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'Go Astro Boy Go!' Animated Series Premieres on October 3
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Romi Park will voice Astro Boy (Atom).
The series will launch TV Tokyo's new preschool-oriented timeslot "Preschool Time." The timeslot will run every Thursday from 5:55 p.m. to 6:25 p.m. Go Astro Boy Go! will air alongside the Egg Car series in the timeslot.
Planet Nemo describes the show:
The eco-systems of planet Earth are endangered. Lucky for us, a super-powered robot boy is flying to rescue! astro in on a mission to help anyone anywhere in the world with a problem involving natural phenomena. Go little Astro Boy ! GO !
Planet Nemo's official website lists that the series will be 52 episodes at 11 minutes each, but the company's Facebook page lists the series with 52 episodes at 13 minutes each.
The series is a separate production from Tezuka Productions, Caribara Animation, and Monaco's Shibuya Productions' in-development Astro Boy reboot project.
This is not the first time that created a television animation project in early 2014.
In Japan, the manga inspired the country's first full-fledged half-hour television anime series in 1963, followed by a color television series in 1980 and a remake in 2003.
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adaptation in the works.
Sources: TV Tokyo, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
