An In-Depth Look At Red XIII
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when i first played final fantasy 7 as a kid, i knew absolutely nothing about the game, everything was a surprise. i remember getting to the shinra building and seeing red 13 and thinking he looked so cool, but expected him to be a boss fight. then he joined the party and i was i just thought he was coolest character ever. then at cosmo canyon i thought he left the party, and spent hours in the area trying to find a way to get him back, i was mortified..then as i was leaving he rejoins the party i just thought yes! this is the coolest character ever!
then aeris died and i cried.
Yes. This.
Robot Raptor the struggle of people who had no idea about the game getting the newest one.
from the music and story i was blown away. first rpg i played until the end and still holds a place in my heart. i have bought it on the ps3, pc, ps1,etc. everytime it was available.
We all did cry because we lvled her and then she died :D fuck you game :D
We all cried when Aeris died and still cry to this day.
"Scout ahead, Red."
"You got it, Black."
"You get a pass."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whoever hasn’t watched that series has missed the greatest thing on youtube
Red X I I I, and iiiim HUNGRY 😂
Nanaki: "I'm going to out-live all of my friends..."
Vincent: "I'm immortal. We can hang out."
Nanaki: "All of my friends."
Cloud: im a god
nanaki is racist against two leggers.
i read this in the tfs red XIII voice XD
Great, well that will certainly cheer Vincent up, thanks Red
Four legs good two legs bad
I always rename Red XIII to Nanaki and when I get to Cosmo canyon where it explains his name by saying "Red XIII is Nanaki" it says "Nanaki is Nanaki" and I always thought that was funny lol
I named cait sith "I'm a spy" in my last play through lol it's funny to see his name in dialogue.
Fun fact: Nanaki is Nanaki - got this also in my game happening - took a picture. Memorable moment. Picture was taken several days ago
I do this too
I didn't renamed my Red XIII but I still got "Nanaki is Nanaki" in the dialogue
SAME
Red XIII doesn’t get a lot of screen time, but I swear that scene where he’s howling as his petrified father cries is the strongest emotional moment in the game for me.
His rebirth scene has me tearing up too. It's an underrated moment
I really hope Nanaki gets more character development in the Remake. He is my favorite FFVII character, or rather, my favorite in the franchise. He deserves it.
Also, 4:42 one of the reasons Nanaki barely speaks nor appears in Advent Children was because of budget reasons: animating his fur was supposedly hard and expensive.
He could be the therapist of the group, given his life span and experiences.
@@Dracobyte Im sure he is getting WAY more. Everyone is getting way more. They are not limited to text boxes and a bit of movement anymore, so they can show so fckn mutch!
@@lilbucky9624 They said that?
@@lilbucky9624 So no other places?
@@Nosretep There's gonna be episodes, they're covering the full game, but they're supposedly going into so much detail that Midgar alone is a 30+ hour game. So eventually we'll get the whole story, the first one ends at the escape from Midgar, so we'll at least get to see Nanaki in the first installation, unlike Yuffie/Vincent/Cid/Cait Sith.
Red XIII is a precious and underrated cinnamon roll.
Everybody should have their own nanaki.
He certainly deserves justice in the remake
@@Gabriel198765432 he also needs more screen time even as a party member he always just kinda hung out in the background except in his story
He is my favorite cinnamon roll.
@@littlekitsune1 red is the one who holds title of goodest boy.
5:48 "In all ways except physical, I am a human."
That joke popped into my head, too, LOL.
He's one of the characters I use the most, and I love how he's really supportive, friendly and loyal to Cloud. His style is also really cool, I always love those animal-like characters in most RPG games, they are always so unique, and the way he attacks is also really awesome, actually his animation for magic and summons are also one of my faves.
And I was really disappointed there wasn't more of him in Advent Children.
Ikr I would have thought in the complete version of advent children hed atleast get another scene or two.
I'm looking forward to seeing his limit breaks in the remake. Lunatic High is going to be amazing in an action based game and Cosmo Memory should be a sight to behold.
4:13 Speaking of Red XIII being a dog and Costa Del Sol. As Cloud, you can kick that soccer ball at Red XIII, and when you do, he gets up and savagely barks at you. So, I guess he's a wolf in tiger's skin.
Catdog.
I did that so many times
i thought the children laughing at the end of the game was the planet laughing instead of screaming like it does throughout the game
I wasn't even aware there was laughing... do you have to listen really carefully?
