Here's an interesting question

[Dragonrider1227]

reading the Astro Boy manga, I read the story "Meeva." Where a 4th dimensional boy with the powers to bring back artifacts and people from the past but only when he's in great pain. Long story short, Tenma ends up with him and wants him to bring back the Astro Boy he built back in 2003 so he can raise him from the start again. I'm baffled by this. If he's going to bring someone from the past back why doesn't he ask Meeva to bring back Tobio?

[diehard67]

Tenma gets along with robots better then people and maby tobio remembers his dad not being vary good at and and astro doesn't.

not sure realy.

[Dragonrider1227]

possibly. But I figured he'd want a fresh start with Tobio. Since the whole point of building Astro was to replace him

[Androids101]

Now thats an interesting question...

[Rick]

Maybe he wont Astro because he can program him.
We have seen it in the penultimate episode of Astro Boy 2003.
Tenma repaired Astro as he has promised. But he has reprogrammed
him. Maybe he want Astro because he can reprogram him when
he make mistakes. And maybe because he has the big fear
to lose him again. Astro hase superpower and can defend themselves.
But Tobio not. I think it's only fitting, right?


(Look what I found interesting times on Youtube.^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvIOyu4sX8g&NR=1)

[the 鉄腕アトム fan]

but Tobio is dead, you can't bring back the dead, unless your a Grim Riper. . .

[Novacain]

but Tobio is dead, you can't bring back the dead, unless your a Grim Riper. . .

I think you mean Necromancers...
The Grim Reaper's job is to conduct the souls of the recently dead into the afterlife... not bring 'em back to life

If he's going to bring someone from the past back why doesn't he ask Meeva to bring back Tobio?

My speculation is that perhaps Tenma fears by bringing back his human son, he poses the risk of losing him all over again; unlike a robot son who is not as fragile as a human child, and not to mention is also programmable.

[the 鉄腕アトム fan]

Yeah.

[F-Man]

I remember thinking the same thing when reading the story. Most likely Tezuka just didn't care about Astro's origin at that point. He made him an origin story when it was needed, and forgot about it when it didn't serve the story he wanted to tell. Might be a case where the fans made the mythos more important than its creator himself saw it.

[Androids101]

Its interesting how Astro Boy isn't just science fiction, Tezuka also adds elements of Supernatural, fantasy and others into it, like in this story.