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From Amazon.com: Although it aired only a year earlier, Steam Detectives anticipates much of the look of Power Stone and the modus operandi of The Big O. Ten-year-old detective Narutaki fights crime in Steam City with the aid of perky, tea-serving nurse Ling Ling and her squat mecha Goricki. Like Robin without Batman, Narutaki lives in high style, attended by his faithful old butler Kawakubo. He drives a motor scooter, shoots a variety of firearms with impressive accuracy, and makes leaps of crime-solving logic no police detective can match, yet the villains always escape to return in later episodes. Steam City suggests a Victorian London that advanced without developing new sources of energy to replace 19th-century coal and iron technology. Director Kiyoshi Murayama stages the frequent mecha battles with an unimaginative stolidity that makes Steam Detective feel older than it is. (Rated 15 and older: minor profanity and violence) --Charles Solomon
Inspector Gadget meets Sherlock Holmes: I enjoyed this show a lot. Fun characters, cool steam powered city. Interested to see what happens next!
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Binding: | DVD | | EAN: | 0702727052224 | | Format: | NTSC | | Region Code: | 1 | | Release Date: | 2003-11-11 | | Running Time: | 125 minutes | | UPC: | 702727052224 |
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