In the seventeen years between Akira and Steamboy, Katsuhiro Otomo made one-and-a-third other films – the live-action horror film World Apartment Horror (1991) and a segment of the anime anthology Memories (1995). Many films have followed Akira but none have managed to create a sense of the epic scale as well as Katsuhiro Otomo did.Īlas, one of the people who have failed to capitalise on Akira was Katsuhiro Otomo himself. Akira created stunning vistas of mass destruction, while its breathtaking contrasts of huge and tiny scale has been a strong influence on much of modern anime, not to mention the fact that the film popularised the cult of anime in the West. The one film that Katsuhiro Otomo’s reputation rests on is Akira (1988), which he directed and wrote based on a manga that he had earlier created. Katsuhiro Otomo is without any question one of the grandmasters of modern anime. Ray is caught between the two sides as they unleash their steam-powered weaponry against one another in a vast battle in the centre of London. At the same time, the forces of the British Empire want to commandeer the sphere to make the British Armed Forces stronger. His father wants to use the sphere, which is capable of compressing steam to an unknown new degree and releasing vast power, to complete construction of a vast steam palace that he says is the way of the future, while the Foundation want to build powerful new weaponry for sale to the highest bidder.

He is captured and meets his father, believed dead but now rebuilt with mechanical parts. The letter in the parcel warns that Ray must not give them the sphere and he flees. Immediately after, two sinister men from the O’Hara Foundation, his father’s employers, arrive wanting the sphere back. Ray then receives a parcel from his father that contains a sphere.

Schoolboy James Ray Steam is an amateur inventor who makes various mechanical and steam-powered devices out of scavenged materials, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfathers who were both steam-technology engineers.

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