Art of Astro Boy
/Astro Boy (Mighty Atom) is an animation series produced by Tezuka Productions and directed by Kazuya Konaka in 2003. It is based on the homonym manga series by Osamu Tezuka. The series was created to celebrate the birth date of Atom/Astro Boy (as well as the 40th anniversary of the original TV series). Under the original English name (instead of Mighty Atom), it kept the same classic art style as the original 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 1980 series. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this series.
THE STORY
Is the year 2030 in Tokyo. Dr. Tenma, the Minister of Science, is attempting to create a robot capable of expressing human emotions. After his fourth failed attempt, he is approached by Skunk Kusai, a man who offers him an "Omega Factor" circuit which, when installed, will humanize a robot. After rejecting Skunk's offer and throwing him out, Tenma's nine-year-old son, Tobio, suggests his father make a robot shaped like a child. Inspired by his son, he sets off to the Ministry of Science to work, forgetting his promise to take Tobio to an amusement park. Upset by his father's neglect, Tobio drives an aerocar home but crashes into an oncoming truck, dying in the process. Just before he dies, he makes his father promise to name his boy robot "Tobio" and make it the strongest robot in the world, while still loving it like a son…
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