Astro's hair spikes

[Robin]

Did the series ever give a functional reason for Astro having spiked hair or was it just for looks?

[AprilSeven]

I've never seen a reason given - although, when you see his blueprints, there ARE little doohickeys inside each of the points.

BTW Andrew . . . I certainly understand your mom saying don't post photos (she's right about that) = BUT . . . somebody COULD take a photo of you from behind = so we could still see your Astro spikes, but not your face, which is what people could recognize.

I've never seen a photo of someone actually mastering the true spikes ALTHOUGH I see more and more guys gelling their hair up to a spiky ridge. It's getting VERY VERY CLOSE TO ====> !

[Juanita]

To screw with people's minds.
That's pretty much it.

As you begin to look through Tezuka's other works you'll see that a lot of his characters have some funky features for practically no reason.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Tezuka claimed that as a child his own hair stuck up in bunches sorta like that. Also whenever he used astro as a human member of his star system (at least twice in blackjack) and as Tobio, he drew him with the spikes subdued as hair tufts.

[AprilSeven]

As a person with naturally curly hair, I can attest to his idea.

In fact, when I was "Astro's age" (10-ish), my curly hair was cut short, and in the mornings, my "bed head" look was pushed up to one side, and flattened out to the other. And yes, I used to laugh at my image in the mirror, thinking "looks like Astro Boy!"

[Juanita]

Aww that's so cute April X3

Well, his hair being an inspiration makes sense.

[Robin]

I am just wondering if there is any equipment like sensors in those horns

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

In Futurama all robots had antenna on their heads.

[Robin]

In Futurama all robots had antenna on their heads.

i wonder what for... And that must mean the spikes where antennas

[AprilSeven]

Well, I've learned that Cobalt shoots lasers out of HIS spikes!