How did this show end up on Adult Swim? This show is horrible in my opinion. Its almost like mighty mouse, except alot more boring.(note this is my opinion) Its something that would be on Toon Disney, not Adult Swim. Is this a joke, Adult Swim is pulling or are they serious?
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Pity the soul who dont boogie!
This show is great! You have to have an open mind too and consider that this was the first produced-for-TV anime ever. The English dub voice cast is top-notch too--Ray Owens as Dr. Elefun and the great Billie Lou Watt as Astoboy.
Trust me--try to keep an open mind and remember it's from 1963. The stories get better and better as the episodes continue with this series. I own the DVD set of this original series, and so far, I'm impressed. (and yes, I'm not even 30, in case you were wondering! :-P )
Hope that shines a bit more perspective on the matter...
I too think the show is great! The animation is fine considering it was made for television in 1963. I just think that Adult Swim has an appreciation for the classics and the orgins of what Japanese Anime is today. This is the little guy that started it all! By the way, I'm not even 20 in case you were wondering!
shareIt stinks. So bad it makes me sad.
The fact that it was made in 1963 doesn't cut it any slack, look at the superb animation that Warner Bros, MGM, Walter Lantz, Disney, et al made long before that.
Sorry if I'm taking a whiz on your nostalgia, but it's crap. Cheap, uninspired lowgrade crap.
Adult Swim is having a laugh by showing this garbage. They've done it before.
Disney and the other animation companies you mentioned produced cartoons as theatrical releases so their budgets were much higher. Astroboy was the first daily/weekly, made-for-TV anime series produced for Japan.
Think about made-for-tv animation producted in ths US at the time: The Alvin Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Tennessee Tuxedo, etc. They were good shows, but they didn't have the best animation produced due to their tight budgets. Astroboy still provided a lot of action and adventure for its relatively small budget.
The second half of the English-dubbed episodes of Astroboy shows noticeable improvement in animation over the early episodes (because Dr. Tezuka put the money he'd made on the series back into it).
The English dub itself is excellent, both in writing and in voice acting. Peter Fernandez of Speed Racer fame wrote a bulk of the episodes (with voice actors Billie Lou Watt and Ray Owens in particular penning the rest of the English scripts).
Adult Swim doesn't show series such as Astroboy and Gigantor because they are "garbage." They show them so that further generations can appreciate the earliest forms of anime before the Pokemon and Dragonball Z craze.
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They wanted to attract the older fans who grew up watching this in the 60's and 70's and by the way, I'll take this over Inuyasah and Naruto any day :P
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