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, the little robot boy with the rocket feet was created in 1951. By 1961 he was the star of the first animated cartoon series in Japan, which when shown in the USA was translated into English and renamed
Becoming a worldwide phenomenon in the 1960s, most people outside Japan only know him from cartoons and merchandising. It wasn’t until 2002 that Dark Horse began to publish the original stories for the first time in English, translated by Frederick L. Schodt.
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Volumes one and two in one big 420-page collection. The stories are taken from Japanese editions published from 1975 onwards, which present two decades of
Stories, personally selected by Tezuka himself in more of a ‘best of’ compilation style than chronologically. He also adds introductions and commentary to his selections, drawing himself explaining some of his thinking around the stories and how he did them. There are stylistic changes from one story to the next as the selections come from any year of
The first story, ‘The Birth of Astro Boy’ (1975), is a short version of the full origin which will appear in a later volume. Tezuka chose this as the best introduction to the series because it took a few years for Astro to become the character he is now.
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The second story, ‘The Hot Dog Corps’ (1961), begins with a pet dog belonging to Astro Boy’s teacher being kidnapped. Astro decides to find him and encounters an army of robots who are designed to sabotage Japan’s rockets. The link between these robots and the kidnapped dog was apparently too upsettting for the original cartoon this story was based on to be shown in the USA at the time, but it’s logical and interestingly told, with lots of interstellar action, robot fights and moon exploration – and has a perfectly happy ending.
‘Plant People’, (also 1961), has Astro encountering robots who want to steal Earth’s water. It’s a short tale with the kind of classic twist ending SF authors have been writing forever, nicely inventive, simple and to the point.
‘His Highness Deadcross’, (1960), is an epic 100-pager opening with an intro from Tezuka musing on violence, which is a theme in this story. Astro Boy travels to another country, to protect the first robot to be elected president against humans who want to destroy him. There’s lots of philosophy and moral dilemmas along with villainous scientists and futuristic gadgetry. Tezuka is a great storyteller, crafting tales full of incident and cliffhangers. He manages to inject quite a lot of emotion into his stories even though the plots can be completely bizarre, and Astro himself is a blend of heroic determination and righteous innocence that can really make you care about what happens to him.
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In ‘The Third Magician’ (1962), a robot magician named Kino turns into a thief, and citizens angry with dangerous robots want to change the laws to ban them from being autonomous. But can there be a reason why a good robot would suddenly turn bad?
White Planet, (1963), is about a racecar with a robot brain. After a rival team destroy it, Professor Ochanomizu intervenes to repair it with Astro’s help. The racing scenes are superbly paced in
Style, and there’s another characteristic Tezuka twist to the ending of this story which is so casually dealt with it ends up being quite disturbing.This article is about the manga series. For the title character, see Astro Boy (character). For other uses, see Astro Boy (disambiguation).
Astro Boy On Behance
Astro Boy, known in Japan by its original name Mighty Atom (Japanese: 鉄腕アトム , Hepburn: Tetsuwan-Atomu , lit. 'Iron-Armed Atom'), is a Japanese manga series writt and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.
Dark Horse Comics published an glish translation in 2002. The story follows Astro Boy, an android young boy with human emotions who is created by Umataro Tma after the rect death of his son Tobio. Evtually, Astro is sold to a robot circus run by Hamegg, but is saved from his servitude by Professor Ochanomizu. Astro becomes a surrogate son to Ochanomizu who creates a robotic family for Astro and helps him to live a normal life like an average human boy, while accompanying him on advtures.
Astro Boy has be adapted into three anime series produced respectively by the first incarnation of Mushi Production and its direct successor Tezuka Productions, with a fourth in developmt. The manga was originally produced for TV as Astro Boy, the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime.
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After joying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as New Mighty Atom, known as Astroboy in other countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan's voy for overseas safety.
An American computer-animated film based on the original manga series by Tezuka was released on October 23, 2009. In March 2015, a trailer was released announcing a new animated series. The success of the manga and anime series led it to becoming a major media franchise consisting of films including a major motion picture, a number of soundtracks and a library of video games. The series was also among the first to embrace mass merchandise including action figures, collectible figurines, food products, clothing, stamps and trading cards. By 2004, the franchise had gerated $3 billion in merchandise sales.
Astro Boy is one of the most successful manga and anime franchises in the world and has become Tezuka's most famous creation. The combined 23 tankōbon volumes have sold over 100 million copies worldwide, making it Tezuka's best-selling manga and one of the best-selling manga series of all time. The 1963 anime series became a hit on television in Japan and the United States. Astro Boy has be praised for its importance in developing the anime and manga industry. It has be featured on numerous greatest anime of all time lists and has inspired many other influtial authors in the creation of manga.
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Astro Boy is a scice fiction series set in a futuristic world where robots co-exist with humans. Its focus is on the advtures of the titular Astro Boy (sometimes called simply Astro): a powerful android created by the head of the Ministry of Scice, Doctor Tma (known as Dr. Astor Boynton II in the 1960s glish dub; Dr. Boynton in the 1980s glish dub). Dr. Tma created Astro to replace his son Tobio ('Astor' in the 1960s glish dub; 'Toby' in the 1980s glish dub and the 2009 film), who was killed in a car accidt (in the 2003 anime, Tobio is shown as having run away from home before the accidt, while in the 2009 film, Toby was killed by Peacekeeper, a weaponized robot). Dr. Tma built and adopted Astro in Tobio's memory and treated Astro as lovingly as if he was the real Tobio. However, Dr. Tma soon realized that the little android could not fill the void of his lost son, especially giv that Astro could not grow older or express human aesthetics (in one set of panels in the manga, Astro is shown preferring the mechanical shapes of cubes over the organic shapes of flowers). In the original 1960 edition, Tma rejected Astro and sold him to a cruel circus owner, Hamegg (the Great Cacciatore in the 1960s glish dub). In the 1980 edition, Hamegg kidnapped Astro while Tma was trying to find him. In the 2009 film, Tma rejected Astro simply because he could not stop thinking about Toby, but later during the film (and unlike in either the manga or the three anime cartoons), Tma realized that Astro made credit to replace Tobio; as a result, Tma decided that he would readopt Astro. None these evts about Astro being rejected (completely or temporarily) or kidnapped in both the 1960 and 1980 cartoons as well as in the 2009 film happed in the 2003 cartoon as Astro's birth was giv by Professor Ochanomizu (Dr. Elefun in the 1960 and 1980 cartoons, as well as in the 2009 film; Dr. O'Shay in the 2003 cartoon).
After some time, Professor Ochanomizu, the new head of the Ministry of Scice (co-head of the Ministry of Scice in the 2009 film), notices Astro Boy performing in the circus and convinces Hamegg to turn Astro over to him. (In a retcon the story becomes far more violt and complicated). He th takes Astro in as his own and treats him gtly and warmly, becoming his legal guardian. He soon realizes that Astro has superior powers and skills, as well as the ability to experice human emotions.
Astro th is shown fighting crime, evil, and injustice using his sev powers: 100K horsepower strgth, jet flight, high intsity lights in his eyes, adjustable hearing, instant language translation, a retractable machine gun in his hips, and
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