing lyrical to Ichise about the superiority of the surface world/people. This has always made me scratch my head. Another thing, what was the meaning of all that mumbo jumbo from the radio thingy on the surface world? Thanks again and please upload another video soon!

It's scary how real this is, somehow life has made me "a beautiful one" I lack enough interest and will to engage in normal social activities and therefore am very bad at it. I spend all my time alone and even though I'm depressed I cannot kill myself, I only keep repeating every day out of inercia. I see no way out of this and I can definitely see myself living like this until I die.

Why don't you upload anymore???

Great video, hope you do more Texhnolyze analysis videos.

i need to watch this show again.. yours is one of the best analysis on yotube

That was a really great analysis

DO MORE!

fantastic video. great work my guy.

Excellent review man!

This is fucking terrifying.

underrated channel

Bro your channel is underrated AF! Make more vids!

I'm curious as to why the Theonormals are almost always depicted in a shadowy art style. Are the people that Ichise and company see on the surface holograms generated by some kind of supercomputer that has imported everyone's consciousnesses? Are their hologram-like appearances simply a visual metaphor and not meant to be taken literally but rather symbolically? Is there some other meaning? Fantastic video, by the way. I just finished Texhnolyze today and wasn't entirely sure how to feel about it, but analysis videos like these help me understand that I was witnessing something extremely unique and thematically rich.

Really dig the video, Im 41 now and still watch anime and cartoons i just stay away from kiddy stuff..anime can be very informative and covers concepts that take a superior intelligence to understand.

amazing video !

Wow. Texhnolyze is extremely inspired by the Mouse Utopia experiments.

This is phenomenal- you should get a PhD with these videos. What's the music and where'd you get the video effect you're using with the blue screen and horizontal lines

Doc is a doctor. She probably knows exactly the mechanism of her sterility and has exhausted her attempts to treat it.

You are very smart. Incredible diesection going on here..

excellent video thank you!

Perfection has a price and it severity and duration can not be seen easily or at all.

This is just one interpretation? I think you hit the nail on the head.

Thank you so much

FINALLY

BRILLIANT!!

Brilliant

Present day, present time.

Wow, thanks

Nice analysis here! While I haven't watched Texhnolyze (just read about it), I do think your interpretation here is really good and maybe gets at the heart of what Texhnolyze is stating. It actually reminds me of something I heard in church once, where it was said that in the current "Selfie" generation, empathy was starting to statistically decrease. Obviously, they weren't saying "all people of the Selfie generation are sociopaths", but it does show how some forms of technology really do cause us to, in some ways, lose our humanity--one reason I've always been frightened by the concepts of "brain in a jar" and "brain uploading". Granted, I don't know about you, but I think that even if Texhnolyze is dark, it isn't a series that is trying to say, "this is the ultimate fate of humanity". Rather, it's more meant to warn us not to let "progress" go so far that we ultimately leave behind things that make us human or cause harm to ourselves or the world. After all, there have been times where people have changed themselves and society, and, as you explained, in Mr. Calhoun's research, there were mice who got more creative and were able to survive for longer than others; indicating that even in the darkest times, there's still some hope and chance to make things better, but that people need to act on it to prevent terrible things from happening.

Amazing video, I kinda thought Earth would come to a similar end...

But why would the mice go to one specific space when there are more than one space for all mice and resources were just as abundant in these spaces ? Or it would be inevitable either way and it would still lead to the behavioral sink? I just finished texhnolyze but I didn't go as deep as you did as it was hard for me to pick apart all the important details. Make more videos on confusing yet insightful shows of any media, some of the big guys who do these analysis don't really elaborate more on some overlooked topics. Great video, I think you wanted to do more on texhnolyze but was unable to continue on for some reason.

Badrespawn please talk to wisecrack channel about this.

HOPEFULLY humans would end up as those mice. It is more likely humans will just nuke the shit out of everyone and everything. That's far worse. Amazing video. Thanks for the analysis!

damn, I kind of wanna take power of the real world and do this to humans. so Interesting

I am just going to say after watching the series and then this video, I am kinda afraid of the future of humanity.

I will watch this in 2025 too

I would rather live in the theonormals world. Lux is too violent.

13:40 It could also be by choice. If you draw some parallels with the real world we see more and more women choosing to not have kids or choosing to freeze there eggs to have kid at a period in their life where child birth will have the least chances for success.

People are so afraid of this that they will indefinitely be in denial. Only recently is the Behavioral Sink theory receiving lots of "debunking" by our current culture now that the behavioral decline is happening so blatantly. Buyer's remorse in a nutshell.

Who's here in 2024?

Social psychologists: with no challenge to their existence, humans will stagnate and collapse in on themselves. Edgy atheists: If God exists, why is there so much bad in the world? Bone cancer in children, what's that about?!

fyi, calhoun's work was obviously flawed and called out as such even while his experiment was underway. he didn't provide everything the mice needed, namely entertainment.

We should have listened to the bible. I see so many similarities between Universe 25 and our own.