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The first new glimpse at the long-awaited Astro Boy Reboot. Method Animation has announced the series is back on track, and will have a first season of 26 episodes debuting later this year.

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A link to Samuel Michlap’s official concept art for the 2009 CGI Astro Boy movie.

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good news ab fans !! ^_^

i've uploaded all five astro boy short films that were available for a small time in april on the tezuka productions YT channel before getting removed, on the internet archive now!

now to those who never got a chance to see them can now do so!

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Seeing rumors of the Pluto anime being cancelled due to a concept art and settei leak from what seems to be a former disgruntled employee working on the show.

Animators and the Episode 4 director who have worked on the Pluto anime have not heard that the Pluto anime is cancelled.

Until a major producer or company working on the Pluto anime confirms it, the Pluto anime has not been cancelled yet. Look for an official update from Masao Maruyama, Naoki Urasawa, Genco, Studio M2, or Tezuka Productions.

More on this huge Astro Boy news story when details are available.

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I’m late as always but yesterday was Atom’s 19th birthday so happy birthday to me boy

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Happy 70th Anniversary to the Astro Boy manga!

Osamu Tezuka debuted the Astro Boy manga in Kobunsha’s Shōnen Magazine on April 3, 1952, 70 years ago today (April 3, 2022).

The image you see in this post is the very first debut chapter of Astro Boy as shown in Shōnen Magazine.

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We have some huge news! The complete English-dubbed version of Astro Boy 1980 episode 1 has resurfaced, and you can watch it on Youtube! It’s also available on the Internet Archive.

The dub was originally recorded at the University of Wisconsin in 1980. The crew was very small, and had very few voice actors - most notably are Patty Whitely as Astro/Livian/Ms. Ford, Del Lewis as Dr. Boynton, and 17-year-old Jay Rath as Atlas/Guiss/Skunk. The crew eventually grew over time as they recorded the whole series thru 1981. For a long time, the only known surviving copy of the complete dub was on a master tape by one of the university sound engineers. The North American distributors edited the first two episodes together for reasons that are still unknown.

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The full-length disco instrumental for the Astro le Petit Robot theme! It was originally scored by Nariaki Saegusa (mis-credited on the record as “Seagusa”) and slightly rearranged by Osvaldo Montes.

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The French opening theme for Shin Tetsuwan Atom (1980), recorded in Montreal, Quebec in 1984. The theme uses a slightly altered version of the original Japanese theme’s arrangement, with added vocals by Franck Olivier, a Belgian singer who performed many other French anime openings in the 1980s.

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Astro Boy 1980s series to receive an American Blu-ray release in May 2022; Japanese audio and English subs included

Source: Discotek Media (Link 1, Link 2)

On March 14, 2022, American-based entertainment company, Discotek Media (who focuses on older anime series) announced that they will be releasing a Blu-ray of the 1980s Astro Boy series in May 2022.

The release will include the entire series completely uncut, with Episodes 1 and 2 presented in full. The release will include Japanese audio with English subtitles, as well as the American dub.

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Transparent .gifs made from 1960s stickers

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A French-Canadian Astro Boy beach ball, featuring original artwork.

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Source: oracchiman (Twitter)

Promoter postcard - “Astro Boy / Lightning Man”

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Atom advertising the Hitachi Perdisco TRK-8800 Stereo (1980).

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A very rare promo for the 2003 AB series, which aired on the Canadian network YTV in 2004.

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The “exclusive” Astro Boy NFT...if you’d like to own it in high resolution without the “SAMPLE”, you can spend $8000 on it and burn down a tree...but if you don’t care about the watermark, here it is for free.

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Images from a cube puzzle, produced in 1984 by France Jouets. Each puzzle piece was a lightweight plastic cube with six decorated sides that could be assembled into a full-colour image. Most curiously, one of the sides - shown in image 8 - is of a robot dog and ship bridge that do not actually appear in Shin Tetsuwan Atom (1980).