There are fairly few characters and stories in the annals of Japanese anime that are as recognizable and beloved as Osamu Tezuka’s Mighty Atom, know in the West as Astro Boy. When released in 1963, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Tenma, the man who created Astro, did so after his son Tobio was killed in a car accident. As the story goes, Tenma was cool ...

HOLLYWOOD — Classic animated Japanese character “Astro Boy” will zoom back to the U.S. via Kids’ WB, which has ordered 26 episodes of a new version of the cartoon series. The original “Astro Boy” ...