“Astro Boy”

And on the sixth day Tezuka created Astro Boy. At a time when the trauma of World War II was fresh and scars had still not healed, in a period marked by an unstoppable process in the field of technology, one of the most important phenomena in Japanese comics was born. Curiously similar to the emblematic Disney mascot, the “God of manga” set Astro Boy loose in 1951 and let him fly, with unquestionable success, over futuristic Japanese skies. It was also inevitable at the time that the adventures of the small pacifist robot would transcend the pages of Tezuka’s vast legacy and come to our screens. The version we have here, the second of three TV adaptations, maintains the spirit of one of the most significant sagas in Japanese animation.

“Tetsuwan Atomu”
Japón, 1980-1981
Dirección: Ishiguro Noboru
Producción: Takei Hidehiko, Yamamoto Satoru / Tezuka Productions, Nippon Television Network Corp.
Guión: Osamu Tezuka
Animación: Masanobe Kozo, Shimizu Keizo, Nishimura Hiroshi, Morita Hiromitsu,
Iino Hiroshi
Fotografía: Fujita Masaaki
Música: Saegusa Nariaki
Montaje: Inoue Kazuo,
Sakamoto Masanori
Duración: 24 minutos x capítulo
Capítulos:
The Birth (cap. 1)
Astro Boy vs. Atlas (cap. 2)
The Robot Circus (cap. 3)