#dr ochan

[2djdanger]

Something about this panel feels uncanny valley…

I also feel it just looks a lil fucked up & just weird enough to be a good meme template

Have fun. Go nuts. Go apeshit AB fandom. I’ll get the obvious one out the way first:

[astroboyart]

Atom: The Beginning's Volume 20 cover revealed

Source: Amazon Japan

Atom: The Beginning's Volume 20 cover has been revealed! Hiroshi Ochanomizu (Dr. Ochanomizu) is featured as cover art (drawn by Tetsuro Kasahara).

Volume 20 will release on March 5, 2024.

[pinkeatom29]

i dont have discord for my own good

but if anyone here has...

PLEASE put those three's chatbots thogether! i wanna see how they interact!

[z-skull]

weird looking cat

[snaileo]

Money! Money! Money! was the first Blackjack chapter I read... I was so shocked to see a human Uran and was really confused cause she was referred to as a different name but on one panel was sill called Uran??

Yeah, it can be confusing - it's a nod to the Tezuka Star System meta of all the characters being actors playing roles. So its simply a fourth wall breaking joke, since Uran is her original appearance. It is indeed Uran - she's just called Kasumi this time around, and is human.

Happens a lot in Tezuka stories. Such as Marine Express where Ochan is Ochan, he's just simply named Dr. Narzenkopf (iirc)

Theres a story in Midnight where human Atom and Uran appear, and they're adults. I don't recall that we had ever gotten Uran's name in this, but Atom is named Kanda.

[craniozito]

I won't suffer alone

These comics from NOW! Comics It's the most random shit possible, especially this pages completely out of context where Astro and Dr. Ten- I mean Dr. Boynton beat each other off.

Dr. Boynton?what the fuck is this name btw?

I haven't stopped reading yet, I wanted to see how horrible the art of this atrocity is.

- Essas comics do NOW! Comics são as coisas mais aleatorias possiveis, principalmente essas paginas completamente fora de contexto onde Astro e Dr. Ten- quero dizer Dr. Boynton caem na porrada.

Dr. Boynton? que merda de nome é esse alias?

Ainda não parei pra ler, eu queria ver o quão horriveis são as artes dessa atrocidade.

Extra:

Ochan looked decent at first and then the artist just gived up at some point in another volume lmao.

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Ochan estava até decente no começo ai em outro volume o artista apenas desistiu kkkkkkk

LMAO

[sarcasticskyway]

This bird from (https://animals.pibig.info/39906-ptica-kenner.html) reminds me so much of Ochan. The beak is the nose, the tufts are the hair. I can't unsee this. Use Google Translate as the source is a Russian birder. Ochan photo from (https://assets.mycast.io/characters/dr-ochanomizu-9796511-normal.jpg?1674143339)

[radioactive-earthshine]

So fam...

Just based on some observations while talking with other fans there is a delightful variation and I am curious what the distribution might be like.

[omegasmileyface]

if i directed an astro boy reboot, as is my dream, the english dub would have new weird, more english-sounding names for a bunch of the characters, because thats practically tradition. but, just for fun, this time they would be more close to direct translations of their japanese names. higeoyaji would be Uncle Mustache. ochan would be Dr. Teawater. tenma would be fuckin idk Dr. Horace Kiron or smth

[onasnowynight]

finished reading metropolis and i'm remembering months old drama that i don't think i'll ever be over

BECAUSE THEY MAKE A GENUINE CASE. IT'S NOT BULLSHIT!

(this got long so under cut)

That IS exactly what happens! Many look at Mitchy's gender (rightfully, it's very interesting for the time!), but not as many look at their racial identity, if we were to imagine robots and humans as two separate "races."

It's emphasized that Mitchy is not like humans or robots: they're capable of special abilities like flying, super strength, and instant genderfluidity that humans lack, but the robots meet them they're so humanlike that they don't believe they're artificial at first.

And the MOMENT Mitchy finds out they are an artificial being, they go berserk, stage a robot uprising, and disintegrate.

They're also driven to such rage because they don't have "real" parents. This ignores that Mitchy did have a dad, Dr. Lawton, because he was only their adopted father. Not having blood relation is seen as a real problem, which relates to the hemato-nationalism bit! (see also the case to give Astro robot parents despite already having Ochan.)

These kinds of "hybrid" stories show up a LOT in tzk manga, because tzk, as we all know, LOVES transformation of all kinds. If he likes transforming from one thing to another, he of COURSE will explore something in between!

It just so happens that his opinions on the mixing of two groups, a lot of the time, is apprehensive. If you actually go into the paper this person cites, ben whaley refers to thomas lamarre in his conclusion:

Along with the works mentioned in that paper (Start to 1985/Leaving for 1985, The Man Who Visited Joe, I.L.) and Metropolis, you can extend this to say anyone who tries to advocate for interspecies (interracial) peace is doomed.

Like in Captain Ken, where Ken advocates for war to stop between the racist human colonists and the semi-enslaved semi-aggressive Moro Tribe (a Native American stand-in), and dies trying to save everyone from a solar bomb.

Or, more damningly, in the Adventures of Rock, where Rock tries to mediate between the humans and the bird-like Epumu and dies when caught in the crossfire. Taken from tezukainenglish (emphasis mine):

As he lies dying, he speaks to Chiko, and says “Chiko, please listen to my request.  Neither race should have gone to the other’s planet… Return to Dimon… Take your people with you…”

Tzk CONTINUES to assert his point against interspecies mixing throughout his career. See also Vampires, where the vampire revolution fails horribly and no progress in vampire rights is made, forcing Toppei, Chippei, and any surviving vampires to go back into hiding.

(Vampires can also analyzed in the context of the well-intentioned extremist trope, which is similar but another topic.)

According to tzk, multispeciesism is impossible.

in conclusion: i hate you. you all disgust me. only talk to me if you want to have actual scholarly discussions

[shittyastroboydrawings]

posting cringe on main?

[2djdanger]

AYOO OCHAN FLUNKED OUT OF AT LEAST ONE UNIVERSITY CONFIRMED???!!!

[xblubotx]

Dr. Ochan was never used in any official media...

[z-skull]

Crispy doodles from Twitter that i wanna put here

OCHAN!

a normal Tenma

blond Tenma bc apparently in the old manga when he was a boy his hair was blond so wanted to see what that looked like lol

wait i found another Ochan

clingy...

[eimie1]

for your consideration:

[randumbteahouse]

I have returned from the dead to bring to you machine buns. Yep. haha (Just realized yesterday was Astro Boy's "birth"day....so I drew two of his dads.)

Happy (late) Birthday, Atom!!