How long have you been a fan of Astro Boy?

[Hikari Tail]

Back in 2003 they released a few Astroboy comic books in Dutch. So that is like almost 9 years for me?

Wow, I need to celebrate it next year,

[Amaryllis]

I first saw Astro Boy when the 2003 version was airing on Cartoon Network, and I'm pretty sure I saw at least the first five episodes, and I was in high school at the time. A few years later, after I finished Monster by Naoki Urasawa, I wanted to start reading his new work Pluto, and I thought to myself, "Might as well start reading the original too." But at that time, my local library network only had the first two volumes of Astro Boy. (So I decided to read some of Tezuka's other manga, like Metropolis, MW, and Apollo's Song.)

Then, some time after I finished Pluto, some generous soul was kind enough to donate more volumes of Astro Boy to their local library, so I began regularly checking out the volumes, and it got me interested enough to track down a few episodes of the anime to watch as well. Yes, I get most of my Astro Boy fix through my local library.

[AprilSeven]

Welcome to the forum, Amaryllis! I'm thrilled to hear that you've been able to read the manga through your public library. I think it would be wonderful if there was a Tezuka foundation of some kind which served the purpose of getting his works into public library systems!

[Higeoyaji]

I mentioned before about my father being a Japanese immigrant. He wanted to get into animation so Tezuka was a huge influence on him back in those days. So he got me into it when I was a child. I was around 9 or 10 when the 80s show came on television. That's when I became a fan of it, and I loved the show since then.

I don't have any least favorite characters in the Tezuka star system. (Not sure if it's called that.) But Atom is probably my 2nd favorite Tezuka character. Higeoyaji (aka Shunsaku-ban aka Daddy Walrus etc.) is my personal favorite. I haven't read all of the manga books yet though, I've only read the first three books.

[diehard67]

well I remember seeing some of the Canadian dub when I was a kid, didn't even remember about it for years until I saw a friend of mine watching "old dog new tricks" from the 2003 dvd set, it drifted back into the reassesses of my memory until I saw a preview for the movie while at another movie, this sparked enough for me to want to see the movie, then the movie sparked more old memories, shortly after that I joined here and the rest you all know.