What about the most obvious thing? Nanakis two kids?!
that's what it sound like to me
I think it's a decent theory. I'd say the planet was crying, and if I remember correctly after some ~15 years since I played it last, they refer to it as that. I'd like to think humans are dead, it does sound like more than 2 laughs so not the cubs, and a side note, I expected his voice to be more growly and animalistic so I don't like it in the movie and his cubs should be yelping. I like the idea that it's the planet, thanks.
I like to think of it as the rebirth of the planet. After years of abuse, the growth of the plant life indicate, to me, a re-vegitated area that was once home to malicious intent and afterwards, nothing. This "laugh" is the planet,or life stream, growing stronger through purist nature.
"A life may end, but a tree, reborn"
The laughing children could actually be the pups, they're just as sapient as Red himself is. I do think they were trying to say that humanity is pretty much extinct.
Yeah it’s true, Kazushige Nojima confirmed that Humanity is completely extinct at the end of the game.
@@AdiCool88 Unless you count Vincent as part of Humanity,who is Immortal
@@u.local_jellybeanuvu5281 Yeah I forgot to mention him actually, so from the Gang, only Vincent and Red exist. It’s actually pretty sad.
Nanaki's story always makes me tear up. Living his young life thinking so badly of his father. Then learning Seto gave the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone. Nanaki in turn growing so much pride on learning this, he howled a lament. A powerful scene.
I didn't know there were FF VII books, so thanks for that info. Nanaki is easily my favourite character in the game; I remember wandering around Cosmo Canyon or just standing idle while doing other things to listen to the theme. I know it's cheesy for statues to cry, but finding Seto petrified knowing Nanaki's history still gets me to do the same.
Great vid, thank you.
I found that the only scene in the entire game that was emotional to me back when I first played it. The music really sells it too. I didn't really care about the famous Aeris scene at all.
am i the only one that somehow SOME WAY found the scene where nanaki finds out about seto more sad than aeris death?
Michael Lück I never likek Aireth/Airis from the start. She was too pure.
Michael Lück I cried
Eeeeyeyyyyyyy nice last name, my name is Dante Lück! :D is it a common last name btw?
Definitely, especially with the tear and the howl at the end.
To be fair I was still playing Suikoden around the time of FF7 and Gremio's death was far more sad than Aeris.
allerdings
I really love Red XIII. He is my favorite character in games. Sadly he is underrated.
Does the character have to be a member of Cloud's group? If not, then maybe you could do an in-depth look at Rufus Shinra? There's a surprising amount of lore related to Rufus.
My argument to that, and I'm unfortunately late, is rufus is cait sith. It's recent at, the time of my comment, video of cait sith, but it is one in the same. This was disclosed during ffvii so... I feel u learn about rufus through cait sith
@@hjkljhhkl i think you mean Reeve... not rufus shinra
@@iQuantom1 yes. Thank u
@@hjkljhhkl all good man. Though u made me question myself and what i thought I knew with a quick google! 😅
jaythesupernerd94 yeah he even has a brother
My favourite character when I played ff7 like 20 years ago. Spent most of my time kitting him and cloud out with the best items and materia.
I like the direction they went with the FF7R voice actor for Red. A little more gruff, but also still sophisticated and wise sounding.
I always considered Red XIII's theme and Cosmo Canyon theme two movements of the same song really, like one is the introduction to the other, with the other's development of the musical ideas only to hit at the right time when the plot unveils in the scene to gave the emotional impact like in the movie with the right passages in the dialogue and so on
Just a little thing I picked up on that I noticed wasn't mentioned around 8.42: Hojos reason for trying to mate the two would be to conceive a specimen with the same lifespan as Red. The reasoning is due to the research hojo needs from Aerith would take more than a hundred years as stated by himself upon speaking in the scene with him in the shinra board room. Amazing videos, thankyou for continuing to delve into this absolutely timeless and wonderful game!
This. He even talks about it in the executive meeting beforehand, saying that because the research will take about 120 years, he wanted to breed her.
The one yelling was cait sith on his back
Yeah, I thought that to, because the voices are two different voices
I always like to think Nanaki's people were an ancient race that lived alongside the Ancients as protectors of the planet.
It explains how the residents of Cosmo Canyon knew so much about the planet and the Lifestream.
At some point, the two were one. Hojo even tried to breed Nanaki and Aeris. He must've thought they were genetically compatible in some way.
Likely because he discovered links between the two in ancient texts and was testing to see if Nanaki is potentially an Ancient despite his beast-like appearance.
Maybe the laughter was that of Nanaki's cubs?
18:42 Most adorable thing in the whole video.
