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by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Games & Role Play
Topic: Caption the picture game
Replies: 5491
Views: 1385013

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As it turned out, the game of Musical Beds was merely a way to sort which two kids would stay for future series incarnations.
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Astro Boy #1: First Mission
Replies: 9
Views: 5018

CHAPTER 8 Astro is on the other end of town, playing with pigeons in the air. O'Shay's call for help reaches Astro's computer brain, thanks to his super sensitive hearing programs. He rushes across town as fast as he can, finding the foot of the bridge being in complete chaos. Astro then pulls O'Sh...
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Astro Boy #1: First Mission
Replies: 9
Views: 5018

CHAPTER 7 Magnamite comes within range of the proton cannons, and Tawashi gives the order to fire. The shots don't seem to do anything but irritate Magnamite, who then knocks down some streetlights and bridge barriers. One of the proton cannons gets destroyed, but Tawashi and the army struggle to k...
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Atom: The Beginning (Manga Discussion)
Replies: 137
Views: 83487

So, change of plans...I put my preorder of the album on hold (it's a long story), and volume two arrived this week. I'm glad to see Noh Uno here: his A:TB name is officially the Earl Aaron Bremner. (Earl is his rank. His name in the original text is アーロン ブレ&...
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Astro Boy #1: First Mission
Replies: 9
Views: 5018

CHAPTER 6 “This is a big mystery,” said the robot controller to the director of the Magnamite Centre. “I can't find a trace of the missing energy. It's almost as if someone stole it And things are even more serious: Magnamite is refusing the instructions we give him. Our computers...
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: TEZUKA CHARACTER ILLUSTRATIONS & SKETCHBOOK
Replies: 6
Views: 2298

Would you recommend these books? I've been eyeing them, but since they're about $45 CAD for me, it's something I need to really consider before buying.
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Astro Boy #1: First Mission
Replies: 9
Views: 5018

Happy New Year, everyone! My family has just shot off some fireworks in the backyard, and to stop myself from getting to a Rick Sanchez level of inebriation, I've come online to share some more of the Pocket Jeunesse series. CHAPTER 5 The director of the Magnamite power station gets on the phone wit...
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Astro Boy #1: First Mission
Replies: 9
Views: 5018

CHAPTER 4 Today's installment is pretty short, so I'll post it in its entirety... Astro watched Nora, his robot teacher. She had an odd form: it was like a cone on wheels topped with a transparent cover, under which were turning workings composed of tiny cogs. “Lesson number one: obedience,&#...
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Found GRITW Manga
Replies: 4
Views: 2823

I was watching the 1963 version of GRITW in Japanese, these two episodes were never translated to English by NBC. In that version the Photar character is called 'Epsilon' and it seems to me that they rendered the character's gender as female, although she was drawn in the same manor as in the 1980 ...
by Fauna
8 years ago
Forum: Astro Boy Discussion
Topic: Astro Boy #1: First Mission
Replies: 9
Views: 5018

I'm not sure who the real minister is! It might be explained later in this book; I can't remember at the moment if there was a separate minister...the Ministry of Science in the French text is literally the "Centre of Research", so it's presented as an elite laboratory instead of a government depart...

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