In 1964, the manga magazine Shonen serialized two popular robot-themed manga, one was Hikari Yokoyama's "Iron Man 28" and the other was Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy (also translated as Atomic Donkey Kong).
In 1963, Yokoyama's "Iron Man 28" and Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy" were both adapted into animation, which was a big stimulus for Osamu Tezuka, and although the true intention of creating the chapter of "The Largest Robot on the Ground" is unknown, the competitor's "Iron Man 28" was animated at the same time as his own work, and there is no doubt that Osamu Tezuka's desire to create was a catalyst.
In "Iron Man 28", the father of teenage detective Shotaro Kaneda, Dr. Kaneda, creates a huge robot, Iron Man 28, and Shotaro manipulates 28 to fight against the evil forces.
In Yokoyama's glorious robot comics, robots are always human tools, no matter how powerful robots are, it is still people who control them, and the so-called "most powerful robot Iron Man 28" is actually a competition for a group of scientists.
On the other hand, Osamu Tezuka gave robots the same intelligence as humans, they are happy, frustrated, thinking, confused, afraid, competitive, loyal, after the animation of the two robot works, in 1964, Osamu Tezuka launched a "Astro Boy" article "The Largest Robot on earth".
40 years later, manga artist Naoki Urasawa adapted the "Largest Robot on Earth" and named "Pluto", Urasawa Naoki said that this manga had a deep influence on him, "pluto" has won the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award, the Lucky Award, and was shortlisted for the "Eisner" Award, known as the Oscar of American comics.
What story does this "The Biggest Robot on earth" tell 60 years ago? Why did this manga have such a deep influence on Naoki Urasawa?
And listen to the story.
1, pluto was born
There are a total of 7 super robots with 100,000 horsepower in the world, and the Swiss mountain guide robot Montblanc is one of them, to be precise, Montblanc's power is 135,000 horsepower, one day a mysterious giant robot sneaked up on Montblanc, and in the blink of an eye, Montblanc was dismembered into pieces by two long horns on the head of the giant robot.
The next target of the mysterious robot is Astro Boy in Japan, but in the face of this mysterious horror robot, Dr. Tea blocks between Astro Boy and the mysterious robot, refusing them to fight, although it has great power, but the mysterious robot strictly abides by Asimov's robot law, can not harm humans, and has to give up.
However, because there is no victory or defeat with the mysterious robot, the sister of the competitive Astro Boy, the robot Alain, loudly reprimands the eldest brother Astro Boy as a coward.
The mysterious robot was created by the scientist Dr. Abra called Pluto, dr. Abra was led by a deposed Sultan Abba III, and since he could not become king, the Sultan decided to build one of the world's most powerful robots, at least so that it could defeat all the super robots and become the king of robots.
2. Brutus is rescued
Brutus, who defeated The Swiss Montblanc, came, Scotland, to challenge the famous Scottish North 2, the owner of the North 2 ordered it to capture Brutus, the mysterious robot attacked, the North 2 fought with all its might, but eventually fell behind, and then was destroyed by Brutus, the owner of the North 2, holding a bunch of parts of the beloved robot, heartbroken.
Not willing to challenge Astro Boy's failure, Brutus calls Dr. Tea's house to stimulate Astro Boy and make him accept the challenge privately, answering the phone is Astro Boy's sister Alain, the proud Alain decides to disguise himself as his brother Astro Boy, and will be a mysterious robot who seems to be very powerful, Brutus, hoping to defeat it for his brother.
Brutus is not a guy who kills innocents, he immediately discovers that the opponent is not Astro Boy, but a weak female robot Alain, so he grabs Alain and forces Astro Boy to appear, Astro Boy does appear, but the Turkish Hercules robot Brander also arrives at the same time, and Brander wants to avenge his good friend Montblanc.
Hercules Brondt was indeed extraordinary, and after a fight with Brutus, although it was finally defeated and decomposed, it exhausted the energy of the huge robot Brutu, Brutu lay motionless on the beach, Astro Boy pressed the emergency call button on Brutus's chest, called its builder Dr. Abra, and saved Brutus's life.