Let me also chime in to say that yes, Red XIII has both canine and feline traits. While he's called a dog by some characters in-game, howls like a canine (both during limit breaks and in the scene with Seto), growls, whines, etc., his overall look from the mane to the anatomy of his legs is feline (or as other say below, he seems rather hyena-like in how the canine and feline traits are combined) and he most definitely roars in the final FMV at the end of the game.
Pretty much everything you included in the video was things I already knew or had at least heard of, but there were some new intriguing details, plus you explained and related it all in a quirky and funny manner. :) Nanaki's always been my favorite FFVII character (though I do also love Aerith, Cid, and Tifa) and you did an awesome job addressing what makes him so unique and fascinating. Plus you included some awesome fanart/photo manipulations!
A few interesting side notes/things to ponder:
-The Gi. I was always fascinated by them as their origin is never really explained and their design looks like little else in the game (even beyond being spirit creatures). Is there more information about them, or what may have been intended for them?
-I really do hope Cobalt and Indigo are in the remake, and that Nanaki isn't just a cameo. Also, while I did like his Advent Children voice (it was very kind, gentle, and lovable, which very much fits him), I think a deeper and more resonant voice would also be appropriate (just not as deep as, say, Kimahri).
-On a related note, his look 500 years later, where he's gotten bigger, broader, buffer, and grown out his mane into a thick, shaggy, gray-streaked, bearded look makes him somehow even more badass!
-Am I the only one who, aside from the other obvious aspects of the Cosmo Canyon/Seto storyline, found the Seraph Comb itself to be something of a tear jerker? Just the way its flavor text in the weapons menu is "Memento of Father" is so quintessentially Nanaki--simple, heartfelt, and respectful.
-On a different note, as often as Nanaki's dialogue in the game is either Captain Obvious, erudite, or solemn/pensive, he actually got a number of great comedic lines. Aside from the memorable part on the ship where he claimed to look convincing disguised as a human, and what you show in the lab scene ("An informed question....I am what you see."), I always laughed at a) his claim his tail had a mind of its own, when playing with the soccer ball in Costa del Sol b) his protestations to Bugenhagen ("Grandfather! I'm 48.") and c) one of his very first lines, when Tifa was startled he could talk ("I'll talk as much as you want later, Miss."). LOL!
11:23 wait wait...HOW DID YOU BRING ULTIMA WEAPON IN THAT CAVE?!
Save file editor
By the way, the voice actor who plays Red XII is Liam O'Brien (Illidan from Warcraft and Gaara fron Naruto).
And vax/caleb!
Outside of Aerith's death, the scene with Nanaki and Seto is probably the saddest thing in the game. I still get a little misty-eyed thinking of it.
And why didn't they just use a soft on Seto??
Because you need a *supersoft* and those weren't invented until FF9!
Doctor Tot has the patent for supersoft, so there's nothing they can do for Seto
I suppose the same reason Palum and Polom couldn't be healed with one. Does this mean the Mysidian Elder's powers surpass Bugenhagen's?
Petrification in rpgs can only be cured before the person solidifies into stone. Seto died decades before cloud sees his stone body. Waaay too late.
And I'll be the asshole that says, "Deal with it. Story"
Found this content after finishing up FF7:R and wanted a refresher on how the old story goes. Now I'm going through your backlog and its awesome. Thanks for the great content! 👍
How does this not have more views!?!? Keep up the great work.
For some reason I have to have red XIII in my party every play though, i don't know why.
Please tell me you're going to do Sephiroth at some point though, I mean you have to. Right?
Love the FF content! Keep up the great work man!
I usually had the Red XIII theme playing when doing homework during my Jr.High and High School years. Just a relaxing beat~
i think "Deneh" is pronounced "di'NAY", and this is just me going off what I learned in MGS5; "Diné" is the word the Navajo use as title for themselves as a tribe, translated to "the people". Loose Native American connection, but I think it checks out.
Don't worry about it too much, we only read the names, so I don't blame you for any pronunciation quirks. Though, if someone I knew said "Yunn-ah" instead of "Yoo-na", it'd become clear they didn't play FFX at all cuz voice-over. I remember playing Kingdom Hearts' intro and thinking..."WHAT? 'Tee-duss?!' No way, I've already decided it was pronounced 'Tie-duss' and no one can change my mind."
YOU HEAR THAT, DR. ROBOTNIK?! YOU WERE NEVER "EGGMAN" TO ME AND NEVER WILL BE!
Can a speaker of Navajo confirm this?
