Metropolis (manga)

Metropolis
Cover of the 1979 reprint
メトロポリス
(Metoroporisu)
GenreScience fiction
Manga
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byIkuei Shuppan
Kodansha
English publisher
PublishedSeptember 15, 1949
Volumes1

Metropolis (メトロポリス, Metoroporisu), also known as Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis or Robotic Angel (in Germany, due to an objection by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation), is a Japanese manga by Osamu Tezuka published in 1949. It has been adapted into a feature-length anime, released in 2001. It has some parallels to the 1927 film of the same name, though Tezuka stated that he had only seen a single still image of the film in a magazine at the time of creating his manga.