Astro Boy

Dr. Boynton loses his beloved son Toby in a traffic accident. Out of grief, he tries to make a super robot with a heart, which looks just like his son. Jiss orders a spy to copy the blueprint and makes a duplicate robot, Atlas, which has the omega factor.

Toby is deceived into joining an American robot circus. Dr. Elephant, soon to be appointed as the new Minister of Science, sees Toby fail in his job as a stagehand, but save the circus from chaos. Dr. Elephant brings Toby back to Japan and names him Astro Boy.

Astro has returned to Japan with Dr. Elephant. The Declaration of the Rights of Robots is proclaimed. Astro attends school and becomes the first robot student. When his classmates sneak into an amusement park, and an unfinished rocket coaster goes out of control, Astro must save them before it explodes!

A plane with Dr. Elephant and Astro on board is caught in a magnetic storm, but Astro saves the plane. Atlas, who has remodeled himself into the form of a young man, rescues Skunk. Atlas snatches Astro's parents and tries to convince Astro to join him in world domination.

A swan flies into Astro's home and turns into Princess Odette. But Devil King, who has chased after her, takes her back. Dr. Elephant and Astro visit an island called Robot Land, made by Dr. Hyde who is Dr. Elephant's former colleague at the Ministry of Science.

Frankenstein, an incomplete robot, goes out of control after being struck by lightning. Skunk finds Frankenstein and orders him to steal money and valuables. A trend in distrust of robots spreads, and mass deactivation takes place. How will Astro save the day, especially when everyone thinks he's Frankenstein's accomplice?

Professor Leopold, who appealed to stop a construction project that is destroying nature in the Basin Valley, fakes his death. He tries to stop the construction wearing a cat mask as a disguise, but Astro reveals his identity. Leopold declares to Dr. Elephant that something will happen on November 19.

Astro is saved by a mouse robot called Pecos Pete and encounters Atlas and Livian in a huge crystal that has emerged from a desert hole. Astro finds out the crystal is the reason the area has turned to desert. Escaping from the crystal, Astro fights Atlas in space.

Skunk's gang plots to win a round-the-world race around the equator, but destroys the White Planet, reigning champion Konrad's vehicle. Dr. Elephant tries to use Astro's electronic brain to repair the White Planet. Astro foils the gang's further attempts to destroy the White Planet.

Astro and Daddy Walrus are invited to a presidential inauguration in Garavia, but the president and Daddy Walrus are abducted by the Dead Cross Party that objects to the world's first robot president. The president detects that the party leader is Dead Cross, who disagrees with granting robots rights.

A rocket carrying a Mars development robot named Goliath crashes in an accident and Goliath loses his head, which can fire a neutron beam. Dr. Elephant has sensed that the head is dangerous and has had Astro hide it. But the head is stolen by a thief.

The Light Ray Robot, an innocent, transparent robot which has won the Robot Art Grand Prix, is manipulated by Skunk to rob money and valuables. Daddy Walrus lures Skunk but lets him get away. Skunk has the Light Ray Robot carry a time bomb to eliminate Daddy Walrus.

Dr. Elephant gives Astro a girl robot, Uran, as a New Year's gift. She goes into town and causes a commotion. On top of that she is lured by a special sound wave from a clown's flute and is captured by a robot smuggling ring, along with other child robots.

The Donohues and the Cavalets have been enemies for generations. Their racing teams are rivals and their robot brothers are opposed to each other. But ironically, Robio of the Donohues and Robiette of the Cavalets fall in love. Astro participates in the Robot Grand Prix as a substitute for Robio.

Astro is appointed leader of the second Mars resources investigative team, but sub-leader Lieutenant Blackstone is hostile to Astro. Lieutenant Nelson of the first investigative team has been left on Mars and it's up to Astro and his team to save him.

Astro's friend Gene hates his father's job of managing an air traffic control satellite by himself. Skunk and his gang abduct Gene, force their way onto the satellite, and compel Gene's father to cooperate with their hijack of a prasium cargo ship. Astro must save Gene and Earth!

This is one of Tezuka Osamu's monumental works that brought an epic-making change in the history of Japanese animation. This first animated TV series in Japan formed the basis for a long lasting and flourishing culture of Japanese animation.

One after another, children get hurt in the explosion of a balloon in the shape of Astro. It is reported to the police that Astro is the guilty one and people despise him. While chasing balloons Astro is shot by Balast. The real criminal is Skunk in collusion with Balast.

Astro visits the underground uranium quarry on Cross Island with Dr. Elephant and meets Buck, an incomplete robot. Professor Terapin, Buck's creator, breaks out of prison with Mandrake's gang, sneaks onto the island and makes Buck into a transformation robot, but Terapin's gang have other, darker plans for Buck.

Meteorites hit a spaceship circling the moon and Astro and seven others eject on a lifeboat. They land by chance on a crater on the moon where air is generated and Astro finds a Soviet moon rocket that was wrecked 30 years ago and notes left by a female lieutenant.

True, the director of a crust research laboratory, lies that a big earthquake will occur. Astro is wrongly thought to be responsible. The director breaks True's judgment circuit, so that he doesn't tell his daughter Pearl, who has lost her sight, the truth that there is no chance of recovery.

During a snowstorm at night, Astro meets a girl who identifies herself as Violet. She is captured by robots but Astro rescues her from the robots' flying saucers that steal water. She says that she is from a water-starved planet called Alsoar and her disordered robots are out of control.

Bruton destroys Mt. Blanc and Molnar. He kidnaps Uran but returns her to Astro and defeats Brondo, but gets hurt in the process. His creator Abrah installs a self-destruct mechanism in Bruton.

Bruton, who has defeated Hercules and Fotar, has a duel in the Mountain of Tears with Astro. But the volcano starts to erupt and Bruton helps Astro to avert disaster. Bruton refuses to fight Astro. His creator Abrah sends out Bora, and Bruton blows himself up but Astro defeats Bora.