Astro Boy (1980)

Original title

鉄腕アトム

Genre

action anime and manga, adventure anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 52 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 88 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Astro Boy is a robot superhero who protects humans and other robots in a futuristic world. He faces dangerous villains and complex situations, often dealing with themes of prejudice and identity.

melancholicaction-packeddarkhumorousepisodicsentimentalfast-pacedthoughtful

What happens

Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム, Tetsuwan Atomu; lit. "Mighty Atom"), sometimes referred to as New Mighty Atom (新・鉄腕アトム, Shin Tetsuwan Atomu), a 1980 anime series and a color remake of the 1963 black-and-white series of the same name. Both are adaptations of the manga series of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. This series places more focus on the titular Astro Boy's robotic abilities and has a darker tone than previous incarnations of the series. Although this series places much more emphasis on action scenes than the first one, the theme of "robots with hearts" is still prevalent in this anime. It is also the last Astro Boy work that Tezuka himself wrote and directed, and the humor of the story and direction that is typical of Tezuka can be seen throughout. The English dubs cut out some of the series' more violent moments, such as Astro being beheaded in the episode "Lilly on Peligro Island" and Blackie Young and his crew destroying the robot guard and factory owner in the episode "Blackie Young". The original Japanese version of the series ran for 52 color episodes, while the English dubs (American and Canadian) ran for 51 episodes. The English dubbed version also combined the first two episodes of the series into a single half hour show, omitting the entirety of the backstory for the main antagonist Atlas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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