Thread 149255828

Astroboy is getting a new series

>>149255828 (OP)
>No longer a speedo, but shorts
DOA

>>149255828 (OP)
Wjat happened to that french show, I only saw the trailer

>>149255857
That means no episode with his sister walking around with her bare chest exposed trying to impersonate her brother like in the 80s one

>>149255857
This but unironically

>>149255828 (OP)
I hope the action is good at least.

>>149255828 (OP)
Show what Uran looks like.

>>149255881
Yeah, I've been waiting for that one to come out for a long time.
I guess it got canceled?

>>149255885
Based

yeahsurewhatever.
meanwhile crunchyroll is probably sitting on the streaming/video rights to the 2003 anime.

>>149255881
>Wjat happened to that french show
Method Animation is a french stuio, not sure if it's the same one we heard about doing the reboot 10 fucking years ago or however long its been. I found an article that talks about it like this is the same show after years of re-re-revamps, so who knows?

Apparently there's also a french comic called "Astro Boy Year Zero" that's coming out that's going to be "darker" and "more adult", for whatever that means nowadays.

>>149255881
>Wjat happened to that french show
>>149255965
>I guess it got canceled?
This new reboot is technically the same project. Shibuya Productions took the project and went to Method, another French animation studio. They reworked a lot of shit in the interrim, so no telling how much of the show is going to remain the same, especially seeing that we knew basically nothing about it to begin with.

>>149255828 (OP)
Why does he look so feminine lmao

>from Astro-Boy to Twink-Boy
Hnnuf

>>149255828 (OP)
Their Pluto design better be good or else I ain't watchin

>>149256191
I know a certain Hispanic Twitter artist I follow will enjoy it.

>>149255885
>>149255921
https://youtu.be/ui0gppTidLM
Tezuka was based for creating her.

>>149255885
The 2003 one is good too.

Meanwhile the Astro Boy Reboot that was announced like 2015 is in development hell

Why couldn't the 2009 movie have better writing?

>>149256333
Apparently they showed the first episode at a con but nobody was allowed to record it.

>>149255828 (OP)
The eyes are too feminine, the hair tufts are too long. Might be Uran. This would help ratings, though.
I hope it's good. Astroboy was always interesting for philosophy and directly confronting humanity's hypocritical point of view.

>>149255828 (OP)
>astrofemboy

>>149256365
>Why couldn't the 2009 movie have better writing?
Because it was made by an american CGI animation studio in 2009

>>149256396
I thought it was outsourced to Hong Kong? I heard that the studio there shit down shortly after, unless if it was a co-production and I just didn't notice an American studio working on it.

>>149256407
*shut down.

>>149256407
animation was outsourced to honk kong, but it was still written and produced by Americans for American audiences. Hence, it was shit.

I didn't even watch Pluto yet, we're already doing another one?

>>149256420
Ahh, makes sense now.

>>149255828 (OP)
Astro"Boy"

>>149256434
Pluto? What's this one about? Is it like a sequel series or like something heavily inspired?

>>149256495
Kind of like a remake of some sort.

>>149255828 (OP)
Why do they keep making Astroboy reboots? He's failed enough times so that executives see that no one gives a fuck about Astroboy. And he got replaced by Mega Man who cooler since at least he wears full body armor. Don't bother saying "But Mega Man was inspired by Casshern and not Astroboy" both of them inspired Mega Man.

And one of the reasons Astroboy doesn't work is simply the art style he looks gay due to having feminine assets. And oddly enough this reboot art style here >>149256434 is kind of ugly.

I am so tired of this franchise always getting rebooted. No one cares about it and should go away. Same to other old shit that refuses to die like Detective Conan and Dragon Ball. Japan really must be all out of ideas. Certainly doesn't help they keep remaking the same things all the time like Rurouni Kenshin or Ranma or Sailor Moon, and it goes on.

>>149256518
Oh ok it's based on the Astroboy manga. I get it now, looks cool and I'll definitely give it a look.

>>149256495
It's a reimagining of Astroboy but with a more serious art style and Astroboy is not really the protagonist. He is important to resolving the final battle but that's about it. The story is a detective story about a robot who kills a human. So its really uninspired as a premise.

>>149256528
Make an Uran spin off and autists will flock to it in droves, there's untapped potential with her.

>>149255828 (OP)
It looks competent, but I need to see some animation before I judge it completely

>>149256543
Yeah on second thought that sounds kinda boring.