@@ZhangtheGreat good on you for asking, cuz like i said, this bit of knowledge came from a Hideo Kojima game, so it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. BUT! Death Stranding reportedly has a character that speaks Creole (genuine Creole, too, not someone who knows French and tries to emulate the dialect just to fail in the subtleties. and it was a big deal for some speakers of Creole to have some genuine representation in a high-profile media product). So, I will express some trust in Kojima's care and effort to represent the cultures of others with as much authenticity as he can (even when he's making fictional history to parallel our reality).
@@marther3898 just looked it up, Jay Tavare (Code Talker's VA) is a Native American, so the pronunciation is at least likely acceptable.
That picture of red XIII with the headphones is awesome
Red XIII was always my favorite character in FFVII.
Squall in FFVIII
ViVi in FFIX
Rikku in FFX
Payne in FFX-2
Fran in FFXII
Fang in FFXIII
Prompto in FFXV
I love Red XIII too. Lulu for FFX and yes Fran rocks. ^_^
what about your favorite character in FFVI/III?
Addy Garg Good question, I still haven’t decided those yet
dncarlo24 👍🏽
As you go in depth with his story, I can't help but think maybe Red XIII is some short of off-shoot or precursor or whatever to a moomba. They are pretty similar, in fact super similar in appearance. I think I'm on to something
I always thought seto drops his materia because grandpa says "Thats setos..." he doesn't finish but always assumed he meant materia.. Not actual tears, which is also interesting cause he did it as a way to show he was crying and heard his son. Idk.
Very well done man I enjoyed that thoroughly
Technically you see him ever so briefly at the end of Dirge of Cerberus, sitting outside of 7th Heaven. But good analysis :)
Cool video man great job
This is an incredible documentary. Very well done
I love your videos! The more I watched them the more I realize how much the games mean to me, how the character have been part of my childhood
Gods damn, I love so much that there's basically an ALL FINAL FANTASY 7 EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER POSSIBLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FF7 channel XD
Thank you so much for all of your content. That world is truly among my favorites
For the extra ending for FFVII (the 500 years later thing), maybe man kind has grown wiser and decided to stop using the lifestream for selfish purposes. They decide to live in harmony with the planet instead. Therefor, the city of Midgar, and its Mako-powered machines, are left to rot.
and some guy called Frank Benjamin created a way to harness the power of electricity without Mako
Zephyr Weiss 10/10
They had invented turbines and coal power before mako energy took over, it was a plot point in Barrett's backstory even.
Or maybe yu yevon came back with sin 2.0 to punish everyone for using machina again
He was my fav!! Always named him after my dog and had him on my team.
12:20 where man cried
I lol'ed at "Oonah". Great video.
Red XIII is my favorite character. Enjoyed this video. About to watch the other videos. Playing this game for the 5th time on my Switch. Love it so much. Hopefully we see a Zack Fair video. Can't wait for the remake next year!
I think "Deneh" is an attempt at transliteration of Diné, the name of the language of the Navajo. Also, its the name they use for their people.
Good job! Thanks for all your research homie.
Love your ff7 Videos absolutely awesome!! More of this please keep it up!!! :D
Hey loved this video thanks
Awsome video!! Made my day!! Thank you sir.
Great in depth info about Nanaki, thanks for this
I found you today. You are awesome.
Informative and funny as hell video- loved it! 😂☺️ Nanaki is one of my fave characters ever anyways... Back in 1997, oh the feels... #ifeelold
Same. Playing it for the first time since 1997 in 2019!
Really well done video, a lot of it i knew but there was some information i didn't know, thanks for taking the time to make this, I enjoyed it very much. Somehow the fact they were gonna make aeris and red copulate some how escaped me, wow lol just a bit hardcore for it's time.
I love this series! Please do all of the characters!
that yelping in AC 4:02 was actually coming from Cait Sith. you can tell based on the voice used for his Scottish accent. thanks for these, though!!
I thought this too, but there is a little yelp that can be heard behind Cait Sith's. It's just one small example anyways, I figured some people would get more out of it than others.
English dub is non-canon anyway lol
nop, you can still hear Nanaki a little bit
@@Zephyr_Weiss I only hear a lion roar from him. Which he used to vocalize through the whole movie.
Thanks ^^
hmm...what about chocobo-guide, or may be sort of it?
What a fantastic video. Red XIII has always been my favourite character since my first playthrough.
So many memories. Those pieces of music hit a chord, and I'm not normally affected by music.
Red XIII gets 1 line in Advent Children because the Japanese voice actor they got to voice him was someone famous somewhat ^^
because they say Red is too difficult and costly to animate which is why he was barely in it... I hated that fact..
