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asked me to draw a character from the Astro Boy series named "Fireball" who I sadly can't remember which version he appeared in but I'm thinking the 80s series. He also wanted him drawn as Astro and other robots appear in his fanfiction m.fanfiction.net/s/12286607/1/…Related content
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In the original dubbing, this tiny robot was called "Will of the Wisp". He belongs to the 1980 series. He can turn him-self in a real fireball, and gives lots of problems to Atom, as he is the responsible for the quakes that are scaring some German (?) village. Yep, the story was sited in a tiny village somwhere in Germany, but the place still seemed really Japanese: there was a huge rock, on a peak, that resambled a human face. When Fireball was ordered from his father and master to dig deep in the mountain, the man-faced rock was likely to fall. It was really dangerous.
When Atom, Fireball and his master got trapped in a caved in hole, Fireball first does not want to help. Then, he changes his mind, and puts everybody in safe.
Fireball had his batteries on the opposite side Atom has, so, when he had to recharge, he needed his father to open his control panel, he could not do it by himself.
His design was very cool. In Italian his name was "Palla di Fuoco", Fireball
There were also other tiny robots in 1980 series; the Robot Who Lied, in Italy was called Poldo; again, quakes are involved, but this time natural ones.
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Thank you 
I remember the robot who lied too. Awfully sad. But, most of the 80s series was.
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Some 1980's series stories had details which hints that scientist and people responsible of huge things could put everyone in danger, just to protect a single person. Or to protect a forest and its animals.
Very poetic, but totally illogic. And in present days any viewer can see some flaws in those which were ignorable details, at that time.
Atom, when sees that Man Faced Rock, tells his teacher: "Hey, that looks like Shibugaki!" :-D
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yeah, I think some of those scientists were supposed to be insane in their desire to protect that one person or the forest.
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In that situation, I'd really like to know doctor Tenma's opinion... They made all that fuss about his Atom, and then, here they are all these mad doctors, with their huge or mad (or huge AND mad) creations, running free and doing whatever they want.
I think about the sad story of Damdam, or that version of Pluto, or those running and connectable robots... and I'd like to ask the Ministry why he did not stop them and instead tampered Atom's father.
Did they try to deal with Atlas? Did they try to find who made him? It seemed that everything was against Atom, as if our tiny robot was a magnet for problems.
If rain falls, it's Atom's fault. If someone breaks a brick, is Atom's fault. If a terrific robot-baloon scares the world, blame Atom! :-/
That 1980s future world is almost a nightmare, of course...
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that's an interesting point. Quite the plot hole. Along with the fact that Atom is supposed to be the world's most advanced robot and yet we see these other robots rather similar to him a lot.
They sure do like to blame our little Atom for a lot, don't they? The balloon trick was especially bad. I get the immediate connection since they look like him, but it's weird that no one would think; "Gee, it's not like Atom is the only person capable of making something in his own likeness."
I do think an "almost nightmare world" is partly the point. Tezuka wanted to show what technology was capable of. Both the good and the bad. To show that great technological advances can bring a lot of problems of their own if we're not careful.
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At a point of the series, they said that half the planet was robot. That could mean that the world had redoubled the number of inhabitants... or that the machines took a half of the planet, and men and women simply did not have kids. It was really scary.
In mass scenes all robots were made with few lines, but in suit and tie or in other work dress; they look like stupid and funny, but if they were there, it means they were high performing AIs. Some of them owned factories, some of them were heads in their offices and even above humans. Some of them had families of their own, like Atom's family, those kind of frozen families where kids stay kids forever and babies will never grow up. All those AI robot deserved at least a better design.
Atom was one of them, he was special because... he was tiny? Fireball and Poldo were tiny as well, and also were those unenmployed robots or all the robot-kids kidnapped together with Uran. It was because he was powerful? Many of them were powerful too.
And what about the prohibition to leave his Nation without a permission? It seems that it was effective only for him (like the underage-magic for Harry Potter...).
Maybe because his technology was the best ever? Maybe... but here we find that his teacher can fix him, with few instruction told by phone. Or that crazy Ryndolph, that could create a whole room full of Ryoka's copies, but he could not fix her...
There were too many things together, stories taken from too different times and places. That could not work perfectly.
I think the message was not only about technology: Atom was good, some other robots could be or had been very dangerous. But the main point, in my opinion, is the human part.
The baloon trick seems really poor, at first sight: c'mon, it's a giant baloon, not a tiny robot, who cares if it seems Atom or that fat president? But if you reflect a bit, such things can happen, if people is guided and "spinned" the right way. There are some things we know that we do better not say, even if they're innocent, or some drawings it's better to not show, if we don't want to be misunderstood forever.
When Skunk tells the fat president that he could make new baloons, this time with his face and shape, the fat man could laugh at him... but the fact is that people were scared. In that grey and almost empty Tokyo, people are scared, and when it happens, it's already a good reason to react bad.
If Skunk let go a president-baloon, they could kill him. It would be interesting to see, if you ask me...
The peak of fear was in that epiosde in which all robots of Japan have to be turned off, Atom with them: humans feel they can't control machines anymore, so the best thing to do is turn everything off... a choice leaded by fear and in few days everything does not work anymore.
The same, in that "snow" episode, where cars have to be replaced by real horses, as no technology works.
Humans can mislead technology, that's the point. Skunk always brings this message.
In 2003 series, however, we know there are other AI robots really high-performing. It's Delta, or Klaus, or the robot-kidnappers, or the ones on the satellite-factory. But there's also Denkou, that's tiny and small, just like him.
What makes the difference is how Atom is smart and how his heart is big. But he's not the only robot one can tell has got a "soul". He's the only one, in that series, that has got all these features all togheter: tiny, strong, smart, good-hearted (and "hearted"), able to fly, great fighter, always a good help etc.
Tetsuwan Atom is not made to speak about people's opinion and how it can be changed by media... but it's always a point that can't be put aside: we have to know from the story how humans will accept the fact there are new superior beings on the planet. New competitors aren't accepted very well, above all if they are meant to be only mute slaves.
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I wondered about the world population thing as well. I suppose it's possible there was a population decrease. Such a thing is already happening in some countries. (Japan being one of them) And with the decrease came a demand for workers so robots were created to fill those voids.
Exactly I think. I noticed most of the biggest problems with robots tend to happen because of human greed/error.
I think deep down that is the biggest fear from humans in Atom's world. The fear that what they can't control what they created.
That is true about the 2003 series. Atom has the best smarts, the kindest heart, and I think a stronger ability to choose his own path. Most robots in his world have AI and are smart but are programmed to do a specific job. Atom is not. If he wants to use his arm cannon to blow up half the world, he could. Which is what makes him so advanced but so scary to so many humans.
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