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| Metropolis / Osamu Tezuka : 4 of 5 | |
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12.28.2004
9:28 PM | Link |
 I made sure to keep this Christmas gift handy for my trip home from Oklahoma City, and I ended up reading the whole thing in the Dallas airport and on my second flight. This is one of Tezuka's earlier works from 1949, before Astro Boy, so I was really interested in it. I was pretty surprised to find characters from Astro in the story - Mustachio and Kenichi are both here and play a major part in the plot! I watched the anime movie of this book quite a long time ago, but now that I've read the original I don't see much resemblance at all. The main character of the story is fascinating: an artificial being named Michi who is neither male nor female (when other characters talk about him, they switch between feminine and masculine pronouns even in the same sentence). As in most Astro stories, the themes are man's use of technology, the rights of robots and man-made life, and the possible dangers involved. There's not as much futuristic city views as I would like, but the crowd scenes are truly amazing works of art! There's a nice discussion of the story at the end by Tezkua himself, making a nice ending to a great book.
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