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astroboyanalysis · 10 months ago

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I do loooove that he was genuinely and truly going to go Talk This Out. without Atom being there at all. Of course he follows anyway but Ochanomizu is just so bold and with very little to back it up in terms of physicality. Like he really just thought he'd be able to resolve this robot hunting down other robots systematically by having a calm conversation that would not in any way devolve to violence.

Oh how I wish he said what he thinks it's "for"

I just love his paternal moments and when he can wax poetic about the nature of Atom's technology.

adorable in this panel i dont have a comment

It's interesting that he did disobey just now to take Atom away from the battlefield, but doesn't want/feel the need to disobey on the core order to defeat him.

He's so strangely happy to see him. The last time we saw Tenma (in the Omnibus order - I am actually unaware where Tenma had last been in publication order but it doesn't really matter that much) he was selling Atom to the circus for not growing, a problem that he himself created.

Also have to love the swagful introduction of the silent removal of the hat. He seems happy to see Atom after he runs up to him in spite of his coolguy poker face beforehand.

He does look pretty truly desperate here despite this being something he was considering just before Ochanomizu was taken hostage. He really doesn't want to go against what Ochanomizu said - Although it should be pointed out that I don't think Ochanomizu even mentioned his own limits and rather said that he Shouldn't because he Doesn't Need It and was Made to be a robot with 100,000 horsepower. So Tenma pointing out that there's risk to him is actually a rare Tenma W. So anyway Atom like immediately has a heavily conflicted fever dream on thinking about it which is almost funny. He is truly enthralled with the raw power of it all. You hate to see it.

Really do just admire how cool a silhouette Pluto has. He looks a little silly in the face (as many robots do in the original manga. I say this lovingly.) but the silhouette itself is badass.

YE GADS MOMENT

damn. and they did this with their heads as well?

i LOOOOVE the x ray illustrations. I actually have a cool figure that lights up (although I took the batteries out bc i will forget to take them out and they'll leak in there) and is like, transparent plastic so you can see all his internals (if this interests anyone lmk I can get a picture). We can also see here that it's corroborated with what was shown in His Highness Deadcross that his head is only really for the sensing organs and external things you can See his head do - His brain is actually closer to his sternum than his heart, but there is no arrow pointing to that little heart at all. Wonder what it is.

Also, super compact atomic engine here. If the concept of him running on Atomic power is actually kept, his most powerful attack (and final attack if he did it) would probably be to stop his cooling systems and let his core melt down. That's kind of dark though and I'm glad it's not something that Tezuka really went with - Atom was a vision for a better future where the technology that had recently ravaged Japan via the Atomic bombs could be used for good, and Atom is a display of that hope.

ok like. its not funny. but its a little funny. he rushed out straight to pluto then hit his head on a rock and died

genuinely a sweet moment i love her

ok i literally forgot he existed. there were a few days between reading but wow hes just not all that compelling a character to me. and also the racism.

yippeeee he said it peace and love on planet earth <3

kind of wasteful ngl. you built that whole thing in here just for this?

god i wish i understood what the fuck he was talking about. is he a hermit

hes so upset about it whos gonna tell him monster can also just be a phrase meant to indicate someone is extremely strong

It literally speaks for itself I'm obsessed with the dynamic I love them so much

Okay I was going to put in the most important parts of the scene where Pluto helps Atom stop the eruption but it was literally. the whole scene and that was way too many pictures so heres two instead

I just. It's a good story. It's a sort of simple resolution in a way but it's a good story. And nothing else happens and Pluto lives happily ever after.

Nah just kidding he exploded.

Me too...

Really do love that the resolution is so harsh. There was so much death and destruction and really, in the end, for what? To find out who was the greatest because one party wanted to prove it?

Not to make the metaphor explicit but Astro Boy has always been a very anti-war series. It's good to sometimes have resolutions that drive that home instead of it always being wins all around.

Okay, that was a long story. Next one I'll be back with is "Mad Machine," then "Robot Land" to finish out the first Omnibus. Both of those are pretty short, especially compared to Greatest Robot on Earth.

7. The Greatest Robot on Earth

oh boy here we go

As a warning, this liveblog may take me multiple days (or like, a week, I literally don't know) to get all the reblogs on. The way you will know I am truly done is 1. I will say so on that reblog above the readmore and 2. I will post the next story. Won't do that until I'm done with this one, obviously.

Let's get started.

