C&C - Astro Boy - "Colosso" [7/20]

[veemonjosh]

As if last week's episode didn't have enough of a Frankenstein reference during Astro's birth, we get Frankenstein's monster, under the name "Colosso".

http://www.astroboy.tv/images/colosso.jpg

Discuss.

[danreyes1]

It looked like the animation budget ran out during the fight ^^

And what was with the candle on Hamegg's head?

[Kitschensyngk]

So THAT'S how they make female robots.

The voice recording sucks this week.

Acts like he never learned Asimov's three rules of robotics.

Of course! They'd never suspect one of the SCULPTURES!

Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody plays during the museum robbery scene.

The robots are always guilty until proven innocent.

Couldn't they animate this fight scene rather than give us a montage of stills?

[sdp]

Nice to see the intro of this show, I can still be nostalgic even if I've never seen this show. Funny how the designs of of Astro and the Doctor Elefante are mostly the same as the 80s show. Wow the dub is bad but counting it so old its more than forgivable.


I'm an astro boy fan but this show has no nostalgic value and makes it very hard to enjoy it. I know its old but wow..still I can't wait for next week to see more of this series.

haha it was like watching a choppy streaming video :D

Anyone had a hard time trying to understand what some of the human characters said? i wish this series had Closed Caption.

The fight scene reminded me of the last episode of evangelion :p

[Taylor Karras]

Right, The episode showing us stuff that would probally happen 1,000 years from now.

Where's the games from the year 2000.
Where the uniqueness that we get from the Millennium.
Furthermore, Where are our major TV networks
and where is 24?

I'm also wondering where is our advanced medicine?

[SpaceCowboy]

If the audio quality is like that on RightStuf's DVDs, then it's probably one of those episodes where the audio was in bad shape.

[veemonjosh]

If the audio quality is like that on RightStuf's DVDs, then it's probably one of those episodes where the audio was in bad shape.

Yeah, it is.

[JTurner954]

I'm enjoying this series very much as it reminds me of something I would hear from an old radio broadcast. The animation is also surprisingly good. I was expecting Speed Racer quality mouth flaps; this was much better as the character actually appear to be pronouncing syllables.

And I'm constantly get a "wtf" reaction with the visuals (the first episode had some priceless moments with the dialogue). Some of my favorite moments from this episode:

The sideframe catching the doctor's nose before he sneezes.

Astroboy's father happens to look like a fat version of Hitler.

The assembly line (Bender would love this scene).

The Frankenstein-like robot becomes calm when he receives new hardware in the form of a stylish toupee.

All the rich people are overweight, including the candidates for Astroboy who happen to have pig noses.


The best show to arrive on Cartoon Network this year.

[veemonjosh]

Astroboy's father happens to look like a fat version of Hitler.

Who's Fat Hitler? Some kind of robot? Or just some parent I don't know about?

I thought we were talking about Astro Ball Z.

The best show to arrive on Cartoon Network this year.

Indeed.

[SpaceCowboy]

Yeah, it is.
The sound reproduction kind of sounds like someone took a tape-recorder and held it up to their TV. lol
Kudos to Rightstuf for using whatever existed. Some companies aren't that generous.

Still, Adult Swim should probably put up a disclaimer stating that there are sound issues that are inherit in the master, since some people could mistake them for problems with the broadcast transmission.

[PeppeRaskell1]

I was wondering when someone was gonna post something about the sound quality of Saturday's ep. I got an AstroBoy disc with the first five eps from Netflix over the weekend and noticed the poor sound quality. I even screencapped the disclaimer at the beginning of the disc about why the audio quality varies from episode to episode.

[sdp]

I was posting on the Astroboy-online.com forums when this set was being put together. Right Stuff went through a lot of trouble on those two sets, which is why they are expensive. The original masters of the English audio were destroyed because of legal reasons so none exist. They encouraged fans to send their tapes in and that is how they got a lot of the audio for the episodes which explains their quality. I believe the video was just from japanese masters so no big difference in quality there.

Still counting this show is from the 60s I bet most won't even wonder about the quality.

[btv]

I've fallen in love with the character designs, and all the comedic moments even in dramatic parts. The quality doesn't even bother me at all with this one, this was a good episode.

B+

[SpaceCowboy]

I was posting on the Astroboy-online.com forums when this set was being put together. Right Stuff went through a lot of trouble on those two sets, which is why they are expensive. The original masters of the English audio were destroyed because of legal reasons so none exist. They encouraged fans to send their tapes in and that is how they got a lot of the audio for the episodes which explains their quality. I believe the video was just from japanese masters so no big difference in quality there.

Still counting this show is from the 60s I bet most won't even wonder about the quality.So RightStuf restored the audio to certain episodes of Astro Boy like the way the BBC restored elements to the missing episodes of Dr. Who.

[Bones Justice]

I'd never heard of this show before so I gave it a chance. It's definitely not for me. I could live with the simplistic designs but the story was not entertaining at all. They definitely need to improve the sound, too, as a lot of what was said was unintelligible.

[veemonjosh]

I'd never heard of this show before so I gave it a chance. It's definitely not for me. I could live with the simplistic designs but the story was not entertaining at all. They definitely need to improve the sound, too, as a lot of what was said was unintelligible.

...Who the heck has never heard of Astro Boy before?

Also, about the sound, the original english prints were burned back in the 70's, and this is the best they can come up with. I'm serious, you're expecting WAY too much for them to "improve on the sound".

[judyindisguise]

I stumbled across the Astroboy pilot ep on Adult Swim a couple of weeks ago - and loved it. It was so surreal...there was an innocence there that is completely lacking in kids toons today. And I loved the theme song, voiced by a group of kids:

What must I do
To be like you?
Everything is go, Astro Booyyyy!

I get Shojo Beat magazine, and the July issue had a fragment of the manga Princess Knight, one of the first efforts of Astroboy creator Osamu Tezuka. It has never been published in the U.S., and after reading the fragment, boy did I want more. Tezuka was heavily influenced by Disney, and the retro charm of that fragment bowled me over. It's too dated and hokey I suppose to warrant its full publication in the U.S. - but frankly, I'm so tired of the stupid flat graphic sloppiness of most new kids toons that Tezuka's traditionally "cute" style seems damn refreshing. I hope someday that Princess Knight - in all its incarnations, since Tezuka did several versions of it over the years - will someday be published in the States so it can be fully enjoyed by kids again - especially kids like me. :D

[D Dubbs]

Yeah, the sound quality wasn't too great, but the plots seem pretty simplistic for the most part, so I'm not going to worry about it too much.

And were those real guns they were using? I thought I saw the gang leader kill one of his goons. That's kind of stretching it for a TV-G rating.