Astro Boy (Shonen)

After a case of mistaken identity on the streets of Tokyo occurs, it is discovered that a space ship from a planet nearly identical to Earth and has landed in a remote area of the mountains of Japan – just one of several national ships that have landed in their counter-part countries. While the space immigrants are welcomed with open arms, Dr. Tenma realizes there will be competition for resources. So he invents a liquid that shrinks living beings out of existence and begins attacking the space people. This sets off a conflict and the space people begin dropping atomic bombs in retaliation. It’s up to the little robot, Astro Boy to broker a peace treaty, using his own head as a token of good will. Dr. Tenma’s plot is defeated and the two populations split once more – but not before Astro gets his head back.

Astro Boy, a humanoid robot of enormous power, begins attending an elementary school alongside human children. Although he easily earns straight A’s, the school bully, ashamed of his own poor grades, teases Astro because he has no parents to show his good grades to. Astro, seeing the natural order of living things, longs for parents of his own. With this in mind, Kenichi, one of his classmates, visits Dr. Ochanomizu and pleads the case that Astro Boy should have parents. Understanding that the little robot is feeling lonely, Dr. Ochanomizu agrees and sets to work building a set of parents for Astro. However, as the happy family is introduced, it becomes obvious that Astro’s parents, being “younger” than he is, know even less about the world than he does. And so, the trio begin attending elementary school together.

When Astro’s friend Tamao starts acting crazy, Kenichi takes him, kicking and screaming, to see Dr. Ochanomizu. He examines Tamao and discovers a strange vapor-like mist emanating from the boy’s head. After capturing it in glass bottle, they discover that gaseous beings from the upper stratosphere have descended to the ground on a mission of conquest. As a gas, the brings are able to enter human bodies and manipulate them against their will. When Astro discovers a plot to poison the water reservoirs, he stops flow of water through the pipes. However, the public misunderstands the situation and attempt to destroy Astro Boy in retaliation. Eventually, Dr. Ochanomizu develops a plan to freeze the gas people, and, after Astro detonates a bomb in the stratosphere, they fall to the ground as harmless snow.

When the human engineers at a robot factory become overly lazy, a large, unfinished robot named “Frankenstein” is prematurely activated and it begins to run amok. Going on a rampage through town, Frankenstein eventually falls in with some gangsters who use him to commit crimes. This proves to be the spark that enflames a group of robots who feel they’ve been mistreated by humanity into launching a coup d’état – taking Dr. Ochanomizu and Kenichi prisoner in the process. Deciding Frankenstein is the key to stopping the madness, Astro defeats him in battle and has him repaired. Now a “good robot”, Frankenstein rescues Dr. Ochanomizu and Kenichi, and reveals that the robot rebels are, in fact, human beings. After the dust settles, it’s decided that the whole mess was caused by humans and Astro Boy is proclaimed a hero.

While exploring a cave at Mt. Shaugi, Mustachio and Astro discover the remains of Prof. Ryotaro Felini, an old friend of Dr. Ochanomizu’s and a noted conservationist, as well as his pet cat, Chiri. When Mustachio is later woken up by the “Red Cat”, an suddenly anthropomorphic Chiri, he is told that humans threatening to despoil the last virgin woodland in the greater Tokyo area will pay the ultimate price. He then visits Mr. Condo, a local developer, and discovers that Felini had approached him in an attempt to preserve Sasagaya Forest. However Condo betrayed Felini’s trust and the furious environmental activist vowed his revenge. After Astro unmasks the Red Cat, the very-much-alive Felini reveals that he faked his own death, and every animal in Tokyo goes crazy and begins terrorizing the humans. When his beloved Chiri is killed by accident, Felini goes off the deep end and threatens some kidnapped children with dynamite. With no other choice, Astro gives him an electric shock, but it sets off the dynamite and he is mortally wounded. On his death-bed Dr. Ochanomizu tells Felini that the construction project has been stopped and Sasagaya Forest is safe. With that, Felini dies happily and is buried in the forest he fought so hard to protect.

While swimming in the sea with Tamao, Astro Boy finds several messages-in-a-bottle, each containing a letter begging for help from a young girl on an island called Pochom-Pochom. Deciding to investigate, Astro flies off again and again each night, illegally leaving Japan, and runs across a mysterious sea serpent which, much to Astro’s surprise, turns out to be a large mechanical construct. He is taken captive and sent to an underwater uranium mining camp. There he meets an old man who has been working as a slave for ten years, as well as his daughter Rumiko, the source of the letters. After battling, and destroying the sea serpent robot, Astro frees Rumiko and her father and deposits them on a neighbouring island. However things don’t quite go as planned and Astro’s head is lopped off by one of the native women. Not realizing he was a robot, Rumiko faints in grief, and Astro Boy, sadly, decides against telling her the truth so as to shield from the possible consequences of a robot leaving Japan without permission.

In the Astro Boy chapter “Sea Serpent Island” (1953), Kerrigan appears as a slave held in a base at the bottom of the ocean. However, when this chapter was first printed in “Shōnen” magazine, this slave role was played by Kerrigan’s younger brother, who looked exactly like Hige Oyaji. Later, when this chapter was published in a tankōbon (standalone book), this role was played by Kerrigan instead, and the casting of Hige Oyaji as Kerrigan’s younger brother was removed from the story.

A new, massive passenger jetliner, capable of carrying 300 passengers, known as “The Flying Skyscraper” is set for its maiden voyage. Among the many passengers are Astro Boy and Dr. Ochanomizu, who have been invited to visit the United States. However, unbeknownst to everyone onboard, the crew has been secretly replaced by a group of villains and the hijacked Flying Skyscraper is now headed towards Island “B”, site of a scheduled nuclear test. Of course, it would be easy enough for Astro Boy to foil the plot, if he hadn’t lost his passenger ticket and been forced to remove his batteries and ride as cargo in the baggage hold…

By special request of Dr. Manmos, Astro Boy is appointed Commander of an American exploration mission to the planet Mars. Although much of the human crew is against the appointment, human error disrupted the first mission and so it is decided that a robot should lead the second, rescue mission instead. Shortly before take off, Cabet, the younger sister of Capt. Hars Lencon, the leader of the first mission, is discovered aboard, but it is too late to turn back. As the ship rockets through space towards Mars, it encounters a strange alien ship that attaches itself to the earthlings’ vessel. Although Astro goes out to investigate, he finds no signs of life and they continue on. Shortly after arriving on Mars, the group is met by the missing Capt. Lencon and an army of robots. When Astro decides not to arrest Lencon, his second-in-command mutinies and Astro is knocked out of commission. As the two human forces square off, a long-awaited alien attack begins. Luckily Astro is revived in time to join the fight, just as Capt. Ketchup learns the errors of his anti-robot ways and sacrifices himself to save the humans. With the threat nullified, the team sets off for home.

When a jet plane loaded with a hydrogen bomb crashes off the coast of Japan, everyone looks to Astro Boy to save the day. However, the weight of the public’s expectations proves to be too much for the little robot and he disappears. To avoid panic, Dr. Ochanomizu decides to build Cobolt, a robot based on Astro Boy’s specs. Although similar, Cobolt simply doesn’t measure up to Astro’s standards. However, since Cobolt’s radar energy identical to Astro’s, he can track Astro down no matter where he is. Following Cobalt’s progress on the computer, they realize that all the time they have been worrying, Astro has already been trying to find the bomb. Cobalt and Astro work together to find the bomb but Astro suddenly break’s down and Cobalt heroically uses himself for spare parts. With that, Astro is able to disarm the bomb just in the nick of time and Japan is saved.

