I watched the first episode a few weeks ago and wow is it dark. I thought they were building up to the scientist’s kid having his mind put in a Robot body, but no. That child is dead and this Astro Boy is the scientist’s unhealthy coping mechanism.
Has it aged well? I've been curious to give it a shot, and I'm somewhat patient with old animes, but I think the oldest I ever went was the 80's
How much of that bizarre nostalgia comes down to the show having been originally aired brutally re-cut, mistranslated, and basically rewritten so that it would fit "American sensibilities"? Censorship in "the freest nation that invented freedom, football, and guns for all amen!!!" is wild, yall.
man I thought I clicked on a different post and was so confused by the comments
