Astro boy is an animated TV series written and directed by a Japanese creator called Osamu Tezuka the original name of Astro boy in Japan is Mighty Atom the character was illustrated by Osamu from 1952 to 1968.
"The story follows the adventures of a robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters. The manga was adapted into the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime. After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as New Mighty Atom, known as Astroboy in other countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety. An American computer-animated 3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka was released on October 23, 2009."
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The Astro Boy series consists of several story lines. Frederik L. Schodt, who wrote the English adaptation of the series, said that, as Tezuka's art style advanced, the character astro is slowly advanced and becomes more modern and soft in look and apearance to apeal to the target audience of boys at a younger age and in Elementary school.
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