"AprilSeven" wrote:Well, reading through these threads, I realize that one of the main reasons Astro is my favorite fictional character is because he lives in a world that doesn't always understand/accept him. He goes through what we go through.
All the firepower and horsepower in the world can't keep you from being lonely. All the earnest effort to do good works regularly gets dismissed by insensitive and hard-hearted people. But Astro carries on, and goes forward. And seeing him do that makes it a little easier for me to do that when I have to!
This is so true!!! It is what is moving in him.
In fact, logically, I don't find him to be the most interesting character by himself. I think great characters in fiction usually should have a few shortcomings, but Astro is so logical, so nice towards everybody and so serious about what he has to do that even when he breaks a rule, he has a very good reason to do so, so much that it's hard to fault him.
However, he reaches something really deep down inside me... for the reasons you gave. He's not a human being, but he displays a great deal of humanity.
I also like Tintin, and I find a lot of similarities between Astro and Tintin for these reasons (but I had already written about it
here, and in fact reunited both worlds
here for the Photoshop thread years ago).
It's nice to have Astro take a break once in a while, but it would be boring if that's all the anime was about.
Throughout the entire series there's lots of foreshadow that this person will surely die, or this person, but it's guaranteed to end sadly for this relationship. But no, everyone got a happy ending. I was disappointed that the expectations that Takahashi set up for the readers did not happen, whether they are good or bad.
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