Little Astro Boy (2014 Animated Series)

[teugene50]

thank you

Looks like Little Astro Boy is no longer airing on Saturday mornings. Channels' anime channel is planned to launch in July, but who knows if it'll have a stream.

YIPEEEE!!!

[Shiyonasan]

So Little Astro Boy fanart is far and few between on the internet, but I found this gem on Pixiv:

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=41309734

It's a shame you don't see more fanart of Little Astro Boy, but considering how little it was advertised, I guess it's to be expected.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Looks like Little Astro Boy is no longer airing on Saturday mornings. Channels' anime channel is planned to launch in July, but who knows if it'll have a stream.

I can't read the Japanese, but I did notice a new stylized drawing of Kimba in that document. Maybe they will do a new version of that too?

[Shiyonasan]

Oh man, did I find an interesting article. It is about a month old, but there's lots of information about how the series was created and developed along with some images of episode scripts, a character sheet, and the episode title list in Japanese. The article is in Japanese though, so you'll have to be able to read Japanese or translate it online. Google Translate won't translate the link to the article, but Bing will. The link for the Bing translation is below.

The article also confirms at the end of the second page that Little Astro Boy will be dubbed in other languages such as French in the future, and that, at the time, they planned to find new partners through MIPTV in Cannes, France (again, keep in mind that this article is about a month old).

Anyway, read all four pages here. The first link is the article in Japanese and the second is the, poor but still mostly comprehensible, Bing translation of the article:

[url]http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFE0102Q_R00C14A4000000/[/url]
[url]http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=ja&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nikkei.com%2Farticle%2FDGXNASFE0102Q_R00C14A4000000%2F[/url]

And here's some of the images from the article:

These are scripts for 6 of the 8 episodes. The left script is for Episodes 5 and 6, the middle script is for Episodes 7 and 8, and the right script is for Episodes 3 and 4:

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Here's a character sheet:

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And here's the episode list in Japanese:

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There are more images in the article, but I figure that these ones are the most interesting to you guys.

EDIT: While not nearly as interesting, it looks like business executives can watch Little Astro Boy on Yoimuri Telecasting Corporation's site once they have an ID and password:

[url]http://www.ytv.co.jp/english/programs/index.php?g=g01&p=&pId=g01_43[/url]

[Fauna]

I translated the original episode titles:

1. Atom Becomes A Racer
2. Atom Recycles
3. Atom Goes To Space
4. I Love Cleaning
5. Fly! Micchi (dub: Mitchy)
6. Atom and Penguin Story
7. Atom's Underground Exploration
8. Atom & Five People's Damage Reversal

It looks like the English version was pretty accurate in their title translations, but there's been a few minor differences.

[teugene50]

Bet there's more to come when Channels tv airs the new Anime channels in july.

[Dragonrider1227]

Looks like Little Astro Boy is no longer airing on Saturday mornings.

Channels' anime channel is planned to launch in July, but who knows if it'll have a stream.

Well, it's something. It will probably work better there. To this day I still find it strange they aired such a cartoon on a news channel
"Channels" needs a better name. How am I supposed to look up information on such a terribly generic name? :/

[teugene50]

Uh...maybe it's because thay need to swith their names to nigerian channel from channels tv?

[F-Man]

By the way, who recorded episodes 7 and 8?

[teugene50]

what did they do?