Originally posted by Strange Wings+Jan 1 2005, 04:52 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Strange Wings @ Jan 1 2005, 04:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--skycloud@Dec 31 2004, 02:35 PM
This web page is "other atom":
http://fullspeed.moo.jp/atomichour/atomuht...mutenjisitu.htm
Some of those pics are rather sick than cute

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Nice artwork tho. [/b][/quote]
I too thought so; why anybody would want to portray him in such poses-- they must be sick. However, those pages are now gone. 404 error: page not found. Naked is one thing, and there were a few naked in the manga and 80s anime, Uran & Nikki, for instance. But the poses were absolutely innocent, as scientists worked on these robots, who lacked certain details found on humans.
I however, also disliked the pics of Atom as non-cartoon character. He has so much appeal because he is so cute. He has the ideal proportions of a little kid, why else would artists depict them that way? People pay big bucks for those little
Hummel figurines, surely nobody would make $ selling similarly posed realisticly proportioned figurines. We love them because they depict children as we wished they really were: Huge noggins & eyes, everything else little. Such are the proportions of very young children, but not to that extreme, though. The younger the child, the less he knows about the world, the more his ability to believe in that which we know to be absurd. The younger the child, the more innocent the child. Adults seem more adoring of younger children, more tollerent of them, and are more likely to spend time with them.

Thus, the preference for those proportions in cartoon kids.
