What was your first ever Astroboy-ep you saw?

[Strange Wings]

I think it would be interesting to know B)

Mine was the 80's ep 'Outer Spaceport R 45' somewhere in 1986. It was all in french and I
couldn't understand a word (I still can't, to be honest ), but I remember Astro's voice
was very cute and well synchronized .
That ep was the start of my Astroboy-addiction in my youth, till 17 years later the addiction has started all over again :wahah: :wahah: :wahah: .

The second ep I remember I saw was 'The World Of Odin'.
Since we hadn't any VCR in our family at this time, I had to come up with a substitutical
solution of my own: I just taped the soundtrack with a mono tape recorder by the
build-in microphone (I placed the recorder beneath the TV-speaker) .
Like I said before it was all in french, but nevertheless I could imagine the pictures and
the movements just by hearing the soundtrack of it.
So every evening as I went to bed, I played those self-recorded Astroboy-soundtracks.
I remember that it gave me a feeling kinda being sheltered somehow.

Maybe this seems a bit ridiculous, but it really was the way I got into Astroboy-cartoons.
It's also the combination 'kid robot with ultra-powers AND human feelings' that makes this
caracter so fascinating. I symphatized with Astro many times (and still I do), cause I was
at the same age as him at this time.
Astroboy contains humour, drama, action, love, and apart from that it is darn well made B) !

Now I remember the 3rd episode I saw: 'Goliath's Head'.

[DrFrag]

The first episode I saw was episode 1 of the first Australian screening of the 80s series in 1982. My brother and I were watching and this new cartoon came on we'd never heard of called Astroboy. In the corner of the screen it said "Nippon 1982" and we thought wow, it was made this year!
We thought it was really cool and it became my favourite cartoon. Although for the first couple of episodes we couldn't figure out why he had red boots in the opening sequence but not in the episodes themselves.

I always watched it when they repeated it but I would usually miss the first few episodes. It was fifteen years before I saw the first episode again.

I think a big part of the appeal to me was that he was intelligent and caring and powerful and completely lacking in any kind of evil. I became a Christian later in life and I think I found the same appeal in Jesus. That combination of absolute purity and kindness and power that people just aren't capable of.

[Strange Wings]

I quite agree! This is just a hypothesis, but maybe Tezuka has taken over some parts
from the new testament (except the action parts).

Do you know the book 'The King Of Narnia' DrFrag?
It is the disguised story of the evangelions. It's a very beautiful story which I used to read
as a kid. Aslan the lion personifies Jesus in all ways. B)

[cybotron]

well, you would have to put Astroboy in his proper Apocalyptic context.
"...And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:..." Rev 10:1
Japan had been destroyed in a war... had been A-bombed twice... hundreds of thousands had perished as the scriptures had foretold. The Japanese had been decieved into a war against the west that could have never been won and the old Japan was gone... The ancient "ISA" (Jesus or Om the undying syllable) cultus is old in Japan, and had been suppressed by the militarists and their Shinto cult. But after the war, all things were new. The Apocalyptic iconography in Astroboy Anime is obvious. And that Angelic vision of hope and heroics is Astro. Astro is the foundation of the sublime anime industry. :wahah: :wahah: :wahah: h34r: h34r: h34r: B) B)

[cybotron]

The first episode I ever saw was the Genesis of Astroboy... here it is
The first ep ever I saw... On CKLW tv Windsor Ontario...
:wahah: :wahah: :wahah: :wahah: h34r: h34r: h34r: h34r:

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by cybotron@Feb 28 2004, 06:42 PM
"...And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:..." Rev 10:1

Whoa that's deep! Is it a legit interpretation or just made up for a joke?
Astro flies, the reflection on his head is curved like a rainbow, his eyes are searchlights like the sun, his feet are rocket jets. Dunno about the cloud thing.

I quite agree! This is just a hypothesis, but maybe Tezuka has taken over some parts
from the new testament (except the action parts).

Tezuka did write a manga version of Genesis. He also did one about Buddha, so I'm not sure where he stood in his beliefs. He sure loved nature and life.

Do you know the book 'The King Of Narnia' DrFrag?
It is the disguised story of the evangelions. It's a very beautiful story which I used to read
as a kid. Aslan the lion personifies Jesus in all ways.

Do you mean The Chronicles Of Narnia by CS Lewis? Aslan definately personifies Jesus, CS Lewis was a theologist as well as a fiction writer. When the BBC made the books into a TV show, they decided not to create The Last Battle because they thought it was too Christian. Excellent books, read them many times.

Anyway, I've gotten off the topic of first episodes, so feel free to start a new thread or PM to continue the religious stuff.

[cybotron]

We are not talking "religious stuff" here. We are talking anime. The biblical aspect is obvious in Astro, to the initiated... There are a great many anime titles that use "Apocalyptic themes and iconography" in the post war period. Anime is rooted in Caligraphy and the wars of the "Son's of heaven" in the Isanagi mythos.... Astro is only a continuation of that tradition in an electronic medium. I have tons of anime most of it based on biblical and scriptural elements from The Rig Veda to the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, to the Koran. These "quality" foundations illuminate all high Anime and "FANTASY" and indeed cinema itself, from Godzilla to Mothra, from Honda to Kurasawa , from Dragonball to "Witch Hunter-Robin.... All and (I mean ALL,) popular Japanese anime is based on the "Divine classical"..... h34r: h34r: h34r:

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by Guest@Mar 1 2004, 12:06 PM
I remember an episode in which Astro prevents a train from falling in a cliff, because of a hole in a bridge, by letting the train to pass on him. Or another episode in which a bad guy makes a poisoned snowstorm or something like that...

That would be Speeding Through The Storm and The Snow Leopard.