Kaneda's closest friend since preschool and the story's secondary focal point. Tetsuo is portrayed as an outcast within the gang he shares with Kaneda, silently enduring a profound inferiority complex. While he admires his friend, he simultaneously harbors intense resentment toward his own dependence on him. Once his psychokinetic powers emerge, Tetsuo rapidly transforms into Kaneda's adversary; he covets Kaneda's motorcycle (a symbol of status and power) and strives to demonstrate his own supreme strength, free from the need for protection.
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