![]() This being very much a steampunk science-fiction story set during the British Industrial Revolution. The art style for Cannon Fodder is a unique take on the steampunk genre but also laid the groundwork for Otomo’s next major work, Steamboy. With a story built around a city state built for war and bristling with artillery, our viewpoint is of a little boy whose father helps load the cannons. All of this was handled in a very dark but humorous way and was probably the most contemporary of the three parts.ĭirected by Tensai Okamura, it also had a really great and suitably funky musical score by Jun Miyake.įinishing up the three segments was Otomo’s own film, Cannon Fodder and while it is arguably the strangest of the three it was also the most important in some ways. Following Magnetic Rose was the entirely different and eerily upbeat Stink Bomb, which dealt with a salaryman in a laboratory inadvertently letting loose a devastating biological weapon.
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