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I wish the forum had a search engine to find topics on old threads..... I had found a link to an old thread here via google on Astro's hair spikes. I also found this old Calvin and Hobbes strip: http://chquotes.synthasite.com/resources/ch_classphoto.gif which was rather funny (he should have drawn a...

[QUOTE=kscharf;206186]That reminds me of the 1980's episode where someone from the future takes Atom, Uran, BlackJack and Penoko back in time on a mission. Yes, it was Rock. He used to make hero like roles back then. The Time Machine from 2003 was very different. Also, I wonder what was Atom's outc...

Anybody ever seen this manga? http://www.amazon.com/Atomcat-Osamu-Tezuka/dp/1569703116/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359140855&sr=8-1&keywords=atomcat It's a short series that Tezuka did (7 stories) in which he re-creates Astro Boy as a CAT! The story is based around a boy who is bullied at school. His fa...

That reminds me of the 1980's episode where someone from the future takes Atom, Uran, BlackJack and Penoko back in time on a mission.

Viki has posted the "Tezuka Osamu Story: I'm Son Goku" http://www.viki.com/channels/5874/videos/70828 This was a Japanese TV special released shortly after Tezuka's death. The first half of it is an autobiographical cartoon of Tezuka, the second part is a Sci-Fi Anime that reminds me of the film "He...

I guess that was one of the episodes not dubbed into English as part of the 100 some odd episodes that NBC bought.

KMplayer? Ah another Linux user! SMplayer is good too, and will accept YouTube URL's directly (but make sure you have the latest version since Youtube keeps changing their download format!).

Tezuka once had a sequence in the manga where Astro was 'tested' for artistic talent. He listened to music and 'noise' and liked the noise better. He was asked to draw a bowl of fruit (draw what you see) and drew the molecular structure! So I'm not sure that he would choose any kind of music, probab...

That's an example of where Tezuka drew Atom without his boots. He's not very consistent about that in the manga. He's also inconsistent about Cobalt. In the manga, Professor Ochanomizu created him when Atom went missing looking for an atomic bomb under the sea. In the anime, Cobalt was left in a scr...

Tezuka wasn't shy about basing his manga's on classic stories, or using them tongue in cheek. He had one series of stories lampooning 'Gone with the wind".