In the late 1940s, long before "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion" established Osamu Tezuka as the godfather of manga, the legendary illustrator penned this story of man against machine set in the grand, futuristic city-state of Metropolis where humans and robots co-exist in a strictly segmented society. Amidst the chaos created by anti-robot factions, detective Shunsaku Ban and his sidekick Ken-ichi are searching for rebel scientist Dr. Laughton, to arrest him and seize his latest creation, a beautiful young girl named Tima. When they locate them, Shunsaku soon realizes that the eccentric scientist is protected by a powerful man and his fierce desire to reclaim a tragic figure from his past and therefore is beyond their reach.
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