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ASTRO BOY/ 2009
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Prints on paper: Portraits 2 | | Medium: | Giclée on Japanese matte paper | | Size (inches): | 16.5 x 11.7 (paper size) | | Size (mm): | 420 x 297 (paper size) | | Edition size: | 25 | | Catalog #: | PP_0113 | | Description: | From an edition of 25. Signed, titled, date, copyright, edition in pencil on the reverse / Aside from the numbered edition of 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs.
Astroboy: There's a moral here somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
-www.astroboy-online.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2356.html
Astro Boy -
Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム, Tetsuwan Atomu, lit. "Mighty Atom") is a Japanese manga series and television program first broadcast in Japan from 1963 to 1966. The story follows the adventures of a fictional robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way.
Astro Boy is the first Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiarized as anime.[2] It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, who is often reputed as the "god of manga".[3] After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in the United States and other Western countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety.[4] An American computer-animated 3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka will be screening in theatres on October 23, 2009.
Plot:
Astro Boy is a science fiction series set in a futuristic world wherein androids co-exist with humans. Its focus is on the adventures of the titular "Astro Boy" (sometimes called simply "Astro"), a powerful robot created by the head of the Ministry of Science, Doctor Tenma, to replace his son Tobio, who died in a car accident. Dr. Tenma built Astro in Tobio's image and treated him as lovingly as if he were the real Tobio, but soon realized that the little android could not fill the void of his lost son, especially given that Astro could not grow older or express human aesthetics (in one set of panels, Astro is shown preferring the mechanical shapes of cubes over the organic shapes of flowers). In the original 1960 edition, Tenma rejected Astro and sold him to a cruel circus owner, Hamegg.
After some time, Professor Ochanomizu, the new head of the Ministry of Science, noticed Astro Boy performing in the circus and convinced Hamegg to turn Astro over to him. He then took Astro as his own and treated him gently and warmly, becoming his legal guardian. He soon realized that Astro was gifted with superior powers and skills, as well as the ability to experience human emotions.
Astro then is shown fighting crime, evil, and injustice. Most of his enemies were robot-hating humans, robots gone berserk, or alien invaders. Almost every story included a battle involving Astro and other robots.
Characters:
* Astro / Astro Boy
* Professor Ochanomizu/Dr. Packidermus J. Elefun, head of the Ministry of Science
* Astro's parents, created by Prof. Ochanomizu in order to make Astro more human-like
* Uran / Astro Girl, Astro's younger sister
* Cobalt / Jetto, Astro's younger brother
* Shunsaku Ban / Mr. Percival Pompous/Daddy Walrus/Albert Duncan, Astro's schoolteacher and/or neighbor in the original manga and color 1980 tv series; a private detective and surrogate uncle for Astro in the 1960's tv series
* Shibugaki and Tamao / Dinny and Specs, two of Astro's friends
* Inspector Nakamura / Chief McLaw
* Detective Tawashi / Inspector Gumshoe
References:
2. ^ Lambert, David (2006-07-01). "Astroboy - Press Release for Astro Boy (1963) - Ultra Collector's Edition Set 1 DVDs!". TVShowsOnDVD.com. http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Astroboy/4850. Retrieved on 3 January 2009.
3. ^ ""Profile: Tezuka Osamu"". Anime Academy. http://www.animeacademy.com/profile_tezuka_osamu.php. Retrieved on 2007-09-30.
4. ^ McCurry, Justin (2008-03-20). "Japan enlists cartoon cat as ambassador". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/20/japan. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy
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