At his request, Dr. Ochanomizu reluctantly agrees to temporarily modify Astro Boy so he can feel fear as a human being. Of course, as soon as Astro is modified, he receives a request from a former sea captain to investigate the appearance of a phantom ship. The ship, which had been near a hydrogen bomb testing site, had crossed paths with his ship and its radiation had either killed, or made his crew very sick. He asks Astro to stop the spread of contamination. Although he’s suddenly extremely nervous, Astro’s dad encourages him to help and Astro soon finds the ship and sets it down on a nearby coral reef. Terrified of the “ghosts” he encounters, he eventually realizes they are simply animals disfigured by radiation. In the end, Astro regains his confidence and decides he’s had enough of feeling human fear.

Fuhrer ZZZ is the leader of a terrorist society that has been targeting important world leaders and prominent scientists around the world and spraying them with a dreadful gas that renders them incurably insane. Despite this, President Lyon and his son, Roberto, visit Japan to discuss ambitious plans to form a federation of the earth’s nations with Prime Minister Hakone. However, Roberto is convinced his father is in danger from the ZZZ gang, and after spying a suspicious man with a peg-leg, he’s proved right. Luckily Astro Boy happens to be in the right place at the right time and saves Roberto from breathing in a dose of gas. Although he fails to capture the assailants, he does manage to snag one of their gas guns and brings it to Professor Ochanomizu to identify the gas. However, PM Hakone isn’t as lucky and he’s attacked by the gang posing as his bodyguards and sprayed with the gas – and Astro is framed for the attack! President Lyon and Roberto are captured and taken to ZZZ’s secret headquarters. There Fuhrer ZZZ himself warns them both to co-operate with him if they know what’s good for them. Although Astro, who had hidden himself at the base attempts to save them, Fuhrer ZZZ takes Roberto hostage and defeats him. However, after returning to Japan, Lyon is injured by Fuhrer ZZZ, prompting Astro to reveal that he was only pretending to be damaged. After another close call with Fuhrer ZZZ, Astro has his named cleared based on Roberto’s testiomy. Having seen Fuhrer ZZZ’s face, Astro tells Higeoyagi that he looks just like President Lyon. Having figured out the connection, Higeoyagi broadcasts the news that Lyon is near death – which prompts his twin brother, Furher ZZZ to visit him in the hospital and be captured.

The gangster Skunk Kusai steals a newly designed transparent robot called Electro and uses him to commit robberies. Although the police attempt a sting operation to recover Electro, a well-meaning Astro gets caught in the middle and Skunk and Electro escape. Later, Electro seeks out Astro, and it becomes apparent that Electro doesn’t understand what a robot is. Although Astro tries to teach Electro right from wrong, the invisible robot remains loyal to Skunk. After Astro succeeds in rendering Electro visible, at least from the legs down, Skunk sends Electro on a mission to blow up Dr. Ochanomizu. Astro Once again pleads with Electro, he won’t listen, and the police have no choice but to destroy him with mag-guns to neutralize the bomb threat. Finally, Moustachio apprehends Skunk, and it’s off to prison once more.

Given Japan’s limited resources, and in order to find solutions to a possible food crisis, a scientist creates giant snails, which he names Gernica. However, the snails turn on their creator, draining his body of all water, and escape into the mountainside. Although the fearsome giant snails go on a destructive rampage, Astro has the perfect solution to stop them – just like all snails, they are susceptible to sodium. So, using a large bag, Astro Boy flys back and forth and sprinkles them with salt. The Gernica all dissolve into sludge and Japan is saved from certain doom once again.

A meteorite crashes in the mountains of Japan and test quickly reveal that exposure to the gas being emitted from it will rejuvenate plants and animals, making them young again. News of the gas spreads and a seedy character named Kurobe Ohno sends giant robots to steal it. Of course Astro Boy intervenes and destroys the robots. Enraged, Ohno arranges for Astro and his brother, Cobolt, to face each other in a robotting contest, and both robots are destroyed as a result. Believing the way clear, Ohno once again sends his robot henchmen to steal the gas, but they are thwarted by a mysertious masked robot. Despite this, Ohno is able to retrieve one cylinder of the gas and intends to use it to make himself younger. However the cylinder explodes, exposing Ohno to an overdose of the gas, and luckily the masked robot intervenes in time to prevent Ohno – who is now a baby – from reverting completely out of existence. In the end, Dr. Ochanomizu reveals that the masked robot is indeed Astro and that the deception was an attempt to teach humanity a lesson after they made Astro and Cobolt fight. Although the gas is lost, Dr. Ochanomizu tells Astro it is probably for the best.

A Frenchman known as Monsieur Ampere asks Astro Boy for help in the excavation of an ancient Mayan tomb. However, the entrance of the tomb is guarded by a sphinx-like robot and some robots in the shape of giant crabs. With Astro’s help, the expedition is able to enter the tomb but a cave-in soon blocks the way. After the debris is cleared, the team discovers the reason for the guards – the tomb is in fact a hidden laboratory where Dr. Don Peres Prado has put himself into a frozen hibernation in the hopes of awakening a few centuries in the future. Although Astro battles the sphinx, he soon learns that it is simply keeping the sleeping scientist from harm. Meanwhile, Ampere’s true motive is revealed – he intends to steal the uranium that is powering the complex…

When a drug called “Yellow Horse” suddenly becomes a world-wide epidemic, the police ask Astro Boy to go undercover as a human boy to find the source. Although the effects of the drug seem rather innocent at first – with the users simply dancing around – the addictive properties are so strong that victims will do anything for another shot. After Dr. Ochanomizu is kidnapped and injected the drug, he is forced to help the criminal gang to produce and distribute it. Luckily, given Astro Boy’s artificial skin, he is able to seem to be injecting the drug, but to no effect. As such, he is able to infiltrate the gang, lead the police to their headquarters in an orbiting satellite, and arrest the crime boss behind “Yellow Horse”.

Astro Boy wishes to have a human heart that appreciates the beauty of music and flowers, and he asks Dr. Ochanomizu to install one in his body. But the heart makes him fearful as well as appreciative of beautiful things. Seeing that Astro Boy has become a coward, a villain tries to topple him by kidnapping his parents. In front of a monstrous robot, Astro Boy gets frightened and cannot move. Then Kenichi and Shibugaki, classmates of Astro Boy, come to rescue him.Astro insists that Professor Ochanomizu implants an artificial heart inside him so that he can be enabled to sense the beauty of things such as music and art just like humans can. Ochanomizu is very reluctant because he warns Astro that this will also mean he will feel fear and terror like humans. But he agrees to make the implantation for a little while and then take it out to satisfy Astro’s curiousity.Astro senses how different everything is to him now. Flowers look beautiful. The music being played for Christmas this year sounds so sweet. However some masked criminals realize that Astro appears to be scared when he is almost hit by the car they’re driving. They come up with a scheme to use this to their advantage. They kidnap Astro’s robot parents and leave a note telling him to meet them at the entrance to Ueno Park on New Year’s Eve.Astro is very upset and flies all over Japan to search for his parents while everybody else celebrates Christmas. His efforts are in vain so he waits outside Ueno Park as the bells ring in the new year. One of the gang members arrives in a car and declares that unless Astro agrees to assist them in their plans they will destroy his parents. By 9am tomorrow morning Astro must come to the top of Mt. Akaishi in the Japanese alps. Astro is terrified but he determines to go for the sake of his mother and father.Meanwhile Professor Ochanomizu contacts Astro’s friend from school Ken to let him know that Astro’s in big trouble. Ken takes another of Astro’s friends Shibugaki with him and together the boys both fly to the alps on jet-propelled skis designed to travel through the sky to find Astro and help him. The criminal gang have Astro right where they want him. Realizing that he truly has become just as scared as humans are they tell him he must fight a big robot to get his parents back. Astro is terrified and is about to be destroyed when Ken suddenly bravely charges from out of nowhere with a pistol. Before anybody can shoot him he shoots at Astro’s throat knocking the artificial heart transplant out of commission. Once again Astro is a regular robot, with no knowledge of the meaning of fear and he smashes the large robot. While the villains run away Ken fires the pistol into the air as a signal to Shibugaki. He responds by throwing a rock over a nearby cliff starting an avalanche which rumbles down right on top of the bad guys apparently killing them all. They are nearly entirely buried with only small bits of their bodies sticking out of the snow.Astro tells his friends and his parents that this adventure has helped him to understand that it really isn’t a good idea for robots to have the same feelings as humans.

