Astro Boy (2003 TV series)

Astro Boy
Screenshot of the titular character, Astro Boy
Cover of the first DVD volume
アストロボーイ・鉄腕アトム
(Asutoro Bōi: Tetsuwan Atomu)
Genre
Anime television series
Directed byKazuya Konaka
Produced by
  • Minoru Kubota
  • Yasuhisa Kazama
  • Norio Hayashi
  • Kaoru Matsuzaki
  • Atsuya Takase
Written byMarc Handler
Music byTakashi Yoshimatsu
StudioTezuka Productions
Licensed by
Original networkFuji TV, Animax
English network
Original run April 6, 2003 – March 28, 2004
Episodes50[4] (List of episodes)
Manga
Illustrated byAkira Himekawa
Published byShogakukan
ImprintTentōmushi Comics Special
Magazine
  • Shōgaku Gonensei
  • Shōgaku Rokunensei
  • Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic
DemographicChildren
Original run2003 – 2004
Volumes3
Anime film
Astro Boy: Mighty Atom – Visitor of 100,000 Light Years, IGZA
Directed byYoshio Takeuchi
Produced by
  • Sumio Udagawa
  • Toshiyuki Fukai
Written byTōru Nozaki
Music byTakashi Yoshimatsu
StudioTezuka Productions
ReleasedSeptember 1, 2005 (2005-09-01)
Runtime41 minutes
Related works

Astro Boy (アストロボーイ・鉄腕アトム, Asutoro Bōi: Tetsuwan Atomu, lit. "Astro Boy: Mighty Atom") is a Japanese anime television series, based on Osamu Tezuka's manga series of the same name. Produced by Tezuka Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, Dentsu, and Fuji Television, it was directed by Kazuya Konaka, with Marc Handler as the story editor, Shinji Seya designing the characters, Shinji Aramaki and Takeshi Takakura designing the mechanical elements, Keiichirō Mochizuki serving as chief animation director, and Takashi Yoshimatsu composing the music.

The anime was created to celebrate the birthdate of Atom/Astro Boy, as well as the 40th anniversary of the original TV series. It kept the same classic art style as the original manga and anime, but was renewed and modernized with more lush, high-quality, near-theatrical animation and visuals, combining the playfulness of the early anime with the darker, more serious and dramatic science fiction themes of the manga and the 1980 series. The anime was broadcast in Japan on Animax and Fuji TV from April 6, 2003, to March 28, 2004, every Sunday from 9:30 to 10:00 JST, for a total of 50 episodes,[5] and it was also aired outside of Japan on Kids' WB in the United States and other local broadcasters overseas.[6]

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