'You know you're an Astro Boy fan when' game (To 1000 XD)

[CommanderEVE]

849: When you start to think how Astro works.

[Dragonrider1227]

849: When you carry an Astro Boy toy around and take pictures of it where ever you go. (I... actually do that sometimes)

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

When you put Astro's image on you phones home screen, Also have him on your computers wallpaper and screen saver.

[AstroBoyGF]

3. You try to pull your hair into Astro Boy spikes when it's full of shampoo

This is such a mood.

[_n0iro_]

When you see one of those LP covers or any Rooster and casually joke it’s Tenma.

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[Bluebell1995]

When you come back to this forum after a VERY long absence.

Also worthy of mention: when you realise that your interest in technology (especially robotics!) was kick-started by the Astro Boy series.

[Bluebell1995]

**Correcting the numbers according to the amount of posts above.

855: When you seriously consider using the Astro Boy intro theme (1963 version, no lyrics) as the ring-tone to your iPhone. (I actually have no idea how to do that... yet. I'll figure it out somehow.)

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Copy the ring tone file (mp3, wav) to your phone and in the settings menu select 'ring tone'. There should be an option for picking a user supplied file. I'm talking Android, I've never used an iPhone.

[Solarcat20v2]

you carry an astro keychain plush in your purse as a good luck charm. I have one that a friend of mine gave to me for my birthday one year. (i'm not quite sure what number this is exactly)

[Bluebell1995]

you carry an astro keychain plush in your purse as a good luck charm. I have one that a friend of mine gave to me for my birthday one year. (i'm not quite sure what number this is exactly)

Yours would be 856.

857: If, when you were about 14 years old, you made an Atom paper doll and a Uran paper doll, and secretly carried them to school in your backpack. Yep, I did that. Or at least, I think I made both Atom and Uran... or maybe it was just Atom? I can't remember; the memories are a bit fuzzy by now. But I recall that one day, I realised that I forgot my Atom paper doll at cram-school, so I rushed back to get it because I knew I would get REALLY angry if some kid found mini-Atom in my desk, and then made fun of me for watching a ''childish cartoon''.

At that age I was like, ''Nobody insults my favourite characters in front of me! ESPECIALLY Atom!''

Back then, and I assume right now in 2022 as well, Astro Boy is well-known in Taiwan but only as a ''kid's cartoon'', on the same level with Powerpuff Girls or Doraemon. From 2012 to 2014, at the height of my ''Tezuka fangirl years'', anime was all the rage among kids at school, but only the more modern ones like Naruto and One Piece. (There were also a few Studio Ghibli fans though, which was great because I always enjoyed Hayao Miyazaki's work. A quick look at my old ''Windswept Cloak'' account can attest how much teenage me LOVED chatting about Ghibli stuff, even on this forum.) Point is, in my school years, I didn't want to tell people that I was an Astro Boy fan because they'd call it ''childish'', and I didn't want Atom to get insulted even though he's fictional.

So I settled with carrying that paper doll around in great secrecy...