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ROFL! Yes, that was a great one!

They also say "It hurts!" when they get injured. I guess this is a translation for whatever they say in Japan to expess "Ow!".

Time to drag out this picture again:



Those were the days!

If you're in Australia, you should be able to get it from any Myer/Grace Bros store on PAL VHS. It's on volume 10 and retails for AUD$20.

The flash animation on the Tezuka site seems to depict her as a little older.

Okay, here's the deal. ;) 1) Uran happened to have some green and black underpants that appeared identical to Astro's skin. 2) The Atom Hair was produced from Detective Rock's time machine. He has a replicator on board. 3) After Kathy gave him the boots, he went swimming with them on. Th...

Pffftt ... call yourself an Advanced Member! ;-P

Go to My Controls, then Edit Avatar Settings. You can then enter a web address for whatever image you want to use.

I should get around to creating an avatar for myself.

Originally posted by jinxed1au@Jun 3 2003, 11:45 PM
U Can also get the 35 episodes of the b&w series
this is the japanese dubbed version Which i think is also available the dvds are all region 2

Do you know where I could get hold of this? (the DVDs, not the VHS)

I'm more interested in a fansub of the 60s series. I mean, the current series is getting an official translation this year anyway.

I'm a bit suspicious of the 80s series DVDs with English subtitles. It retails for about a quarter of the price of the Japanese release, which doesn't have English subtitles, and the contact e-mail address on the discs is "anime_mac@yahoo.com". Surely a DVD production company can afford thei...

Thanks for posting the Japanese, Cobalt. To un-garble it in IE, click on View - Encoding - Japanese (Auto-Select). Of course, you need the Japanese character set installed. You can get it by visiting any Japanese site and selecting to install it when IE asks if you want it. Here's how to encode ...

Makes it sound more foreign and exotic too. :D Hey GIR, can I ask you some questions on your Divx encoding? I've started encoding my Astroboy VHS tapes to Divx as they are starting to deteriorate. I've been using Divx 4.12 at a bitrate of 1000, with a keyframe every 25 frames and maximum pos...