4-8: Red XIII is a cool and deep character
Me: lmao doggy go nyoom
I used to have Red XIII in my party alongside Tifa and Cloud as a kid. He was one of my favorite characters.
Very good video! Thank you.
Thanks for the video.
I actually have red xiiis tattoos on my arms and legs lol
God dammit! Your awesome videos kept me up till 2. I need to be up at 7:30.
Red XIII looks like a hyena/wolf to me. I feel like he was underrated in the game.
I like these videos. Hope you do every character.
8 years later
I always thought Red XIII looked more like a lion or a panther: the mane, the tail, the ears, the lithe body. But I guess people see what they want to see. My favorite character in one of my favorite games! His Lv 1-2 limits are the comparatively the best, in my opinion, though his Lv 3-4 fall behind the others in damage. Don't care though, I used him as my main companion the whole game.
He has the appearance of a lion, but behaves like a wolf.
Love your. Videos man. You should totally do an in depth of Yuna. Your favorite FF character.
Very interesting video mate.
even though he isnt a party member and has their own side game, an in depth look at zack would be interesting
In depth look at cloud!!
Ahahahaha, you actually addressed your pronunciation of regen.
You went from above average to great for me!
Cosmo Canyon real talk one of the best themes in the game. I remember standing there for hours just listening to it
The Hell with those guys. I said Aries name the same way. My childhood will always trump their opinion. lol
could you please make a video about the stats / status effects ? means , what is moral for , what is sadness /fury ? would be great :3
The Great Warrior scene made me cry the first time and it sometimes still does today.
Great video. Had no idea there were books. Please do an in depth look at Aeris. The game alluded to a lot with her, but I feel like there's a lot left unsaid.
Again, love the video : )
Cobolt 14 and Indigo 15... wow that is certainly some creepy stuff. Also the implication that Hojo stole Red 13's eyeball...
i am brazilian and didnt understand much spoken english, but i understand written english. can you explain that part about these colored clones for me pleeease?
@@ElsweyrDiego Em um script alternativo, que acabou não saindo no jogo, o grupo lutaria contra esses dois clones coloridos do Red XIII, também lutaria contra outros 2 clones exatamente iguais e teriam de adivinhar quais deles seria o Red XIII verdadeiro. O Red XIII não deixaria o grupo matar os clones, pois eles seriam os últimos membros da raça dele, mais tarde, na dungeon final do jogo, os clones coloridos reapareceriam com implantes cibernéticos pra atacar o grupo, querendo provar que eles seriam os guerreiros mais fortes.
Red 13... Red means stop
13
Stop 13...
They should have stopped at 12...
They should've stopped at 9. Nien! No more.
@Donald Trump all the good ones have walls too. And they're invisible. Still beat any wall you've created xD
Stop after 11!
i get goosebumps and shivers down my spine each time i hear the comso canyon theme.
You have a wonderful narration voice
Can you tell about tifa because I know so little about her and the little that I know is Crisis Core and FF7
Am I the only one that renamed Red XIII to "Nanaki" and Cait Sith to "Reeve"?
nope lol. never thought to do it with cait sith though
Clairice Dale After my very first play through, I always named RedXIII 'Nanaki' and I always named Cait Sith 'Reeve'
Nananki because it's his birth given name and Reeve because reveals himself to be Reeve during the last portion of the game.
Yeah I always rename red 13. Never thought to do it with cait sith...probably because he's my least favorite character
Clairice Dale I don't remember even attempting to level him up a single bit, One dumb character.
@@ComaAlpha but still even though Reeve reviels himself its still a walking talking Cait Sith doll he made it even has a will of it's own so i never change Cait Sith's name becouse of that
the tracks took me back!!
I think the laughter during epilogue is the lifestream
Beacuse Sun Glases over Glases is not Hardcore enough.
I'm casting my vote for Tifa for the next one.
Very nice video! Aeris or Yuffie next.
After this video i looking for the story you mention the "Case of Nanaki". channel The Lifestream, has it and others for Yuffie, Tifa, Barrett, and Shinra. I love each one, you learn so much.
Yooooooooooo I love the new introduction!
I see the word as Reegen, it's from regeneration though and pronounce it reggin'. Who cares?
Thanks for the video, Red's scenes made me cry when I was younger.
+ChikoWhat Thanks! ;)
YUFFIE DAMN YOU *SOBS AND EXHALES*.......I'm okay!
Cosmo Canyon music is eternally epic, love it! Nanaki is my Dawg in ffvii
Gotta admit he's always been my favorite character, since the first time I played the game (because i played it about...well...more than 13 times) Never considered him underrated, since almost always was on my party and overleveled as well