ASTRO BOY

アストロボーイテツワンアトム

Aired: 2003 - 2004

Produced by Tezuka Productions, the third TV anime adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's legendary manga "Astro Boy," created to commemorate Atom's canonical birthday of April 7, 2003. After Dr. Tenma abandons the robot he built in his late son's image, Dr. Ochanomizu takes him in as "Atom"—a robot with 100,000 horsepower and a human heart who faces various challenges in a world of human-robot coexistence. Produced with triple the budget and quadruple the production time of typical TV anime. 50 episodes on Fuji TV. ©Tezuka Productions/SPEJ