Problem is that while Edward Steam thinks that steam power can be used for war and destruction, his father Lloyd Steam thinks it should be used to help mankind instead. It’s ultimate purpose? To sell it to a bunch of military leaders as the ultimate military weapon. Edward Steam decides that he wants to use the power of the Steamball’s to build a giant Steam Castle. James Ray Steam is the youngest of the Steams a 13 year old boy son to Edward Steam and grandson to Lloyd Steam. Steamboy takes place in 1860’s Manchester and tells the tale of a family of inventors called The Steams, three generations of the Steam family have their efforts sets on creating something they call the ‘Steamball’ a gadget that compresses steam and creates tremendous amounts of power. After all, this was the creator of Akira were talking about here! So of course, my expectations where set high for Steamboy. Both the comic and the film broke new barriers in animation and story telling. Its film version takes that story and compresses it, while still retaining the themes of the epic manga tale. It consists of 6 Volumes that cover 2,182 pages of artwork and story! It is an epic tale. Don’t know how many of you are familiar with the Akira manga (Japanese for comic book) but it’s a colossal work of comic book art. Interesting fact: Katsuhiro Otomo is the creator of both the comic book and the film adaptation for Akira. These weren’t cute little animals talking these were post apocalyptic teenagers riding their super charged motorcycles in a post apocalyptic ‘Neo-Tokyo’! So of course I was excited to hear about Steamboy, a film that was also directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of Akira. Akira will have a special place in heart as the first one that got me to love Japanese animation. Things have gotten so good for Anime films that now, it's Disney who distributes Studio Gibli’s productions in America and so now Hayao Miyazaki’s films get theatrical releases. They still don’t open to huge box office numbers, but they sure do sell a bunch of DVD’s. Thanks to the interest in Japanese animation that was originated with these films, Anime films are now stronger than ever. Producers were realizing that there was a market for these kinds of films out there, and they were making sure the world knew it. Then Ghost in the Shell (1995) came along with the promotional backing of American distributors and opened a whole other door to the genre. There was no denying that this wasn’t just any old anime film, this was something special. And it had every right to be called that, the animation was excellent, it had that cyberpunk attitude about it, it was futuristic, nihilistic, cutting edge, epic. I first saw Akira way back in the 90’s when it was starting to get its acclaim as one of the greatest animated films ever made. But Otomo’s Akira was always the king of them all, and still is in many ways.
STEAMBOY FULL MOVIE ENGLISH DUB MOVIE
Films like Vampire Hunter D (1985) Ninja Scroll (1993) and Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994) were the talk of the town, these were the films that my friends and I talked about when conversations about Japanese animation were sparked. I think that the term has fallen into disuse (replaced with the term ‘Anime’) but back then, during the late eighties and early nineties, that’s what they were calling Japanese Animated films. I don’t know if the term ‘Japanimation’ is used anymore.
Akira (1988) was the Japanese animated film that got me started in my love for ‘Japanimation’ films.
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