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Astro Boy, #1 by Akira Himekawa, Osamu Tezuka, David Gondelaud

ratitabovary_09's review against another edition

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3.0

«El robot más poderoso del mundo»(*)
en general el manga plantea muchas dinámicas acerca de la moral humana y del valor de la ciencia [o, según Tezuka, de los robots] en la sociedad. Este serial se dió en una época bélica, la de Vietnam. Por ello es destacable su claro mensaje antibelicista: hasta qué punto la ciencia ha sido útil para la sociedad, si ha creado monstruosidades como las bombas atómicas? Interesante reflexión sobre cómo las pretensiones de poder degeneran la ciencia y cómo los verdaderos monstruos son los humanos, "destructores de mundos"; por mucho que fuesen las bombas quienes destruyeseron Hiroshima y Nagasaki en 1945, fueron los humanos quienes ordenaron su envío.
En general esta obra del Dios del manga plantea unas reflexiones antibelicistas, sobre la moral científica y, en cierto grado, ecologistas. Una verdadera delicia, la verdad

shea_proulx's review against another edition

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4.0

The characters are one-dimensional & the stories formulaic, but the drawings... sublime.

wolson's review against another edition

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3.0

From the “Father of Manga” these are mainly early 1960’s Manga (at least their Japanese published dates) though they didn’t make it to the USA til decades later. I am not a big comic reader so this is new to me, but I like the Astro Boy stories and what the author’s thoughts toward robots and about human beings in general are. If he were alive I would like to ask him if some of the ideas were in response to worldwide events at the time, including US civil rights unrest. Pleasant diversion from the usual stuff.

ubalstecha's review against another edition

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3.0

Collection of the original manga. Tells Astro (Atom)'s origin story, along with the story of dog soldiers and plant aliens.

giantarms's review against another edition

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Charming! Fast paced! Artful! Not as simplistic as you'd fear. I ain't seen the movie, but you should read the book.

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