Note: Actually, this "Sneak Peek" link has NOT active yet, but it ought to go live later today or tomorrow. Till then play with all the other video clips at the "Creators Links"

Sneak Peek of New ' Astro Boy ' Series
Animation Insider - 18 March
Tokyo International Anime Fair 2003 has launched an informative television page with information on the new Astro Boy series, including an unique four-minute video introduction.
... To coincide with the series fiftieth birthday, the new
series will begin airing in Japan on April 6, 2003 ...

From the Tokyo International Anime Fairpage

Streaming service start!!
Title:[ASTRO BOY]by TEZUKA PRODUCTION>>>Exhibitor's list
[FIVE STAR]by Kamikaze douga>>>Creator's world
Coming soon more titles.

I love Atom!! At Takadanobaba station, the station music has been changed to the theme music.. also there are posters and signs everywhere commemorating his "birth" which is next month 7 April 2003 at the 'baba..

How many other characters that were set in the "future" are coming of age I wonder?

GomiGirl wrote:I love Atom!! At Takadanobaba station, the station music has been changed to the theme music.. also there are posters and signs everywhere commemorating his "birth" which is next month 7 April 2003 at the 'baba..

Japan shop owners celebrate birth of Astro Boy from bygone boom days
Thursday, March 20, 2003
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP business writer
TOKYO -- In the grimy, run-down district of Tokyo called Takadanobaba, store owners are hoping a doe-eyed, diminutive comic book hero will bring them a business boom.
Like the rest of Japan, these shop owners are preparing for the birthday of Astro Boy....

Visit Atom's super cool birthday countdown
(Warning: lots of music and Flash).

Grimey - run down.. pah!! I love the 'baba..

GomiGirl wrote:I love Atom!!

Check out Atom's pants!

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Click here for full size picture.

Astro-nomically expensive
Mainichi Daily News / April 4
Worth some 100 million yen, a jewelry-studded version of Japan's popular cartoon robot, Astro Boy, is on display at Tokyo's Takashimaya department store... pants consist of 9.54 carats of black diamonds, his lips and red boots are made of 10.14 carats of rubies...

GomiGirl wrote:I love Atom!! At Takadanobaba station, the station music has been changed to the theme music.. also there are posters and signs everywhere commemorating his "birth" which is next month 7 April 2003 at the 'baba..

New York Times / April 7

The celebration, outside the Takadanobaba rail station today, was partly a neighborhood event. It was here on April 7, 2003, that Astro Boy, the robot with the kind heart, was created in a fictitious laboratory, according to the plot line written half a century ago...Astro Boy will contribute to what one essayist recently called Japan's "gross national cool."...

Americans, Canadians and Australians all came out today for the Astro Boy parade.

"Astro Boy, and anime, are different from the typical American cartoon fare," said Dario Feltracco, a 32-year-old English conversation teacher from Ontario. "Astro Boy has characters, serious themes."

Stephen Haley, a 41-year-old Australian artist living in Takadanobaba, said: "Animation is stunning visually. Before, the Japanese never looked very seriously at the export market."...

"Astro Boy is the only one who can make peace between the two sides," said Marc Handler, the American editor of the new series. "The generals can't solve the problem, the politicians can't solve it, the adults can't. It takes the pure heart of the child."

...Yoshihiro Shimuzu, general manager of the Tezuka Production Company, creators of Astro Boy.... "people have become tired of materialism, and Astro Boy is a robot with a heart....At this time of economic depression, people are seeking positive feelings."

GomiGirl wrote:I love Atom!!

The theme song for Astro Boy.mp3, in English...

http://www.rockaxis.com/freaks/mp3/Various%20Artists%20-%20Astro%20Boy.mp3


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