List of Astro Boy (2003 TV series) episodes
The 2003 Astro Boy series is a remake of the 1960s anime black-and-white series of the same name; both series are adapted from the manga series of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. The series aired from April 6, 2003 to March 28, 2004. The 2003 series uses four pieces of theme music: two opening themes and two ending themes. The first opening theme is "True Blue" by Zone while the ending theme is "Boy's Heart" by Fumiya Fujii. The second opening theme is "Now or Never" by Chemistry meets M-Flo while the ending theme is "Mighty Atom" (鉄腕アトム, Tetsuwan Atomu).
Episode list
| Episode # | U# Title (English) Romaji Title (Japanese) | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate[1] | English airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Power Up!" / "Power Up" "Pawā Appu" (Japanese: パワーアップ) | Keiichirō Mochizuki | Chiaki J. Konaka | April 6, 2003 | January 17, 2004 | |
| When Astro is activated the city's power starts to drain, and he must try and stop the robot Magnamite from destroying everything. Armed with Kokoro (the ability of free will) Astro discovers his purpose for being activated. | ||||||
| 2 | "Rocket Ball" / "Robot Ball" "Robotto Bōru" (Japanese: ロボットボール) | Fumio Maezono | Chiaki J. Konaka | April 13, 2003 | January 24, 2004 | |
| When Astro makes new friends, a robot dog lures him to the Rocket Ball stadium and the Rocket Ball players challenge Astro to a game or they will destroy the human spectators under Dr. Tenma's orders. | ||||||
| 3 | "Destination Deimos" / "Atom Goes into Space" "Atomu Uchū e Iku" (Japanese: アトム宇宙に行く) | Yukio Suzuki | Chiaki J. Konaka | April 20, 2003 | March 10, 2004 | |
| On Deimos, one of the two moons on Mars, robot miners ignore the orders of their human foreman and mysteriously begin digging on their own. Dr. O'shay goes on a spacecraft to get to Deimos to investigate and finds out that Astro snuck aboard. | ||||||
| 4 | "Into Thin Air" / "Denkou" "Denkō" (Japanese: 電光) | Keiichirō Mochizuki | Ai Ōta | April 27, 2003 | March 11, 2004 | |
| A gangster name Skunk tricks a special robot name Denkou to steal and do his evil bidding. It's up to Astro to save Denkou before Skunk does something terrible to her. | ||||||
| 5 | "Rainbow Canyon" / "Save the Robot Farm!" "Robotto Nōjō o Sukue!" (Japanese: ロボット農場を救え！) | Yukio Suzuki | Ai Ōta | May 4, 2003 | March 15, 2004 | |
| A girl name Mimi needs Astro's help to save her farm at Rainbow Canyon because of her grandfather's weather tower and it's creating many terrible storms by someone Mimi trusted. | ||||||
| 6 | "Atlas" / "Birth of Atlas" "Atorasu Tanjō" (Japanese: アトラス誕生) | Yukio Suzuki Satoshi Kuwabara | Keiichi Hasegawa | May 11, 2003 | January 31, 2004 | |
| Dr. Tenma builds Atlas, a robot just as powerful as Astro. When Atlas begins to destroy Metro City, Astro must find a way to stop him. Astro discovers his true origins and a new ability that might cause tension in a city where anti-robot sentiment continues to grow. | ||||||
