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The introduction for is Asterboy, but, he is Jetter mars. All 27 episodes, this is Jetter mars. Without a doubt.

You're right. I wonder if that's a quirk of a Saudi Arabian dub, or if he just didn't remember properly?

who is Jetter mars?

Is that cartoon any good? Cuz I've never seen it.

Sparx wrote:who is Jetter mars?

Jetter Mars is a kind of copy that Osamu Tezuka created in the late 70s. The company he had founded, Mushi production, had been bankrupted, and therefore he didn't legally owned the rights for Astroboy anymore. When he planned to make new movies of Astroboy, he still hadn't secured the rights, and therefore decided to make a kind of copy of Astroboy: Jetter Mars.
Jetter Mars is sometimes nicknamed "70s Astroboy".

Edit: I had a look at the website: they really screwed up between the description and the images

OMGoodness, that's awesome info, fafner!

fafner wrote:Edit: I had a look at the website: they really screwed up between the description and the images

Oh my!

I can only imagine the face of the buyer expecting the 1980 Astroboy series but ending up with Jetter Mars instead! :d oh:

Here is the link to the Tezuka Osamu World Page for Jetter Mars: http://en.tezuka.co.jp/anime/sakuhin/ts/ts016.html

To put it bluntly, Mars is the Atom of the 1970s. He has several adventures that are essentially 1970s versions of Atom's earlier adventures. As an example,

the 35th manga adventure:

Artificial Sun, The Artificial Sun Ball (Original title: Fire Jar Island)

(Dark Horse vol. 5)

was the 1960s 14th Episode The Artificial Sun (English: 12. The Artificial Sun)

It was the 1980s 39th Episode The Stolen Sun (English: 37. The Man-Made Solar Sphere)

Between the 1960s & the 1980s Astroboy anime, was the Mars series, which used essentially the same plot as in this story, but made the sphere a freezing device, and the control was via a xylophone rather than a piano or organ as in the Astroboy versions. The villian was Kin Sankaku, who was also cast as the villian in the Astroboy versions for this story.

cool jetter looks cute and i did know there was a 1970's astro boy like cartoon...
BTW... you know some much about astro boy that i think you should wright a book about it

I just stumbled upon this page, while searching my bookmarks for something else: Mars televising data (google translation).