#because iirc they aren't the only fathers distant for work related reasons either. there's another and his little girl? idr the episode tho | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

p2ii · 11 months ago

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if I had a nickel for every time the resulting negligence of an overworked father caused their son who they have a strained but previously close relationship with to get into a traffic accident and for them to have a robot son replacement made that they realized they could never truly love the same way and so abandoned in the 2003 version of astro boy I'd have 2 nickles. which isn't alot but it's interesting it's happened twice

#forever thinking about how in the dub atlas calls him and atom 'brothers' and all that implies #the fact that they were both actually created by the same man. how eerily similar their circumstances are #I've heard this line isn't present in the OG/sub which is a shame imo cause it's such A loaded piece of dialogue and I loved how it altered #the dynamic and parallels between the two #psii.txt #astro boy 2003 #tetsuwan atom #atlas #atlas astro boy 2003 #daichi tokugawa #there's deffo some sort of commentary you can pick up from this around the work culture in Japan at the time and how it effects families #because iirc they aren't the only fathers distant for work related reasons either. there's another and his little girl? idr the episode tho #atlasposting

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