Astro Boy

It's the year 2030 in Tokyo. 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. Dr. Boynton ignores the prime minister's disposal order and completes robot Toby.

Toby is deceived by his master 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. Cathy, a member of the circus, tricks the master into letting Toby go. Dr. Elephant brings Toby back to Japan with him and names him Astro Boy.

Astro has returned to Japan with Dr. Elephant, the new Minister of Science. The Declaration of the Rights of Robots is proclaimed. Astro attends elementary 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!

The design of Astro's prototype equipped with a neutron bomb is stolen. With a help of a robot named Niki, Astro sneaks into the underground fortress in the Republic of Grotta to recapture the design.

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 stop the cargo ship from crashing into the Earth!

A mother elephant and her baby wander into a safari park of robot animals in Africa, and the mother is shot dead by a hunter. Astro rescues and protects the baby elephant, named Pook. Dr. Huntley, who made the park, asks Dr. Elephant to remodel Zora, a murderous robot elephant, but soon enough Astro must save everyone from Zora, and find a new home for Pook.

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.

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, as it races to win first prize!

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.

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

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

Frankenstein, an incomplete robot built for space exploration, 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?

Dr. Elephant gives Astro a pretty girl robot, Uran, as a New Year's gift. But she is too much for Astro to handle. 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. But with Uran's help, Astro finds the smugglers' artificial island and destroys it.

Astro and his classmates go on a field trip to see a dam and stay in a lodge. Due to a storm, an upstream dam is on the point of breaking. Astro's jets fail so the party tries to flee on a D51 steam locomotive kept in the lodge. An old man from the lodge, who was the automatic operating device, asks to incorporate himself into the SL.

Astro's friend Gene hates his father's job of managing an air traffic control satellite all alone. 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 follows Gene, captures the gang, and chases the cargo ship but Skunk escapes.

Atlas, who has been released from ice by Livian, challenges Astro to a duel in a ballpark. But Daddy Walrus intervenes and Atlas withdraws. Astro is hidden in the vault of the Ministry of Science. While Astro's friends are riding a subway train, Atlas causes it to go out of control in order to lure Astro out and challenge him again.

Astro visits an undersea farm where the mermaid robot Peppy works. He fights off descending sharks and a submarine belonging to Mandrake who seeks golden coral. He also helps with the breeding of fish. An electric shock from a mysterious fishtail damages Astro but Peppy repairs him. Astro finds a 1000-meter long electric ray that eats marine creatures.

Astro reassembles an artificial sphere fallen in the Northern Alps. It turns out that the sphere is a robot named Garon developed by an alien to alter other planets, which unfortunately has fallen on the earth in transit. Activated by lightning, Garon, running wild, is drawn into the ground. Prof. Adams, who collects Garon from the earth makes him alter a deserted southern island.

Astro meets three discarded robots; a welder named Peter, a nurse named Becky, and a firefighter named Duke. They are thrown away by people because of one mistake they have made. Astro tries to find jobs for them; however, no one shows interest since they are non-registered. But then those three robots actively work at the accident occurred in the space factory.

During a snowstorm at night, Astro meets a girl lying outside a ski lodge 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.

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. Dr. Elephant resents the robot abuse that occurs there.

Astro's dog is seriously injured by a group of rogue robots that devastate the town. Astro changes himself into a dog and fights them but they unite in the shape of a centipede and run away, although they later die. While chasing them, he finds the solidified Livian. Atlas appears and says that they are his followers whom he has remodeled from robot football players but they have betrayed him.

Livian's plane is brought down by a tracking plane. Astro saves her but she suffers a loss of memory. Meanwhile, ice at the North Pole melts and world cities start to be submerged. Struck by lightning, Livian recovers her memory and says that Atlas is the one who is behind this. Astro goes to Greenland and fights Atlas.

Astro picks up a letter in a bottle in the sea and goes to find Peligro Island. But he is swallowed by an artificial sea snake and taken to an undersea mining base with other victims. Astro meets an old man and his daughter Lilly, who threw the bottle into the ocean and rescues them both.