>>149255828 (OP)
He looks very faggy

I'll give one thing to the movie: it has a good music score by John Ottman
https://youtu.be/LDwWNnZOJwg?si=IWTzcP7gL84xp-WE

>>149255828 (OP)
Astroboy is so fucking boring tho

>>149256747
>Astroboy is so fucking boring tho

I guarantee this is going to be garbage. what kind of garbage, I can't say for sure. my money's on painfully safe and bland.

>>149255828 (OP)
How long has this been in production? I've seen at least 4 different announcements over the last decades

>>149256495
>>149256518
>>149256543
Specifically is a more serious remake of a single Astro Boy arc, "the strongest robot in the world", expanded and altered to such an extent that the original arc is more of a setting piece used to develop Pluto's overall story.

>>149256782
Look at the bright side, it'll get more people to watch and appreciate the original shows.

>>149256782
If it isn't boring then its going to suffer other modern failings. Maybe its fueled by Leftist agendas like Astroboy being incompetent while his sister is an all powerful Mary Sue. You know modern writing like that.

>>149256803
That's not the way it works, when a modern adaptation of an old franchise fails people don't go back to the older media of the same franchise.

What they do is go back to their modern hobbies like watching streamers, playing video games, youtube, etc. When something is old it simply won't hold the attention of young people especially in current year because Short Term Attention Spans are a real problem.

>>149256811
That shit's on its way out. Get with the times.

>>149256845
Okay but why have I seen Astroboy gain a following in the last couple years?
I'm just trying to figure it out.

>>149256867
That shit is going to stay so long as women have rights. The only way that shit is on its way out would be when all nations that practice Women's Rights rot enough to collapse so that the pain and suffering teaches them why its a horrible idea to give women rights.

I would say Sweden will be the first nation to declare Women's Rights were a mistake. Granted it won't be the Swedes saying this but their Islamic conquerors who enforce their Sharia Law and such.

>>149255828 (OP)
Why does he look like a femboy?

>>149256906
K

>>149256914
I think they were trying to imitate the original show and 60s and 70s designs in general. Problem is that style doesn't translate well to 3D unless you have an extremely creative team.

>>149256894
Watch the 80s cartoon. It's pretty good.

>>149256259
Cute

>>149256528
>I am so tired of this franchise always getting rebooted. No one cares about it and should go away. Same to other old shit that refuses to die like Detective Conan and Dragon Ball. Japan really must be all out of ideas. Certainly doesn't help they keep remaking the same things all the time like Rurouni Kenshin or Ranma or Sailor Moon, and it goes on.
Lmao is this a parody considering the west has 1000 more remakes and every cape hero has 1000 iterations?

Who the fuck keeps making this reboots? And most importantly, why Japan allows that shit?

>>149257509
Astroboy is very popular in South East Asia, so naturally they're gonna keep making new Astroboy stuff.

>>149256042
That totally misses the entire point of Astro Boy. The original manga was already dark as shit, it only had a cartoon coat of paint to make those dark themes approachable to everyone.

Hell, we ALREADY have the "more adult" Astro Boy with Pluto, and it really isn't much darker than the original. It just has a more realistic style, but otherwise it's pretty faithful. To act like we need yet another edgy reboot is a pretty big red flag.

>>149255828 (OP)
Christ they really twinked him up. Anyway I am not interested in any western Atom stuff.
>>149256302
Has the 2003 anime been properly subbed yet? Last time I checked it hadn't been.

TRANSTRO BOY
TRANSTRO BOY
THEY GENDER BEND US
HE WILL DEFEND US
THE AMAZING TRANSTRO BOY

>>149256495
It's like a remake of Astro boy with basically the same characters with a few different names, i'm thinking of an analogy and i know one like it exists with /co/ but i'm still remembering. As of now the closest i got is like "Watchmen" but not really, it's got the same juice but a bit darker, but that's what i have for now.

>>149258442
The Internet archive.
It's got 50 of them subbed.

>>149258574
Hell yeah. I have been wanting to watch that one in particular because of the excellent GBA game that was loosely based on it. Thanks, Anon.

>>149256042
>>149258119
There's been a market for more adult takes on classic kids franchises in France and Belgium for a while now (Marsupilami, Lucky Luke, Spirou). In recent years there's also been a market for European comics based on Japanese properties that were popular there (Captain Harlock, Grendizer). This is just combining both. Also relevant, the Spanish one that's about reinventing Tezuka characters as a superhero team in a sci-fi setting.

>>149258442
>Has the 2003 anime been properly subbed yet? Last time I checked it hadn't been.
Yeah, very weirdly around the exact same time, IIRC like a couple weeks apart, two separate projects came out to fully sub the show, a couple years ago

Cora

One of the worst PS2 exclusives I've ever played. It was developed by Sega in-house

>>149255885
>>149255921

>>149258728
>Uran has a thing for Greeks.
Based?

