The smiling boy with the pointy hairdo flying into theaters today in David Bowers’ computer-generated film “Astro Boy” isn’t just a clever diversion for the kids. He’s got a storied past that helped ...

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Astro Boy is one of Japan’s most famous exports to the world. The story of a little robot boy began life in 1952, written by the father of modern manga, Osamu Tezuka. It became a television series ...

Astro Boy—the beloved '60s Japanese anime series—is launching on the big screen on October 23! Woo ... wait a minute. Haven't we been here before? The Technicolor hemorrhage that was Speed Racer ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Everyone, regardless of age, simply must own and play Astro Boy: Omega Factor--because it is one of the best action games on the Game Boy Advance.

Astro Boy has been around since 1951, a comic book superhero without any of the psychological baggage of today's superheroes. Astro Boy provides the simple escapism missing from today's overheated, DC ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Astro Boy: Omega Factor is the US incarnation of Astro Boy: Tetsuwan Atom, the slick 2D side-scroller from Sega and 2D gods Treasure. The game was ...

Just about anyone vaguely interest in Japanese comics and animation knows about Astro Boy. This cybernetic little hero practically gave birth to both industries. Since debuting in 1952, Astro Boy has ...

The piece comes from Instagram courtesy of Molotov Bailey and Masterness. The former is a truly talented cosplayer who hit up Dragon Con last year with an intense look. They did a realistic cosplay of ...

Netflix released a four-minute teaser trailer for Pluto, the anime adaptation of the manga by Naoki Urusawa that's a gritty reboot of a classic Astro Boy manga from the 1960s. The new anime series ...

On the heels of the Asian Art Museum's bold new retrospective of the work of Osamu Tezuka, Japan's "God of Manga," comes a new book by manga historian Frederik L. Schodt exploring the colorful life, ...

Directed by David Bowers Screenplay by Timothy Hyde Harris and David Bowers Starring the voices of Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Charlize ...