| 7 | "Astro vs Atlas" / "Atom VS Atlas" "Atomu vs Atorasu" (Japanese: アトムvsアトラス) | Satoshi Kuwabara | Keiichi Hasegawa | May 18, 2003 | February 7, 2004 | |
| Astro faces his past when his memory circuits are reactivated, and he remembers how he was activated and ultimately rejected by Dr. Tenma. Tenma even rebuilds Atlas to be strong enough to defeat Astro. | ||||||
| 8 | "Neon Express" / "Robot Super Express" "Robotto Chōtokkyū" (Japanese: ロボット超特急) | Yukio Suzuki | Sadayuki Murai | May 25, 2003 | March 18, 2004 | |
| When a mysterious person name Kato hides a hyper-accelerator virus on the robotic super train Neon Express, it sends the train and its passengers speeding out of control. Astro must rescue the passengers and prevent the train from crashing into the center of Metro City. | ||||||
| 9 | "Franken" / "Franken" "Furanken" (Japanese: フランケン) | Fumihiro Yoshimura | Sadayuki Murai | June 1, 2003 | March 22, 2004 | |
| A mysterious robot terrifies humans as he hunts for scrap metal parts and uses them to rebuild his own malfunctioning system. | ||||||
| 10 | "The Venus Robots" / "Venus Robot Invasion!" "Kinsei Robotto Shūrai!" (Japanese: 金星ロボット襲来！) | Yukio Suzuki | Keiichi Hasegawa | June 8, 2003 | March 23, 2004 | |
| In order to take advantage of their special freezing powers, Dr. Tenma pretends to be the long-awaited leader of a group of advanced robots call The Venus Robots and use them to do his evil bidding. | ||||||
| 11 | "Robot Circus" / "The Robot Circus Has Arrived!" "Robotto Sākasu ga Yattekita!" (Japanese: ロボットサーカスがやって来た！) | Kazuo Yamazaki | Ai Ōta | June 15, 2003 | March 31, 2004 | |
| One of the members of a robot circus, Reno, is actually a human boy disguised as a robot. When this is discovered, the authorities try to take the boy away from his robot family. | ||||||
| 12 | "Jumbo Revived!" / "The Revived Jumbo" "Yomigaetta Janbo" (Japanese: よみがえったジャンボ) | Shigeharu Takahashi | Kenji Konuta | June 22, 2003 | March 23, 2004 | |
| 13 | "Little Sister, Big Trouble" / "Birth of Uran" "Uran Tanjō" (Japanese: ウラン誕生) | Yukio Suzuki | Ai Ōta | July 6, 2003 | April 1, 2004 | |
| 14 | "Micro Adventure" / "Micro's Great Adventure" "Mikuro no Daibōken" (Japanese: ミクロの大冒険) | Kazuo Yamazaki | Chiaki J. Konaka | July 13, 2003 | April 1, 2004 | |
| 15 | "Only a Machine" / "Protect the AI!" "Jinkōchinō o Mamore!" (Japanese: 人工知能を守れ！) | Takao Suzuki | Pamela Hickey Denny McCoy | July 20, 2003 | April 5, 2004 | |
| 16 | "Robot Hunters" / "Dark Robot Hunters" "Yami no Robotto Hantā" (Japanese: 闇のロボットハンター) | Yukihiro Shino | Ai Ōta | July 27, 2003 | March 25, 2004 | |
| 17 | "The Rise of Pluto" / "Earth's Strongest Robot" "Chijō Saikyō no Robotto" (Japanese: 地上最強のロボット) | Yukihiro Shino | Keiichi Hasegawa | August 3, 2003 | March 29, 2004 | |
| 18 | "The Fall of Acheron" / "Pluto is Undying" "Purūtō wa Shinazu" (Japanese: プルートゥは死なず) | Yukihiro Shino | Keiichi Hasegawa | August 10, 2003 | March 30, 2004 | |
| 19 | "Robot Boy" / "Robot Boy" "Robotto Bōi" (Japanese: ロボットボーイ) | Yukihiro Shino | Marc Handler | August 17, 2003 | April 6, 2004 | |