>>149255828 (OP)
This was announced like 7 years ago

>>149258629
>a couple of years ago
Wow. That is right around the time I stopped checking.
>>149258727
Sega was not at it's best in the early 2000's to say the least. It is weird because the Treasure developed Astro Boy game that was just published by Sega wasn't just good it was one of the best action games on the GBA.

>>149258768
Sega didn't develop the GBA game. Only published it.

>>149255828 (OP)
>French studio
Alright, passport is clear
Enjoy your stay

>>149258727
I saw some gameplay on a video just now and it looks like some PS1 game that was just ported to the PS2.
>It has a Superman 64 style ring flying level.
OH FUCK OFF.
Yeah I probably would've hated this back then.

You can't expect a very good game from a movie that is already not very good

>>149258856
Yeah it's definitely a tie in game, oh and it's only a little over 2 hours long which they better have charged bargin bin price for this back then, because I wouldn't even charge 10 for it used.

>>149258790
Yeah, I said that. I just think it is funny that Sega published a great game and a terrible game around the same time based on the same IP.

>>149258574
>>149256766
I noticed that when in Tezuka shows do the big mouth characters, they draw the lower lips instead of having the mouth being like a cardboard sticker around the face

>>149258927
It seems that Sega had a thing for Tezuka at the time. They also made this (it's much better than Astro Boy PS2)

>>149255857
for real though why is it that important?

I can't believe I actually finished this game. As far as 3D games developed by Sega are concerned, it's one of the worst ones. Even something like Sonic 06 was more entertaining
https://youtu.be/yDAdSg4Scqc?si=tuwMg5opeKpqfbb7

>>149258969
I forgot that was a Sega title. It's a pretty great game. I actually got to play it at a relative's house as a kid and had no idea it was so crazy rare at the time.
>>149258965
Tezuka and a lot of his contemporaries had a very round style. A lot of anime style tropes as we know them today developed in the 80's and 90's.

>>149256434
>watch

If it wasn't for the forced jokes, this would be a good scene
https://youtu.be/idJIuxV_GoE?si=ztWNqu2L51f6Ku5s

>>149256365
Everything about that movie sucked, especially the OC characters like that bobblehead looking bitch

You'd think the writers wouldn't include any comedy attempts in this scene because of what happens in it (a child gets murdered), yet they do. For example, there is one comedy attempt at 1:41 (the drone who says "I hate this job") and there's also the president guy saying stuff that is meant to be amusing ("It's like a videogame"/"I might have flunked in college")
https://youtu.be/QDfZWOEC9Ns?si=Ug5pgVbqBThtkxOf

>>149258727
I remember that crappy game
I finished it 100% lol

Even pic related did better at the domestic box office than Astro Boy 2009

>>149259396
This isn't a thread about that movie retard, we don't need all your trivia dumps about it

>>149259302
>The birth of Wheadonisms

>>149258727
>Meanwhile, the GBA game was one of the best games on the console

>>149256191
He was always kinda feminine, that's part of his appeal.

>>149256333
Is that Teodora from Legend Quest?

>>149256333
Fuck, this had so much potential.

>>149256042
>Apparently there's also a french comic called "Astro Boy Year Zero" that's coming out that's going to be "darker" and "more adult", for whatever that means nowadays.
That's... already been done.

>>149255828 (OP)
They better use MFlow or True Blue's Astroboy songs in some damn way or I ain't watching.

https://youtu.be/XDPdmgN-dtM?si=PARHwpPEkQKreP9n

https://youtu.be/sIpSZJ0oc24?si=HMKZWHhZd7Pe2EVw

They better use M-Flo or Zone's Astro Boy songs in some damn way or I ain't watching.

https://youtu.be/XDPdmgN-dtM?si=PARHwpPEkQKreP9n

https://youtu.be/sIpSZJ0oc24?si=HMKZWHhZd7Pe2EVw

>>149255828 (OP)
Astro... "boy"?

>>149255828 (OP)
>Thomas Astruc, the creator and director of the globally successful youth franchise “Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir,” is set to reboot “Astroboy,” one of the best-selling manga series of all time.

>Method Animation, the prestigious Mediawan Kids & Family banner behind “Miraculous” and “The Little Prince,” is joining forces with Shibuya to produce this ambitious new series.

