Uran (manga character)

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Uran, also known as Astro Girl, Sarah, and Zoran, is a fictional robot from Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy series.

Uran is Astro's cybernetic sister; a superhuman android with a naive, tomboyish personality. Constructed by Dr Elefun as a "gift" for Astro, Uran is an extremely mischievous little girl who constantly lands her older brother in trouble. While lacking Astro's weaponry and propulsion systems, she in extremely powerful (50,000 horsepower) and regularly accompanies him on various missions (or attempts to). Like Astro, she is fully capable of experiencing human emotions - though being somewhat less 'mature,' she sometimes expresses them by being naughty or disobedient. Uran first appeared in Episode 25 (The Strange Birthday Present) under the name Astrogirl; in the manga she has always been known as Uran (although in the 2000 anime series and the 2003 game Astro Boy: Omega Factor she was renamed Zoran). In the 2003 anime & Naoki Urasawa's Pluto Uran has the ability to communicate with animals.