Astroboy

Astroboy is set in the year 2000. In this future, there are electric highways, making manual driving unnecessary. A young boy named Astro Boykin is driving in one of these automatic cars, when a garbage truck pulls into his path, causing a major accident, & the death of the child. His father, Professor Boykin, decide to implant his son's memories into a robotic body. And thus, Astroboy is born!

His "father" teaches him many things, but when Astroboy doesn't get any bigger with age, he neglects Astor & sells him to a robot circus. One night, at a performance, a huge fire breaks out. Astro, leading the other robots, saves everyone of the spectators.

A scientist named Packidermus J. Elefun wants to set Astro free from his contract with the circus. Astro's owner won't let him go. After going through a lot of red tape, a new law is passed which frees all robots from lives of slavery.

Astro decides to stay with Dr. Elefun. He uses his powers to help good any way he can.

Astro Boy is the first Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiarized as anime. It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, who is often reputed as the "god of manga". After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in the United States and other Western countries, and again in 2003. A CGI-animated film version of Astroboy hits theaters in October of 2009.

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EPISODE GUIDE

1. The Birth of Astro Boy
2. Colosso
3. Expedition to Mars
4. The Sphinx
5. Cross Island
6. Grass Boy
7. Zero, the Invisible Robot
8. Silver Comet
9. Hullabaloo Land
10. The Spirit Machine
11. Strange Voyage
12. The Artificial Sun
13. The Deep Freeze
14. One Million Mammoth Snails
15. Gangor the Monster
16. Secret Agent 3-Z
17. The Haunted Ship
18. Time Machine
19. The Cosmic Giant
20. Toxor, the Mist Man
21. Satellite R-45
22. Sea Serpent Isle
23. The Deadly Flies
24. Kingdom of the Sea
25. The Strange Birthday Presents
26. Don Tay's Infernal Machine
27. Pearl People
28. The Wacky Machine
29. Memory Day
30. The Super Duper Robot
31. Mysterious Cosmic Rays
32. The Moon Monsters
33. The Three Magicians
34. The Beast From 20 Fathoms (The Lost Episode)
35. Planet X
36. The Elixir of Life
37. Astro Boy Goes to School
38. The Asteroid Menace
39. The Mysterious Cat
40. The Abominable Snowman
41. Deadline to Danger
42. The Island of Mystery
43. Ditto
44. Cleopatra's Heart
45. The Return of Cleopatra
46. Phantom Space Ship
47. The Gigantic Space Crab
48. The Great Space Horse
49. 3D Tee Vee
50. Westward Ha!
51. Jimbo the Great
52. Snow Lion
53. Dogma Palace
54. The Man-Made Iceberg
55. Vampire Vale
56. The Terrible Tidal Wave
57. The Viking King [aka] Vikings
58. The Devil Doll
59. Dinosaur Dilemma
60. The Clock Tower Mystery
61. The Flower Monster
62. Attack From Space
63. Shipwreck in Space
64. Big Titan
65. Mission to the Middle of the World
66. Inca Gold Fever
67. The Monster Machine
68. The Hooligan Whodunit
69. Funnel to the Future
70. Super Brain
71. A Mighty Minute
72. The Dream Machine
73. The Robot Olympics
74. Dunder Bird of Doom
75. Dolphins in Distress
76. The Mad Beltway
77. The Terrible Time Gun
78. Space Princess
79. Mighty Microbe Army
80. Horrible King Horrid
81. Mystery of Amless Dan
82. Galon From Galaxy
83. The Three Robotiers
84. Brother Jetto
85. Angel of the Alps
86. Magic Punch Card
87. The Great Rocket Robbery
88. Contest in Space
89. Gift of Zero
90. A Deep Deep Secret
91. The Wonderful Christmas Present
92. Uncharted World
93. Jungle Mystery
94. The Terrible Spaceman
95. The Mighty Mite From Ursa Minor
96. General Astro
97. Mystery of Metalman
98. Super Human Beings
99. Phoenix Bird
100. Menace From Mercury
101. Dangerous Mission
102. Planet 13
103. Prisoners in Space
104. Double Trouble