Talk:Steamboy

Ray's home
Ray is from Manchester. In the begining of the story he lives there, and only goes to london after he was kidnapped. --ZeWrestler 22:29 March 25, 2005.(UTC)

Future of Steamboy
This article, describing the slideshow at the end, was created by an editor with unfortunately more enthusiasm than sense. Should it be merged? Deleted? If the content is to remain in use it needs to be fixed up, which I can't do as I don't own the movie, so I'll leave the decision to someone who does. --Kizor 06:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I just merged it.--KrossTalk 21:44, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thx. --Kizor 10:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Reformatted and mostly rewritten. --MacSpon 11:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

The character in front of the plane with the men is not Ray, it is Scarlett. If you look closely, her dog, Colombus is by her side. The closeup which follows then makes more sense. Also, the featurette that purports to show the ending sequence without credits shows marked inconsistencies from the original. All of the scenes involving the mysterious light have been removed, as well as those of Ray battling the monster in Paris (save perhaps of the cell of him running away from something). --walkeraj


 * How can we really tell that is Scarlett? What would she be doing flying planes, and for that matter, would she still look as young as she does, years later? And why would she dye her hair red? I was under the impression that this character was either the daughter of Scarlett or Ray (or both), considering these questions that have yet to be answered. Please cite the source of your information. --TwilightxPrince 02:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * It's not intended to be that much later. The hair color change is common in anime to represent a character aging.  Also, she's not blond, she's actually a light redhead, and her name is intended to reflect that.  Look at the sequence.  Notice the dog beside her.  Note the name of the plane.  These scenes were intended to depict possible future adventures of Steamboy.  Note that they were in a chronological order.  Ray returns home, Scarlett returns home, Lloyd dies, etc.  What did Scarlett do with the O'Hara foundation after she returned home?  Would they not have continued research into aviation?  Did she perhaps want to prove herself as an adventurer as well, using the vast resources of the Foundation to acheive this goal?  Those are the types of things we are to wonder about, but I do not believe they are intended to extend far enough into the future to allow for a child between the two characters.  In the DVD special features Otomo himself talks about how the scenes during the credits were intended as sort of a playground for the mind, and could be used as inspiration for the team to continue the story with, after he had left.--Walkeraj 19:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

UK DVD release date wrong
It got pushed back nearly a year till yesterday, just changing now IanC 19:59, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Afd, July 2004

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below from July 12004 to July 42004. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made here or in a deletion review.  No further edits should be made to this debate.

The result of the debate was to delete copyvio version and replace with temp version once copyvio period is over. Discussion:


 * Casting and teaser info for a movie that was released in Japan two weeks ago. SWAdair | Talk  08:36, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * ?? Keep! Looks like a pretty major movie to me, $20m budget, director of Akira, etc. Needs a hell of a cleanup, obviously. &mdash;Stormie 09:47, Jul 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: advert, WP != IMDB. In a few years, if someone remembers what this movie was about, it can have an article. Wile E. Heresiarch 14:14, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, Cleanup. This should have an article - David Gerard 16:12, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * It's a copyvio. That opening sentence in the synopsis is all over the net.  See . - Lucky 6.9 16:42, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete the original article, replace it with the temp page, and keep. -Sean Curtin 02:53, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Rather than delete, just clean it up, and make it better. If deletions come as part of that, delete. But by all means, don't kill the whole article. HereToHelp 19:37, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I am going to see this movie next week. While I am looking forward to it immensely, I fail to see why it should get its own page on Wikipedia. This is NOT a movie database! It should be listed on Otomo's page as one of his works, and no more. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by N^O^el (talk • contribs) 19:52, July 19, 2004.
 * Keep Because of Akira's status, many people are curious about this new movie. That fact, coupled with the budget and caliber of the American cast, should warrant inclusion in Wikipedia. Someone who has seen the film should add a few details, including specifying that Steamboy is not a sequel to Akira. also, there are many details that an imdb will miss, such as how these characters relate to other otomo characters. how his screenwriting skills have improved (or deteriorated), etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.67.134 (talk • contribs) 21:16, March 20, 2005


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What "American" cast? Pray tell. 124.191.179.242 (talk) 17:10, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Nods vs. references
is there really any difference between the "nods" and the "references"? They could be under one heading. Spyderchan 02:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Scarlett O'Hara
Somewhere, the obvious Gone with the Wind reference needs to be mentioned. 129.7.254.33 21:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Come and read my suggestion
steamboy3....

My story is a continuation of steam boy 2. If you want to see my ideas go into the future of steamboy.

In that time the technology has gone too far.

There will be new characters are:
 * John York (US)
 * Steven Wills (US)
 * col.Hamston (AUS)
 * AMR Collins (BR)
 * AMR Livingston (AUS)
 * Einsten von lieberzehn (GR)
 * Col. Barren (GR)
 * FM Wehern (GR)

If you are the the people which made Steamboy. Email me and I will explain it more about the story.

