Talk:Metropolis (manga)

message: We need images on this article! -- John VEd Telerionus 21:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: "The movie also has the honour of being the first anime movie since the mid 90's to be aired on Channel 4 in the UK (It aired in the early hours of Sunday 30th October and was aired both uncut and in Japanese with english Subtitles)."
What year?  --Daniel Lawrence 22:51, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Date clarification

message: Maybe this should be its own section.  Allow me to share how I learned the difference between these versions: When I first saw this film adaptation in theaters I had only seen the Fritz Lang film.  I was impressed by the reinterpretation of many themes from the '27 film, and I was curious to track down Tezuka's original manga to see how it was originally adapted.  In the meantime I purchased the DVD and watched the commentary (where I learned that Tezuka did not want the manga adapted because he considered it a lesser work he was not satisfied with).  What struck me about the commentary is that, not once did the filmmakers of this version ever cite the Fritz Lang film (despite the clear influences).  Besides finding that tasteless, it reinforced my interest in tracking down an English translation of the Tezuka manga.  I finally found one in 2003, and I was surprised to see that the original manga barely resembles the '27 movie and was seriously changed for this film adaptation.  That's not to say that Tezuka's was inferior, rather that the story was different in many key areas from both film versions.  Tezuka clearly aimed the story at younger readers: it removes all the complex elements of social struggle, includes much more slapstick antics, and even has a sequence where multiple, evil copies of Mickey Mouse (they do not merely resemble Mickey, they are actual replicas) attack the protagonists.  As is noted in the article, Tezuka claims to have never seen the '27 film and merely based his version off of the posters.  It should also be briefly noted that the manga includes a very troubling depiction of black people in the Metropolis in the early scenes (something that virtually all Japanese drawings did at the time, and is the subject of a preface in the Dark Horse edition).   While this story, using Tezuka's style of uncomplex artwork, worked as manga aimed at younger audiences, the film version was seriously rewritten to appeal to older audiences.  It reintroduced a strong theme of class struggle in the Metropolis and applied that to the robot class as well.  The art also became far more industrialized, showing a shining upper city and an ugly, forgotten lower city.  Both of these elements, thematic and artistic, are obviously drawn back from the '27 Fritz Lang film.  After expecting Tezuka's version to clearly be the source for the '01 adaptation, I can say, without hesitation, that the 2001 film in this article is almost evenly inspired by Tezuka's manga and Lang's film.  Anyway, I found it easier to write this POV here than try and create a new section in the limited time I have  Bobak 18:36, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tezuka's Manga vs. Fritz Lang's '27 film vs. this edition

message: This article is actualy titled "Metropolis (manga)" but there few things about the manga (not even the 1949 release date) and a lot of informations on the anime (the right hand movie description box with the DVD cover for exemple)
This article should be re-title "Metropolis (anime)" and an article "Metropolis (manga)" should be created from scratch.
Lacrymocéphale
:I think a better idea would be to create the page for Metropolis (anime) and then just move all the information that relates to the anime from here to there.  Then, the manga section can be padded out with more information.  I'm going to take it upon myself to fix this glaring error.
:OtakuMan 16:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong article title ? 

message: :Image:Metropolis Cover-1.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot 09:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Metropolis Cover-1.jpg

message: :Image:Metropolis english manga.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Metropolis english manga.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Metropolis manga.jpg

message: Coherency in section is lacking, and seems to take an editorial tone heralding the manga as seminal.  The section as with the beginning seems quick to brush any issues stemming from the Fritz Lang film under the table.  Who were the students and actual impact of the books production?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.222.5.106 (talk) 15:44, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afterword