Dr. Rum is an Indio who bears a grudge against white men because his mother was killed by them. Seeking revenge, he makes a robot called Atlas in which he incorporates the “Omega Factor.” Omega Factor is a device that fits the robot with an evil mind. As Astro Boy tries to stop his plan, however, Dr. Rum catches him, and then puts a head, which looks exactly like that of Astro Boy, on the body of Atlas, to make it to go on a rampage. But Atlas, with Omega Factor incorporated in it, stops listening even to the orders of Dr. Rum.

A rumor spreads that monsters live in the swamp of Midoro. In an investigation of the swamp, Astro Boy finds intelligent dinosaurs breeding there. As it turns out, these dinosaurs have stowed away on a time machine from a prehistoric time. In contact with a poisonous liquid that the dinosaurs spit out, humans become obedient to the orders of the monsters. In an effort to kill all the dinosaurs, Astro Boy catches one, and brings it to Dr. Ochanomizu to have him discover the secret of its poison. In the meantime, other dinosaurs attack with a gigantic robot that they have ordered humans to make.

One night, a time machine from the 22nd century makes an emergency landing on the premises of Dr. Ochanomizu. A scientist aboard says that his machine has stopped in the 21st century during testing. Soon he restarts the machine, and takes Astro Boy and Dr. Ochanomizu to the world of 100 million B.C., to a prehistoric time inhabited by dinosaurs.

Robot bombs abandoned on the bottom of the sea long ago begin to move by themselves, breeding to the extent that a kingdom is created. The robot bombs are planning to move out of the sea to the land after conquering the humans. Kidnapped by the robot bombs, Astro Boy and Tamao are taken to the bottom of the sea. Astro Boy successfully persuades the robot bombs into making peace with the humans. In the meantime, however, Mason, an evil man, is conspiring to abuse the robot bombs.

An old friend of Dr. Ochanomizu’s, Professor Pablos, has been tasked by the insane dictator of the Republic of Golgonia, known as Premier Hitlini, to develop a machine that synthesizes the molecules in the air to make duplicate copies of living beings. Hitlini believes that, in this way, even if he were to be assassinated, his double would be able to take over, thereby ensures his reign lasts forever. However the machine only makes ghost-like transparent doubles and so Dr. Ochanomizu is kidnapped by his old friend in an effort to perfect the machine. Of course Astro Boy is soon to the rescue, and meets up with Platinum, a robot leading the resistance against Hitlini. Created by Pablos, Platinum helps Astro save Dr. Ochanomizu, but is destroyed in the process. Meanwhile Hitlini is betrayed and killed by his own head of security, and Prof. Pablos blows up the machine but dies doing it.

A group of robbers whose victims are only rich robots appear. The leader of the group calls himself Black Looks, and his identity remains unknown. Searching for Black Looks, Astro Boy and Higeoyaji go to Mt. Aurora near the South Pole where they find robots suffering under blatant discrimination by humans. Astro Boy learns that Black Looks has a grudge against robots because they have killed his mother. Beyond that fact, however, is another truth that even Black Looks does not know of is disclosed.

Kenichi, a classmate of Astro Boy, immigrates to Brazil in South America. When Kenichi and his family arrive, however, they find that the pioneers’ village has been completely destroyed. Kenichi finds a strange ball there, and brings it back to Japan. As it turns out, the ball is actually a signal ball of aliens called the Eroth family, who have been planning to come to the Earth to eat it up. Having received a signal from the ball, the main forces of the Eroth family arrives on the Earth. They eat anything whatsoever, but do they have any weaknesses?

A super powerful typhoon hits Japan, raging and swallowing iron lumps. As it turns out, the typhoon has been caused by a satellite that has fallen from space. All efforts to stop the typhoon prove to be in vain when Astro Boy hits on an idea to blow it away by making Mt. Mihara explode.

In prison for embezzling money from the Ministry of Science to build his robot, Pook, Dr. Tozawa and a pair of inmates, Acetylene Lamp and Shikakushimen, escape and make their way to Crucifix Island – an island where gold and diamonds are being mined by Pook and other robot workers. Shortly after arriving, the crooks capture Pook’s teacher, Shunsaku Ban, and his classmate, Astro Boy. Using parts scavenged from Astro, Dr. Tozawa completes Pook, giving him the amazing ability to transform himself into the shape of various animals. However, the crooks only want to use Pook to steal the gold and diamonds, and so Dr. Tozawa is shot. Before he dies, Dr. Tozawa is able to free Shunsaku Ban and he chases after the thieves. Suddenly, Shikakushimen reveals that he is actually part of a gang, led by the evil Kin Sankuku, that is only interested in the island’s supply of uranium. Deciding that stealing jewels is one thing, but allowing the gang to get its hands on uranium is another, Lamp helps Shunsaku Ban restore Astro, but is killed in the process. A battle between Pook and Astro ensues, and the gang’s submarine is destroyed with all onboard. However, Astro saves Shunsaku Ban and Pook from the same fate and, after returning to Japan, Pook is restored to a normal robot boy by Dr. Ochanomizu.

Don Kuritaro, a boy with Herculean strength, transfers from a school in Hokkaido to Ochanomizu Elementary School. From the first day of his attendance at the new school, a rumor begins to spread that a shining horse has been seen in the town. As it turns out, the horse is an alien who has followed Kuritaro from Hokkaido. The name of the alien is Nu, and he belongs to the Tenma race. The home of the Tenma race is Pegasus, but they have been on the Earth since ancient times, and they used to be friends of humans. Nowadays, however, they contact only a limited number of children. In the meantime, a group of villains are conspiring to cash in on the Tenma race. In cooperation with some children, Astro Boy decides to shelter Nu in his house.

The first robot representative in the Japanese parliament, Mr. Colt successfully establishes “Machine Day”, the first robot holiday. However, some people are against being deprived of their robot workers even for a single day, and hire Dr. Fooler to devise a plan to put robots in their place. Dr. Fooler builds a “Mad Machine”, a device that causes machines to go haywire, and then holds everyone ransom, demanding a billion yen not to turn it on. When he doesn’t receive payment, Dr. Fooler turns on his device and robots, cars, radios and all other electronic devices go crazy. Luckily, Dr. Ochanomizu has deactivated Astro Boy, to prevent him from harming anyone. However, he notices that Dr. Fooler’s machine must recharge for a three-minute period every so often. He reassembles Astro during one of the breaks and Astro is able to locate and destroy the “Mad Machine” before he goes crazy as well. In the end, Dr. Fooler is imprisoned and Mr. Colt renames the robot holiday, “Astro Boy Day” instead.

