Tetsuwan Art

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The dub was originally recorded at the University of Wisconsin in 1980. The crew was very small, and had very few voice actors - most notably are Patty Whitely as Astro/Livian/Ms. Ford, Del Lewis as Dr. Boynton, and 17-year-old Jay Rath as Atlas/Guiss/Skunk. The crew eventually grew over time as they recorded the whole series thru 1981. For a long time, the only known surviving copy of the complete dub was on a master tape by one of the university sound engineers. The North American distributors edited the first two episodes together for reasons that are still unknown.

The full-length disco instrumental for the Astro le Petit Robot theme! It was originally scored by Nariaki Saegusa (mis-credited on the record as “Seagusa”) and slightly rearranged by Osvaldo Montes.

The French opening theme for Shin Tetsuwan Atom (1980), recorded in Montreal, Quebec in 1984. The theme uses a slightly altered version of the original Japanese theme’s arrangement, with added vocals by Franck Olivier, a Belgian singer who performed many other French anime openings in the 1980s.

Transparent .gifs made from 1960s stickers

Atom advertising the Hitachi Perdisco TRK-8800 Stereo (1980).

A very rare promo for the 2003 AB series, which aired on the Canadian network YTV in 2004.

The “exclusive” Astro Boy NFT...if you’d like to own it in high resolution without the “SAMPLE”, you can spend $8000 on it and burn down a tree...but if you don’t care about the watermark, here it is for free.

Images from a cube puzzle, produced in 1984 by France Jouets. Each puzzle piece was a lightweight plastic cube with six decorated sides that could be assembled into a full-colour image. Most curiously, one of the sides - shown in image 8 - is of a robot dog and ship bridge that do not actually appear in Shin Tetsuwan Atom (1980).