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From the boundless imagination of Osamu Tezuka, arguably history's most important — and inarguably its most prolific — creator of graphic fiction, comes Astro Boy, the singular archetype for the exploding anime and manga industries.
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Christopher Chrysson
reviewed Astro Boy, Volume 8 on October 13, 2017
Astro Boy, Volume 8
In this volume the reprinting of Sankei Newspaper strips is finished (1968-1969), it includes a page recapping developments in previous volumes, this series was reprinted in sequence starting in volume 6 and continued in volume 7. Due to time travel shenanigans this retells the story of Astro leaving the robot circus, gaining parents and going to school. slightly altered by time travel. In particular this story creates a new explanation for the passing of the robot law that gave robots full civil rights. In this series the robot law was initiated by aliens who Astro Boy helped issuing an ultimatum to the people of Earth to free the robots. The story also raps up the saga of Scara Ohara the fickle locust woman who came to Earth to commune with nature. It was only when the story makes it explicit that I realized Scara and some of her paramours have names that refer to Gone with the Wind. The volume finishes with a standard Astro Boy story from Shonen magazine circa 1967 where he has to stop a rogue robot.
Even though I found the Sankei strips a bit unoriginal I think this raps them up in a fun way. The story of the faceless robot is fun and poignant.
The stories in this volume are:
"Once Upon a Time" Astro Boy Tales Part 3 (the text recap of the Sankei newspaper strips so far)
Living Mold from Outer Space
A Declaration of Robot Rights
Astro Goes to Elementary School
Gone with the Snow (end of the Sankei newspaper strips)
The Faceless Robot
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