Dr. Pedan fails in his attempt to conduct an experiment of an antiproton explosion at the ends of the universe and loses his life. His body drifts into space, but aliens from a planet called Buzubuzu resuscitate him, and Dr. Pedan comes back to the Earth alive. On his return, he kidnaps Tamao and other kids, and Astro Boy’s feet are melted into a chemical liquid so that he cannot move. Sympathizing with Astro Boy, Dr. Fooler makes a “mini Astro Boy” that Astro Boy can control freely at his will. As an ulterior motive to such kindness, however, Dr. Fooler has secretly promised to cooperate with Dr. Pedan in exchange for 100 million yen.

Seven members of a corrupt robotics company break into a church. The company has been secretly developing killer robots and hiding their components in remote locations, such as abandoned warehouses and churches. Hoping to assemble and sell their illegal robots at great profit they are now collecting the components, but when a priest at one of the churches recognizes the company president, he instructs the priest to bind the eyes of a plaster statue of Jesus before locking him in a side room. Although the perpetrators make off with their prize, the priest is shot and killed in the getaway. Investigating the incident, Moustachio is captured by the crooks and nearly killed by the now-assembled and out of control killer robot before Astro intervenes and saves him. In the end, Moustachio reveals that he tracked the crooks to their company because the priest cleverly scratched their logo into the eyes of the statue of Jesus before blindfolding it.

Astro is working as a steward on a space cruise ship during his school holidays. However, when the ship strikes a giant meteor, he finds himself in a lifeboat with five other passengers. Without enough fuel to return to Earth, Astro makes an emergency landing on the Moon. At first a lifeless wasteland, they are surprised to find out at dawn the Sun’s rays melt the frozen air and the area becomes habitable for human beings – with plants sprouting with delicious fruit. After exploring the area, they discover the remains of an old Soviet spacecraft. A voice recording tells the story of Lt. Minya Mikhailov, a Soviet astronaut that crash landed on the moon in 1965 and lived out the rest of her life there, with only her robot Ivan for company. When a rescue rocket arrives, one of the other passengers decides no one is leaving until he gathers a pair of large diamonds the Lt. Mikhailov had discovered. With time running out, Astro leads most of the group back to be rescued, but Ivan is confused by the greedy man’s actions and, believing him to be Lt. Mikhailov, begins taking care of him – putting him gently to bed while the rescue rocket blasts off, leaving him behind.

Mr. Mustachio is accosted by a man on a train who gives him a pendant shaped just like a valentine heart. He implores Mustachio to keep it hidden and to watch out for the Egyptian Conspirators. Jumping off the train the man is attacked and killed. Upon finding out he doesn’t have the pendant the conspirators check the train and notice the pendant protruding from Mustachio’s pocket. He fights them inside and on top of the train and is finally captured but Astro appears in time to save him.Later Mustachio shows the pendant to Astro, Professor Ochanomizu and Inspector Nakamura of the police. The professor recognizes the pendant as the one that had belonged to the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra over 2000 years ago. He says as crazy as it sounds there’s a woman in Egypt who claims to be Cleopatra resurrected and she’s built some evil secret society to help her re-claim her ancient empire. He instructs Astro to conceal the pendant inside his chest compartment while they investigate the activities of the society.In reality the new Queen Cleopatra is a robot created by the leader of the Egyptian Conspirators, Dr. Baribari. Her master sends her along with four giant robot warriors to recover the pendant from Astro at any cost to validate her claims in the eyes of the people of Egypt. Astro is nearly destroyed in the fight although he defeats three of the warriors. He is rescued by a mysterious man wearing a mask-like hat obscuring his face. He protects Astro and repairs him but Dr. Baribari manages to abduct Astro. Astro puts up a good struggle but is knocked out. However Baribari’s henchmen are terrified to open Astro’s chest because there’s a note written on the partition saying he is rigged to explode if tampered with. Baribari is outraged and orders his men to take Astro to Egypt where they can assess their problem at leisure.Baribari orders Cleopatra to kill the strange man who helped Astro but he outsmarts and stuns her. He turns out to be Astro’s creator, Dr. Tenma and he removes the apparatus attached to her electronic brain which Baribari uses to send her commands. Tenma assures Cleopatra it’s right to disobey her creator when she can tell what he says is wrong and she takes Tenma to Egypt with her via the rocket jets in her last remaining giant warrior. They discover Astro a helpless prisoner of the conspirators.Tenma is also captured and Cleopatra is blasted when she protests. Baribari intends to combine his Cleopatra and Tenma’s Astro into one powerful robot but Tenma manages to spray his captors with sneezing gas inside the buttons of his jacket. His own hat mask protects him from the gas and while everybody is disabled he breaks free and borrows some of Cleopatra’s energy to revive Astro. Just as Tenma finishes the giant warrior seizes him and Astro wakes up just in time to save him. Astro flies off with the inactive Cleopatra and the warrior flies after him. In the fight Astro is smashed into the temple wall and buried behind the giant’s body with only the bottom half sticking out.Meanwhile Cleopatra is sent flying outside in the midst of the population. When they realize that they’ve been tricked by Baribari they riot against him, bash him half to death and charge into the temple shooting and smashing everything up.In desperation Baribari picks himself up and drags Cleopatra into his secret laboratory while the rioting is taking place. He repairs her, dresses her in her royal robes and commands her to silence the people and persuade them she is a true human. However Cleopatra turns against her master and imprisons him inside a sarcophagus in her arms with a time bomb set to explode and bury them in rubble in one minute.Astro has survived a punches his way out of the wall through the giant’s torso. Tenma has also managed to keep out of the line of fire and informs Astro that the Egyptian Conspiracy has been wiped out and Cleopatra has perished along with her creator. Tenma refuses to unmask himself or even tell Astro who he is. Astro flies off home to Japan strongly suspecting that the mysterious man is his creator while Tenma wishes him all the very best and urges him to keep fighting for the good of all humans worldwide.

31. The Secret of the Egyptian Conspirators April 1959 to August 1959

A Queen who claims to be a reincarnation of Cleopatra appears in Egypt. But she is actually a robot made by Dr. Baribary of the Egyptian conspirators’ group. Cleopatra comes all the way to Japan in order to get back a certain necklace, which is the proof of the right to the throne, because it has been handed to Astro Boy accidentally. A stone statue robot, which is a subordinate of Cleopatra, breaks off Astro Boy’s arms, driving him into a bad state. Then an enigmatic scientist with his face hidden with a hat comes to save Astro Boy, calling him “my Astro Boy.” Who is the scientist?

A gigantic centipede-shaped robot assaults a luxury liner, on which Astro Boy happens to be a passenger, robbing the passengers of money and other articles. When the crew hurry to the scene of the crime, however, they find the centipede robot has vanished like smoke. On the other hand, among the passengers are Mephisto, a merchant of death who sells robots to villains, and 47 suspicious men. Do they have something to do with the centipede robot?

Genchin, a classmate of Astro Boy, is depressed because Shibugaki and other kids make fun of him because his father is a signalman of the Satellite No.110, which is a lighthouse in space. Then a man approaches Genchin, talking to him kindly. As it turns out, the man is a member of a smuggling ring conspiring to take over the Satellite No.110 to make it their base for smuggling. Learning of their conspiracy, Astro Boy rescues Genchin, heads for the Satellite No.110 and defeats the villains. In the meantime, however, a group of asteroids are approaching the space route. Unless emergency signals are sent right now, the spaceship on the route is going to be involved in a big accident. Genchin keeps sending signals on behalf of his injured father.

