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Steam Detectives Case 6 (DVD)

Steam City is under attack! A chance run-in with Dr. Guilty turns Ling-Ling into a hostage. Narutaki spring into action, but when the doctor reveals the damage he intends to unleash, it becomes clear that much more than a friend is in danger.

Yet Dr. Guilty isn’t the only one with Steam City in his sights. Knight Phantom emerges from the shadows promises to destroy the entire town – unless Narutaki agrees to own up to a dark secret from the past. With the city’s fate teetering on the edge, it’s up to the boy detective to set things right. But will the burden be too much for him to shoulder?

Get ready to walk the mean streets with Narutaki as he squares off against madmen and megamatons alike! The forces of justice meet the forces of evil head-on in the final riveting volume of Steam Detectives!

It’s time for the home stretch kiddies, let’s see how they intend to wrap things up shall we?

Episode 23: The Final Plan

During a police chase, Dr. Guilty crashed his car into a supermarket to try and avoid capture. However, during the accident he flipped his car and was seriously injured and a nearby Ling-Ling approaches to render aid. At this point, Dr. Guilty takes her hostage and drives off towards his base of operations, using his megamaton ShadowBolt Mk. III to slow down any pursuit. Once Goriki and ShadowBolt Mk I make short work of the latest megamaton, Narutaki and company get to the hideout, and save a groggy Ling-Ling. Unfortunately, Dr. Guilty refused to be taken and he blew up

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his own base with him in it rather than be captured. Back in the city, a series of dangerous attacks have taken place under the control of a bandaged person; who is this person, and more importantly what happened to Ling-Ling?

Episode 24: The Approaching Demon’s Shadow

A sense of foreboding is in the air of Steam City (even the villains of the city can feel it) and a series of accidents have started to strike those near Narutaki: the Coffee

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Shop proprietor nearly avoided serious injury from a falling steel beam at a construction site, the Model Shop owner was injured when an unattended truck went through the front of his store, and then Detective Yagami was knocked unconscious when he was summoned to a museum and the section where he was in collapsed beneath him. The series of incidents scares Narutaki enough to try and protect the people he cares about, but before he can get to the hospital, Ling-Ling is shot and subsequently captured by Phantom Knight; and it is repeated to Detective Onigawara. If the seriousness of the situation hadn’t sunk in, it did when he was visiting Doctor Kitmer (for information about a series of explosions that he was investigating) and a megamaton blew up Gina’s bedroom (thankfully while she wasn’t in it). Narutaki is struggling to figure out who Phantom Knight’s next target will be while trying to find his friends that have already been taken. The stress level is unbearable, who will be the next target?

Episode 25: And Then, There Were None

The planned attack on Steam City will be a mass bombing using the Demon Water that Phantom Knight previously acquired, and the attack is scheduled for tomorrow and midnight. Although the police have found the bombs, they cannot disable them and have called for an evacuation of the city (this information is intercepted by two of the strangest people: Lang-Lang and the Crimson Scorpion). Narutaki’s world is pretty much coming down around him, all of his friends are either hurt or kidnapped and he’s forced to face this foe on his own. After some investigating, Narutaki discovers that the Phantom Knight’s father was killed by his parents after the theft of some jewels – which were apparently never recovered. Phantom Knight claims that they kept them and he wants revenge on Narutaki because of this; he offers to spare the city if Narutaki will sacrifice his own life. Narutaki is able to confirm that his parents hid the jewels, and is once again confronted by the Phantom Knight; at this point Narutaki is resigned to die, but before Phantom Knight can kill him, Le Bled arrives and escapes with the detective.

Episode 26: The Imperial Capital Is Waiting For You

Phantom Knight’s megamaton is setting up a series of parabolic dishes throughout the city to transmit the explosives signal to all bombs, but Le Bled is going to try and stop this machine using his own megamaton. Despite all of his talents, Le Bled’s megamaton is eventually destroyed and he is left in a pile while the machine heads towards Phantom Knight’s hiding place. Back at the agency, Dr. Maynard has developed a counter to the Demon Water which will cause it to crystallize, rendering it inert; however, the Phantom Knight hears this discovery and strikes the building with a missile trapping the people inside. So it all comes down to this, Narutaki must get past Phantom Knight’s megamaton and then figure out a way of stopping the madman. It’s not going to be easy.

The final disc of Steam Detectives was certainly the most high-intensity of the series, but because of that, the story jumped around often in a disjointed way. I’m not sure if this is because of poor editing or what, but some details were completely skipped over to keep the pace high.

- Tazman

(October 14, 2004)

"Well your vacuum is fixed. It turns out that a half-eaten meatball was clogging the intake."

"Did you save it?"

"Uh, no."

"You bastard."

- Repairman and Peter (The Family Guy)

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