His research led him to Memories - a trilogy of short animations from 1995, based on the manga stories of Katsuhiro Otomo, who also wrote Akira. ‘Magnetic Rose’ is the first story, an opulent ...

Not least because my favorite story in the manga compilation, that of Magnetic Rose, was getting its own mini-film. Magnetic Rose was a great science-fiction story based around space-based salvage ...