>The original animated TV series came out in 1963 and became a global sensation, especially in Japan and France, as well as in the U.S. where it was the first anime to air. Based on the manga collection created by Osamu Tezuka which sold over 100 million copies worldwide, the series paved the way for other Japanese TV animation series. “Astroboy” was also a huge seller in merchandising, turning the little child-like robot character into a pop-culture icon and best-known superhero of Tezuka’s work.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/miraculous-astroboy-method-shibuya-mediawan-1235296063/

I'm not sure if I should be excited (new Astro Boy) or worried (Astruc and another western Astro Boy).
Hopefully, it's better than that Imagi Studios Astro Boy some anon(s) keeps spamming on here.

>>149256042
>>149256333
It's a bit weird seeing Astro Boy getting quite a few western content in production. Kinda reminds me of World Events Productions leeching off GoLion by making new /co/ Voltron every couple of years despite GoLion being a forgotten series in Japan.

>>149256495
Its a hard reimagining of a minor ark from the Astro Boy manga only written by a different author(the one who did Monster) and turned into a detective series. Not uncommon for different manga artist to adapt other mangaka's series. Personally I didn't care for it or any of the authors works because all hit shit is the same.

>>149258442
>Has the 2003 anime been properly subbed yet? Last time I checked it hadn't been.
Been on nyaa for some years now. For some reason I can't make webms of the show

>>149262424
I guess he's leaving Miraculus's team to create the show without him. Perhaps that would finally let some of them step over the line that ML has been holding back from and go full Totally Spies for awhile.

Does no one get the humour of a computer generated Astroboy series in a time of Ai art?
And Uran going topless is a callback joke for some because the Astro series just never gets around to that sort of thing. Is there a factory somewhere that creates robot skin? Do they hire human models to scan to size the skin? The humans would be scanned, not the clothes they wear, jtbc. The setting would be in full support of that sort of "just show up, walk over there naked, and get paid" job for a human. It's part of the human-coddling that sets up so much in Astroboy.

>>149255828 (OP)
That design ain't right.

>>149256495
a re imagining of the "Worlds strongest robot" arc, as a murder mystery from the PoV of a different robot than Astroboy. Its pretty good

I dont need a new Astroboy, I just need 2003 easily available in good quality

>>149258609
That game ruled. I might have to dig out my GBA because of this thread

>>149262960
>all hit shit is the same.
I really don't see it. Monster and 20th Century Boys went off the fucking rails a few volumes in while Pluto was pretty consistent. Pluto is the only thing I have read from him that I have loved.
>>149263174
I just played it on a whim a few years back and was blown away. I expected something good because Treasure was usually quality but I didn't expect it to be such a love letter to all things Tezuka.

Yep... it's still kino

>>149263091
>Does no one get the humour of a computer generated Astroboy series in a time of Ai art?
That's like the first thing I thought of when it started being pushed everywhere. Funny enough Tezuka actually did touch on the subject slightly in the anime. Astro joins a robot school and tried to make art, but ends up making a piece totally incomprehensible to humans, much to their dismay.

I can imagine a modern spin on the concept would expand on that tidbit, with robots being forced by humans to make uncanny amalgamations of existing art, instead of the incomprehensible stuff that only a robot can appreciate. With the moral being that robots should be free to make art for themselves, because that's the whole point of art.

>>149259123
It came out as a netflix series recently. It was good although I don't think they captured North No. 2's singing right and it made what was a heartbreaking scene in the manga a little corny for a moment. Overall 9/10. Good representation of the manga.

>>149255828 (OP)
Looks extremely homogay here.

>>149263127
An HD remaster with good subs would be nice.

>>149259167
As obnoxious as the constant threads about this damn movie are, I feel like the film did have a lot of good in it. Flawed as all hell and not really a good adaptation all things considered, but the idea of Astro being this philosophical nightmare of a robot having the memories of a dead guy always fascinated me.

Like, imagine waking up one morning only to find out your a robot. Were you always like this? Did you even exist before that morning? Do you technically have the "soul" of your previous life? There's just so much you can do with this concept.

>>149256042
>Michel Lafon
You can only expect bad things from this publisher. They're trend chasers.

Astro Boy was good as a GBA game but the whole premise is boring to watch play out in the 4-5 iterations I've seen tbqhwyf, something that takes inspiration from it for a whole new story and cast has a better chance to not be a snoozer

Robots

>>149263127
This is what tartakovsky WISHES he could do

>>149255881
This is that show. It's been in development hell for so long that a separate French Astro Boy cartoon for preschoolers came and went in-between.

>>149256495
It's a retelling of the strongest robot arc by Urasawa, focused more on one of the robot characters introduced in that arc as he investigated the string of robot murders, eventually Atom himself takes center stage.

