Not inspired by Rocky, no sir!
Watched this movie last night.
Based on a manga and also animated as an ONA last year, Detroit Metal city is the story of a young musician who wants to be James Blunt but ends up as Marilyn Manson. The film shows how Negishi sets off from college to become a pro musician, and the trials he faces as Krauser II.
Compared to the anime Negishi is a lot less bipolar, and doesn't act as outrageous when not Krauser. The plot compresses most of the main episodes into only an hour forty five, so a lot of secondary characters suffer (the drummer only has a dozen words at most, and the pig of capitalism is absent). The manger only really gets to be super-filthy in 2 scenes as well.
Despite this the film doesn't come across as episodic too much. The main message is a bit cheesy too, -Neigishi carrying on as Krauser even though he doesn't want to because it makes other people happy, is a very Japanese one to me. I did like the way his Mum realises he is Krauser and how the girl works it out early on too (was kind of expecting a Spiderman-esque kiss in the amusement park scene!)
The climax of the film is the 'battle' concert between DMC and an American Metal singer called Jack Ill Dark, played by none other than Gene Simmons from Kiss. Watching Gene singing engrish style metal lyrics in english was quite amusing! (though I really don't see why the fansubbers felt the need to translate the japanese subtitles whenever someone is speaking english)
Overall I quite enjoyed the film, it did look cheap in places (esp the Krauser armor), but is good, dirty fun. B
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