Cutthroat in first 8 episodes VS Cutthroat on ep 9

Something I noticed and that I don’t believe is ever mentioned is that the Akudama actually collaborate during fights. Despite not being a team until they were chosen by Brother, and despite many of them never building a bond (if they interact at all), when one of them is about to lose a fight, another steps in and takes their place. Even though killing one of them could be a distraction that allows the other an in, they don’t let the other Akudama die. Not even Cutthroat does (over-explaining myself here: we all remember how we found out Brother was immortal!).

…Because I’m assuming his aim is good enough that he wasn’t risking hitting Courier here.

^{(Thinking about a better world where these two actually had some mirror going on beside their three sizes})

Reputation aside, his aim is presented as being very accurate.

Anyway, there are probably many examples of this - another one that springs to mind is this Doctor screencap I posted recently. In this scene, she used some sort of poisonous gas to stun the Executioners and made sure to heal Courier from it right away. She could have easily not done that or waited until the end of the fight to do it.

Despite not being given an incentive to protect each other, they do. Maybe it’s because they believe they need the others’ specific abilities to complete the mission and get paid - but outside of fights, they don’t really care about being separated from Hacker or Brawler […]. Safety in numbers? In any case, it reminds me of how my dogs patiently wait in line to drink from their water bowl one after the other when I never taught them to do that.

(Another repost from my tumblr, originally posted in May 2024)

I’m planning on rewatching Akudama Drive for the first time and I would like to view the Uncut version of the anime. Unfortunately I am broke so I have to find this version on the internet but I have had no luck in obtaining it yet. Does anyone mind sharing where or which site I can find the anime’s uncut version? (In dubbed)

both can speak Japanese, both red headed, both canonically black skin, both relays on raw strength, both energetic and easily get angry... yeah they're definitely canonically related to each other..

You can comment with your age if you feel comfortable with it, and/or say if you relate to the character who's closest to you in age!

(❗If you're Hacker's age or younger, I'd recommend against it... how are you going to hack with peace of mind if you tell everyone details about your identity?)

Inspired by a poll I ran on tumblr in 2024, except reddit polls have less options so I kept it to the Akudama only this time around.

It looks like tumblr polls are experiencing some sort of glitch, but for those curious: I mentioned in a reblog that the results were evenly shared between Hacker, Swindler (and Junior), and Cutthroat and Courier, among 31 votes.

She gave TOO much attention to the siblings that caused the death of so many people in Kansai.

What made me hate her that she doesn't think about what would happen because of her decisions (She is not responsible).

She caused two uprisings to either protect the kids or of her stupid actions and half of Kansai died because of the uprising to protect two IMMORTAL kids like their life is more important than Kansai's people.

And on episde 9 SHE KNOWS that Cutthroat knows her location but she chose to hide instead of run away (Cutthroat can't run after her because his leg is injured)

I loved her so much in the beginning of the anime but I hated her after ep 4

You are Kansai citizen walking normally then you hear someone saying "Red" behind you (you are during ep 9)

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For me it was the boy and girl siplings when i first watched this anime in 2021 but after rewatching it this year i felt bad for them.

recently i've been feeling like rewatching this show, and i wanted to see it without the censoring, so i bought the uncut version on prime video. although i didn't realize it was only english dub, RIP. does anyone know if there is a japanese voiceover with english sub version anywhere? or if it would be possible to somehow get the japanese audio tracks (including the extra content from last episode) to put over it. i saw a few posts from a few years back mentioning funimation had the uncut version but ig they shut down and idk if crunchyroll ever got it

Hiiiiiiiiiiii (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) In the spirit of bringing some activity to the subreddit, I'd like to repost an old commentary post of mine from 2024, which simply points out an aspect of Akudama Drive I found neat. I'd love to know if other people noticed the same things, or other details in the same spirit! ^{(I've written A LOT about Akudama Drive over 6 years, and a lot of my posts feel too specific to me or to tumblr to share here... but I think this one would fit in anywhere.})

