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Little Astro Boy (2014)

Little Astro Boy poster
Original title
ろぼっとアトム
Genre
action & adventure, comedy, sci-fi & fantasy, animation, family
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rated
TV-Y7
Rating
3.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A preschool spin-off of the Astro Boy franchise starring the robot boy himself. It features short episodes with easy stories for young children.

gentleplayfulsimpleslow-pacedwhimsicalbrightkindlylighthearted

What happens

Little Astro Boy (ろぼっとアトム, Robotto Atomu; lit. "Robot Atom") is an anime television spin-off series Astro Boy franchise created by Osamu Tezuka. Aimed at preschoolers, the series was produced by Tezuka Productions and Yomiuri TV Enterprise in partnership with Nigerian broadcaster Channels TV. Consisting of eight 11-minute episodes, the series ran in English on Channels TV's children's block of programming between March 22, 2014, and April 26, 2014. It later received a bilingual DVD release in Japan on November 3, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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