Astro Boy
Astro Boy (2004) tells the story of a youthful robot boy - Astro -modeled after the deceased son of a research scientist, Dr. Tenma. Originally intended to be kept a secret, the atomic-powered robot becomes a reluctant superhero who fights for justice and peace for humans and robots alike. Created in Metro City he lives among a 'retro-futuristic' society populated by humans and robots. His creator Dr. Tenma, head of the Ministry of Science, builds Astro in his son's image. Astro never can fill the void that Dr. Tenma feels over the loss of his son. Astro Boy (2004) is a show that you can't miss. Tenma shuts down Astro, burns down the Ministry of Science and flees. Some time later, Astro is discovered by Dr. O'Shay, the new head of the Ministry. Dr. O'Shay takes in Astro and serves as his mentor. Driven by the belief that robots and humans should be friends, Dr. O'Shay is Astro's greatest ally. He provides Astro with a home, enrolls him in school and creates a robot family for him. Astro possesses superb strength, including jet-rocket feet and arms that allow him to fly at extreme speeds. However, the secret to his victories is not his super-powers; the quality that makes him superior to other robots is his artificial brain, the most advanced in the world. This unique quality, termed kokoro in Japanese, allows Astro to experience all of the same emotions as humans. He's clever, resourceful and has a strong sense of justice, always attempting to reason with his adversaries. Mankind's only hope of surviving the onslaught of rebellious robots is a robot himself...the fearless, selfless, incorruptible champion known as Astro. In his quest for peace and justice, Astro often goes it alone, but he is occasionally aided by his robot sister or even rebel robots that he is able to enlist. Astro also has human friends from school who often become entangled in his conflicts. Astro Boy (2004) is produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Dr. O'Shay activates Astro by drawing all of the city's power and using it to jolt Astro to life. But the power surge overloads the Metro City Power System, turning Magnamite, the robotic power-controller, into a robotic menace. When Magnamite comes crashing across the city like a huge mechanical octopus, Astro must master his amazing powers quickly in order to save the city from the rampaging robot.
When a friendly robot-dog invites Atom to watch a game of Robot Ball, he looks forward to a fun day at the ballpark. Instead, the game turns chaotic when the robot players start destroying the stadium and threatening the human spectators. Atom must find a way to save the humans and get the robot athletes back under control.
On Deimos, one of the two moons of Mars, is a team of automaton mining robots. These robots suddenly stop following their human foreman's orders and begin mysteriously digging on their own. Professor Ochanomizu is sent with the investigation crew on a spacecraft to get to Deimos. Unfortunately, Atom has snuck aboard and is determined to help.
The evil Skunk Kusai tricks Denkou, an "invisible robot," into committing a string of robberies. Atom soon realises that Denkou is not bad, she just doesn't know the difference between right and wrong -- and Atom is the only one who can teach her.
A girl named Mimi tracks down Atom and asks him for help saving her family's farm. The farm, in Rainbow Canyon, has been subject to numerous terrible storms. One of the farmhands, Katari, is misusing the weather tower built by Mimi's grandfather, to terrorize the robots working on the farm.
Dr. Tenma builds a powerful robot named Atlas whose abilities rival Astro's. But Atlas has a rebellious nature and begins to destroy Metro City. Astro must save the city from Atlas, while beginning to learn the secrets of his own past.
As Atlas continues his rampage, Astro learns the truth about his own past. With his memory circuits reactivated, Astro remembers being created, rejected, and abandoned by Dr. Tenma. Astro now must face difficult questions about his own identity and his ultimate destiny.
When Kato hides a hyper-accelerator virus on the robotic super train Neon Express, it sends the train and its passengers speeding out of control. Astro must rescue the passengers and prevent the train from crashing into the center of Metro City.
A mysterious robot terrifies humans as he hunts for scrap robot parts and uses them to rebuild his own malfunctioning system. The police target the robot for destruction, but he may not be the "evil robot" he appears to be, and Astro must uncover the truth before it's too late.
An army of ice-manipulating robots live in a colony under the sea, convinced they are living on Venus. The robots are waiting for their creator to return and give them orders. Dr. Tenma, who bears a resemblance to the robots' creator, leads them out of the sea and into Metro City in an attempt to freeze the city.
Astro and Ochanomizu visit the city of Bella Notte. They encounter a local robot circus with one member, Reno, whom is actually a human boy disguised as a robot. The authorities try to take Reno away from his robot family, and the circus goes on the run.
