while Japanese comic books have been around for quite a while just like with western animation there was a start to where things for complicated case in point Astro boy and his creator Osamu Tesuka. the father of modern magna and the start of the only sizeable competitor to western comics.
Astro boy is the atomic punk story of a robot boy by the name of Astro (or the Mighty atom). made of circuits an machinery but with the soul of a human boy he is the union of everything humanity has to offer and more.
created in the image of a scientists son astroboy is the embodiment of the hope for tommarrow, a attitude that with the creator raised in post world war two japan, an audience was very much so in need of viewing. even with that being the case astro boy has an extraordinary appeal that spans widely across many different cultures.
even with american audience the comics of Osamu seem to both appeal and inspire with later words such as My life as a teenage robot or whatever happened to robot jones.
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