# The Mightiest Hero Of them all Returns This Fall! My Childhood hero! YAY! With Link. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601 "2003-05-02T12:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/1 "2003-05-02T12:33:18Z")
[There you go Astro Boy. On your flight into space. Rocket high, through the sky What adventures soon you will make. Astro Boy bombs away On your mission today Here’s the countdown, and a blast off Everything is GO Astro boy. Astro Boy as you fly, Strange new worlds you will find Atom sound jet propelled, Fighting monsters high in the sky. Astro Boy there you go Will you fight friend or foe? Cosmic ranger, life of danger, Everything is GO Astro Boy. Friends will cheer you You’re our hero As you go go GO Astro Boy.]([http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?31312](http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?31312)) **YAY, ASTRO!** ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/2 "2003-05-02T12:42:25Z")
And, Astroboy had a following of…one? I thought you might be referring to the 1980’s series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”. While I was not a fan of this series, a feature-length movie is being promoted. (Why do they bring back the dead?) - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/3 "2003-05-02T13:00:57Z")
Like all right-thinking folk, I LOVED Astroboy. Looking forward to the series! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/4 "2003-05-02T13:29:15Z")
Prince Planet could whip Astroboy’s ass any day of the week. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/5 "2003-05-02T13:34:39Z")
Boy with a 1,000,000 horsepower engine! Woo! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/6 "2003-05-02T13:39:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jinx \* > \*\*And, Astroboy had a following of…one? I thought you might be referring to the 1980’s series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”. While I was not a fan of this series, a feature-length movie is being promoted. (Why do they bring back the dead?) > > - Jinx \*\* Ah \*\*Jinx, Scumpup \*\*. You must be _truly_ evil. For, only the _truly_ evil could not love Astro Boy. But, he loves you. [Do “She-Man” fans create one of these for his birthday?](http://vazdot.info/archives/000308.html) [I’ve never heard of this “planet person”. But thousands turned out to celebrate Astro Boy’s birthday, with parades & parties!](http://www.asahi.com/english/business/K2003040800253.html) Astro _ **Lives!** _😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/7 "2003-05-02T14:24:37Z")
and here i thought that you were talking about Optimus Prime. you rat-bastard. _off to find his vhs collection of the original TF series_ ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/8 "2003-05-02T15:52:10Z")
I too loved Astroboy. The first great anime to reach Iowa. Remember when Calvin put lard in his hair before his class picture and spiked it? Hobbes said he looked like Astroboy. Ah, great days, great days. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/9 "2003-05-02T16:29:15Z")
I remember watching that cartoon almost every day after school on a local tv channel. That same channel also showed Speed Racer and Marine Boy. Oh, and also Kimba the White Lion. Back then I didn’t know it was Anime. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/10 "2003-05-02T17:35:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stonebow \* > \*\*and here i thought that you were talking about Optimus Prime. > > you rat-bastard. > _off to find his vhs collection of the original TF series_ \*\* **NO SOUP FOR YOU!** :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/11 "2003-05-02T17:42:26Z")
I had some high school friends who were more into anime than myself - there are some series I like a lot, I just don’t always have to have the new best thing and all - and a few of them brought over a copy of Astro Boy once. I’ve never heard anybody apologize so much and so often. I doubt we made it through ten minutes. Interestingly, the show did figure prominently in one of the strangest student theatre productions I’ve ever seen. Astro Boy was kind of a motif and starting-point, and there were all these tangets about nuclear power, Japanese experiments and vivisection of Chinese prisoners during WWII, explosions from the chemistry department… well, I SAID it was student theatre, didn’t I? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/12 "2003-05-02T17:48:43Z")
Hey, both He-man and Optimus Prime are back, as well as MUSCLEs and small GI Joes. Proof once again that the 80’s were the best time to grow up in. (i’ve read some of the Astroboy Manga, it’s okay, would have probably been more influential on me if i was a kid when it first came out instead of finding it in my early 20’s reading it in a bookstore) ---
**Author:** ![flyershistory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@flyershistory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyershistory)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/13 "2003-05-02T18:31:03Z")
One more vote for Prince Planet ! He was _awesome_ ! ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/14 "2003-05-02T18:56:48Z")
I love Astro Boy. I think it goes beyond nostalga for a cartoon I watched as a kid. In my opinion Astro Boy is one of the greatest cartoons ever shown on TV. By the way if your interested, Dark Horse is reprinting the Astro Boy manga. ---
**Author:** ![Umbriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de053/32.png) [@Umbriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/15 "2003-05-02T19:32:55Z")
Now, now kids… I see no reason that Astro Boy and Prince Planet fans can’t co-exist in peace. I loved both as a lad, and Speed Racer and Marine Boy (the 2nd generation proto-anime, introducing COLOR) too. I must say that I don’t have entirely positive feelings about a _remake_. Heaven knows what 21st century youth culture sensibilities and political correctness will mutate it into. Better that someone should re-run the originals. Even colorizing them might be acceptable (surely nobody thinks that the cinematography would be ruined), so long as the plots and violence remained intact. Somehow I think that the violence of '60s anime, where people could get hurt and die, and actions had consequences, was far more moral than anything that passes for children’s entertainment today. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/16 "2003-05-02T20:02:39Z")
Is the OP the longest link in SDMB history? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/17 "2003-05-02T20:37:07Z")
No, no, no… the MIGHTIEST hero of all was Diaperman (followed closely by Strongman, Tornadoman, Ropeman, and Cuckooman). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/18 "2003-05-02T20:49:42Z")
Was Astroboy the first anime ever? I know it’s the only one I’ve seen that was made in black-and-white. And it seems to have set the tone for the graphic style of all later anime. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/19 "2003-05-02T23:34:31Z")
Am I the only one to remember Gigantor? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601/20 "2003-05-02T23:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jinx \* > \*\*And, Astroboy had a following of…one? \*\* Not at all! I was a huge fan of Astroboy. I’m not sure though that it will be as good as I remember. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mightiest-hero-of-them-all-returns-this-fall-my-childhood-hero-yay-with-link/172601.md?page=2)