Postby O2Destroyer » 19 years ago
Arrghhh! Metropolis is difficult for me. The manga is merely OK, and the film...ugh...just the idea of having the guy who animated akira do a tezuka film seems completely twisted to me. Not sure the film or manga have much of anything to do with each other. Weird!
This and your other illustrations are nice though! Tried to think of what scenes by Tezuka I really find moving, but strangely drawing a blank. I always find myself coming back to Leo, but that's just me...
Edit: I think from Leo what I am most moved by isn't even fully developed in the manga, but in Kimba (though the English does not lend the scene much power), namely in the episode 'such sweet sorrow' as Tonga comes to destroy the animals (and the culture that Kimba has created). Unlike in the manga (where the scene comes and goes far too quickly), in Kimba, the animals recognize that this is THE END and there is nothing they can do to save their lives so they sing--sing to celebrate their all too brief culture and theif friendships. I wish the whole thing was better executed because it is altogether heart-wrenching. One of the few points where Kimba escapes from the fluff factor that all too often makes the series feel too watered down.
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O2Destroyer on Sat May 20, 2006 11:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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