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In the 60's series Tenma is made to look quite crazy indeed. The method in which he gets rid of Astro is probably the cruelest of any of the version... he raises Astro as his own son for months (I think they even said years), before selling him off to the circus right in front of him. The comic is p...

I think ambiguous characters give depth to any fictional story. This is one of the things I really like about Tezuka's writing, every character has a perspective, and the line between good & bad is often a thin one (just as with real life). It makes for more complex story telling as you said, and a...

Neither of them seem downright evil, but certainly not the blue knight. They're just a bit misguided, each in their own ways. I'd say the blue night is definately not evil, as he only wants robots to be free... he's not out to kill or hurt humans, but if they're getting in his way then he'll do what...

fafner wrote: Nevertheless, the name of Sony as a whole has been tainted in this scandal.

Yessir, that was some serious BS, and it sure as heck pissed me off!

It's hard to say. I'd have to take a look at where the consoles are sitting a year or so from now. X-box has the advantage of being first... it's already fairly well established & the other two major players aren't even out yet. The Nintendo has that wicked controller & whole new approach to gaming,...

What is the interest of the canadian version? If you speak english, I think the usa version is ok. And if you speak french, the episodes has been so destroyed, in the french canadian version, to remove any signs of "violence", than there's really no interest to watch it. I'm sure I watched the cana...

Well, what do we know about the Canadian Dub? What was the name of the company who did it? What channels was it shown on?

Astro Forever wrote:I suppose that if you had opened your volume in front of her, you wouldn't have had to argue!

But, yes, interesting coincidence!

I was thinking that myself, but it really wasn't much of an argument!

So I went to the post office to pick up my copy of the first volume of the 60's series today & I ran into a friend of my mom's. When I told her what I was there for she told me that Ken Steacy (who drew the north american Astro Boy series that came out in the 80's) was a good friend of hers who live...

fafner wrote:I don't have the soundtrack, however some time ago, I have extracted clean themes from the Madman DVDs. You may find them useful for what you want to do.

Thanks Fafnir, this is exactly what I'm looking for!