Astro Boy (1963)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently Astro Boy is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Funimation Now
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Kazue Tagami
Atom (ep. 97-106)
Billie Lou Watt
Astroboy
Youko Mizugaki
Uran
Mari Shimizu
Atom
Mari Shimizu
Atom
Akihiko Mitsueda
Atlas
Ray Owens
Dr. Boytonn
Seizô Katô
Skank (voice)
Shingo Kanemoto
Detective Tawashi
Kiyoshi Komiyama
Cobalt
Gilbert Mack
Caccitore
Masaaki Yajima
Higeoyaji (Shunsaku Ban)
Osamu Tezuka
Writer
Hisashi Yokomori
Tenma Hakase
Shinpei Sakamoto
Detective Nakamura
Iemasa Kayumi
Skunk
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1963
Original Name鉄腕アトム
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes193
Running Time30m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Wiki.
Astro Boy (Japanese: 鉄腕アトム, Hepburn: Tetsuwan Atomu, "Mighty Atom", lit. "Iron Arm Atom") is a Japanese television series that premiered on Fuji TV on New Year's Day, 1963 (a Tuesday), and is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime. It originated as a manga of the same name in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, revered in Japan as the "God of Manga". It lasted for four seasons, with a total of 193 episodes, the final episode presented on a Saturday, New Year's Eve 1966.
At its height it was watched by 40% of the Japanese population who had access to a TV. In 1964, there was a feature-length animated movie called Mighty Atom, the Brave in Space (鉄腕アトム 宇宙の勇者, Tetsuwan Atomu: Uchū no yūsha) released in Japan. It was compiled from three selected episodes from the series—episodes 46 ("The Robot Spaceship"), 56 ("Earth Defense Army") and 71 ("The Last Day of Earth"), respectively. The latter two were filmed and produced in color.
Between 1963 and 1965, 104 episodes were aired in the United States, adapted to the English language. After enjoying success both in Japan and abroad as the first anime to be broadcast overseas, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s under the name New Mighty Atom and again in 2003 as Astro Boy: Mighty Atom.