Yeah i gathered this as well, he's a robot that was allowed to adopt human orphan kids. One strange thing i noticed though, apparently the character Brando is meant to be Turkish living in Istanbul, his wife's name 'Mine' is definitely a traditional Turkish name (pronounced as Min-ne) however Brando is not a Turkish name at all lmao. I guess the producers never researched the names properly lol

yea I wanted to post a comment about it as well :)

@@tolgahk84 Well, I'm fairly certain Mine is original to the Pluto manga, while Brando dates back to the original Astro Boy / Iron-Armed Atom manga; authors were less careful about this kind of thing in the sixties than in the noughties, I suppose.

@@tolgahk84 The high-end robots don't really usually have normal names, they basically have production/marketing names. Atom is not a Japanese name. North no. 2 is not a Scottish name. Mont Blanc and Gesicht are French and German respectivly, but they are not names, they are the name of a mountain and the German word for "face" respectivly. Herakles (Hercules in the English translation) is clearly named after the ancient Greek hero. And so on.

@@tolgahk84 I mean, none of the robots have normal names lmao Gesicht - face in German Mont Blanc - name of a mountain in French North No. 2 - sounds very fictional Atom - a scientific word Hercules - name of a mythical Greek hero

100% There is not nearly enough marketing or established fan base for this series. Also, fans of the manga seem to just point out the cut content so many of them might not be fans of the anime.

It is amazing in my book. Wish more people would talk about it, cause there's so many who don't even know it exists@@FreshestAnime

​​​@@FreshestAnimeThe cut content isn't that big a deal. Unless you're a super fan or following page by page, you won't notice much missing. It doesn't really hurt the story Most fans are enjoying the adaptation. It just needs time to pick up steam because the Urasawa manga fanbase is smaller compared to shounen fanbases

Agree.

@@J0kuca lot of people don’t know it’s even an Astro Boy related story.

Which I think Tezuka was ok with. There once was an ad supporting nuclear fission featuring the Atomu himself. Tezuka allegedly lost his shit and said that Atom stood against nuclear war, not with it. His name is in reference to his physical strength not his atomic powers (which he doesn’t have) So Astro Boy is probably ok especially since this name is based on the fact he flies through the stars.

Don't forget Apothecary Diaries!

Because they’re staying consistent with the sub. This is the first property of any kind with a dub that refers to him as Atom and not Astro.

@@KegOfMeat Its quite the lazy way to get "consistancy". When we talk about subbing or dubbing, what should always come first is being able to convey the intended emotion of the original words. For example you can take Pokemon name's that are more or less just puns and a fun play with words and their meaning. Can you imagine having the english name of pokemon thrown out in the trash and only lazily keeping the japanese name in order to stay authentic? What should be preserve is not the original japanese word, but what they should represent. Except a few international fan of manga and its history, not a lot of the global audience know that Astro is Atom, and in consequence, a lot of the meaning of the scene is lost to them. It was a huge mistake of the dub team. The english one at least, we're quite lucky in France, we know that to give hommage is not limited to just regurgitate japanese word in our translation without any tought process. So we had Astro, wich hold a lot more weight and symbolism in the mind of the majority of the audience. Its not the form that is important, but what it represent.

I also think they should have called him Astro. It’s obviously not a direct translation of Atomu but way more people in the English speaking world know him as Astro. I am ok with it though

Tenma is a man who went insane, recreated his son with the ability to faceplant a mountain and have the mountain be the objective looser, sold said son to a circus, then updated him later while laughing manically. Nicolas Cage should have been given so much to work with! His scream singing the alphabet had mad Tenma vibes.

It’s actually Tetsuwan Atom.

He doesn’t even have his finger lasers

This means that this story takes place in 2003. That means today, rn Atom is 22 years old. Mentally he always has a +9 years due to him being born as a 9 year old kid.

Wow, I gotta rewatch it in the dub next.

Since I knew it was Urasawa, I watched in English from the get go. Man sets his stories all over the world, not just Japan, so his characters speak in dialect and accent.

He did a fantastic job as Tenma. The whole cast did. In fact, Keith Silverstein voiced Epsilon and had previously voiced Johan in Monster.