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I just bought a copy of the anime based on Tezuka's Metropolis manga. I've seen this film before on DVD, but I recently found the BD disc for sale for less than $10 on ebay, so I bought it. The package includes both a BD and a DVD copy of the film. Only the DVD has the extra feature "the making...

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I remember seeing the trailer for that movie in the theater. At the time I hadn't thought of Astro Boy since the mid 60's. That was quite a jolt to the memory, and soon after that I discovered both the 1980 and 2003 animes on Hulu, I didn't even know that they existed! I also discovered this site, t...

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I assume Dr. Brant is a 'stand in' for Tenma.

Seemed similar to the DVD's I got of the English dub.

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Like the first live action Astro TV show done by Tezuka.

Don't know enough Kana to read the names of the characters. https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/gogo-atom/chara/
But I know the first two!

I remember that in the 1963 anime, the English dub used a different background music than the original Japanese soundtrack during Astro's awaking, they used Beethoven's 5th symphony in the English dub. The 1980 English dub used "Les Preludes" by Franz Liszt, which I think was actually more...