Someone shoots down a plane on which Higeoyaji is aboard, and he finds himself in the middle of a desert. An enigmatic man riding in an underground armored car saves him. The man was a subordinate of General Sabolski, who conspires to conquer the world, but learning that the armored car would be used for an evil purpose, he has stolen the car and run. Meanwhile, however, somebody sets a bomb on the car, and it gets stalled at a point 2,000 meter below the ground. Then Higeoyaji hits on an idea to ask Astro Boy for help using an Omega-sensing device that can call him.

The basic premise is that a machine that gives off light and heat just like the sun was invented by Professor Ochanomizu for assistance in mining and developing on places such as the far-distant Pluto, but it has been stolen by terrible criminals who are killing and terrorizing people with its power. A British Intelligence detective known as Sherlock Holmspun has been sent to investigate and Astro is to assist him. Mr. Holmspun hates robots however though he begrudgingly agrees to take Astro with him.Holmspun is an extraordinary man. He was seriously wounded by a bomb planted in his car and needed to have his limbs and torso amputated and replaced with artificial metal parts. He has the appearance of a robot but his head is the only flesh and blood part of his body and thus is his link to his humanity.He is very arrogant and mean to Astro but Astro is kind and caring in return and helps Mr. Holmspun who slowly begins to mellow towards Astro. Together they discover that the leader of the criminals they are seeking is none other than Kim Sankaku, who obviously somehow managed to escape when his submarine exploded near Crucifix Island in the first story of this volume. Even though they destroy the artificial sun and capture Sankaku tragically he shoots Mr. Holmspun in the head thereby killing him.In the epilogue it is revealed that the surgeons have given Holmspun an artificial head, thus he has now become a complete robot himself. Holmspun declares that Astro made him see that unlike many selfish humans, robots always endeavour to uphold justice and help others. He is so very proud to have become a robot.

A fireball, which looks like the sun, attacks various places one after another in the northern Pacific. ICPO (Interpol: International Criminal Police Organization) invites Sherlock Homespun from the British military intelligence to ask him to investigate the incidents together with Astro Boy. But Homespun abhors robots. In the meantime, while Astro Boy is following the strange movements of Dr. Ochanomizu, he encounters the fireball in question on the sea, which turns out to be a huge artificial sun ball.

Earth is under alien invasion. The first strange thing is that a mysterious blanket of snow falls upon Tokyo that sucks up all the energy of robots causing them to break down. Only Astro seems to be unaffected, apparently because he has far more energy than most robots, though he is very upset that his mother and father are among those put out of commission. But next an alien humanoid shows up with a powerful creature that looks just like a leopard but it sucks up energy like the snow.By sheer good fortune Astro is able to fight off the leopard. The alien takes Mr. Mustachio prisoner to use as a hostage. Astro is finally able to rescue him with the help of several other robots and Professor Ochanomizu. He instructs the Ministry of Science to build Astro and all the other robots into one huge robot body so that not even the leopard can drain all their energy combined.In the course of his escape Mustachio discovered the leopard’s weakness. It can only absorb artificial energy so Astro and his friends drag it into the middle of a thundercloud. The lightning takes all the fight out of the leopard. When the alien sees this he sends word back to his home planet that their invasion has failed and he self-destructs his spaceship. The leopard and all the snow dissolve into nothing.

One day, snow that absorbs all kinds of energy suddenly falls from the sky. Astro Boy, whose energy is far stronger than that of the others, barely manages not to run out of his energy. In front of him, however, a monstrous leopard with six legs and an enigmatic man appear. As it turns out they are amoeba-like space creatures that can change their shapes freely. The creatures would suck up even Astro Boy’s energy if he confronted them openly. In the meantime, a gigantic robot that has never been seen before appears to fight against the space leopard. The gigantic robot never collapses no matter how much its energy is sucked. What is the real identity of the robot?
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Dr. Fooler / Dr. Fooler

A desperately scared scientist, Dr. Woods, has hired some gangsters to destroy the new 3D TV operating inside the local television station’s headquarters. A giant ghost is appearing through the waves emitted by the device and killing people by suffocating them. Dr. Woods is scared that this ghost will want to kill him too specifically.The gangsters infiltrate the station and blast the set to pieces with guns. But the big boss, Mr. Nada demands that Dr. Woods explain what this was all about. The doctor refuses but Nada has him tied up and whipped until he agrees to talk.The ghost is actually Dr. Wood’s former assistant, Hanabusa. The two of them had been experimenting with devices meant to transport things electronically from one place to another. Woods had given up in despair, but Hanabusa swore that one day he would succeed by himself. Three years later Woods received a phone call from Hanabusa to say he’d built an excellent matter transporter and prepared to deliver some things over to the receiver that was still standing there at Woods’ own end. A fish, a rabbit, a robot and finally Hanabusa himself. Woods was so deeply jealous at being humiliated by his former assistant that he blew up the receiving machine stranding Hanabusa in space. 3D TV’s are very similar to the concept of a matter transporter but much simpler so he is not able to assume his normal form. Nada hears about a second 3D TV owned by a family and determines to steal it so he can summon Hanabusa.Astro happens to know the family since the son is one of his classmates, Shibugaki. Previously he had seen Hanabusa appear while Shib was trying to demonstrate the TV to him and had fought the spectre off. The gangsters steal the machine while he is trying to investigate further disguised as an electrical repairman. They escape in a helicopter while Astro is fighting a big robot they used to aid them. After dispatching the robot Astro tracks them down by picking up the helicopter with his amplified hearing and arrives just in time to rescue dr. Woods from Hanabusa. Having summoned him Nada has promised to help him return to normal in return for a few small favours and one of them is to dispose of Woods but Astro flies away with woods to his home. Woods confesses to Astro and Astro goes to search Hanabusa’s home for the blueprints to the machine he’d built. He finds them and gives them to Professor Ochanomizu.Meanwhile Nada is using Hanabusa to commit murders as part of his criminal schemes to get rich. The police raid his hideout and are threatened by Hanabusa but Astro saves them by smashing the TV. However he realizes that in doing so he has destroyed the evidence and Inspector Tawashi is outraged.Astro goes to Ochanomizu’s lab for comfort but finds that Nada and his men have knocked out the Professor and those who were assisting him to build a matter transporter based off the blueprints. They warn Astro that they will kill Ochanomizu if he interferes and Nada tries to summon Hanabusa once more. However Hanabusa appears in human form though his molecules have been permanently combined with those of the fish, rabbit and robot he had tried to transport in addition to himself. He deeply regrets the killings he committed while he was in gaseous form. He was a complete monster and he helps Astro to overpower and knock out Nada and his men. Afterwards he uses the machine to transport himself to a far distant planet to live taking the blueprints and instructing Astro to smash the machine to bits. Astro does so and though Ochanomizu is at first angry when he comes to, he thanks Astro for preventing the villains from stealing it. Nada and his men are all sent to jail.

One day, a transparent monster comes out of a home 3D TV set, causing a great deal of confusion. The monster is actually the scientist Dr. Hanabusa. When he was conducting an experiment with his machine to transmit materials electrically, someone broke it, prohibiting Hanabusa from going back to his original body. Hanabusa was trying to transmit his own body to the place of Dr. Woods when the latter broke it because he was jealous of the machine’s capacity. Hanabusa’s body has got mixed up with a fish-and-rabbit-shaped robot, which he tried to transmit with his own body, becoming a monster devoid of reason.

