#kateh overanalyzes kid shows again

[kirinda-ondo]

How to fix Go Astro Boy Go

It's not a horrible series by any means but it does have a lot of problems and things I would do differently. I've seen all the episodes so I feel I am qualified to write this

Basically if I got my grubby little hands in this show I would:

Remove Dr. Blunt Entirely. It's a proven fact that the more screentime he is given is directly proportional to how bad an episode is. Maurice can stay but he's on thin fucking ice

Cut out the rest of the leftover non-Dr. Blunt related grossout humor. Leave that shit in the 90s where it belongs.

Commit to letting OT2 be an actual Cobalt rather than just Cobalt-Adjacent (though she is an honorary Cobalt in my heart). He can still be entirely digital tho I like him being an emoji

Be a little nicer to Astro Kitty. He can still be the stinky lil brother character he already is but like tone it down a little? He's a bit much sometimes in how often he inadvertently makes things worse. Likewise I'd also tone down Suzu's attitude towards him a bit. Like I know they're supposed to just have some more sibling-like back and forth between them but a lot of the time I thought it felt kinda mean spirited. As someone who really likes writing banter I feel it can be done a lot better lol

I'd like to maybe add and switch some VAs around as I don't always feel the voices fit the characters, especially in regards to the few recurring characters or characters of the day

Let some of the tezuka cameo characters recur a bit more. As a subsection...

Phineas Fandango (Duke Red) was really fucking hilarious imo and I feel the last minute addition of his own bootleg Team Astro had a lot of potential for a fun dynamic but it got horribly wasted by being so last minute. Outside of being a fun villain there are a lot of good messages to be had about not rejecting all current technology vs. respecting the technology that got us where we are now. That said I would definitely keep him as a more minor, sillier antagonist because....

I want more Dr. Fusion (Tenma), which I know is wild of me to say cause I'm really ambivalent to Tenma in general at the best of times, but I feel like his brand of science (especially as he is in this adaptation) leads to a lot of good lessons about ethics in science and the tendency to want to toss people and safety aside in the pursuit of pure scientific progress. Also just to be spicy I think it would be fun if in this version Uran was Tenma's instead of Hamegg's and served as a foil to Astro.

If there's room for it, I'd also like to see Alejo (Tamao) some more, just as a minor recurring character because I thought he was cute and I liked his dynamic with Suzu (though I would absolutely give him a different VA, I'm sure he's a nice kid and all but he sadly cannot act very well)

He didn't actually appear as a character in the series proper, just a background element, but since in my perfect world we have wiped Dr. Blunt from existence, I would like to let Black Jack guest star in the episode about the human body instead

And uhhhh

That's pretty much it as far as I can think of off the top of my head lol. Some of these ideal changes are more obvious personal preferences *cough*cobalt*cough* than like actual gripes but yeah thanks for coming to my TED talk