"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.