Feeling interested in Robotting, a kind of wrestling for robots, Astro Boy’s sister Uran fights in one and wins unexpectedly. She has enjoyed the bout so much that she does not want to go to school any more. Then a scientist called Dr. Yukisugi appears in front of her, saying, “I will remodel your body so that you can go to school and engage in bouts at the same time.” Although Astro Boy strongly objects to it, Uran sneaks out of the house in the middle of night to be remodeled by the scientist. The next day, however, Uran’s body suddenly splits vertically into two, spurting bubbles out of the fissure. Surprisingly, the bubbles congeal to produce two identical bodies of Uran! However, there has been a crucial defect in this remodeling: when the body splits into two, its power is also divided into two. Without knowing about this, Uran takes on a huge robot as her opponent.
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Master of Gameran the Robot / Acetylene Lamp

Mr. Mustachio has asked a special request of Astro. Every 15th of July many families place orders with the Ministry of Science for robots built in the images of their dearly departed loved ones for three days after which the robots are all sent down the river in boats with lanterns in memory of the dead. Mr. Mustachio is friends with a couple who lost their only son Jiro one year ago. Jiro looked just like Astro so he agrees to stay with the couple to cheer them up.While there Astro discovers that Jiro had built a time machine in his bedroom. Astro tries it out and discovers that Jiro is still alive. He has been trapped in the 20th century when his machine accidentally went back without him. He returns home with Astro just in time to rescue his parents from gangsters whom Jiro had borrowed money from to help build his invention. Jiro’s parents are overjoyed by the unexpected surprise of getting their real son back.

In 20th-century Japan, there was a custom called the “Bon Festival”by which to remember the deceased once a year. In the 21st century, however, the custom has come to be called the “Day to Remember,” when the robots identical to the dead of the human world come to stay with their families for three days so that they can remember how they looked in life. After the three days the families let them flow away down the river.
Higeoyaji asks Astro Boy to visit a house for the “Day to Remember” because the boy named Jiro of the family, who went missing a year ago, looked exactly like Astro Boy. Astro Boy finds a time machine in Jiro’s room, and rides it to travel to the past. Back in the 20th century Astro Boy meets with the boy, who is identical to him.

A mysterious robot representative from the country of Gravia comes unannounced to the home of Astro and his robot family one evening. He urgently requests Astro to secretly come to Gravia to help with a very serious matter they are facing. Astro bids his mother, father, sister Uran and brother Cobalt farewell and sets off in disguise with the strange robot to board a plane for Gravia.On the way they happen to meet Astro’s teacher, Mr. Mustachio. He suspects he recognizes Astro and follows them undercover all the way to their destination.Gravia is the world’s first country to have elected a robot for their president and a sinister society led by a masked man known as His Highness Deadcross has been threatening the new President and those who support him. After Astro destroys some giant crab-like robots sent to attack the President at his home Astro first meets him and solemnly promises to do everything he can to protect him.Meanwhile Mustachio is captured by the society. Deadcross proceeds to torture him to persuade him to make Astro return to Japan.As the story progresses Deadcross manages to capture the President and remove his electronic brain turning him into his puppet so he’ll publicly renounce the presidency. He also actually destroys Astro but not before he was able to set free his teacher. Mustachio helps the President’s right-hand man recover Astro’s body and Professor Ochanomizu suddenly turns up to help repair him.Thus Astro is able to overcome the evil society, help arrest Deadcross and force him to return the electronic brain he stole. It turns out that Deadcross was actually the man who originally created the President. He wanted his robot to help him become president but the robot ran against him promising to make life easier for his fellow robots who were traditionally viewed as humans slaves. When he lost the election to his creation that was when Deadcross had formed his society vowing revenge. But of course justice triumphs and Astro and his friends go home with the Robot President established in office.
Introduction:A robot has been elected president in the State of Gravia for the first time in the world. President Rug, the robot president, sends a messenger to Astro Boy in Japan, asking him to visit the State of Gravia. The truth is that Dead Cross, a secret society in the country, is conspiring to overthrow the government. Sensing the secret, a teacher at Astro Boy’s school, whose name is Ban Shunsaku but who is popularly known as Higeoyaji, follows Astro Boy secretly to the State of Gravia. As soon as Higeoyaji arrives in the country, however, members of Dead Cross kidnap him. Why do they hate robots so much? Soon the surprising relationship between President Rug and Prince Dead Cross is disclose

Mr. Gaston, an explorer, digs up a vehicle of aliens in the hinterlands of Africa, and in it he finds a blueprint of a robot. On the request of Mr. Gaston, Dr. Ochanomizu joins forces with Japan’s Precision Machine Agency in an all-out effort to manufacture the robot. The robot is named Buron X, and it is completed except that the head is not on the body yet. Sensing that the robot is going to be dangerous, Astro Boy pleads with Dr. Ochanomizu from the depths of his heart not to complete the robot. But nobody believes him, so Astro Boy steals the head of the robot, and hides it in a remote island out in the southern ocean. Then Dr. Gaston has the robot go and look for its own head.

Astro and his friends are having fun on a skiing adventure when they come across a most unusual flower growing out of the snow. His friends want to pick it but Astro stops them and tells them a very extraordinary story.Awhile back Astro had been on holiday in that area during the snowy season and he met a strange boy crawling in the snow who claimed to be a visitor from Alsoa 12 and warned him of an invading spaceship from Alsoa 12 with an “X” marked on it. Suddenly the boy was taken prisoner by the invaders he had escaped from and they vanished.Astro learned from Professor Ochanimozu that Alsoa 12 is the name of a star, however recently it was wiped out in an explosion.It was revealed that the invaders were all robots except for the young boy. He had already learned of his home’s destruction but the robots had been programmed to bring back water to Alsoa 12 and when he tried to call them off they put him in chains and started sucking up earth’s water into spaceships led by the one marked “X”.Astro rescued the boy, froze all the water in the spaceships causing them to explode and destroyed the robots. The boy asked Astro to let him live on earth and revealed himself to be a plant inside a human-like shell disguise. So Astro planted the boy from Alsoa 12 there in the snow where he turned into that blooming flower.When Astro’s friends hear this story they all agree to leave the flower alone in respect.

On a night of a blizzard, a man comes to Astro Boy’s house asking for shelter. The man is actually an alien who has come searching for water from the planet called Alsore 12. According to Dr. Ochanomizu, however, the planet has already exploded and does not exist anymore. Nevertheless the main force from the planet come to the Earth shortly after that, and a swarm of flying discs start to suck up the planet’s water. As it turns out, they are all robots except one, and the robots are just faithfully carrying out the orders they received before leaving for the Earth.

Astroboy’s school teacher, Mr. Mustachio, is very upset, when his beloved pet dog, Pero is stolen by a mysterious aristocratic woman and her servants. Later on a mysterious force attacks and annihilates a rocket ship bound for the dark side of the moon.When Astro investigates he discovers that the murderers are the very same people who abducted Pero. The woman is known as the Grand Duchess Anta Maria and she has enlisted the services of a mad robotics scientist by the name of Dr. Junkovitch to convert dogs into human-like cyborg robot soldiers. They are able to talk and to fly rockets and the Duchess has them at her command to destroy anybody who attempts to explore the moon’s dark side.Astro realizes that the commander of the Hot Dog Corps was in fact created from Pero. He is referred to as #44. Pero’s animal instincts cause him to remember his master Mustachio and although he struggles with his loyalties to Dr. Junkovitch and to the Duchess he secretly helps to save Astro’s life and thus allows him to escape the enemy headquarters.Later on things lead to a showdown between Astro and the Corps in outer space and they end up on the moon itself. Astro and #44 have a one on one struggle and fall into some crater filled with diamonds. Junkovitch and the Duchess arrive shortly having followed in their own rocket and lay claim on the diamond horde. But suddenly a giant robot appears who is the guardian of the treasure and attacks. Although Astro is able to overcome the robot causing it to collapse and self-destruct, everybody is killed except for #44.Astro is able to persuade him to come back to earth where the ministry of science is able to convert him from a cyborg dog with human characteristics into a cyborg who looks and acts just like a real dog again. Mr. Mustachio and Pero are thus reunited and are very happy again.