| 20 | "Dawn of the Techno Revolution" / "Eternal Boy" "Eien no Shōnen" (Japanese: 永遠の少年) | Toshio Hirata | Hirotoshi Kobayashi | August 24, 2003 | April 6, 2004 | |
| 21 | "Dragon Lake" / "The Monster of the Lake" "Mizūmi no Kaibutsu" (Japanese: 湖の怪物) | Hiroshi Ishiodori | Keiichi Hasegawa | August 31, 2003 | March 24, 2004 | |
| 22 | "The Legend of Tohron" / "Goodbye Princess" "Sayonara Purinsesu" (Japanese: さよならプリンセス) | Yukio Suzuki | Ai Ōta | September 7, 2003 | April 26, 2004 | |
| 23 | "Lost in Outland" / "Lost Memory" "Ushinawareta Kioku" (Japanese: 失われた記憶) | Kazuo Yamazaki | Hirotoshi Kobayashi | September 14, 2003 | March 25, 2004 | |
| 24 | "March of the Micro Bears" / "Little Bear" "Bea-chan" (Japanese: ベアちゃん) | Yukio Suzuki | Keiichi Hasegawa | September 21, 2003 | April 26, 2004 | |
| 25 | "Deep City" / "If I Could Shed Tears" "Moshimo Namida o Nagasetara" (Japanese: もしも涙を流せたら) | Kazuo Yamazaki | Hirotoshi Kobayashi | September 28, 2003 | March 29, 2004 | |
| 26 | "The Blue Knight" / "Enter the Blue Knight" "Aokishi Tōjō" (Japanese: 青騎士登場) | Satoshi Kuwabara | Ai Ōta | October 5, 2003 | April 6, 2004 | |
| 27 | "Old Dog, New Tricks" / "Great Detective Higeoyaji" "Meitantei Higeoyaji" (Japanese: 名探偵ヒゲオヤジ) | Keiichirō Mochizuki | Keiichi Hasegawa | October 12, 2003 | May 26, 2007 | |
| 28 | "Hydra-Jacked" / "Space Plant Crisis" "Uchū Puranto no Kiki" (Japanese: 宇宙プラントの危機) | Fumihiro Yoshimura | Ai Ōta | October 19, 2003 | March 30, 2004 | |
| 29 | "The Case Of The Phantom Fowl" / "Uran and the Great Detective" "Uran to Meitantei" (Japanese: ウランと名探偵) | Masami Hata | Keiichi Hasegawa | October 26, 2003 | June 2, 2007 | |
| 30 | "Geo Raider" / "Exploring the Earth's Depths" "Chitei Tanken" (Japanese: 地底探検) | Shigeharu Takahashi | Hirotoshi Kobayashi | November 2, 2003 | March 30, 2004 | |
| 31 | "Gideon" / "Gunon's Great Adventure" "Gūnon no Daibōken" (Japanese: グーノンの大冒険) | Takechika Narikawa | Ai Ōta | November 9, 2003 | June 9, 2007 | |
| 32 | "Secret of the Blue Knight" / "The Secret of the Blue Knight" "Aokishi no Himitsu" (Japanese: 青騎士の秘密) | Yukio Suzuki | Keiichi Hasegawa | November 16, 2003 | March 30, 2004 | |
| 33 | "Fairy Tale" / "Fairy Tale" "Yōsei Monogatari" (Japanese: 妖精物語) | Yoshio Takeuchi | Hirotoshi Kobayashi | November 23, 2003 | June 16, 2007 | |
| 34 | "Shape Shifter" / "Mupi the Shapeshifting Lifeform" "Henkei Seimei Mūpī" (Japanese: 変形生命ムーピー) | Yoshizō Tsuda | Sadayuki Murai | November 30, 2003 | June 23, 2007 | |
| 35 | "Firebird" / "Atom VS Rock" "Atomu vs Rokku" (Japanese: アトムvsロック) | Yasumi Mikamoto | Sadayuki Murai | December 7, 2003 | June 30, 2007 | |
| 36 | "Space Academy" / "Robots in Love" "Koisuru Robotto" (Japanese: 恋するロボット) | Kazuo Yamazaki | Hirotoshi Kobayashi | December 14, 2003 | July 7, 2007 | |
| 37 | "Atlas Strikes Back" / "Atlas Strikes Back" "Atorasu Gyakushū" (Japanese: アトラス逆襲) | Kazuhiro Furuhashi | Keiichi Hasegawa | December 21, 2003 | July 14, 2007 | |