(I begin the first panel and am immediately affronted with what I must acknowledge is racism) ah

I am not the best person to speak on this. I am also likely not the first (although a quick google search has not revealed essays to me) to see this and recognize its heavy anti-arab racism and caricature. Because I am not the best person to speak on this, aside from pointing out that I do in fact recognize this and asking that you as the reader of this blog also recognize this, there is not much I am planning to discuss on it. I can't imagine there's much that hasn't already been said. It was wrong to portray a person or culture this way then, and it's wrong now. That's all I'll say for now.

Glad he has such a convenient visual for us. Also, I'm so fond of these robot designs. I love Pluto but boy are these silly and fun.

This sounds both normal to want and achievable as a goal, yeah

This is one of those just actually horrific moments, lmao. The gore of it all. The fact that his horns seem made to simply pass current through whatever touches them, or to arc electricity almost, is just wild. If I'm understanding the visual correctly and its meant to bring forward arcs of electricity like a taser, but at such a large scale, I'm fairly certain it would simply melt one of these robots if it didn't blow them up.

I'm glad we've moved past this visual.

I am somewhat curious if it was meant to be received as funny at the time. It must have been, right...?

Atom's characterization in the original manga is so starkly different to how its developed over time (and especially with multiple authors at this point). He's so ready to fight and doesn't stop to think at all - I'm so fond of the (cough, 2003, cough) idealistic and pacifistic Atom who only fights when there is no choice we've come to love now. The parallels between his appearance (childlike) and his views on the world (naive) are clear and the way that clashes with the events in the world around him and pushes him into these really difficult situations is just so much more compelling to me, idk. I really do love the "I don't want to fight you, I want to help you, I want to be your friend" (and actually meaning it) approach.

Some of what I really love about Astro Boy is that Atom's idealism has truth to it, but it puts him in conflict with others. The truth is somewhere in the idea that everyone has a right to exist, that everyone has value, that robots and humans can coexist - But just because it's true doesn't mean it's uncontroversial, and his existence being in opposition to others interests is what pushes him to make hard decisions. He's being shown again and again these conflicts that arise when humans make robots with bad intentions, when humans mistreat robots, when they try to live together, etc. etc., but his childlike and naive approach to the world LETS him keep hope that the better future he believes in will come to pass. His permanent youth is paralleled by his permanent optimism and the fact that he simply won't become jaded - or at least, not for long.

Gosh I can't wait to get to 2003 again.

I could talk about how the antidote to apathy and becoming overwhelmed with the horrors of the world is in what kids bring to the table forever. But it's all there, isn't it?

Anyway "I'll teach you to make a fool of me" while being inches away from certain death is very funny. "You think that's funny? I'm about to be hilarious"

Can't argue with that!

I love when Ochanomizu gets to have a moment like this.

This moment directly parallels something Atom said earlier, actually:

Anyway. "If it was only about strength" is a very important quote here and I'll probably come back to it at the end of the story. He really sums it all up right at the beginning though. What a good father figure. Although he does say ""only"" 100,000 horsepower which seems silly.

Uran what the hell lmao. He's clearly upset why are you egging him on like that.

Ok I do love how angry and ashamed he is here. The Atom we see in this comic specifically seems to base a lot of his value on his ability to win a fight through brute strength, which is kind of interesting. It's also interesting when we see this sort of character be so submissive to authority - It indicates there's a heirarchy beyond strength that they do have to acknowledge (social capital, respect of elders, something in there), yet they value strength so highly maybe because it's the heirarchy they can control, somewhat. And yet here he's been told he's not allowed to get stronger to win.

(Guy that likes bugs) I'm getting some real bugs vibes from North #2's design

He's shaped like a praying mantis to me, sort of. I'm about to say the same thing when we see Gesicht as well, but he looks more like a fly.

The idea of this being impersonal is very strange to me, but also very compelling. I will ignore how much I love Pluto's approach to this manga because I'm not commenting on differences here, and I'm just going to talk about it as its own characterization. Like a normal person.

Why would Pluto have any amount of hatred towards the robots he's meant to destroy? They're more alike him than the one commanding him to kill them. There's a kind of tragedy in this, I suppose - although he's not particularly against hurting them, either. But the fact he feels a need to tell them it's not personal is interesting.

Uran also having the same idea of Atom's value that he himself does, but having very little care for Ochanomizu's wisdom on the matter (while Atom dejectedly accepts it as fact) puts them in conflict here - She expects more of him than he's showing - Why is he bowing down now? But Atom also values his own niceties, his deference to power, and his acceptance of the authority of the one who, in a way, owns him.