>>149255828 (OP)
This the one that was written or directed by AssTruck from Miraculous?

>>149255828 (OP)
>>149256333
This is the same series after a decade of development hell. France is not putting out two separate shows called "Astro Boy Reboot".

>>149265659
We already know the World's strongest robot story. What other "best of" does Astroboy have? Alien invasion? Battle at the north pole? Murder mystery under the sea?

>>149258621
What's the Lucky Luke ones? Bonhomme?

>>149255828 (OP)
Cool. Wrong board though.

Astro autist won...

1.5 stars out of 4 is a fitting score

>>149264956
Super Fighting Robots

>>149258442
It feels like they are trying to erase 2003 from history.

>>149266451
retard

>>149267093
Most Astroboy stories are simply redoes of the previous ones.

The 2003 series only redoes SOME of the old stories, otherwise it really goes to different places than the other series, especially the fact that robots aren't considered actual citizens whereas they are in the other series.

>>149267093
I'm not sure why you'd expect a show from 20 years ago to be the franchise's focal point when it wasn't the original iteration and seems like it wasn't as popular as those involved had hoped. It would be nice if it got a proper HD release (the credits suggest it was an early HD production, which isn't surprising given it was clearly a big vanity project) and an official subtitled version, but Sony (who co-produced it) is an issue. The rights to that show are held by Sony Pictures and rather than give those titles to Crunchyroll, they seem content to hold onto them and at best just let Mill Creek do jank discs.

>>149267198
Yes you are.

>>149267093
I'm not sure why you'd expect a show from 20 years ago to be the franchise's focal point when it wasn't the original iteration and seems like it wasn't as popular as those involved had hoped. It would be nice if it got a proper HD release (the credits suggest it was an early HD production, which isn't surprising given it was clearly a big vanity project) and an official subtitled version, but Sony (who co-produced it) is an issue. The rights to that show are held by Sony Pictures and rather than give those titles to Crunchyroll, they seem content to hold onto them and at best just let Mill Creek do jank discs.

Though, I don't know if Crunchyroll would do anything with Astroboy anyway. It's not really in their typical wheelhouse. Maybe if they didn't immediately fire all of the Nozomi people (they released the original Astroboy series on DVD in the '00s) there could be a chance.

>>149266926
fuck off already Sharkfag

>>149255828 (OP)
So gay

>"I'm not fighting/I'm not doing this"
>(proceeds to destroy every single robot)
https://youtu.be/lzc4dQ1XoL8?si=jJcxuLTstx8GUfdF

>>149268990
How did the comic relief robots passed through the force shield at 4:11?

>>149256434
This looked like a tryhard show made exclusively for twitter. Kinda like Andor but less interesting. I noticed everyone stopped talking about it like two months after it finished.

>>149268990
Pretty much this

I'm ready

>>149255857
I'm gonna pretend those are bike shorts. those skintight, latex, nylon sorta things

>>149256766
>>149256572
>>149256435
just love that no matter the subject, there's always some random anon who has like a billion images and some low-key sorta creepy obsession with some aspect of the said show/comic/series

>>149269112
>tryhard
What?
It is mostly a detective drama that is significantly more tame than most anime.

So why did she run away from her parents? How did she get to the surface? The writers don't bother to explain it

>>149255828 (OP)
Cool!

>>149262424
>leeching off GoLion
Voltron has been iterated on to the point where it doesn't have much to do with GoLion anymore, outside of the vague idea of five pilots in a lion mech. Later versions are all directly based on lore that was made up for the English version.

>>149266926
No, it's REALLY not. I caught this movie on TV last year and it was way, way better than I was expecting. Solid 3 star movie.

How many refueling scenes will there be?

How many refueling scenes will there be?

>>149255828 (OP)
The Eternal Femboy

>>149259440
>T. Astro

>>149262424
No wonder our Boy looks feminine, he's going to be fetishized, isn´t he?

Toby was a dick. He didn't even close the school doors after leaving early

>>149255828 (OP)
didn’t the movie previously killed the series?

>>149258727
>>149258856
>>149259396
>>149266926
>>149270156
>>149272812
Man fuck off already, you sound like a wannabe autistic YouTube critic talking to an audience that doesn't exist

>>149272832
The specific story was that the (hong kong? don't remember) animation studio that made that movie lost a lot of money on it and had to close iirc. Astro Boy isn't something that dies just because of 1 movie, and Pluto pretty recently had a well received anime adaptation

>>149273610
Pluto wasn't even the only Atom anime to come out after the movie. I know there was that weird prequel series a while back.