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 ...

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 ...