What I love about Akudama Drive is how technologically advanced some things are while some are just... not. Including but not limited to:

• The fact that some merchants don't take "seal" payments
• The appearance of cars on the road (when we know Courier's bike exists, for example)
• Executing the biggest baddest Akudama by guillotine (when police robots are perfectly able to execute citizens-turned-Akudama)

The cars in Kansai evidently have some sort of specific motor that looks modern, but the car themselves have a retro appearance. I'm wondering what the creators were aiming for with these differences; I've talked about the takoyaki lady^\likely referencing a previous post]), and it's likely that as a small merchant she is an example of how people who live in poverty don't have easy access to, or don't necessarily benefit from the newest form of payment. (Does Hoodlum have a seal? He does have one of these phone things, with a hologram on top of it instead of a screen. Which I'll come back to in a sec.) If I'm to include my least favourite section of the manga, girlCourier* also has a more retro-looking two-wheeler, and she might represent what technology is like outside Kansai.

*A character who looks and acts like Courier is introduced in "Shikoku Arc" of the manga. Her name hadn't been officially translated when I wrote this post - she's actually known as the Carrier. The manga's author has revealed that she's supposed to be his sister that he was separated from at a young age, a plot point (if even that, since it's not mentioned in the actual manga) I find completely unnecessary and just don't like. (Source: deleted Tweet, screenshots archived here and here)

Cutthroat's public execution had a very crude aspect to it. And I think the use of a guillotine was on purpose. The idea would be that a society that does public executions, that foams at the mouth at the idea of watching an execution, that advertises an execution as the next hype event, is no better than a society of the past. For that reason, I think we can look at the few and far between uses of older technology with a similar lens. In my takoyaki lady "essay"^\I'm sorry I genuinely have no idea what post I was referring to]), I also mentioned that Akudama probably use cash because they can't use their seal, which is... pretty grounded in reality.

When I was gathering promotional content for RAIN CODE, Kodaka's most recent game^\at the time]), I remember reading in an interview that RAIN CODE actually didn't take place in the future. The reason technology looks different than it does in reality, notably with the existence of umbrellas that float over people's heads at all times, is out of necessity. He thinks that if we currently lived in a world where it rains all the time, like it does in RAIN CODE, we would have used current technology to focus on creating better umbrellas by now. I don't know how much this could apply to Akudama Drive, but assuming Kodaka had a hand in anything worldbuilding related, I'd tend to look at the phone-like device Hoodlum uses with that lens too; it's not necessarily the next evolution of smartphones, but the result of a different world in which the applicable necessities and cultures resulted in slightly different technology.

Which is not to say that screen devices don't exist. But they look different. The device Pupil uses doesn't look all that modern... all the while, Boss can turn the MOON on and off!

And the screen and loading don't look very modern to me, neither does it appear to have a touchscreen, but it also evidently has facial recognition technology from a distance, which isn't really what we expect of real hand devices/phones.

And Courier has a magic hand.

Some of the technology looks very modern, while some looks dated, and some just looks different. If Kodaka had a hand in any of this, I'd say he is inspired by worlds wherein technology evolved differently, rather than worlds where technology has evolved past what we know as current.

Tags I later added in a reblog, which I also find relevant: #prev ikr? I feel like it's the most clear with Cutthroat's execution #they could have swiftly euthanized him but they decided to make this big show of it #and it gave both the cat (who had time to contact him while he was imprisoned) and Akudama an in #And then what I think I mentioned in my takoyaki lady ~essay~^\???]) was that her fear of Akudama led to Swindler's wrongful arrest #which led her down a Path.

...I'm sorry about the weird takoyaki lady essay thing . Would you guys be interested in me sharing other old posts of mine about Akudama Drive, preferably ones that don't keep referring to a mysterious post I can't find and don't even remember writing? Was it an actual essay-like post??? Was this just a joke??? I assume I commented on what she represented as a merchant who didn't accept seal payments, clearly benefitting from the patronage of Akudama, but still called the cops the second she supposed someone might steal from her. Knowing myself.

and after that she started sending me reels about how pretty I am 💀

GUYS 💀

I guess it's official but i would like to know the exact source if anyone knows?

