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Atom: The Beginning (2017)

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Original title
アトム ザ・ビギニング
Directed by
Tatsuo Satō
Genre
science fiction anime and manga
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 12 episodes
Rated
14
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two young geniuses take odd jobs to fund their project of building a humanoid robot with real emotions. They succeed with a robot named A106 and then test whether he can become a thinking, feeling being.

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