Friday, January 4, 2008

Astro Boy Series (1951) 4 EPISODES




Astro Boy is the first Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiarized as anime It originated as a manga in 1951 by Osamu Tezuka, who is often reputed as the "god of manga". After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in the United States and other Western countries, and again in 2003. For a time, Astro Boy enjoyed a level of popularity in Japan equivalent to Disney's image character Mickey Mouse. THIS IS A REQUEST BY "BROTHER14X"



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