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A very famous robot magician named Kino is taken prisoner by a human magician named Noh Uno. At first it appears that Kino has helped Noh Uno steal a valuable collection of paintings from the museum with his illusion tricks. However Kino is able to escape and to convince Astro that Noh Uno has created a duplicate of himself programmed to commit crimes on his orders. With Astro’s help, Kino is able to clear his name. They capture Noh Uno and the imposter and recover the paintings.The second magician, Noh Uno is sent to jail, but he Kino, the first magician is apparently going to break down as a result of Noh Uno’s tampering. So he has had Professor Ochanomizu reprogram his twin, the third magician, so that he can take his place. Astro is very upset when the original Kino collapses but before he “dies” Kino tells Astro consolingly that he will live on in his refurbished clone.

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This story was adapted for episode 5 of the 1980’s English dub using the exact same title and also for episode 9 of the 1960’s English dub under the title of Hullabaloo Land.A beautiful robot swan flies to the home of Astro and his family one night and reveals that she is designed to assume the appearance of a human princess for one hour between midnight and one am. She introduces herself as Princess Odette. She has escaped from Robot Land and pleads with Astro for protection. Suddenly a powerful robot known as Lord Satan appears to take her back. Astro fights with him but is stopped by Professor Ochanomizu who tells him that by law Odette belongs to Dr. Haido and so Satan is entitled to return her to his master.Astro is very upset about this and resolves to infiltrate Robot Land to uncover evidence that the robots are being mistreated. But he is captured by Satan. Dr. Haido summons Ochanomizu to Robot Land and demands that he destroy Astro or else face jail and dishonour with the Ministry of Science.Astro’s teacher Mustachio has accompanied the Professor at his request but neither of them know that all of Astro’s friends from school have secretly followed them to Robot Land. They are able to save Astro and also uncover the guilty secret of Robot Land. It’s really a cover for an illegal black market racket. The robots are being forced to manufacture weapons, specifically guns, which are then smuggled out in submarines to be sold in foreign countries.Dr. Haido summons Satan to destroy everybody but Astro overpowers and finishes him off. With Lord Satan gone all the robots rise up against Dr. Haido and take him prisoner. Robot Land becomes a wonderful place where Princess Odette and all her friends can live happily ever after.

It’s the beginning of big trouble for the world when a meteor crashes up on Mount Okagura leaving an enormous crater. When Professor Ochanomizu instructs Astro to excavate the meteor at the bottom of the crater for them it turns out to not be a meteor at all. It is actually a large round sphere of mechanical bits and pieces all sealed together. When all separated and put together correctly they form a giant humanoid robot.Ochanomizu discovers a note inside the robot’s nose in some alien language. When Astro translates it they learn that the robot’s name is Garon and he was being delivered from one planet to another to assassinate somebody. He also has the power to modify planets.All of Ochanomizu’s fellow scientists present agree with him that Garon must be destroyed except one. Professor Amagawa feels that Garon is an important scientific discovery and leaves vowing that he shall find a way to claim ownership of Garon soon.To further complicate their troubles that night a big storm brews and Garon is blasted by very heavy lightning activating him. Astro fights him as he goes on a rampage, but Garon is too powerful and gets away leaving poor Astro weak and drained of energy. Professor Amagawa later discovers Garon wounded in the face by an army missile and tells him he’ll repair the damage if Garon will go with him and be his servant. Garon agrees and is smuggled away in a huge truck.Later Amagawa and a research team fly Garon to a remote uninhabited island in the South Pacific. Amagawa commands Garon to modify the land there so that it looks exactly like the planet on which he was created. Garon complies but before anybody realizes what is happening he also modifies the atmosphere to that of his own planet. By the time they run a test on the readings of the air there is hardly any oxygen having been replaced with nitrogen and ammonia. Before Amagawa can do anything he and all his men are choked by the noxious gas and collapse dead. But Garon keeps generating the modified air which spreads over the Pacific wiping out whole communities on other islands and all the passengers and crew of one unfortunate boat. Not to mention all the birds.Astro is sent to investigate before major areas of the world are overcome and he discovers Amagawa’s dead body and then Garon. Things look very bad but Astro has an idea to trick Garon. He tells him that he’s done a good job of modifying the island to look like his planet. But there’s one thing he’s overlooked. The gravity. All he needs to do is modify the gravity in one single space for exactly one minute. No more and no less to make his modifications complete.Garon falls for Astro’s ploy and concentrates for one minute. Fortunately the gravity on Garon’s planet is less than that of earth and all the poison air rises like a typhoon sucking Garon up into the stratosphere and into outer space unable to return while Astro holds onto a tree. After the gravity returns to normal Astro reports back to Ochanomizu with the news of his triumph. Ochanomizu is so proud of Astro and says that brains really do win over brawn finally.

White Planet is the name of a champion racing car from Japan. Gangsters break into the driver’s home carport and destroy it. He is devastated but Professor Ochanomizu promises to repair White Planet in time for the Race by implanting Astro’s electronic brain into the engine.So White Planet races but the gangsters try to destroy it again and even kill the driver during the competition. Strangely Astro appears and overpowers the baddies.The driver can’t believe Astro can be there until Astro explains to him that when his late father created White Planet he also created a spare electronic brain for the car and he built it into a special robot. The man never knew that his sister was really a robot and she had told Ochanomizu that she wanted to be built into White Planet for her brother. Needless to say White Planet wins the race retaining the championship.

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A corrupt, greedy sultan called Chochi Chochi Ababa the Third has been overthrown and exiled by his angry subjects. In quest of revenge the Sultan hires a hooded character by the name of Doctor Abullah to create an enormous robot warrior. Sultan’s maniacal ambition grows not only to reclaim his country, but to be master of the entire world. So he christens his giant warrior Pluto and assigns him the task of destroying seven of the world’s most powerful robots to prove nobody can resist him.Astroboy of Japan is one of the seven and as he tries to find a way he can defeat Pluto the other six targets: Mont Blanc of Switzerland, North #2 of Northern Scotland, Brando of Turkey, Gerhardt from Germany, Hercules of Greece and Epsilon of Australia are all taken out one by one. Professor Ochanomizu strictly orders Astro not to fight Pluto and refuses to modify his robot body so that his strength can be increased to match Pluto.Ochanomizu is able to locate the Sultan’s secret location and flies his own private plane to confront him and make accusation. Naturally Sultan and Doctor Abullah take him prisoner as bait for Astro, who unbeknown to the Professor followed him. Astro and Pluto fight but Pluto defies his master’s orders and flies away with Astro caught inside his hand to a secluded area where he lets him go. Pluto says he hasn’t forgotten how Astro had previously saved his life on one occasion. Pluto had abducted Uran so that Astro would come to save her but before they could fight then Brando suddenly appeared demanding Pluto fight him first. Brando was a friend of one of Pluto’s earlier victims Mont Blanc. Pluto agrees and destroys Brando, but is almost destroyed himself. Astro helped him by pushing a button on his chest to alert his master to rescue him. So just this once Pluto spares Astro’s life in repayment. Pluto promises to take responsibility for Ochanomizu’s safety until their final showdown.Sultan is not pleased at all when Pluto does this and his temper is further fired when he receives word from a mysterious masked stranger named Doctor Goji. Goji has built another huge robot fighter called Bora. Goji claims that Bora is in fact twice as powerful as Pluto and that he must challenge and defeat Bora to be truly the greatest robot on earth. Sultan is furious and vows that nothing will interfere with his plans to conquer the world.Eventually Astro and Pluto meet on the crater of an active volcano. Sultan is there with the Professor as his hostage. Doctor Goji appears with Bora and reveals himself as Doctor Abullah. He had built Pluto for Sultan but was secretly building Bora in a hidden place. If Pluto defeats Astro he has to fight Bora.Astro and Pluto commence their combat but as they fight the volcano begins to erupt. Ochanomizu tells Astro he must plug up the crater with boulders or else all the nearby township communities will be wiped out. At first Pluto sits by and watches Astro struggle to stop the volcano but then he decides he must help and together they co-operate in sealing it up before it’s too late. Pluto refuses to destroy Astro because he realizes what a fine robot he is and that he would be ashamed to fight him. Doctor Goji insists that Pluto still fight Bora and Pluto accepts on his honour. Astro tries to help him but both Pluto and Bora are destroyed.Goji reveals himself to be be a robot. He used to be the Sultan’s servant. When he heard his old master wanted to build the greatest robot on earth he became a roboticist and built Pluto for him. But when Sultan started using Pluto to destroy other robots he built Bora to teach him how stupid and twisted his lust for power really was. The Sultan promises never to make any more robots like Pluto and departs with his servant. Astro is very sad and hopes that someday robots will all become friends and not destroy each other anymore.re toThis adventure was adapted in episodes 23 and 24 of the 1980’s English dub entitled The Greatest Robot in the World Parts 1 and 2. These were in turn remade for The Rise of Pluto and The Fall of Acheron for the 2003 series.