Skunk Kusai is finally jailed, while Ms. Midori takes her students to an amusement park. While there, she tells Astro about Jumbo, an enormous grounded robot at the seaside. Midori and her family have long known Jumbo and consider him a distant friend. However, Skunk's henchmen hijack Jumbo to use him to bust their boss out of jail.
Professor Ochanomizu presents Astro with a special gift, a younger sister named Uran. She turns out to be a handful even for Astro, but has her own powers, mainly communicating with animals. Uran begins to investigate a strange phenomenon that is antagonizing birds in the area, but she runs afoul of Katari and Astro must rescue her.
Something goes wrong with Uran's inner circuitry after a trip through Metro City. After she falls ill with a computer virus, a strange scientist named Dr. Minimini confronts Ochanomizu and volunteers his own shrinking technology. Astro must operate a tiny version of himself to go into Uran's head and stop the virus.
Atom must stop Erasabot from sucking out the artificial intelligence from all the robots in Metro City.
Robot hunters are attacking innocent robots and dismantling them for sale on the black market. Atom befriends the hunters and tries to help them overcome the destructive programming they was given by Skunk.
Pluto, one of the strongest robots Metro City has ever seen, has vowed to become the supreme robot champion of the world. One by one, he challenges and defeats his rivals, gaining their special powers and abilities as he beats them. Now, even though Atom has said he won't fight, he is the only one left who can stop Pluto.
Atom and Uran convince Pluto to stop his destructive ways. But now Pluto's inventor, Shadow, produces a more wicked, more powerful version of Pluto called Dark Pluto. When Dark Pluto attacks, there's only one way Atom can defeat the evil robot: with Pluto's help.
Atom's new human friend Tatsuo loves robots so much that he dresses up in scrap metal and pretends that he IS a robot. But when Tatsuo tries to use his "robot" powers to rescue his mother from a space shuttle accident, it's up to Atom to save them both.
One day in a Metro City park, a Peter Pan picture show is screened to children. Strangely, after the show, many of the children who attended go missing.
When the land around Dragon Lake is poisoned and begins to die, Atom must find the source of the poison. When he gets there he meets the eccentric explorer Numata and they face-off against the toxic Dark Girls in a fight to save Dragon Lake.
Young Princess Kaaya a heir to an South Asian kingdom that has just integrated robots comes to Metro City to explore its technology. Her carers will not let her roam around freely due to her celebrity status as a princess. Atom, Reno, and their friends help Kaaya and his friends disguise Kaaya as a civilian and show her around town.Meanwhile, her vengeful cousin Zedo is trying to steal her pendant so he can overtake the throne. Atom and Reno try to help Kaaya evade Zedo's henchmen.
When Shadow unleashes an army of mind-controlling teddy bears on Metro City, it's up to Astro to stop them before they take over the entire population.
When Shadow unleashes an army of mind-controlling teddy bears on Metro City, it's up to Atom to stop them before they take over the entire population.
An underground city threatens the environment, so the environment fights back--tree roots attack the city and its people. Atom must restore the delicate balance of nature to save the humans.
When an air-blimp is threatened with a wormhole device, Atom is blamed and arrested. The Blue Knight helps him escape from jail, and together they must save the blimp and prove Atom's innocence.
Atom partners with Yuko's Uncle Shunsaku 'Mustachio' Kisaragi to solve a series of baffling robberies involving a dragon-like robotic monster.
A power station orbiting the Earth is set to self-destruct, and Atom partners with the Blue Knight to try to save the robots. They uncover a secret regarding the corrupt humans who caused the danger.
Uran is jealous of her big brother's super-hero status, so she joins Detective Shunsaku 'Mustachio' Kisaragi . They try and solve a strange case involving a bird-like phantom that appears throughout the city.
Astro joins an expedition to the center of the earth, even though Damon, the leader of the expedition, tells him that he doesn't trust robots. When they reach a dazzling cave complex deep within the Earth, one of Damon's own team members mutinies, putting
Zoran is jealous of her big brother's super-hero status, so she joins Detective Wally Kisagari to try and solve a strange case involving a bird-like phantom that has been appearing throughout the city.
Illegal robot fights are being staged in secret locations to entertain spectators. When Astro and the Blue Knight try to stop the battles, they are forced to fight each other. As they prepare for battle, Astro learns the truth about the Blue Knight's past
Astro and his friends befriend Nina, a spoiled little girl who has everything money can buy. But just as their friendship begins to grow, the gang discovers a mysterious "phantom machine" that is being used in a series of Metro City robberies. Astro must
Lumanite is a rare and valuable substance recently discovered on the moon. Now, a mysterious shape-shifter is stealing all the lumanite on earth and Astro is called in to investigate.
