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Astro Boy Animated Series 2003


In 2003, a new Astro Boy anime series was created to celebrate the birth date of Astro Boy 
(as well as the 40th anniversary of the 1963 series). Under the original English name 
(instead of Tetsuwan Atom), it kept the same classic art style as the original Astro Boy manga and 
anime, but was revisioned and modernized with more lush, high-quality, near-theatrical animation and 
visuals. It combined the playfulness of the early anime with the darker, more serious and dramatic 
Science Fiction themes of the manga and the '80s anime. The anime broadcast 
in Japan (on the same date as Astro's birth in the manga, April 7, 2003) across Animax and 
Fuji Television, with lots of fanfare. It was directed by Kazuya Konaka  and written by Chiaki J. Konaka.

Though many episodes of the series can be regarded as "free-standing" in as much as they 
don't have anything to do with the series major story arcs, the 2003 series can be regarded as 
having a well-defined beginning, middle, and end. Although the series appears to initially have 
two main plotlines (Dr. Tenma's eventual plans for Astro to evolve and another plotline about robot rights), 
these two story arcs dovetail toward the end of the series.



50 Episodes
Formaat: MKV
Taal: Engels
Subs: No



Episode titles 

01. Power Up!
02. Rocket Ball
03. Atlas (Japanese episode order had Destination Deimos)
04. Astro vs. Atlas (Japanese episode order had Into Thin Air)
05. Destination Deimos (Japanese episode order had Rainbow Canyon)
06. Into Thin Air (Japanese episode order had Atlas)
07. Rainbow Canyon (Japanese episode order had Astro vs. Atlas)
08. Neon Express
09. Franken
10. Venus Robots
11. Reviving Jumbo
12. Robot Hunters
13. The Rise of Pluto
14. The Fall of Acheron (NOT Dragon Lake)
15. Dragon Lake (NOT Lost in Outland)
16. Lost in Outland (NOT Neon Express)
17. Deep City
18. The Blue Knight
19. Hydra-Jacked
20. Geo Raider
21. Secret of the Blue Knight
22. Robot Circus
23. Little Sister, Big Trouble
24. Micro Adventure
25. Only a Machine
26. Robot Boy
27. Dawn of the Techno-Revolution
28. The Legend of Tohron
29. March of the Micro Bears
30. Old Dog, New Tricks
31. The Case of the Phantom Fowl
32. Gideon
33. Fairy Tale
34. Shape Shifter
35. Phoenix (or Firebird)
36. Space Academy
37. Atlas Strikes Back
38. Battle-Bot
39. Time Hunters
40. Escape from Volcano Island
41. Avalanche
42. Battle of Steel Island
43. Undercover
44. Into the Dragon's Lair
45. Night Before the Revolution
46. Robotonia
47. Showdown in Robotonia
48. Journey to Tomorrow
49. Astro Reborn
50. The Final Battle