We do see that Ochanomizu tells Atom he's free in the first comic, yet Atom continues to treat Professor Ochanomizu as if he created him, and values his authority above all else. As of yet, we haven't seen him directly disagree with Professor Ochanomizu or his authority, and he does act basically the way any owned robot (or a child born to a parent) would (seems to stick around Ochanomizu, listens to what he says and obeys, etc.), just with far more freedoms and independence.

Basically, in this first iteration, their relationship is very difficult for me to parse out. He's certainly paternal, he's certainly a guiding figure, and he certainly has authority over Atom that Atom does not question, but Atom is given a full family unit outside of the Professor, and the Professor is not his creator.

We have not (yet) seen a reason for Atom to understand that Ochanomizu's authority is earned, like, for example, him disobeying and then finding that Ochanomizu was right all along. This iteration of Atom lacks the tendency of children to push boundaries or to think independently, it seems.

her pajamas are just so cute

CONFIRMED they're pants in this iteration and not a permanent part of his body.

Great question, Uran! It'd be awesome if we had any introduction to you or your creation before reading this comic so that this would strike us in any way at all. But alas, that is not the order of the omnibus.

Still, she has a good point as far as we're concerned. Why didn't he do that? Why aren't there a bunch of Atoms flying around all the time? I'm curious if the manga itself will actually answer this.

Pluto himself is so deeply interesting to me. He does smile while he fights the robots he's been ordered to fight, and while he kills them, and yet he seems to value robots in general on a basic level. He made it clear it was not a personal issue and was because he was ordered to, but it's still interesting to me that he doesn't seem to care one way or the other about violence. He doesn't like it enough to enact it when he hasn't been ordered to.

Ochanomizu has the authority to Forbid Atom from fighting. It's clear Atom is choosing not to, at Ochanomizu's request, so taking a hostage to force him into it also indicates to me that it's a choice to obey that can be overriden if Atom wills it (and that, without this motivation, he simply doesn't, or prefers to defer to Ochanomizu out of respect, obligation, or otherwise).

"Baby sister" is so cute considering that she never was a baby

His kindness.... What made him like that. I do love him so much

I do love that Atom's mercy plays a major role here. I think it's interesting that Pluto asks in the first place.

"That's what I was designed to do" is an answer that isn't immediately rebuffed by Atom with anything about freedom to choose your path or anything. He seems to mostly stay quiet on what other robots do in their positions, from what we've seen, and doesn't particularly care to help anyone liberate themselves if they don't already want it in the first place.

Can any Astro Boy scholars let me know what the original text says in Japanese and what the meaning of the word used is? Tomboy just seems so strange here and I'm curious how faithful the translation is to the original text. I'm not even sure how to go about finding a copy of the story in Japanese, frankly, because it's so old.

But why....? His father doesn't even seem to have his own take on this or care that it's dangerous, it's all about the fact that Ochanomizu told him to.

He's just very flylike to me

Again. horrific.

Okay I don't have anything to say but Cobalt's really cute in this panel. Anyway I'll continue this in a reblog because I've run out of images!

#astro boy manga analysis #astro boy #tetsuwan atom #mighty atom #i do have like. thoughts. on that the warmongering party is an ambiguous west asian country its Not Good. but i think you could guess them-#just from this tag. so i wont get into it.

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venusfun · 4 years ago

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Astrology degrees based on numerology.

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Notes are based on my experiences and opinions. If it doesn't resonate, check other placements. Whole chart matters.

I studied numerology, so I'm gonna talk about a lot of information from there.

1 degree -

As some might know, over the first-degree rules Aries energy. Planets and asteroids in 1 degree will take some of those qualities.

A number of independence and power. Leadership, creativity, self. Also new beginnings. Hard worker. Focus.

Masculine energy.

It's not a popular opinion, but I personally think that having some personal placements at 1st degree, gives you the motivation to achieve success.

Associated with anger and aggression sometimes.

Fame indicator (look at other placements).

Example:

1 degree in the ascendant - no matter how introverted or quiet is your rising sign, you will be seen as a leader in some way. Also the powerful first impression, others might feel that you have no problems with confidence (deep down it could be different. Look at other placements).

2 degrees -

This degree has Taurus influence. Associated with Taurus “related” things. Planets and other placements in the 2nd degree will take some of those qualities.

