AstroBoy Online Forums

So why did they leave the guns out of the 2003 remake?

If you cannot take criticisms, do not post. I find such self-professed English teachers detramental, especially for people who might be trying their first few stories. Not everyone is an "English school textbook Jedi" and professes to be such an expert. Comebacks like yours tend to drive new people...

But "Atlas Boy" seemed really strange.

Take your pick, you have the pilot episodes Atlas and then the grown Atlas. I just use the "boy" to differ between the two.

Sally was the short lived American version of the 80's Astro boy, only shown on a few stations for 12 or 13 episodes...

And...if I wanted anything corrected by anyone? I would go back to high school.

Awwww...Eva : )

I am drowning in the cuteness.

Well I'm not into the Daichi aspect of the 03 series, though I like how they build this new Atlas up with the same angst. I wish Atlas Boy did go beyond the 80's pilot episodes, he would have made a serious and sometimes hillarious counter clash to Astro like Keralu Mauldi does to the 80'...

ASTROBOY 1980 The kissy kiss game ASTRO BOY © 1954 Osmau Tezuka © 1980 Tezuka Productions, Japan. All rights respected, for fandom enjoyment only. Please don’t sue me? P.S. 46 New Shinjuku Doctor McNugget was scribbling away on an eraser board, his overly exaggerated movements getting chuckles from ...

I see according to the Manga Drawing book for Astroboy that the hip guns use 6.5 mm parabellum rounds with "caseless" Amo. I think Tezuka had to be the first person in the world to ever consider such a concept in ammunition because in the 1950's no one even toyed with the idea. I've seen a g...

Atom's been hanging around Shakey's pizza again.

You think that's bad? I write Gatchaman fictions too and the longest took 6 months and 364 pages.