People who know me well (that's all three of you...) know I have a little hobby. A fanatical obsession, if you will. I study body language. I've watched people, yes. Observed trends in behavior and how they relate to personality and circumstance, yes. But I've also actually studied body language in a scholastic sense, and though an interest pursued by a teenager with little else to do doesn't grant a college degree, I would say this is a subject I know quite a bit about.
Of course it's also a subject with virtually no application whatsoever in anime. More often than not, exaggeration's the name of the game, and body language is used to distinguish one character type (charming bishonen) from another (clumsy but adorable youngster), rather than using it to display that character's specific personality. As usual, SKU kicks the trend. It manages, with it's terrible budget and questionable quality of animation, to nonetheless make the cast real through the way they move.
Naturally, this means I've more than gone into the details of the body language of my favorite character. I believe this section in length would outshine many dissertations, and most people will find it similarly dry and uninteresting. I don't apologize for this, since you won't read further if it's not something you're interested in. For the five of you who are, what follows is a breakdown, feature by feature, behavior by behavior, of Akio's body language. Spoiler: Sex shows up frequently.
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