A number of balance, harmony. Sensitive/sensual power. 2 people= romantic/business relationships. Patience. Peace and stability.

Feminine energy.

Natural energy - earth, biological, green/brown tones, mountains, woods, plants, trees, forests.

Duality. Clear.

Example:

Mars in 2nd degree would make an individual more patient, calm. In arguments (mars) their reaction is diplomatic, and they have a desire to find peace. Passions related to nature. Might like to have sex outside in nature.

3 degrees -

This degree has Gemini energy. Planets/asteroids/ other placements will take some of Gemini qualities.

A number of luck, communications, and creativeness/originality. Excitement, confidence, joy (some mix of Jupiter). Social. Self-expression.

Triangle.

More keywords - actor, art, left out, different, unique, charm, flirting, having “a way” with words, books, reading, school.

Example:

Venus in 3rd degree would make individual comfortable with talking. They attract with words, compliments, and writing. They would be attracted to optimistic and confident people which have great humor, a positive outlook on life, and might have Jupiter dominant or strong placements.

4 degrees -

4 degrees has Cancer energy. Any planet/asteroid or other placement in this degree will have Cancer qualities.

Water.

A number of technique, traditions, loyalty, mental, inner feelings, emotional IQ, work, organizations, organizing, faith, trust, laziness and passivity.

Cancer related topics/keywords PRIVATE LIFE- family, emotions, feminine, psychic, nurture, and clinginess.

Definitely service.

Example:

MC in 4th degree would make an individual career involved with feelings, emotions, beliefs, nurturing, and mind. A career should have deep intentions. Possible career choices - health field (nurse, doctor, therapist, and even psychologist), work with organizing, career with water. Working with family members or having the same career as a family wouldn't be surprising.

5 degrees -

5 degrees has Leo influence. Any planet/asteroid or other placement will take some of Leo qualities.

A number of vitality, freedom, journey/travel, growth, improvement, experiences, physique, magnetic power, selections, pleasure, adventures, grace.

Leo-related topics - fame, success, hair, attention, hobby, heart, sun, masculinity, ambition, entertainment.

Sometimes associated with sexual energy.

One of the fame degrees (check other placements).

This number just LOVES freedom.

Example:

Mercury in the 5th degree would make an individual seek freedom in the mind and talking way (wanting to speak without any rules). It's important to make their opinions and voices heard. Some of the talking topics - celebrities, passions, travel, goals, rights, experiences, events, interests.

6 degrees -

This degree has Virgo influence. Any planet/asteroid or placement will have some Virgo qualities.

A number of balance, love, affection, understanding, awareness, harmony, nurturing, stability, peace, healing, material matters, improvement.

Virgo-related topics - work, hard-working, simple, natural, organized, nerves, stress, analysis, clean, criticism.

Feminine power/energy.

Health.

Example:

Having a moon in the 6th degree would make an individual's emotions focused on balance. Finding solution & peace. They tend to stress easily over a lot of things, usually about work and health (your sign will tell if you show it or not). Loooove affection. Takes criticism too hard and ALWAYS wants to improve themselves.

7 degrees -

This degree has Libra influence. Any planet/asteroid or placement will have some of Libra qualities.

A number of physic skills/wisdom, unknown, secrets, mystery, puzzle, emotions, sensations, stability, teaching, unique, learning, understanding, privacy.

Libra-related topics - balance, diplomacy, thoughts, peace, fashion, truth, facts, beauty, charm, harmony.

Having this degree in personal planets would make a really great physic. Natural talent at astrology, tarot, and other related things.

Deep meanings.

Example:

Jupiter in the 7th degree would make an individual have strong psychic beliefs (All or nothing). Great psychologists. They usually find luck through astrology, sciences, teaching, and learning. Needs privacy to feel the freedom in life. Finding truth and harmony.

8 degrees -

This degree has Scorpio influence. Any planet/asteroid or placement will have some of Scorpio qualities.

A number of hope, ego, truth, success, wealth/money, impression, manifestation, expression, challenges, security, spirituality, skills, balance, karma, justice, rejection.

Scorpio related things - power, mystery, spirituality, desires, passions, sex, death, rebirth, transformation.

Feminine power/energy.

Karma.

Example:

Having Sun in 8th degree would make an individual more secretive and harder to know. This placement gives great skills with money, successful life approach. Definitely, they have some hobby or other desire that makes them very passionate about it. Spirituality. This placement makes a person to have physic powers. Might gone or will go through few transformations and change.

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