Genre: Mecha / Action
General Audience
Credits: 1980. Osamu Tezuka (creator).Noboru Ishiguro (director). Tezuka Production.
Shop: Astroboy Artbooks and Manga, DVD, Game Shop, Toys and Accessories, Music

Firesenshi’s Description:
It was a time of great technology when robots were at its height to aid humans in production. But it was also a time of hostility of humans against robots, where the former feared that robots would take over their place in their industries. It was this time that Doctor Boyton’s son died; he created a robot that was an exact match for his son. It is Doctor Boyton that this boy robot would eventually know as his father. However, when they were both on board a ship, the ship was endangered by icebergs. The boy robot saved the ship but realized that his father was gone. He then went on to a circus and this is where he got his name, Astroboy (Tetsuwan Atom “Mighty Atom”). It was then that one of Japan’s leading doctors, Dr. Elephan, took Astroboy in and had people adopt him. Small yet strong, Astroboy wants to prove that he is a robot helping humans by saving them from catastrophe. Later, Dr. Elephan made a sister for Astroboy called Uraine (Uran).

This is a remake of the 1963 original Tezuka classic of the same name. This one has 52 episodes done in 1980.

–
NOTE: This description was written sometime in 2001 and was recorded in the classic Otaku Fridge as ??.??.2001. Unfortunately the database would not accept non-numerical values, so this review is now dated January 01, 2001 by default.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 1st, 2001 at 9:05 am and is filed under Astroboy, Anime. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.