Steamboy4....ideas comming soon.

If you want to call me on 0419165053. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ideaboy2 (talk • contribs).
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I am the creator of Steamboy, please send your script and 10 thousand dollars in cash to my current address in Nigeria and I will make the movie for you. Please send nonsequential 100 dollar notes, it may sound odd, but I am an eccentric director that doesn't like to see two large numbers in sequential order. I mean, lol, get real, no one from Steamboy production is going to look at this page and even if they did look at the talk page, they certainly wouldn't be bothered about anything they find. This is worth keeping here just for comedic value ^_^ JayKeaton 01:40, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Anna Paquin voicing Ray in the US dub
I had to do a double-take when I read the credits and saw her name scroll past. Definitely hard to single her out underneath the accent she used. --75.2.60.123 00:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Plot
Should we add the parts at the very end? Like the part with Scarlett and the plane? The Quidam 21:10, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

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Plot synopsis
In the plot synopsis it claims that Edward Steam was hit with a freezing gas. It was actually high pressure steam, the gas only caused a freezing affect after the steamballs were allowed to cool to a lower temperature and then released. At the beginning of the movie the steamball was being created and thus high temperature and pressure steam was being used. Anyone mind if I change this? --Cobsterjh (talk) 21:08, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

This is a tough one, because the film doesn't exactly follow real thermal physics, although it does make a nod here and there (Stevenson's remark about expanding gas cooling down, for example). In real life, steam has to be generated at high pressure and scalding temperatures in order to be of any practical use, but a major point of the film is that they'd found a whole new (fictitious) way to store and use it, so there's no reason for it to conform to real physics. In the film, all of the equipment used to make the ball is encrusted with ice, and the characters' breaths hang in the air with the cold - one could even suppose that the reason the experiment takes place in Alaska is because the natural cold helps. The actual pipe that bursts and showers Eddie with high pressure fluid is covered with ice right up until the rupture - it cannot have been carrying anything hot. The trouble is, the film never explicitly states what the new technology is - the only clue is the purity of the water it's made from, taken from a cave in Iceland at the very start. The only even vaguely plausible answers based on real physics are that the steam is to be stored as a supercritical liquid, and the purity is required to prevent nucleation, or that energy has been contained in the water by some non-thermal means and so does not increase its temperature. The physically impossible use of high pressure steam at sub-room temperature may well have been a deliberate device used by the film makers.--82.69.126.85 (talk) 23:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

OMG 2 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone else laugh at that? Under budget, it says: ¥2,000,000,000,00 $20,000,000,00 Now if we properly align those to: ¥ 200,000,000,000 (200 Billion) $2,000,000,000 (2 Billion) I really don't think this movie had a $2 billion budget. ;) King Rhyono (talk) 20:22, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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Steamboy U.S. poster
I already uploaded the U.S Steamboy poster to be used in the Release section of the movie. Now someone has to add the image to that section. I can't do it because I lack the skills. Please, someone do it. Stein256 (talk) 04:19, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Stein, we try to have the earliest theatrical release poster in the infobox. In this case, that would be the Japanese one, so there is no real need to have the American one. Andrzejbanas (talk) 04:46, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Studios
The removal of Studio 4°C from the credited production companies comes from the fact that they are only assisting with animation. Sunrise is the main producer, and 4°C didn't have a specific job that makes them higher than the other companies that worked on Steamboy. Should we keep 4°C, then we should also add studios such as Production I.G, MADHOUSE, Satelight, and so forth because of their involvement with the series. Taking a look at Anime News Network's encyclopedia, it's apparent that a vast number of studios worked on the film, but the only one listed as animation work is "Sunrise." Furthermore, the rest of the work was split between many other studios, making their involvement large together but minimal individually. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2161

The Japanese Wikipedia correctly labels the production companies without the involvement of Studio 4°, Production I.G, and etc. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A4

Credits of the movie itself show evidence of this: https://imgur.com/a/XEL5KZU, https://imgur.com/a/1davjVW (制作協力 = production co-operation)

After a debate with members of the Anime-Planet community, a MyAnimeList that has mods who change the anime information rather than registered users (they also look for references and sources to verify community database submissions), they have decided that Sunrise is the only studio deserving of the main credit. https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/steamboy

Should we add Studio 4°C as a credit, then the other credits would also be necessary, as well as the fact that other movies would need tons of credits as well because movies on large scales, such as this one, generally have tons of studio credits because of expenses an the need to make the movies look good. Most commonly, like in this case, non-main studios are listed as production co-operation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarcataclysmal (talk • contribs) 06:32, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

1994 OVA
In the production section there's mention of three 1994 ovas. I didn't do a ton of research but I couldn't find any mention of it on the internet, and the citation leads nowhere. I actually checked this Wikipedia page because a friend mentioned that they had seen the OVA, but couldn't find any mention of it anywhere online. JohnSpinker (talk) 04:59, 9 February 2024 (UTC)