Ode to Astro Boy. - with theme song (keep reading)
Astroboy was called Tetsuwan Atom in Japan. The black and white series was created, animated and produced by Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) through his own company named Mushi Productions. Tezuka, like his father, was a qualified doctor of medicine but was more interested in drawing. Astroboy was a successful comic strip in Japan in the 50’s. It was released in Japan between 1963 - 1966 and was shown on Melbourne TV in April 1966 at 5.30pm Sunday's on channel 0.The tv week described it as "Cartoon adventure series about a youngster in the 21st century."
Don't ask me why NOW all of a sudden I felt the urge to blog post this, but it is a cartoon I grew up with and his birthday happened to be the 7th of April 2003. A Japanese cartoon, the merchandise is everywhere and it was all over Japan while I was there during 2003/2004 and again for 2004/2005. I even have a TShirt iron on applique. I guess since I am in a reminiscing mood I may as well include this little reminder as well.
NEW THEME SONG HERE
http://home.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/astronew.wav
