Low Price Astro Boy - The Complete Series

There are a number of people who wrote reviews for this collection who have rated it unfairly due to a couple of misunderstandings. These people have said that the DVD collection plays the episodes out of order. This is only true to a point. This set does play the episodes out of chronological order but it plays them in the order of air date for the U.S. market. When originally aired in the U.S. it was sometimes played on the W.B. and sometimes on Cartoon Network, this caused some confusion as to which episodes were played and when so it caused them to be played out of order. Not to mention all of the episodes which never even aired in the U.S.

Also this is the 2003-2004 series collection, not the eighties or the sixties collections. It is absolutely ridiculous to give this collection a bad rating simply because this isn't either of those two versions. If you bought this expecting it to be either one of the others it's your fault for not reading the product description. Don't blame the collection or Amazon for your mistake!

Additionally some people are complaining about name changes in this version! Really? What's wrong with the name Dr. O'Shay? Do you really want the eighties name of Dr. ELEPHANT, because I surely don't. Used to really bother me when I was a kid watching the eighties version, Dr. Elephant, please.

Now, besides that this is a wonderful program that ALL lovers of anime should get as quickly as possible! Does it veer away from some of the campy light-heartedness of the 60's show? Yes. Is it faithful to the original manga? Mostly, minus some camp. Does this version still have the meritorious social commentary of the original?? Definitely! Does it have an awesome updated techno soundtrack? Absolutely! Here is the listing of episodes as they appear in the box set and I have put the proper chronological episodes in parentheses for you.

01. Power Up!
02. Rocket Ball
03. Atlas (Japanese episode order had Destination Deimos)
04. Astro vs. Atlas (Japanese episode order had Into Thin Air)
05. Destination Deimos (Japanese episode order had Rainbow Canyon)
06. Into Thin Air (Japanese episode order had Atlas)
07. Rainbow Canyon (Japanese episode order had Astro vs. Atlas)
08. Neon Express
09. Franken
10. Venus Robots
11. Reviving Jumbo
12. Robot Hunters
13. The Rise of Pluto
14. The Fall of Acheron
15. Dragon Lake
16. Lost in Outland
17. Deep City
18. The Blue Knight
19. Hydra-Jacked
20. Geo Raider
21. Secret of the Blue Knight
22. Robot Circus
23. Little Sister, Big Trouble
24. Micro Adventure
25. Only a Machine
26. Robot Boy
27. Dawn of the Techno-Revolution
28. The Legend of Tohron
29. March of the Micro Bears
30. Old Dog, New Tricks
31. The Case of the Phantom Fowl
32. Gideon
33. Fairy Tale
34. Shape Shifter
35. Phoenix (or Firebird)
36. Space Academy
37. Atlas Strikes Back
38. Battle-Bot
39. Time Hunters
40. Escape from Volcano Island
41. Avalanche
42. Battle of Steel Island
43. Undercover
44. Into the Dragon's Lair
45. Night Before the Revolution
46. Robotonia
47. Showdown in Robotonia
48. Journey to Tomorrow
49. Astro Reborn
50. The Final Battle

In closing, "Follow your heart" -AstroGet more detail about Astro Boy - The Complete Series.