| 38 | "Battle-Bot" / "Emily's Wish" "Emirī no Negai" (Japanese: エミリーの願い) | Makoto Fuchigami | Marc Handler | December 28, 2003 | July 21, 2007 | |
| 39 | "Time Hunters" / "Time Hunters" "Taimuhantā" (Japanese: タイムハンター) | Yoshio Takeuchi | Larry Biscoff | January 11, 2004 | July 28, 2007 | |
| 40 | "Escape from Volcano Island" / "Robot Hatred" "Robotto-girai" (Japanese: ロボット嫌い) | Satoshi Kuwabara | Keiichi Hasegawa | January 18, 2004 | August 4, 2007 | |
| 41 | "Avalanche!" / "Memories of the Giant" "Kyojin no Kioku" (Japanese: 巨人の記憶) | Kentarō Mizuno | Ai Ōta | January 25, 2004 | August 11, 2007 | |
| 42 | "Battle of Steel Island" / "Battle on Steel Island" "Kōtetsujima no Tatakai" (Japanese: 鋼鉄島の戦い) | Yoshizō Tsuda | Keiichi Hasegawa | February 1, 2004 | August 18, 2007 | |
| 43 | "Undercover" / "Robot that Admires Humans" "Ningen ni Akogareta Robotto" (Japanese: 人間に憧れたロボット) | Kazuo Yamazaki | Ai Ōta | February 8, 2004 | August 25, 2007 | |
| 44 | "Into the Dragon's Lair" / "To the Dragon's Forest" "Ryū no Mori e" (Japanese: 龍の森へ) | Saburō Hashimoto | Ai Ōta | February 15, 2004 | September 1, 2007 | |
| 45 | "Night Before the Revolution" / "Night Before the Revolution" "Kakumei Zenya" (Japanese: 革命前夜) | Fumihiro Yoshimura | Ai Ōta | February 22, 2004 | September 8, 2007 | |
| 46 | "Robotonia" / "The Founding of Robotonia" "Robotonia Kenkoku" (Japanese: ロボタニア建国) | Takao Suzuki | Keiichi Hasegawa | February 29, 2004 | September 15, 2007 | |
| 47 | "Showdown in Robotonia" / "Decisive Battle! Antarctica" "Kessen! Nankyokutairiku" (Japanese: 決戦！南極大陸) | Atsushi Takizawa | Keiichi Hasegawa | March 7, 2004 | September 22, 2007 | |
| 48 | "Journey to Tomorrow" / "Journey to Tomorrow" "Ashita e no Tabidachi" (Japanese: 明日への旅立ち) | Masayoshi Nishida | Keiichi Hasegawa | March 14, 2004 | September 29, 2007 | |
| 49 | "Astro Reborn" / "Atom Reborn" "Atomu Fukkatsu" (Japanese: アトム復活) | Kazuo Yamazaki | Keiichi Hasegawa | March 21, 2004 | October 6, 2007 | |
| 50 | "The Final Battle" / "Final Showdown" "Saigo no Taiketsu" (Japanese: 最後の対決) | Keiichirō Mochizuki | Keiichi Hasegawa | March 28, 2004 | October 13, 2007 | |
Home releases
| Volume | Episodes | Release date | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1-10 | August 18, 2009 | [2] |
| 2 | 11-20 | August 18, 2009 | [3] |
| 3 | 21-30 | August 18, 2009 | [4] |
| 4 | 31-40 | August 18, 2009 | [5] |
| 5 | 41-50 | August 18, 2009 | [6] |
| Complete Series | 1-50 | March 29, 2005 | [7] |
References
- "アストロボーイ・鉄腕アトム 第9回 2003年6月1日放送 ＃９ フランケン - フジテレビ". Fujitv.co.jp. Retrieved 2013-08-19.
- "Astro Boy DVD Volume 1". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- "Astro Boy DVD Volume 2". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- "Astro Boy DVD Volume 3". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- "Astro Boy DVD Volume 4". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- "Astro Boy DVD Volume 5". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- "Astro Boy DVD Complete Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
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