Was that a candle?*small metropolis spoiler,maybe**nah*

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:10 am

DRGREY wrote:That would be a symbol meaning "damn I'm totally freaked out." OR "I'm worried"

It appears a lot in the Metropolis Manga. It's like a sweatdrop, and I suppose it is a candel.

Anime World wrote:Based on a manga story of the same name, written and drawn by Osamu Tezuka in the late 40s.

Skip this if you haven't seen the movie, as it is a spoiler, but there was an unusual visual touch at one point that was interesting. In the scene where the minister, Lamp, is dying, a candle briefly appears over his head as he falls to the ground. This is a reference to Tezuka's various manga; the same character appears in different roles in several of Tezuka's other stories. It is a running joke (based on his name) that extreme emotion sometimes causes this character to sprout a candle from the back of his head. (Thanks to Carl Muckenhoupt for pointing this out.)

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Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:11 pm

Yay! Thank you for clearing that annoying fuzz out of my brain! Now I can die in peace.

No realy, I'v been wonding why forever. That is pretty fun.
*insert thumbs up sign*

DRGREY · Post by **DRGREY** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:23 pm

One more thing... His name is Lamp. Maybe that has something to do with it?

DRGREY · Post by **DRGREY** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:24 pm

oops! look like you all knew that... already