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Edited the location of the machine guns. They were obviously not located in his rectum - in fact my Asstro-Boy t-shirt says hips -- ?

Were edits by 68.38.141.233 really vandalism? It lacked precision but was more worth rewriting than reverting in my opinion... Fafner 06:55, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • For your information, they were vandalism. --Ryanasaurus007 22:54, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Possiblity of splitting up intomation into different entries?

Theres plenty of differences between the Manga and the 3 Astro animes. Shouldnt we split the manga and the 3 animes apart along with character explainations?

[edit] Cast

I'd pick (Motion Capture actors) Haley Joel Osment (Astro Boy), Emma Watson (Astro Girl), Kevin Kline (Dr. Tenma), Jim Carrey (Dr. O'Shay), and Daniel Radcliffe (Tobio), with voices by Bonnie Wright (Astro Boy, Tobio), Emma Watson (Astro Girl), Pat Sajak (Dr. Tenma), and Chuck Woolery (Dr. O'Shay) for the 2005 movie version. - 152.163.100.196

[edit] astroboy lives

you wrote -- I've asked people for years if they remembered AstroBoy and noone has. I watched as a kid, and finally came to the conclusion it was a regional cartoon. I only remembered AstroBoy and Dr. "Elephant", but I knew they were real:-) I look forward to future productions.

I reply -- I also remember Astro Boy from when I was a child. It was shown in the New York state area in the early 1960s. It used to be my favorite tv show when I was young! Where were you from?

207.118.171.164 16:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Astro's Boy's Themes

How does Astro Boy explore issues of racism, prejudice, true heroism, and loss. Anyone know?

Racism is essentially explored by the idea that robots are different from humans, and because of that make humans afraid of them. In a particular episode for example (Frankenstein), an experimental robot is accidentally fred and begins wreaking havoc. As a result, every robots in the country are switched off, including Atomu/Astro, the hero.
Fafner 07:59, 14 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Astroboy's Birthday

At one point it is referred to as being April 7th and another place it is April 6th. What day is it?

It is the 7th. Obviously a small error had slipped in the article, I corrected it ;-)
Fafner 07:17, 28 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Astroboy & Megaman

I think its pretty obvious that Astroboy influenced the creation of Megaman, as the two share many traits and themes. However, I am looking for proof. The creators of Megaman has to have mentioned something like this in the past... Anyone have something?

A (very) quick search on Google redirected me to this article (almost at the end, search "astro"). Not very strong information, but maybe a start... Fafner 07:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citations

I would like a citation for the part where Astro Boy recieves a special citizenship in the real world. Robot Chicken 08:42, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Theme music reuse

What the heck was the early '80s video game that used the Astro Boy theme song in altered rhythm? I played it incessantly but now can't think what it was. Not R 14:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

AHA! Found it after just a few minutes' more searching: It was the free life music in Mr. Do. Not R 15:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect Astro Boy here

I'm currently going through the 'What links here' portion on Astro Boy and (hopefully) redirecting the links to the appropriate article instead of the dab page. What I'm noticing that a vast majority of the links (over 90%) should be directed here. I'm going to continue 'cleaning' the 'What links here' so the links that should be pointing to the other articles are pointing correctly, but what are your thoughts on making Astro Boy a redirect to this article and having the the disambiguous page be Astro Boy (disambiguation)? --Bobblehead 19:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Make sense to me, making Astro Boy a straight DAB doesn't make sense to me, since all Astro Boy subjects and pages derive from the original manga and TV series. Btw, the Astro Boy film still seems to be stalling after years, so it's probably best it stays off the pages until real confirmation comes out that it is really getting made. --SevereTireDamage 20:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Finished cleaning the 'What links here' for Astro Boy so will wait a few more days on making it a redirect here, just in case someone objects. I noticed the film's article got the axe, so went back through and removed references of it. Downside is that I did make 1 link to the article, so somewhere out there is a dead link pointing to Astro Boy (film). --Bobblehead 21:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, since we're already discussing it, I thought I'd put in my two cents. Currently, the Astro Boy pages are awkardly placed and named. For instance, using (1960s) and (1980s) as disambiguation modifiers is pretty lame. The 80s series should be should be named Astro Boy (1982), the same way Astro Boy (2003) is.

This page (1960s) was previously named Astro Boy (no modifier) until someone moved it to this page and made it into a DAB. Also, a stubby page with little content at Astro Boy (character) was merged into this article, which made sense - when this article was the being used as the umbrella article for all Astro Boy pages. So, it makes even less sense to name this page Astro boy (1962) or whatever, since this is the one main Astro Boy page that describes the character and his overall history. Another option is splitting the manga and anime off into their own page or pages.

Thoughts? --SevereTireDamage 12:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and changed the disambiguation to Astro Boy (disambiguation) and pointed Astro Boy and most of its variants to here. As for moving this article to Astro Boy without a modifier. I'm a little ambivalent on that. If anything the Astro Boy 2003 article is misnamed because it gives the impression that the series only ran for 1 year. I would also think there is enough information to make a (character) and (manga) article. That way you could name the anime series something like Astro Boy (anime), Astro Boy (2nd anime), and Astro Boy (3rd anime). Granted, I don't like that wording, but just throwing a thought out. I just don't think naming the 2nd and 3rd series after the year the premiered works. --Bobblehead 21:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split Articles?

For convenience sake, i suggest that the Manga Chapters, Episode List, Episode Summary, and Characters sections be moved to their own pages. They just make the page too long in my opinion..

Rituel 06:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree, since 69.47.33.41 has been adding all that information (much of which borders on being fancruft) the article has got out of hand. Psychonaut3000 20:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube links

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 03:18, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

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