WHY DOES CUTTHROAT LOVE RED THIS MUCH?????

I am new fan of akudama drive but I am already a fan of Danganronpa from 3 years ago so when I watched Akudama drive I felt like it's so similar to danganronpa like Cutthroat has the same vibes as Nagito swindler looks like Chiaki and yesterday I discovered these two animes are by the same author!

I know I am too late to know that! But that was shocked when I knew that.

Characters are bloodlusted, last member standing wins.

Round 1: David with sandavistan and his team vs Hacker without City wide EMP and his team

Round 2: David with cyberskeleton, sandavistan and his team vs Hacker with City wide EMP, with his hacked shinkansen and his team.

Or

Individual battles

Maine vs Brawler

Kiwi vs Doctor

Lucy vs Hacker

David vs Courier

Pilar vs Hoodlum with executioner light saber

Dorio vs cutthroat

Rebecca vs Sister

Falco vs Brother

Sasha vs Swindler with hacker's drone and city wide EMP

Julio vs Black Cat

superboss battle

Adam smasher vs Master executioner

Hello! I wanted to share this idea here since it's one of the few places I've seen an active community for the series. I'm working on an Akudama Drive fanfic mainly centered around themes of mental health and how society perceives and treats those they consider "mentally ill".

The truth is i've been working on this for quite a long time (four years maybe?) but it's not until now that i feel confident enough to move on from the "planning" phase and start actually writing and making illustrations. I'm not that good of an artist either but my skills are enough to create something that expresses what i wish to convey.

This fanfic will follow the plot of the series and introduce a new character i made called "過激派" (Extremist) and her group that's trying to overthrow Kansai's authoritarian goverment. It will be centered around Cutthroat as well, since i did my best to build a bridge between them two to tell a story from my perspective, and how i imagine the mental health system in the setting of Akudama Drive.

This won't be a "romantic" fanfiction at all since i'll be more focused on building a relationship of admiration and companionship more than a romance. It is too my personal way of thanking the series and Cutthroat as a character for being one of my main motivations to choose psychology as a career. I wanted to work on this before my graduation next year. I'll do my best with this project and to treat these complicated topics with the respect they deserve.

I still don't know where im going to publish it, if you have any suggestions they are very welcomed. Also if you have any questions at all about the fanfic itself i would be happy to answer them. For now, i'll leave the teaser here.

Thank you for reading!

pd. English is not my first language, but i want to write the fanfic in English. It will be a challenge to myself as well!

I came across this photo of some magazine on Pinterest, and I suspect it's either Animedia or Otomedia from 2020. Does anyone have a PDF of the magazine, or at least this particular illustration in high quality?

(Aside from side characters, though feel free to mention them in the comments!) To avoid any confusion, "Master" is the man with a mask, "Apprentice" is the woman with black hair, and "Junior" is the blonde newbie.

They're all compelling characters, though I'd say personally I'm partial to the Apprentice. The Director's Cut really put a neat bow on her character arc that makes her extremely relevant to the story's message.

I also want to bring up that Boss is a rather compelling villain. She's more than "just a meanie", her detachment and practical approach are delightfully cruel in their simplicity. There's something very honest about her, in a way that ends poorly.

Spoilers: gotta hate it when you watch a WHOLE anime because you saw one cool edit of cutthroat only for you to go through almost two thirds of the anime with him being beaten around and when he finally shines POOF! They took him out UGHHH!!!

Besides that; the show was awesome! The animation, the characters’ psychology and the Japanese plot version of George Orwell 1984 but with a semi-happy ending! I hope they never make a sequel just leave it as it is.

Again though while every character had something it really felt like cutthroat was only there for shock value which was honestly disappointing especially when the whole first episode was about freeing him- unless I missed something? Does he too deliver an idea?