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"Little Brown Fox" wrote:It depends on what I'm feeling at the given moment, what I end up referring to them as. Uran is always Uran, though.

See, now I usually call Uran(ium), Astro Girl!

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When is he Cobalt and when is he Jetto? Actually, after discovering the manga I just can't use the names from the English dub anymore, except for Elphun (cause I can't remember how to spell the Japanese 'O' name!) So I usually think of him as Cobalt. That's a nice picture of the two of them togethe...

Here's another image from the same magazine. It was very small, so it may not be too clear, but it is an image of Astro Boy and Jetto!

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TRSI just sent another message about the thing being not yet released / back ordered / etc. :cry: One distributor on eBay decided not to wait until the official release date and sold it and I bought it. Hope you get yours soon as I stated before the restoration is very good. I :heart: :astro: :)

Okay, Tetsuwan Penguin. The poster is actually a foldout page and was too big to scan as one on my equipment, so I scanned it as two pages. I did have my hair down to my shoulders back in the sixties and I wore a bandanna, Apache style. One of my nicknames was "Cochise", and with my dark native Amer...

BTW I thought that the picture of Atom flying with his hair spikes bent back was strange, but I also thought I'd seen something like that before. Well I did, a similar frame is in the Atom Cat manga with the cat's ears bent back in flight! Also, I wonder if Tezuka got the idea for chi-tan from swee...

"Tetsuwan Penguin" wrote:That is great! There is someone missing though (Chi-Tan)

You got me! The truth is they had just put Ti-tan down for his nap and they didn't want to wake him for this portrait. Later Atom took Uran and Ti-tan out to play!

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Okay, this one's for AprilSeven. (I hope it looks good on your pc as I may have ruined my copy getting this scan.)

Here they are "Astro Boy's family"!

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Would LOOOOOVE to own THAT!! It wasn't until 3 years ago that I learned Astro's eyes were brown - I ALWAYS thought they were blue! [See cover of book below] The book turns up every now and again on eBay where I got it! [The book also features a pinup poster of the "Astro" family, unfortunately it's...

I just received my copy of the "Princess Knight" DVDs.

The restoration is good, I just wish they had left some of the information re: Joe Oriolo's involvement.

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