* Atlas ( Astro Boy ), the brother and recurring rival of Astro Boy in the Anime and later TV series

Regardless of its source, an explosion of artistic creativity certainly occurred in the post-war period, involving manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka ( Astro Boy ) and Machiko Hasegawa ( Sazae-san ).

Some of the most famous are anime such as Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, the Super Robots such as Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go ( Gigantor ) and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, and the Real Robots such as Yoshiyuki Tomino's Gundam series and Shōji Kawamori's Macross series.

Examples include Dragon Ball, One Piece, Astro Boy, Kuroshitsuji, Rurouni Kenshin, Kinnikuman, Saint Seiya, Dr. Slump, Gin Tama, Fighting Spirit, Detective Conan, YuYu Hakusho, InuYasha, Hunter × Hunter, Naruto, Bleach, Soul Eater, Slam Dunk, Zatch Bell !, Fairy Tail, Reborn !, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Yu-Gi-Oh !, Fullmetal Alchemist, Buso Renkin, and D. Gray-man.

** Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu ( Astro Boy ), Japan's first serialized animated series based on the popular manga, debuts on Japanese television station Fuji TV.

* Astro Boy is set in 2108.

** Astro Boy ( 1980 TV series )

The 2009 computer-animated film Astro Boy ended with an octopus-like alien hovering over the city and Astro flying to confront it.

Osamu Tezuka started to use this technique in Astro Boy in order to save money and time.

Iconic characters from Japanese manga and anime have also become symbols for pop art such as Speed Racer and Astro Boy.

Unlike Astro Boy, where the opening theme music was the same in both the Japanese and American versions ( with only the lyrics changed ), the Japanese and American versions of The Amazing 3 had different theme music, as well as considerably different opening and closing segments.

* A talking duck with an alarming similarity to Pukko also made a brief appearance in Episode 26 of Astro Boy ( 1980 ).

* Bokko, Nokko, and Pukko make a cameo appearance in the 2004 game Astro Boy: Omega Factor game created for the Game Boy Advance, along with a number of other characters created by Osamu Tezuka.

Tomino, began his career in 1963 with Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions, scripting the storyboards and screenplay of the first Japanese anime television series, Tetsuwan Atomu ( also known as Astro Boy ).

* Osamu Tezuka, a cartoonist and manga artist best known for creating Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, and Black Jack

* January 1 – Astro Boy ( known as Mighty Atom in Japanese ), Japan's first anime, was launched on Fuji TV.

* " Drugstore " / " Detention Girl " / " Astro Boy " / " Motherfucker " 7 " ( Sub Pop SP81, 1990 )

Publications include Akira, Astro Boy, Berserk, Blade of the Immortal, Ghost in the Shell, Trigun and Blood Blockade Battlefront by Yasuhiro Nightow, Gantz, Hellsing and Drifters by Kouta Hirano, Blood +, Multiple Personality Detective Psycho, and America's longest running manga series, Oh My Goddess!

* Astro Boy

Pluto quickly hands over Uran, and begs Astro to push the button.

Astro quickly tries to stop an impeding explosion, but fails: two robots are needed to effectively cover up the volcano itself.

As with many other 1993 model year GM vehicles, Scotchgard fabric protection also became a standard feature on Astro vans equipped with cloth seats.

Go Nagai worked on the anime's scenario along with Masaki Tsuji, a well-known film scenario and science-fiction writer whose name became well known in the anime world through his work on such series as Astro Boy, Attack No. 1, Captain Future, Urusei Yatsura, and Dr. Slump.

Alpha 6 and the Astro Megaship were used again and Melody Perkins reprised her role as Karone three quarters of the way through the series and became the Pink Ranger.

He was first the Astro Megaship's mechanic, but then became one of Terra Venture's mechanics.

In March 1982 he became President of Astro Sciences Corporation.

* Dick Crippen became " Commander Astro " on Channel 10's SPACE STATION

The first Astro turfs were a far harder surface than grass, and soon became known as an unforgiving playing surface which was prone to cause more injuries, and in particular, more serious joint injuries, than would comparatively be suffered on a grass surface.

The Vance Astrovik character in an alternate timeline became a founding member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, calling himself Vance Astro.

" As Tezuka's art style advanced, Astro Boy " became more modern and ' cute '" to appeal to the audience of boys in elementary school.

The robot was renamed Astro, and O ’ Shay brought him up as a child and he eventually became the hero of Metro City.

Going into the U. S. Air Force at the age of 18, Astrovik ( who changed his name to Astro when he was 21 ) became the youngest man to be accepted into the astronaut training program several years later.

After returning to his own time, Astro became involved with his teammate Aleta after she was freed from her physical merger with her ex-husband Starhawk.

RCA Americom became GE American Communications ( GE Americom ) and the satellite construction division became GE Astro Space.

Stories also vary greatly in length, from one issue to sixteen in the case of the story arc, Dark Age, whose main viewpoint remains that of Charles and Royal Williams, two brothers in their early adult years living in Astro City.

In the Astro Boy: Omega Factor video game he is initially the real identity of the villain Deadcross, but eventually falls in love with-and is reformed by-Princess Sapphire, and remains with her in the distant past to help her try to avert the demise of the continent of Mu.

The Chevrolet Astro, the last surviving rear-wheel-drive mid-size van, was popular for towing applications because of its available 4. 3-liter V6, and some owners even installed their own V8 engines.

The development team has produced some popular arcade game and video games, including Virtual On, NASCAR Arcade, Crazy Taxi, Astro Boy: Omega Factor ( along with Treasure ), Virtua Tennis, and the Initial D Arcade Stage series.

In addition to their popularity as conversion vans the Astro and Safari both have popular followings with " back yard " modifiers.

Because of its truck based design, the Astro also is popular with some off road and camping enthusiasts.

It was followed by a contemporary ninja-based live action espionage series, Phantom Agents, and a number of popular Japanese animated series including Astro Boy, Ken The Wolf Boy, Prince Planet, Marine Boy and Kimba the White Lion, the cartoon series which is reputed to have been the uncredited basis for Disney's The Lion King.