Long Lost Astroboy

Long Lost AstroBoy

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Despite the massive invasions of modern technology and extraterrestrial, I would still not call any superhero like Spiderman, Green Lantern or Superman but the little robot named Astroboy.

Never did I imagine that this science fiction series which is set in a futuristic world where robots co-exist with humans could drew a big impact to me, from Astro's drastic “childhood” where he was rejected by his own creator Doctor Tenma who intended to replace his deceased son Tobio, up to his adventures in which he was adopted by now his legal guardian, Professor Ochanomizu.

Around 1952, when Astroboy's originator Osama Tezuka imagined a world where man and advanced technology pooled hand in hand, Japan has no reputation for science and technology that it had gained just by the year 2002. It's as if Tezuka had visioned the forthcoming of his country through visualizing it on a manga and created Astro as his obra maestra.

Come to think of it, after the published in 1962 and television broadcast in 1963, series that embraced aesthetics which was later called anime filled the Japanese television with the same plot and almost with the same character's personality: to fight crime, evil, aliens and injustices.

So even if Uzumaki Naruto (Naruto), Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) and Tsunayoshi Sawada (Hitman Reborn) were now the famous bidas on our anime time slot, there could only be one robot whose cute, gifted with superior powers and skills as well as the ability to experience human emotions, in my heart and soul but our beloved Astroboy, the first most popular kiddo hero in the anime world.