Astro Boy 6
Posted: March 16, 2007 Filed under: Astro Boy 1 Comment »AAH! Astro Boy heard me complain! I loved this volume, which is apparently a compilation of Astro Boy’s run in the newspapers post-anime. All the chapters form a cohesive story which leaves off at a sad cliffhanger at the end of the book.
The story is about an infuriating locust woman coming to Earth because she felt like it, sent here by her husband in an attempt to get her off the planet when she’d taken a lover and the lover decided to kill the husband as the laws of their planet state. Seriously. After awhile, we get to the part where Astro gets involved. When her ship crashes and burns, it sends her and Astro back to 1967, 50 years in the past.
The locust woman is ANNOYING. She just wants to hang out in nature all day and doesn’t want to be a productive member of society, doesn’t see why she should have to, and constantly annoys every single character that crosses her path. She was just a bizarre character, and Astro stuck by her always… until she called him a slave and he ran off crying. But even then, he came back for her.
Astro was a lot different here, too. Most of the characters associated with him are not here (Mustachio and Dr. Ochanomizu are replaced in the past by other characters… sorta…), so it’s just Astro. He is extremely upset about being in the past where noone knows about robots, noone can relate to him, and where he can’t get energy once he runs out. It’s really sad.
That was why I liked it, I think. It was so sad, and you just felt so bad for Astro throughout, and it did not have a happy end for the cliffhanger. So yes, I want to read what happens next.
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