Astro Boy
鉄腕アトム (Tetsuwan Atomu)
Genre	Adventure, Mecha, Science Fiction, Shounen
TV anime
Directed by	Kazuya Konaka
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Network	Animax, Fuji TV Animax Kids WB, Cartoon Network ABS-CBN BBC
Original run	6 April 2003 – 21 March 2004
No. of episodes	50
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Astro Boy (2003) is a remake of the 1960s anime series Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka, which was produced by his company, Tekuza Productions, and the anime television network, Animax, who have broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and other regions. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A scene from the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime ) is an abbreviation of the Japanese word アニメーション (animēshon), which is based on the English word animation. ... Astro Boy is the American title for the Japanese animated series Tetsuwan Atomu (鉄腕アトム), which roughly translates to Mighty Atom (literally Iron-arm Atom); or Atom boy first broadcast on Japanese television from 1963 to 1966. ... Osamu Tezuka and his creations commemorated on two stamps Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 - February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist and animator born in Osaka Prefecture. ... Animax ) is a Japanese anime satellite television network created and owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and dedicated to showing anime programming [1]. Operating across Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America and South Korea, it has been acknowledged as the largest 24-hour anime-only network in... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... South Asia is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent comprising territories on and in proximity to the Indian subcontinent. ... East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ...

In 2003, a new Astro Boy anime series was created to celebrate the birth date of Astro Boy (as well as the 40th anniversary of the 1963 series). Under the original English name (instead of Tetsuwan Atom), it kept the same classic art style as the original Astro Boy manga and anime, but was revisioned and modernized with more lush, high-quality, near-theatrical animation and visuals. It combined the playfulness of the early anime with the darker, more serious and dramatic Science Fiction themes of the manga and the '80s anime. The anime broadcasted in Japan (on the same date as Astro's birth in the manga, April 7, 2003) across Animax and Fuji Television, with lots of fanfare. It was directed by Kazuya Konaka and written by Chiaki J. Konaka. Chiaki J. Konaka (小中千昭 Konaka Chiaki) (April 4, 1961 - ) is a Japanese scriptwriter who works predominantly on anime. ...

Though many episodes of the series can be regarded as "free-standing" inasmuch as they don't have anything to do with the series major story arcs, the 2003 series can be regarded as having a well-defined beginning, middle, and end. Although the series appears to initially have two main plotlines (Dr. Tenma's eventual plans for Astro to evolve and another plotline about robot rights), these two story arcs dovetail toward the end of the series. Dr. Tenma Dr. Tenma (天馬博士 Tenma-hakase), real name Taro Uma (a. ...

The show was eventually picked up by Sony Pictures Entertainment. However, Kids WB picked up the broadcasting rights. Fans balked at the Dub, as the original music score was changed and show was given horribly uneven scheduling. It was bounced back and forth between Kids WB and Cartoon Network until it was eventually cancelled. TOM, the host of Toonami, the block that aired the show on the Cartoon Network even made a joke during his review of the video game tie in, Astro Boy: Omega Factor that "Astro has no love here in the States". This could easily be viewed as Williams Street's view of the situation as anime fans with their hands tied by red tape in regards to the situation of being allowed to air the show. Williams Street is a division of Cartoon Network, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting, an operational unit of Time Warner. ...

The entire series is currently available on DVD in one single boxset. However the US set is not fully complete, with one episode in the set being omitted called "Eternal Boy" and replaced with a clip show episode. This is because the episode features a character very much akin to Disneys version of Peter Pan, which if had been included, may have caused copyright issues with Disney. The order of episodes on the set is the syndication-released order, which is different from the Japanese order, evidenced by characters such as Astro's sister, Zoran, showing up in episodes before they were introduced. This DVD set also has a short feature about the shows development that heavily hints at pressure put on the anime developers by Sony to make Astro more of a hero than a boy. This is reflected in the dub as scenes where Astro has emotional moments or where he is acting child-like are cut or the script is changed to Astro saying something different. That said the later episodes of the dub do follow along the same lines of the Japanese script.

