What did Tobio actually look like?

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Postby CommanderEVE » 9 years ago

A lot of people on this planet will have brown hair and eyes, I do to. It is very common as it is a dominate gene, so some people will have similar colour hair to Atom.

"SuwaHana" wrote:[QUOTE=Earthshine;212937]I'm pretty sure that Atom and Tobio look almost identical and the only reason why Tezuka had Atom's hair as a different color/texture from his 'counterpart' was to give the audience immediate recognition of who was who.


Yes, I've heard it said that Atom's more robotic appearance is just Tezuka's way of showing us that he is indeed Atom, and not Tobio. For all intents and purposes, Atom is completely identical to Tobio. [/QUOTE]

I would think that Tenma would have also added his own ‘touch’ to Atom, like his own style to Atoms appearance. I could see this being the case with many scientists (Engineers) who build robots.

Also, as a side note, does Atom class as a robot or an android? Since the word robot means: “robot itself comes from Czech robota,"servitude, forced labor," from rab, "slave." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/robot And Atom is not forced to anything, he has a mind of his own.

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Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 9 years ago

Androids are a subset of robots, IE: an android is a humanoid form robot. Therefore Atom is both an android and a robot. The word robot is better known, so Tezuka used that rather than the word android. Any machine that will perform directed labor is a robot, it may take any form (IE: Roomba), but an android will be humanoid in shape, and will probably walk on two legs. The lost in space robot is not an android IMHO.
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Postby Dragonrider1227 » 9 years ago

I always kinda think 80s Tobio actually looks younger and skinnier than Atom.

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Postby CommanderEVE » 9 years ago

Atom seems to have wider arms then Tobio, this could be for the fold away part of his arm when he uses his arm cannon, there is no explanation that I know of within the the series for this (I am currently in the process of watching and reading more Astro Boy material). It is just something me and my room-mate where talking about the other day when he was talking about building his new desktop computer. It could be just the way Atom his drawn.


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