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Originally posted by Strange Wings @Apr 17 2005, 09:40 PM Drawing Astro in side perspective is far beyond my abilities, so I tried with the frontal view: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/benibattenwil/AstroDrawing001.jpg No chance. :cry: Even from here I can hear adrian_67 laughing about my tr...

Thanks for the links fafner, I remember those. I'd forgotten that they were dannavy85's work. And thank you dannavy85 for that summary of Tezuka's life. I thought he must have been bullied when he was a kid. So many of his cartoon characters are bullied, especially Astro. I feel Tezuka a...

Hi Breakman, I noticed on your signiture you have 3 pics of Mega Man, but it says I'm a X fan. Is X Man his name in Japanese or is it something else? I am disapointed in the English dvds of Mega Man, because the main kid characters, who are cute as hell, have gruff American teenage voices, same ...

Originally posted by dannavy85 @Apr 17 2005, 01:29 AM Astro has a magnetic effect, I was sitting in peace park in Hiroshima in 97 and just started sketching Astro during a break on the grass and suddenly I had a flock of school kids all over me wanting drawings of Astro playing baseball, kicking a ...

Yes, in Japan Astro isn't just another cartoon character like here in the States. He's an icon and most Japanese people have kept him in their hearts as well as Tezuka's message of loving all creatures. I can't find this message in other cartoons, so it's hard to go back and watc...

Yeah, that kid is adorable, great costume.

One of these days I'll find an Astro necktie.

I have the original Japanese version of the 2003-04 series with subs, and Astro has flashbacks to when he was Tobio all the time, like the car wreck, his fathers neglecting of him and other stuff. He learns some of his history in the first two Atlas episodes, but it's not until the end(ep. 50 th...

Check out these Jetter pjs:
http://homepage3.nifty.com/mars2015/mars_yukata.html

Ahh, to be a kid again. I definitely would have worn these.
Too bad I can't find any Astro or Jetter neck ties, nothing on the internet yet, ohh well.

I just found another site that has a blurb about a possible dvd release, or at least a hope of one. Cute pic. of Jetter Mars too:
http://www.pelleas.net/hm/16.shtml

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