Astro Boy 1980
Tetsuwan Atom (1980)
ANIMATION EXPLORER
GLOBAL RATING
7.40 / 10
7.13 / 10
PLOT
Professor Tenma made a robotic kid in the likeness of his recently departed son Tobio, believing that since the child had been "reborn," nothing could go wrong. However, he soon learns that the robot could never replace his son. The robot is eventually kidnapped and sent to a robot circus in America, but Dr. Ochanomizu quickly saves him and takes him under his care. Although his anti-violent pacifist beliefs and general childish innocence frequently conflict with his battles, Tobio has assigned the new name Tetsuwan Atom and transforms into Japan's crime-fighting hero.
