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What's your favoutire Astroboy series?

Postby DrFrag » 20 years ago

Or to put it another way, which series did you grow up with or affiliate most with?
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Postby Strange Wings » 20 years ago

B) I love polls.
For me, it's clearly the 80's version.

French dubbing when I was 13,
English dubbing nowadays,
all other languages will follow some decades later I guess..
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Postby fafner » 20 years ago

Originally posted by DrFrag@May 15 2004, 03:20 AM
Or to put it another way, which series did you grow up with or affiliate most with?

That was *exactly* what I was thinking, even before seeing the comment :D
But maybe someone will tell us he/she used to preffer 1980 (or 1960) until last year ;)
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Postby Dragonrider1227 » 20 years ago

2003 for me. Better animation, coolor plot developments, and just all around cooler in my opinion.

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Postby snorkyller » 20 years ago

Originally posted by Dragonrider1227@May 16 2004, 03:00 AM
2003 for me. Better animation, coolor plot developments, and just all around cooler in my opinion.

Yeah, the 2003 serie is surely better in the drawing : the computers help a lot...

But the story is really better (more original) in the '80 serie. Some episode of the new serie are just boring.

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Postby fafner » 20 years ago

What I would really like is if they remade the 80s with the technics of the 2003, THAT would be great! :D
However it must be nothing else than another daytime dream :cry:
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Postby jeffbert » 20 years ago

I would not say that any one was better than the other two. They all have their strong and weak points:

1960:
Strengths
  • Manga style humor throughout
  • It was my first exposure to Atom; hence, it defines him
  • Atom is depicted as living with a family
Weaknesses
  • B&W
  • Restored eps have very poor video
  • Only 36 of nearly 100 dubbed eps have been restored

80s:
Strengths:
  • Uranium is very cute
  • Color
  • Atom is depicted as living with a family
Weaknesses:
  • Manga-syle humor only intermittent
  • Cruel ommissions in the English dubbed version

2003:
Strengths:
  • Main characters are very cute
  • Includes several laugh aloud episodes
  • Being current, it uses technology both real & imaginary that is also current
  • Light-ray robot has a happy ending
Weakness:
  • No Manga-style humor
  • Stupid and unjustified name changes for dubbed characters
  • Atom and Uranium are wards of the State. No parents, no family life, and even Ochanomizu is often absent from the home
  • Stupid KWB & its choice of editing and dubbed voices


My eyes still become wet when I see or hear the opening or closing credits to the 1960s series. I guess I would need to call that one my favorite. :)
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Postby DrFrag » 20 years ago

Are you gonna vote then? :P
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Postby jeffbert » 20 years ago

I have cast my ballot for the '60s. :lol: However, note that this is in keeping with your first posting to this thread, which asks, "Or to put it another way, which series did you grow up with or affiliate most with?" :lol:
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Postby DrFrag » 20 years ago

Yeah, I didn't know how to fit it succinctly in the subject line. :)
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