Overview
FormatTV
StudioMushi Production
AniList Score65%
StatusFINISHED
Characters
Atom Tetsuwanmain
Ochanomizu Hakasemain
Uransupporting
Umatarou Tenmasupporting
Tawashisupporting
Acetylene Lampsupporting
Atlassupporting
Satansupporting
Odessasupporting
Staff
Osamu TezukaOriginal Creator
Osamu TezukaDirector
Yoshiyuki TominoScript (eps 98, 128, 131, 133, 138, 139, 149, 156, 163, 173, 179, 181, 188, 192)
Yoshiyuki TominoEpisode Director (eps 104, 111, 114, 120, 121, 124, 125, 128, 131, 133, 138, 139, 149, 156, 160, 163, 171, 173, 179-181, 183, 188, 192)
RintarouEpisode Director (eps 26, 31, 37, 43, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 65, 69, 72, 75, 79, 86, 93, 95, 99)
Gisaburou SugiiEpisode Director (eps 6, 12, 17, 24, 28, 33, 38, 45, 49, 53, 89, 106, 119, 148)
Yoshiyuki TominoStoryboard
Manabu OohashiIn-Between Animation
Osamu DezakiKey Animation (eps 39, 51, 66, 89)
Osamu DezakiAnimation Director (eps 112, 123, 132, 143, 175)
Osamu DezakiEpisode Director (eps 112, 123, 132, 143, 175)
Jirou TsunodaAnimation
Tatsuo TakaiMusic
Matsuo OonoSound Design
Other Details
Native Title鉄腕アトム
Aired Year1963 (WINTER)
Source MaterialMANGA
Genres
ActionAdventureDramaMechaSci-Fi
Astro Boy
1963TVFINISHED65% Score
Synopsis
EP 1
The Birth of Astro Boy
Dr. Tenma, Director General of the Science Ministry, loses his son Tobio in an accident. He decides to create the robot Astro Boy, who looks just like Tobio, using the best of the Science Ministry's technology.
EP 2
Colosso
It is the year 2000 and robots have been put in charge of making other robots when there are no longer enough people to do the work. Astro Boy dreams of having a real mother, just like human boys. The robot workers are making an experimental new robot named Colosso who goes berserk and escapes shortly after coming to life. The only hope is for Astro Boy to stop him before he cause too much trouble. (In the original Japanese version, Colosso was named "Frankenstein")
EP 3
Expedition to Mars
Astroboy is selected to lead a search party to find the survivors of the first manned expedition to Mars. This meets strong objection from the spaceship's captain, who protests taking orders from a robot.
EP 6
Zero, the Invisible Robot
Zero Robot, a blend of Etheric Resin with Clear Plastic, can only be seen with polarized light. Fearless Fred Fenk uses Zero for robbery. Astro Boy once again battles another robot. Defeating Zero at a cost, Astro reassess his role in fighting villians.
EP 7
Captain Atom
Alien resembling aliens including the doctor of Ochanomizu and Higeyajiji emigrated from the stars that looked like the earth in emergency. However, the food crisis and humankind will begin attacking the aliens with cell shrink solution.
EP 104
The Devil's Balloon
A balloon in the shape of Atom appears over the city. Children love Atom so much that they begin to run after the balloon and disappear. Because such incidents frequently occur, Atom comes to be regarded as a fearful enemy of children. Source: tezukaosamu.net
EP 29
Memory Day
Once every year in the 215t century, the citizens of Earth celebrate Memory Day. On that day, they honor the memories of family members who have traveled so far into the universe that they are gone for years at a time!
EP 4
One Million Mammoth Snails
Professor Nutty Fruitcake grows giant fruits and vegetables. One day he breeds giant snails thinking they would be harmless, one million snails to be exact. The snails fill the mountain side and overflow into cities.
EP 5
The Sphinx
Astroboy wakes up in the middle of the desert, nearly drained of power and unable to remember how he got there. He is helped by Ali Baba, but in return Astro must battle 'The Sphinx'. This is not a real sphinx, but a robot which guards a desert tomb.
EP 8
The Spirit Machine
In a land called Shangri-Lee a dictator rose to power. Known to his enemies as the Mad Hatter he trusted no one. To solve this need to do everything himself he captured Dr Elefun. Dr Elefun was to make duplicates of the Mad Hatter. Astro Boy rescues Dr Elefun and the Spirit Machine is destroyed.