However, the German super robot and criminal police officer Gejit, who has a sense of justice, is eliminated by Brutus.
3. Hercules and Epsirn
The Greek gladiator robot Hercules and the Australian light robot Epsilen have been inseparable in a duel, and as the news spread around the world that Brutus had eliminated most of the super robots, Hercules decided to go all out to end Brutus' evil deeds.
Brutus comes to Hercules and Ephillen and suggests that they can join forces to fight with him, but the conceited Hercules wants to single out Brutus, and after the battle begins, Hercules is still slightly inferior, Brutus grabs Hercules's spear, but returns it to him, Hercules angrily breaks the spear and rushes towards Brutus.
In the end, it was destroyed by Brutus and turned into a pile of scrap iron.
The whole process of the two robot competitions was seen by the light-energy robot Ephillen, he was not confident to destroy Brutu, Ephillen liked children, and adopted many orphans, had a deep affection for them, he refused Brutus's duel invitation, wanted to return to Australia, and made a final farewell to his beloved children.
4. Astro Boy was born with million horsepower
Astro Boy understands that it will be difficult to defeat Brutus on his own, so he has the idea of becoming a million-horsepower robot in his head, but his biological father, Dr. Tenma, is worried that his body cannot withstand it, and before the absolute power temptation, Astro Boy finally bows his head.
At the last moment when Dr. Pegasus was about to succeed in modifying Astro Boy, his sister Alain came to visit the class, and woke up Astro Boy, who had not yet been fully modified.
Astro Boy finds Brutus, who, despite his absolute power, loses control at the last moment and falls into the deep sea.
Because Astro Boy had saved Brutus before, Brutus asked Ephillen for help, hoping to save Astro Boy from the deep sea. Esphiren, who had dived into the deep sea with Brutu, who had defeated 5 super robots, suddenly had an idea, and after Brutu fell into the deep sea mud, he did not save him but left alone.
At the critical moment, Ephillen, driven by love, rescued Brutus.
5. Goodbye, Ephillen
In the robot duel battlefield in Australia, Brutus was actually at a disadvantage in the face of the light energy Epsilen, but in order to protect the child from Brutus, in order to protect the child, Epsilen used his body to bear the direct blow of Brutus, and finally was defeated by Brutus and disintegrated.
Just as Sultan Abba III was determined to dominate the world with his robot Brutus, the mysterious Dr. Highland came to visit with his super-giant robot, Pola, claiming to challenge Brutus.
It only takes a look of appearance to know that the mighty Bora has powers beyond Brutus, much to the horror of Abba III.
Meanwhile, Astro Boy was transformed by Dr. Pegasus into a powerful million-horsepower robot.
6. Amazing truth
Dr. Abra's Brutus, Dr. Highland's Bora, Dr. Pegasus and Dr. Tea's Astro Boy, three super robots gathered in the crater near Kumamoto City to compete for the title of the world's first robot.
Dr. Highland asks Brutus to fight Astro Boy first, and the victorious side has the right to challenge the mighty Bora, provoking a volcanic eruption in a fierce battle between The Boy of a million horsepower and Brutus who destroys 6 super robots.
Astro Boy and Brutus join forces to block the crater, and the two super robots shake hands and make peace, but Dr. Highland's Bora is not reconciled, the powerful Bora rushes up, Brutus is crushed, Astro Boy rushes to Bora from behind, shattering it, avenging Brutus.
After Both Polla and Brutus disappear, Dr. Highland reveals his true colors, he turns out to be Dr. Abera, and the so-called Abra and Highland are both illusions that disguise his true identity, which is actually the personal robot of Sultan Abba III.
Knowing that his master wanted his robot to win the title of number one in the world, he created Brutus, and then created Bora, who destroyed the powerful Brutus and awakened Abba III.
Faced with what was happening in front of him, the terrified Abba III departed with his own robot.
The world's first, after all, is a mirror flower snow moon.