"Here comes Astro Boy..."
To many fans that little tune conjures up memories of watching the show on my family's black and white TV.

On Friday October 23 will be the US release of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy. The film will be showed using the latest state of the art 3-D animation. The story will still be the same. A father, who just happens to be an inventor, creates an android to replace his son who died. The boy is cast off, but ends up saving the day.

Astro Boy or Tetsuwan Atom (Atom Boy) first started out as a manga, which eventually became an animated show in the 1960s. The show was later revived in the early 1980's. There was a current reincarnation that aired on TV Tokyo and Kid's Station from 2004 to 2006. The character designs were later used in Ravex's "World of Tezuka" video.

Make sure you check it out in your area.