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kscharf: please explain why you think this is Politically incorrect. Just the way some of the 'natives' were represented. I know that the same thing was done in old Betty Boop cartoons, but by the 1960's we were getting more sensitive to it. Tezuka wasn't trying to be racist of course as was explai...

I'm glad that they are doing this. Even if they are charging for viewing it's worth it! I was hoping for a movie or something though, I really hope that one day they will turn Pluto into an animation. That is supposed to be in the works. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2010-10-21/illu...

I just saw this from a link in another thread. This is another RARE thing for the 1960's show, both Astro and Cobalt are DRESSED!. BTW the guy with the 'lips' looks like a recycled star system character who was in the episodes 'colossus/frankenstein' as well as 'memory day'.

Well Astro boy has been compared to both Pinocchio and Peter Pan (the want to be a real boy, and never grow up themes).

This is probably one episode that would have never made it past the censors over at NBC, too politically incorrect. Jeffbert, I don't know what the subject matter of your pending book will be, but it would be great to have a plot outline and frame shots for these episodes in a book. BTW someone in a...

Tezuka hinted at that in the story "Astro's been stolen" (Dark Horse #10)

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Boron! Boron!

I've given some thought to the robot aging issue. First of all there were stories where a robot grew up by exchanging bodies with larger ones. The one I'm thinking of was from the '60's series with a robot who didn't know he was a robot. One day he caught his father disposing of his younger bodies. ...

Worldcat is a great service I was able to read the entire Viz Blackjack series borrowed from the library via worldcat.