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If only there had been the Internet back in the 1980s... To think that I had to wait all week for just 20 minutes of Astro Boy, and that if I missed an episode, I was sure it meant I would never get to see it.

And in fact, it took me about 15 years to finally be able to watch the very first episode for the first time... and then a few more years to realize that this had only been the first half of the story...

My interest never completely died; I was always happy to find out there was one more rerun. I became more interested when I found the 2003 series on TV by accident. I had read they were creating a new series years before, but I had long forgotten about it.

I was about six or sevan years old when I first saw it. Daddy bought video tapes of the 80's series, and as soon as I watched it, I fell in love with Astro instantly. Astro is what kinda got me into other anime cartoons sometime in my teen years. I have almost all the Astro Boy mangas, I just need the last 2, which I'm gonna ask for Christmas, I drew lotsa drawings of Astro Boy. I love him and I always will no matter how much people make fun of me for it, rarely annyone does now though, but you get the point.

I've been a fan a little after the film came out. I didn't have much info on the anime before that and was never on tv either. o_____o

Next year it'll be my tenth anniversary as a Tezuka fan and the 20th since I first "met" Astro (and didn't like him. He was "old"). I was eight then, turned 28 several days ago. A man can have GREAT opinion changes in all these years.

3 years, nearly 4!!! But I remember seeing it in 2003/4. But back then I didn't like it all.

It must have been before the of summer 2009 but when i really got into it was about 6 mhonts later when i discoverd the 1980 anime and so i started to buy the manga and the anime versions, and when i had to do a power point presentation in 2010 for school i thought i should do it about the author of Astro Boy and ever since my tezuka obsession has only grown about 55 % of my anime manga collection is Tezuka now.

I started watching Astroboy during the 1980's, as a kid it was one of my favorite shows.
Then in 2005 my interest was rekindled when I found the 80's series on DVD at an HMV store. I bought that, along with the 2003 series and later on the 1960's series. Although I didn't really like the '03 series at first, I did get accustomed to the differences between that show and the version I grew up with.
But as it turns out I really do prefer the 1960's series for some reason.

My story's a little bit different, actually.

About over a year ago, I discovered Jesuotaku's anime reviews. Since I like both her and her various review styles/projects, I kept watching (trust, this is relevant). Then back in July, she did a review of Tezuka's Phenoix, and I immediately became interested in learning more about Tezuka, which lead me to be interested in watching the 2003 Astro Boy anime.

Once I got back from vacationing with my family this past summer, I decided to sit down and watch the 03 series before University started up again. And well...let's just say I enjoyed the heck out of it. Not only am I considering it a potential contender for my favorite anime (a spot I have trying to figure out for awhile), but it's also the number one thing on my Christmas list this year.

Since when I saw the 2009 movie in theaters. I went to the library the next day and encountered the manga. I was like, "Wait, there's a book?" I read it and quickly became a Tezuka fan.

Wow I haven't been on here in a long time >.<

I've been an Astro fan for 15 years. I've loved him since I was 6. I used to hire it from the video store and watch it when they played it on Nickelodeon, so that was how I got into it. They still show the 2003 series on the Sci-Fi channel today.