Once again earth is threatened by alien invasion. Professor Ochanomizu has discovered information from a secret source that the invaders are called roboids. They physically resemble robots but they’re not true robots. There are five of them involved and they are planning to annihilate the human race via infiltration of earth’s robot population. The professor has recruited four of the world’s major robot secret agents: Zair-A, Box, Dop OO and Cyrano to assist Astro in the mission to defeat the roboids. Five robots against five roboids. An even match.During the course of their battles Astro learns that the roboids come from a far distant star where all the human being become extinct hundreds of years ago leaving behind only the robots they had built. The robots kept building new robots and slowly evolved into beings that were born and died just like humans and even developed male and female genders and could give birth to children. Then some roboid scientists wanted to claim earth’s resources so an invasion force travelled in a spaceship disguised as a meteor. They crashed into the sea, burrowed down into the earth and lay hidden to orchestrate their plans. Eventually Astro and his companions are able to destroy all five roboids, however the cost is very high. Cyrano, Box, Dop OO and Zair-A are also destroyed one by one. Astro is the only survivor of the robot team.Furthermore there are actually more roboids on earth. There is a chief commander who the other roboids answered to and he also has his wife and their young son, Lolo, living safely underground while they fight the war above. Lolo actually tricks Astro into stepping onto the transporter device sending him to his playroom deep underground because he explains he’s lonely. When Lolo’s dad finds Astro he challenges him to duel up above, even though Lolo protests that he wants Astro to be his friend. As they prepare to fight Lolo’s mum suddenly appears and cries out that Lolo has run away. She shows her husband a note that says Lolo can’t stand it anymore. Dad promised to show him many interesting things when they came to earth but he’s never taken him to the surface so much as once. The last straw was just when he made friends with Astro dad drove him away. So he’s gone to the surface by himself.The commander reluctantly agrees to send Astro to bring Lolo back when he swears that robots never lie and by his honour he can be trusted. He realizes that Lolo has broken into military grounds and rescues him from the automatically activated guns and bombs triggered off by intruders but he is broken in the process. When he lands on the ground outside the complex he is still and lifeless. Lolo’s dad appears and begs his son’s forgiveness for neglecting him. He tells him they’re going home and his mother is waiting for them. He assures Lolo that Astro can easily be repaired and sends Lolo back underground via the transporter. Then he repairs Astro himself. Shortly after Astro awakens the spaceship takes off on automatic pilot. He explains to Astro that he has sent his wife and son back to their own planet but he has stayed behind to finish their duel. It’s for the sake of honour. His troops have been destroyed and his conquest thwarted but he must fight to the end. Astro is compelled to attack but the commander deliberately blows himself up during the initial attack. He really was grateful to Astro for saving Lolo and had no desire to destroy him.Astro realizes that this must have been his intention all along to send his family home and lay down his life in battle. He hopes with all his heart that if Lolo ever returns to earth when he grows up that they will be able to be true friends and have no reason at all to fight such a senseless battle.

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There are two interwoven plots in this story.First Astro is assigned to the task of capturing five juvenile delinquents in France who possess dangerous psychic powers. They all combine their power to create a devastatingly strong force that helplessly controls and manipulates people to do anything they want. Furthermore they don’t care who they have to hurt to achieve their goals. In fact they take immense pleasure in it. They break into a military complex and steal a huge robotic tank known as the Karabusu and wreak havoc and destruction upon the nearby communities.When Professor Ochanomizu brings Astro all the way from Japan by special request the boys manage to capture him to use as a hostage. They threaten to put a bullet through his big nose if Astro interferes with their plans. They intend to use the Karabusu to demolish Paris, London, New York, Moscow, Tokyo and other major cities of the world just for fun and enjoyment.But Astro happens to come across two weird aliens whose bodies resemble pools of water. They can take on a humanoid form but their bodies are pure liquid and they generally revert to puddles when they move about and carry things slithering along. They are a young female named Parma and her father, whose name is never revealed. He explains to Astro that he first visited the earth 100 million years ago as a research biologist. at one time he decided to modify one of the animals and taught the ape how to walk, talk and use fire. This was very wrong as species modification is highly illegal under universe law and even worse he left the modified ape on earth where it quickly evolved into the modern human being and began abusing other species with fire and finally corrupted the planet even waging war and killing each other. This therefore was his crime, the 100 million year old crime of the story title, and so he has returned bringing his dear daughter Parma to exterminate all humans and put things right again.Astro tries to negotiate with him and he does agree to a term of testing. If Astro will capture and deliver those five youths over to him for one year he will see if they can be rehabilitated. With the help of the alien Astro succeeds in rescuing Ochanomizu and the boys are all taken away. Ochanomizu was knocked unconscious and only first hears about the situation in secret from Astro in the hospital. He is very worried because he can’t see the boys reforming in one year and the alien refuses to speak with him. He will only see Astro.Astro goes to check on progress in three months. The boys are going crazy caged up in a huge bubble with nothing to do all the time. Parma is feeling rather sorry for them but her father insists on keeping them for the full year. He has a device that if turned on will emit powerful rays making all humans everywhere kill themselves. If the boys are reformed after a year the human race will be spared for their sake. The boys beg Astro to set them free and he can sense that they truly are no longer bad humans. So he smashes the bubble and tries to sneak them out.However as they pass the aliens spaceship the boys suddenly charge at it. They jump inside and smash it up until it explodes causing the underground cave to collapse burying everything. Astro protects and shelters Parma inside his body from the falling debris while her father slithers up to the surface with the extermination device. Before he can activate it he is actually drunk alive by a herd of extremely thirsty cows. Astro digs his way out of the ground and finds the device permanently deactivating it.He reports back to Ochanomizu at the hospital that the boys are all dead and so are the aliens. But Parma was saved by Astro. While he and the Professor fly back to Japan he produces her inside a sealed jar. Astro explains that she wants to stay on earth since she has no way of going home. So Astro unscrews the lid and dumps the jar out of the plane over the ocean where she’ll be able to live out the rest of her days in peaceful solitude.

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