Three years later, Lloyd sends the device, along with its schematics, to his grandson (and Eddy’s son), James Ray Steam, who works as a maintenance boy in Manchester, England, along with instructions to guard it. An experiment in Russian Alaska goes terribly wrong, with Eddy being engulfed in freezing gases, but results in the creation of a spherical device. In 1863, where an alternate nineteenth century Europe has made tremendous strides in steam-powered technologies, scientist Lloyd Steam and his son, Edward “Eddy” Steam, have succeeded in discovering a pure mineral water in Iceland which they believe can be harnessed as a nearly unlimited power source for steam engines.
Steamboy was the most expensive Japanese anime film up until then with a ¥2.4 billion ( $26 million) production budget, having been in production for ten years and utilizing more than 180,000 drawings and 440 CG cuts. The film was released in Japan by Toho on July 17, 2004. Compared to Akira, it’s much less violent - no exploding heads, no gargantuan mutated baby tentacle monsters, no overt drug use, no gang warfare, no nudity, no impenetrably weird psychic backstory and no creepily wizened children.Steamboy ( Japanese: スチームボーイ, Hepburn: Suchīmubōi ) is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk action film produced by Sunrise, directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release as a director, following Akira (1988).
The story is fairly simple, the sympathetic main characters have obvious motivations. It’s an imaginative steampunk tale set in Victorian England (1866), with characters that speak in real (if at times excruciating) English regional accents, there’s barely a hint of obvious “orientalism” to frighten less open-minded viewers. Every penny of that opulent budget (and by budget I don’t just mean money - I mean time, manpower and resources) is plastered there on the screen in terms of intricate detail, convincing engineering, smooth animation, and epic scale. For one, it has incredible production design.
With Steamboy, Otomo constructed an elaborate, action-packed blockbuster that contains every element needed to be a crowd-pleasing extravaganza.
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