After being defeated by Astro, Rock is back and looking for revenge--this time he's trying to capture The Firebird, an ultra-advanced space-being who guards the secrets of the universe.
Astro goes to a space camp to work with a group of students on the special exploration ship Falcon II.
The anti-robot forces recover Atlas from space, and install a mind-control device to turn him back into an attack robot. Once again, Atom is forced to fight his old ultra-powerful nemesis.
Astro and the Blue Knight must help Emily, a young robot girl whose parents have been captured by the pirate-like Space Raiders.
Hunters from the future are stealing animal DNA from different time periods in order to enhance their own powers. When Zoran is accidentally caught in the hunters' time machine and transported back to the Stone Age, it's up to Astro to rescue her.
Astro has been nominated for the "Robot of the Year" award--but the ceremony is interrupted when Drake and his anti-robot group attack the ship.
Astro accompanies Yuko on an expedition to the arctic to find a lost robot who was part of a special space exploration team lead by Yuko's father.
The Blue Knight commands a spacecraft carrying hundreds of enslaved robots and takes them to Steel Island, a seabound airbase operated by Shadow. In Metro City, Blue Knight's popularity soars among robots while humans begin to fear AI robot rebellion. Lamp and Dr. Tenma team up to stage an attack on AI robots to lure Atom to Steel Island.
A humanoid robot named Klaus is used as an undercover operative for the authorities. One day, Klaus suddenly goes rogue and removes his police transmitter. However, removing this device will automatically trigger a software virus that will render the police robot inoperable. Atom and Delta race against time to find Klaus and give him the virus antidote
Astro and his friends travel to Princess Abby's homeland of Mayura. When a giant dragon is spotted flying over the kingdom and Princess Abby's younger brother disappears, Astro must solve the mystery.
A GP3 robot named Jake is wrongly accused of harming Hannah, a human girl. When Hannah's enraged father, the powerful General Red, orders that Jake and all GP3 robots be rounded up and dismantled, The Blue Knight ignores Astro's pleas and attacks the huma
The Blue Knight gathers with other robots who have turned their backs on humanity.
General Red, the leader of the human military forces aligned against The Blue Knight is preparing to fire the Pulsar Laser Cannon, a super-laser beam that will destroy Robotonia and all of its robots. Astro and The Blue Knight must join forces to destroy
Robotonia is spared from annihilation, but the hatred between robots and humans is only increasing.
Atom remains horribly damaged after the siege on Robotonia. Despite Professor Ochanomizu's efforts, he cannot seem to revive Atom, and reluctantly lets Dr. Tenma rebuild him.
After Astro regains his memory and returns home to Dr. O'Shay, Dr. Tenma vows revenge and stages a ferocious high-tech attack on the Ministry of Science. Can Astro reason with him in time to save the Ministry?
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Hisashi Katsuda | Dr. Ochanomizu |
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Roland Angelo Crisolo | Shibugaki |
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Makoto Tsumura | Astro Boy |
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Akiko Kawase | Yuko Kisaragi |
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Tabitha St. Germain | Mimi |
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Miki Maruyama | Uran |
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Shin'ya Ohwada | Dr. Tenma |
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Banjô Ginga | Inspector Tawashi |
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Kôji Ishii | Mr. Lamp |
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Hideyuki Tanaka | Blue Knight |
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Kazuki Yao | Skunk Kusai |
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Taro Ishida | Duke Red |
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Kosei Tomita | Shunsaku Kisaragi |
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Olivia Hack | Various |
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Unsho Ishizuka | Marukabi Boon |
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Cho | Ham Egg |
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Dennis Falt | Narrator |
| Director | Kazuya Konaka |
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| David Hartman |
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| Keiichirô Mochizuki |
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| Writer | Marc Handler, Bob Goodman, Joseph Kuhr, Rick Suvalle | |
| Producer | Yasuhisa Kazama, Minoru Kubota, Tsuneyuki Morishima, Yoshihiro Shimizu | |
| Musician | Takashi Yoshimatsu | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 5 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Stereo [English] |
| Extras | The Making of Astro Boy |
| Distributor | Columbia/Tri-Star |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Mar 29, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Purchased | On Nov 28, 2013 |
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| Index | 2608 |
| Added Date | Mar 22, 2018 00:00:00 |
| Modified Date | Mar 03, 2025 21:34:31 |