Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム Tetsuwan Atomu, "Mighty Atom," lit. "Iron Arm Atom") is a Japanese manga series first published in 1952. The story follows the adventures of a robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way.[2]
Astro Boy was adapted into the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime.[3]
It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, revered in Japan as the "God of Manga."[4]
After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in other countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety.[5] An American computer-animated 3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka was released on October 23, 2009.
Takadanobaba (Japanese: 高田馬場 Takada-no-baba) is a neighborhood in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
Astro Boy, a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka
in 1952, was supposedly "born" in Takadanobaba on April 7, 2003. In
commemoration, starting in 2003, the JR platform uses the theme music
from the TV series to signal the departure of a train. Also, many lamp
posts in the area carry pictures from the TV series, and two large
murals depicting Tezuka's works are across the street of JR Takadanobaba
station.
Originally, the area's name was read Takatanobaba and many Tokyo
residents in their 50s or older pronounce it as such. However, younger
Tokyoites and residents who have come from outside Tokyo[when?], use the pronunciation Takadanobaba. The area is also often referred to simply as "Baba".
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