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The cute song-and-dance number in Uran's quest was cut for PC reasons; she does a little spoof of about every mainstream religion, and naturally that wouldn't exactly sit too well with followers of said religions.

This may have been just a rumour or just flat-out false, but a while ago I was in a forensics roundtable discussing the oppressive, unfair racially segregative South African system of Apartheid, and it's effects on censorship. Someone piped up that Astroboy was on the hit list of banned material...

Ah, this sounds like fun! Name: Ai (But, unlike the standard girl's name, the kanji is not the kanji for "love," but the particles for aizome, a valuable Japanese plant used for dyes grown around Tokushima pref., which is where I lived. Why? You'll know soon enough.) Special abilities: U...

Aww, cute pics! It only leaves one question unanswered; Does Astro dream of electric sheep? (Oh, come on, someone was bound to reference that book sooner or later in this topic and it may as well have been me.)

You can't fire me, I quit!

This might be a little excessive, but when I was meandering through the streets of Kyoto recently when I came across a big fat Astroboy gallery and obligatory gift shop. They had oodles upon oodles and oodles (and I'm talking about lots of oodles here) of uber-cute Astro plushies. I'll have ...