Kaneda Quotes in Akira (1988)

Kaneda: This has GOT to be a trap.

Kei: Then go back.

Kaneda: No. I just have to find how MUCH of it is a trap.

Kaneda: What's wrong? Have some trouble?

Tetsuo: Yeah. But I already took care of it. And you're too late, you missed the show.

Kaneda: Tetsuo, you had me worried again. I figured you'd be standing here sobbing like a little baby.

Tetsuo: 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!

Kaneda: And now you're a boss, too... of this pile of rubble.

Tetsuo: KANEDA!

Kaneda: That's Mr. Kaneda to you, punk!

Tetsuo: DIE!

Kaneda: Tetsuo!

Tetsuo: Kaneda!

Kaneda: He's not your friend, he's ours! If somebody's gonna kill him, it should be us!

Kaneda: [the light that remains from the explosion of Neo-Tokyo falls into Kaneda's hands] Tetsuo...

Kei: Kaneda, what is it?

Kaneda: Thank You.

Kei: Huh?

Kaneda: You called for me, didn't you? And I heard you.

[from trailer]

Kaneda: It's a two person job, fixing the shield. Harvey you're second in command, you're not coming.

Trey: I volunteer.

Mace: No! *I* volunteer...

Kaneda: Alright.

Mace: I volunteer Capa.

Capa: [after long pause] ... alright...

Capa: It's the problem right there. Between the boosters and the gravity of the sun the velocity of the payload will get so great that space and time will become smeared together and everything will distort. Everything will be unquantifiable.

Kaneda: You have to come down on one side or the other. I need a decision.

Capa: It's not a decision, it's a guess. It's like flipping a coin and asking me to decide whether it will be heads or tails.

Kaneda: And?

Capa: Heads... We harvested all Earth's resources to make this payload. This is humanity's last chance... our last, best hope... Searle's argument is sound. Two last chances are better than one.

Searle: There is something on board the Icarus I that may be worth the detour. As you pointed out, Mace, we have a payload to deliver. *A* payload, singular. Now, everything about the delivery and effectiveness of that payload in entirely theoretical. Simply put, we don't know if it's gonna work. But what we do know is this: If we had two bombs, we'd have two chances.

Capa: You're assuming we'd be able to pilot Icarus I.

Searle: Yes.

Kaneda: Which is assuming that whatever stopped them wasn't a fault or damage to the spacecraft.

Searle: Yes.

Mace: That's a lot of assumptions.