History Manga / AstroBoy

The third TV series inspired two video games, ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'', released first, then later a second game was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. A [[WesternAnimation/AstroBoy CGI movie produced by Imagi Animation Studios]] was released in October 2009, also bringing to the table a movie-based game that spanned several consoles. In early 2011, an iPhone/iPod game called ''Astro Boy: Tap Tap Rush'' was released, first in Japan and then later in the US. For a video game series that was directly inspired by this franchise, see ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic''.

* AssKicksYou: He has dual machine guns in his butt. Which, coupled by the fact that he looks like he's half naked all the time is the [[ValuesDissonance main reason western audiences find Astro Boy strange]]. Or hilarious. Or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs strangely hilarious.]] (This has been debated constantly, though. Some think the machine guns are in his hips, and with Tezuka's simplistic drawing style at the time, you could probably see why. The 2009 film does establish they're in his butt though, much to Astro's shock.)

* AssKicksYou: He has dual machine guns in his butt. Which, coupled by the fact that he looks like he's half naked all the time is the [[ValuesDissonance main reason]] [[WidgetSeries Western audiences find Astro Boy strange]]. Or hilarious. Or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs strangely hilarious.]] (This has been debated constantly, though. Some think the machine guns are in his hips, and with Tezuka's simplistic drawing style at the time, you could probably see why. The 2009 film does establish they're in his butt though, much to Astro's shock.)

Thee series also had a couple of popular unofficial spinoffs-- Naoki Urasawa's ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'', which was a reimagining and PerspectiveFlip of the "The Greatest Robot on Earth" arc, and Tetsuro Kasahara's ''Manga/AtomTheBeginning'', which serves as a {{Prequel}} and shows how Dr. Tenma came to the point of creating Astro.

* PinocchioSyndrome: Astro constantly questions the humanity he protects to the point of being completely bewildered by their hostile actions to one another.

** The one Tezuka himself later regretted/disavowed was: [[spoiler: Astro is awoken in the dystopian future by humans, having been a museum piece for centuries. He finds that the tables are turned and that robots now rule the world and raise humans as pets for bloodsports and to torture for their own amusement. The humans hope that he can become their savior but the technology has advanced so far that he's KilledOffScreen. Tezuka himself said that it was an O.K. scifi story but that such a bleak ending was a bad move. It not only undid most of the themes of the series but readers could also interpret it as Astro being fundamentally wrong and that [[UnfortunateImplications robots did deserve to remain slaves.]]]]

In the [[{{Zeerust}} unimaginably distant future year of 2001]], Dr. Tenma, of the Ministry of Science, loses his son in an accident. Half-mad with grief, the roboticist creates "Tetsuwan Atom," a rocket-powered android in his late son's image, and programs him to be a "good little boy." After a series of tragedies and misadventures, including abandonment by his "father," Atom is rescued and adopted by Dr. Ochanomizu, and decides to take up crime fighting. This decision soon leads him into all manner of danger and excitement, as he battles mad scientists, evil aliens and giant robots.

Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Astro Boy'', called ''Tetsuwan Atom'' ("Mighty Atom" or literally "Iron Arm Atom") in Japan, began life as a manga in 1952, and has been [[Anime/AstroBoy brought to television as an anime three times]], in 1963, 1980, and 2003. It's a historically significant series, as Tezuka's style defined the look of iconic anime and manga, and the English dub of the 60s show became one of the first popular anime in America.

* Deconstructed with this trope's [[UnbuiltTrope unbuilding]]: much to Dr. Tenma's frustration, ''robots don't physically mature''. JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope follows.

The third TV series inspired two video games, ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'', released first, then later a second game was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. A [[WesternAnimation/AstroBoy CGI movie produced by Imagi Animation Studios]] was released in October 2009, also bringing to the table a movie-based game that spanned several consoles. In early 2011, an iPhone/iPod game called ''Astro Boy: Tap Tap Rush'' was released, first in Japan and then later in the US. For a video game series that was directly inspired by this franchise, ([[DivorcedInstallment and was in fact going to be an adaptation before the company lost the license]]) see ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic''.

* RealityEnsues: The reason for ReplacementGoldfish's [[UnbuiltTrope unbuilding]]: much to Dr. Tenma's frustration, ''robots don't physically mature''. JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope follows.

* {{McNinja}}: A gag panel from the "World's Strongest Robot" arc. Ochanomizu asks why the Middle-Eastern villain's HyperCompetentSidekick dresses in black all-concealing robes, and he responds by producing a shuriken as if to prove that he really 'is'' a ninja! Then the AuthorAvatar steps in to announce that it's just a joke, and the story continues as if nothing had happened.

* {{McNinja}}: A gag panel from the "World's Strongest Robot" arc. Mustachio asks why the Middle-Eastern villain's HyperCompetentSidekick dresses in black all-concealing robes, and he responds by producing a couple of throwing stars and announcing that he's really a ninja! Then the author steps in to announce that it's just a joke, and the story continues as if nothing had happened.

%% * NotSoDifferent: You have human-hating robots and robot-hating humans.

Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Astro Boy'', called ''Tetsuwan Atom'' ("Mighty Atom" or literally "Iron Arm Atom") in Japan, began life as a manga in 1952, and has been [[Anime/AstroBoy brought to television as an anime three times]], in 1963, 1980, and 2003. It's a historically significant series, as Tezuka's style defined the look of iconic anime and manga, and the English dub of the 60s show became one of the first popular animes in America.

The third TV series inspired a video game, ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'', that is generally held to have avoided TheProblemWithLicensedGames; later a second game was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 that unfortunately did ''not'' avoid TheProblemWithLicensedGames. A [[WesternAnimation/AstroBoy CGI movie produced by Imagi Animation Studios]] was released in October 2009, also bringing to the table a mediocre movie-based game that spanned several consoles. In early 2011, an iPhone/iPod game called ''Astro Boy: Tap Tap Rush'' was released, first in Japan and then later in the US. For a video game series that was directly inspired by this franchise, ([[DivorcedInstallment and was in fact going to be an adaptation before the company lost the license]]) see ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic''.

* FurnaceBodyDisposal: * A story in involves Astro spotting a man apparently disposing of a body in a furnace. It turns out to be less sinister than it first appears, as the body is actually the remains of an experimental humanoid robot.

* AssKicksYou: He has dual machine guns in his butt. Which, coupled by the fact that he looks like he's half naked all the time is the [[ValuesDissonance main reason]] [[WidgetSeries Western audiences find Astro Boy strange]]. Or hilarious. Or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs strangely hilarious.]] (This has been debated constantly, though. Some think the machine guns are in his hips, and with Tezuka's simplistic drawing style at the time, you could probably see why.)

* RoboFamily: One of the first examples (if not ''the'' first), Astro has his sister Uran, a couple of brothers (who don't appear in most adaptations for reasons of AdaptationDistillation), and his robot parents, all created after him to remedy his lack of a real family; as well as his other sibling [[spoiler:Atlas]].

%% * MiniMecha: Lots of them!