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It is pretty much a shock to find out that this is not, in fact, an adaptation, but deliberate animated project. It feels as if 20 volumes of manga development were compressed to fit in one feature length movie. It's hard to believe the most expensive Japanese project that took over 10 years to make could have such a lousy and boring plot. Non the less it does.

Gorgeous animation couldn't make up for completely mediocre story, bland characters with no development and disappointing resolution. If that is what studio was going after, it surely failed. Steam Boy feels as if it was a movie version of a TV series, where the basic story is told in a condensed manor.

Maybe it should be.