The series, however, had more success in the UK where it was picked up by the BBC for its children's block and digital only Children's channel from 2003 to 2006. The show's first run lasted about as long as the US one (up to the 2-part episode featuring Pluto) after which the BBC stopped airing new episodes. This may be because (as one presenter commented after an episode) Astro was a darker show compared to the other cartoons CBBC aired (even in its edited state). The western dub has never been aired fully on TV in the US. Despite how well Astro may have fared in the UK airing and DVD's being advertised, the series has not been released on DVD in the UK. Interestingly enough, CBBC finished airing recently unaired episodes of Astroboy, thus completing the entire series in the UK, making AstroBoy one of the rare Anime that airs in the UK in its entirety while not being so in the United States. Founded in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd (a privately owned company), subsequently Incorporated and nationalised in 1927 as The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. ...

The series was also a success with Arabic speaking viewers when it aired on MBC 3 several times along another anime remake that faced the same fate in America, Cyborg 009. MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that belongs to MBC (the Middle East Broadcasting Center). ... Cyborg 009 (サイボーグ００９) is a manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori and serialized in the manga magazine Shonen Magazine and Shōjo Comic in Japan. ...

A trailer from 2001 made for this series when it was in development presented several major differences from the final series. With different designs for characters such as Atlas. With the characters speaking in English (with voices completely different to the voices that would eventually end up in the US dub) and animation not found in the final series.

In edition to the series no longer being on the airwaves anytime soon the You Tube website exclusively has all 50 episodes of the Astro Boy series to view from courtesy of a YouTube member who go by the name Luti including episodes of the Black Jack series which was another anime/manga series created by Osamu Tezuka. Each episodes are split in two each take about 10 mins in length. YouTube is a website that allows users to upload, view, and share video clips. ... For other uses of the word Blackjack see Blackjack (disambiguation). ... Osamu Tezuka and his creations commemorated on two stamps Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 - February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist and animator born in Osaka Prefecture. ...

Cast

Japan

• Makoto Tsumura: Atom
• Shinya Owada: Nagamiya Tenma
• Hisashi Katsuta: Professor Ochanomizu
• Banjou Ginga: Police Inspector Tawashi
• Akiko Kawase: Yuko
• Kazuki Yao: Skunk
• Miki Maruyama Uranium
• Miyoko Shoji: Helen
• Motoko Kumai: Tamao
• Naoki Tatsuta: Robita
• Rie Kugimiya: Nyanko
• Susumu Chiba: Shibugaki
• Yuu Urata: Official/Clerk
• Yuuko Satou: Kenichi

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English

• Candi Milo: Astro, Kennedy
• Darien Harewood: Dr. Nagamiya Tenma
• Wally Wingert: Dr. O'Shay, Skunk, Blue Knight, Wally Kisagari, Katari, Harley, Kato, Additional Voices
• Bill Farmer: Detective Tawashi
• Faith Salie: Yuko
• Greg Cipes: Daichi/Atlas
• Jennifer Darling: Nora
• Jonathan Todd Ross: Mechanic #2 (eps.9)
• Lara Jill Miller: Alejo
• Maile Flanagan: Matthew
• Sandy Martin: Abercrombie
• Susan Blu: Zoran
• Dave Wittenberg
• Gregg Berger

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Theme songs

(Japan)

Openings

1. "True Blue" by Zone
2. "Now or Never" by Chemistry meets M-flo

Ending

1. "Boy's Heart" by Fujii Fumiya
2. "Tetsuwan Atomu" (A remixed version of the 60's series' theme song.)

(U.S.)

Opening

• "Astro Boy Theme" by William Anderson

(Taiwan)

Opening

• "True Blue" by Rainie Yang, cover version of the Japanese one

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(Hong Kong)

• "満天飛" by Candy Lo, Cantonese cover version of "True Blue"

External links

• Animax's official website (Japanese)