I can't tell if this is more Tenma fan or Black Jack fan
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I finally finished this show and holy FUCK it's so good.
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This whole series is Tenma and Ochanomizu fighting over Astro's custody
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In my Urasawa era (Cooking some intrigue, robotic name-games, getting to the bottom of this, obsessing over nose shapes) 🤖
((I was already a huge fan thanks to Monster but Pluto was incredible + delectable. Give it a watch on Netflix if you want to be reminded of the excellent art and writing that exists in the world))
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I keep thinking about the part in Pluto where Helena asks Dr Tenma of all people how to process grief. It's almost comical how she asked the man who was so legendarily bad at handling his own emotions that he managed to fuck up bereavement TWICE: once via attempting to replace his dead son Tobio with a robot simulacrum that was destined to fail at being the son he lost, and again by failing to realize Atom was a child worthy of love in his own right before he was already gone and living with family that already understood this. This is Tenma's ultimate tragic flaw, he is a genius in all ways but how to not be a total disaster with his own emotions.
And yet, the advice he gives Helena is perfect. He tells her to do what humans do: to cry, even if it's an imitation at first, and that eventually with enough practice it will be real. And he does so with the context that's what HE had to do. He had to LEARN to express grief in the normal human way until it became natural to him. And you get a glimpse for a moment that maybe he's such a genius of engineering real artificial intelligence, because he's coming at it from the same place as these beings he's creating. He knows what it's like to struggle with the darker feelings that plague the human mind, but are so essential to its existence that they must be included in a machine that is intended to fully emulate humanity. He understands that even if these feelings torment us, they can never be ignored, or cured with some kind of replacement for what we lose, or simply erased from our minds. He's the perfect one to understand these things because he's done it so catastrophically before himself.
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Does tumblr fw the Astro Boy brainrot or naw ⁉️
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a silly little poster type beat art for monster!! this show has absolutely took over my brain like no other holy shit!!!!!!! dr tenma pls be my dad....
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