Astro Boy is a Japanese manga character, created by Osamu Tezuka. Asto Boy is a central character in Japanese manga and still hugely popular.
In the futurist science fiction world of Astor Boy humans and robots live in co-existence. In the story Astro Boy was created by Doctor Tenma to replace his own son, who was killed in a car accident. Astro Boy was created in the child’s image and after a detour was raised by a loving legal guardian.
In the fiction Astro Boy is often discriminated for being less than human, but the plot shows him only to be good and kind and proves his discriminators wrong. Astro Boy uses his powers for good and is a sympathetic and charming character.
Not surprisingly Osamu Tezuka drew inspiration to Astro Boy from the classic story of Pinocchio.
The Astro Boy universe has a fundamentally different underlying mythology than most western robot mythologies. Astor Boy is first and foremost the hero of the stories and although he often battles robots gone berserk the stories cast a positive view on robotics.
