Metropolis

メトロポリス

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Synopsis

In a super-advanced city in the near future where humanoid robot technology is very sophisticated, the boy detective Kenichi is caught up in the conflict as the powerful politician Duke Red, distraught over his child's death, hires a scientist to create a replacement, an exquisitely beautiful sex-changing robot child named Mitchy. Note that this original 1949 manga supplies only part of the plot for the recent Metropolis movie, and does not feature Rock, whose role in the film was adapted from Phoenix, Nextworld and other Tezuka manga. (Source: ANN)

Publication notes

Metropolis was published in English by Dark Horse Comics on April 22, 2003. It was also released in French by Taifu Comics in 2005; in Spanish by Ediciones Glénat on May 31, 2004; and in Brazilian Portuguese by NewPOP Editora in August 2010.

Published

Sep 15, 1949

Authors

Tezuka, Osamu

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Rock achieved a long life as an actor because of his various defects and his portrayals of the numerous dark sides of human nature; Kenichi meanwhile, is loved as the everlasting youth in Tezuka Osamu's manga. At any rate, Tezuka Osamu's manga began in earnest with the meeting of Tezuka Osamu and Kenichi-kun. Kenichi was given the leading role in the majority of the early works, including "New Treasure Island," and was the first star of Tezuka Osamu's manga. He looked out intently onto the world, was habitually considerate and never forgot to be kind, and in this he embodied the kind of conscientiousness and purity of "childhood days." Afterwards, the manga world started to focus attention on "realities that cannot be communicated through the agency of simple integrity." Due to the need to exist as outsiders from human society, leading characters, including Atom, came to have other facets to their characters in addition to their innocent righteousness. Tezuka Osamu himself said, "I was forced to relinquish Kenichi from his role as protagonist because he lacked individuality." In the same way as people even come to feel embarrassed by the innocence of their sense of equity as children when they reach adulthood, the manga world forgot Kenichi as it struggled to grow up. Nonetheless, no matter how grown up, how adult our faces become, our "childhood days" live on forever in our hearts, and in the same way, Kenichi continued to put in straight performances as the "righteous boy" who occasionally appears in Tezuka Osamu's manga. (Source: Tezukaosamu.net)
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Android created by scientist Dr. Lawton out of synthetic cells to serve as a Red Party's perfect weapon. However Michi does not aware of this. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .