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DETROIT METAL CITY -THE ANIMATED VERSION-

By Hiroshi NAGAHAMA

TOHO CO., LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Animation - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 168 mn
- Director(s)
- Hiroshi NAGAHAMA
- Writer(s)
- Kiminori WAKASUGI
- Synopsis
- Soichi Negishi is a boy (still a virgin) who loves trendy easy-listening pop music like Swedish Pop. He moves to Tokyo, dreaming to make a debut as a professional singer with the music he loves. However, instead, he ends up being hired by “Death-Records” with a slave-like contract, being forced to sing “not trendy”, “not pop” but truly “satanical” Death-Metals. Being set up as the lead guitar-vocalist “Johannes Krauser II” of the Death-Metal band “Detroit Metal City”(aka DMC), he ends up making an indie-record debut. Contrary to his sentiment and intention, his inner self and hidden gift as a Metal artist flowers at a staggering speed. And the band becomes a smash hit overnight. DMC crazes the world by its radical performance and hilarious lyrics…