EP 9
The Deep Freeze
Crime knows no boundaries - not even the North Pole! Sharkey Dirk and his gang of cut-throats had become the Scourge of the Arctic! An avowed robot-hater, Sharkey foraged far and wide destroying every machine in his path. His hideout was a secret den situated right at the Pole (who would think to look for him there?)
EP 10
Strange Voyage
'Lucky' Louie the Lug has slipped by the police at a space port and boarded the first commercial flight to the Moon. Astroboy pursues him seeking to recover stolen diamonds, but the liftoff is underway before he can apprehend the criminal. When meteors collide with the ship, Astro escapes in a damaged space raft with Louie, a little girl named Marvel, Radio Announcer 'Stark' Raving, socialite Mona Toujour and crooked insurance magnate 'Rocco' Gibraltor. They land on a strange asteroid which is a frozen vacuum by night, but has breathable air by day.
EP 11
Time Machine
One day, excitable Mr. Pompous was relaxing at home when suddenly a mysterious ship crashed through his front door. Clearly the ship was something from the future.
EP 12
Cross Island
After Dr I.M. Sinister and his 2 henchmen 'Red' and 'Mouse' escape from Sing Song Prison, they hide at the mining colony of Cross Island disguised as robots. The gang overpowers Dr Elefun, who is repairing the robot miners. As chance has it, one boy robot on the island was built by Dr Sinister. While holding Elefun at gunpoint, Sinister demands not only HIS robot but the use of parts from Astroboy, so he can build a super-robot capable of changing into an array of animals.
EP 13
The Eyes of Christ
That priest was dying carving a single mark on the eyes of Christ decorated in the church. Apparently it seems to be a clue to teach the identity of the pirate who broke into the church. The same pirate begins to aim for beard hair that knew their secret.
EP 14
The Artifical Sun
Years ago Dr Elefun built a devic., An artifical sun to be used for a good purpose. Elia Belial stole this device and used it to melt anything that gave him money and power. Once again Astro Boy comes to the rescue and destroys The Artifical Sun.
EP 15
Grass Boy
Astro Boy meets a boy, Lodar, from the planet Zykobee. Flying saucers from Zykobee have come to Earth to drain the lakes for water. With Dr. Elefun's help Astro Boy defeats the invaders. Lodar has a new home.
EP 16
Silver Comet
Tommy Speed enters the World Champion Motor Car Race. The night before the race his car, the Silver Comet, destroyed by hoodlums. He rebuilds his race car and wins the race with Astro Boy's help. Astro Boy helped by stopping the traps that were laid out for Tommy.
EP 17
Hullabaloo Land
A bedtime story about a swan princess named "Princess Lollipop" seems to come to life when a robot swan crashes near Astroboy's house. This swan princess, however, is an escaped robot from "Hullabaloo Land", an amusement park where fairy tales are brought to life by robot performers. Lollipop pleads with Astro, telling him that the robots of Hullabaloo Land are being mistreated by the park's general manager, Baron Hoodwink and his robot dragon "Firesnout".
EP 18
Gangor the Monster
In the year 2000, there were robots aplenty. Since human beings no longer worked, there was a wide assortment of robots, big and little, fat and thin, tall and short, to perform every conceivable menial task. But nowhere was there a robot like Gangor, the Monster.
EP 19
The Cosmic Giant
The plan might have worked, had not a giant robot-lying in disassembled form-been discovered by Doctor Elefun and Astro Boy. Instructions for assembly were found upon the monster robot, instructions written in a code like none on Earth.
EP 20
Toxor, the Mist Man
When early American astronauts reported seeing "fireflies" in space, they posed a riddle that intrigued men of science for decades. In the year 2000, the intrepid Doctor Bolt - astronomer, adventurer, astronaut ~ decided to investigate on his own.
EP 21
Satellite R-45
Space stations are nothing new in the year 2000. A number of them dot the Milky Way between here and Andromeda, like floating islands in the sky. One of the largest is Satellite R45, a way station for trans-galaxy flights.
EP 22
Sea Serpent Isle
Sitting alone at the beach one day, watching wave after wave break on the lonely sand, Astro Boy spotted a mysterious bottle being washed ashore. The bottle proved to contain a note calling for help and rescue from a dreaded but unknown, uncharted island called Sea Serpent Isle.