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"Astro Forever" wrote:For a 1979 anime, the animation and the drawings are spectacular.

Don't forget the beautiful classical music score and of course the opening and ending theme (I always have this emotional feeling when I hear Andre scream at the end of the ending theme).

I love this anime, Oscar is my favorite animated female character.

I like Jetter Mars, it was shown in Arabic countries in the late 80's and early 90's as Kookie El Ageib (Amazing Kookie), its plot is very different from Astroboy. This is a story of a robot that has his worries and grows up just like a human child. Mars, named after the god of war in Roman Mytholog...

Wahaha! The fact is Ishinomori's works hasn't arrived to my country yet, but if they say that he was The King of Manga (while Tezuka was the God), he has to be good (I heard Kamen Riader is gonn be published in Spain. The live action series was aired on TV, but it failed: the Power Rangers were unb...

That story you mentioned reminds me of an old anime called "Marine Express" I've seen in Italian (don't understand the language but didn't stop from enjoying Italain dub animes), it was your usual Tezuka allstar cast, as you know Tezuka loved using his characters like actors. It had Shunsaku Ban (Mr...

Welcome, Yuusha Senshi Godaiger! :) Have earlier series of Astroboy like the 80s series been shown in the Middle East? Yeah, the 1980 show aired in the ME around the 1980's, it aired under the title "كوكي " (Kookie), due to its popularity, suprisingly Jetter Mars arabic titl...

Welcome Yuusha Senshi Godaiger! :) I don't remember any other member from that part of the world! I had no clue Astro was popular there too! :w00t: Well, it was mostly an Arabic translation of the American dub along with the US opening however I don't if the US aired the entire show but we sure did...

Well, I can tell you this. Astro Boy seems to have a decent fanbase here in the Middle East after the constant airing of the 2003 series on Dubai broadcasted MBC3.