It’s been nearly twenty years since manga writer and artist Katsuhiro Ôtomo adapted his own ambitious Akira graphic novel and turned it into an even more elaborate epic. The Tower looks set outshine the Great Exhibition, but what secrets lie within its walls, and what are the Foundations motives? Soon he discovers his father is alive, but has joined the foundation to continue his work, the Steam Tower, under the young heiress to the O’Hara fortune Scarlett. Soon James finds himself on the run to London with his hero, Robert Louis Stevenson, but is kidnapped by the Foundation. Wanting it back by any means, and destroying James’ family home into the bargain.
When his grandfather returns with the mysterious ‘steamball’ – a highly compressed ball of steam of limitless power – and the news that his father has died, his ex-employers the O’Hara Foundation aren’t far behind.
Set against the industrial fervor of the Victorian era, James is a dab hand with machinery at cotton mills in his home of Manchester, and a would-be inventor in his own time, taking after both his father and grandfather.
Nearly twenty years on from the groundbreaking Akira, was director Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s first feature length anmie since really worth the wait?…
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