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I'm going to San Francisco for about two weeks starting on Monday...

What should I do? What should I see? I've never been to California.

As far as we KNOW he doesn't have a tragic back-story

I hope he doesn't have a horrible past though, nothing like Bruce Wayne's anyway. Astro Boy as a whole is depressing enough as it is.

Hmm, so Reno is an import? the image certainly looks like him.

He just loves kids I guess. He's like Bruce Wayne without the tragic back-story and the vigilante bit. I also am a bit obsessed with single-fathers in media which also makes me think on Ochanomizu frequently.

When I saw the images of Atom and the rest getting all cleaned up I was strangely reminded of the scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and company first arrived in the Emerald City and had more or less the same treatment... that and the catchy song!

I'd LOVE to see that gif though!

I think I remember seeing this story somewhere else, and that Tezuka played the soundtrack to the movie often during late-nights when he was drawing.

Hmm. Well I'm not as tech-savvy as you are (obviously :D ) so I'm not sure what that would or wouldn't do to what I already have installed on my computer. I have the video codec CCCP pack as well as some games and other free software that I wouldn't want to mess up with a switch like that or have to...

And Ochanomizu gets a new kid to look after! He went on vacation and instead of bringing home a tan he brought back a genius child. XD

I may get GIMP one day if I ever get back into editing manga again (I used to 'work' for Mako Scans, a scanliation site). I used a bootleg copy of photoshop that my brother put on my old computer to do that editing so I guess I'm a little experienced in the program. As for computer operating systems...

I wonder how many people from the 'baby-boomer' era were inspired to go into engineering or anything technological as a direct result of Astro Boy.

Oh wow that computer, still nothing like the early computers from Alan Turing's theories and work.

That's pretty cool. I've heard good things about GIMP but I've never used it myself, being a traditional artist and all. I really am awful at digital art.