Volume 1 featuring Astro

Background Information

Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu), "Mighty Atom,", "Iron Arm Atom") is a Japanese manga series first published in 1952 and television program first broadcast in Japan in 1963. The story follows the adventures of a robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way. Astro Boy was adapted into the first, most popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime. It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, revered in Japan as the "God of Manga." After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in other countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety. An American computer-animated 3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka was released on October 23, 2009.

Standing in the Battledome

As a verse Astroboy is quite strong, possessing loads of hydrogen bombs, bombs that can destroy stars, atomic disintegrators, flying saucers, spaceships, an artificial sun, highly advanced robots that can move at massively hypersonic - relativistic speeds, warp systems that can instantly transport matter dozens of light years, the ability manipulate the fourth dimension to make space, size, time, and weight variables, shrink planets, time machines, time manipulators and reality warpers.

Supporters of the Series

• God Movement
• Vivi
  
  

OBD Profiles

Character Profiles

Characters

Astroboy	Atlas	Bem	Blue Bon	Box	Bron-X
Damdam	Epsilon	Garon	Meeva	Pluto	Robot Unicorn

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