Jetter Mars
PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:01 pm
There are times in life when you realize that everything you believed in was a lie and the whole world collapses around you as you fall to your knees, throwing your arms up in a mute cry to the heavens. I just underwent one of those moments while filling My Anime List: I was convinced that in my tender days of early childhood I had watched Astro Boy... but in fact I watched this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/6087/Jetter_Mars
Just a glimpse of the main character's head shape fully excuses my mistake, I want to believe. But, perhaps more mindblowing, is the fact that it's another story by Tezuka, but directed by Rintaro. In hindsight, the fragments of storytelling I remember, are very Rintaroish.
The one that has always persisted in my memory is an episode about a human detective who despises robots and who gets paired with [s]Atom[/s] Mars to catch a rampaging robot. For the whole episode the detective berates and insults Mars, remarking that he's not human and is not able to show the emotions and virtues of human beings. In the end, a building collapses on top of them and Mars, sustaining grave damage, manages to pull the severely wounded body of the detective away. He undergoes extensive surgery and apologizes to Mars, telling him that he has changed his mind because so much of his body had to be replaced with mechanical parts that he has to consider himself a robot now.
Has anyone else seen this series?
Just a glimpse of the main character's head shape fully excuses my mistake, I want to believe. But, perhaps more mindblowing, is the fact that it's another story by Tezuka, but directed by Rintaro. In hindsight, the fragments of storytelling I remember, are very Rintaroish.
The one that has always persisted in my memory is an episode about a human detective who despises robots and who gets paired with [s]Atom[/s] Mars to catch a rampaging robot. For the whole episode the detective berates and insults Mars, remarking that he's not human and is not able to show the emotions and virtues of human beings. In the end, a building collapses on top of them and Mars, sustaining grave damage, manages to pull the severely wounded body of the detective away. He undergoes extensive surgery and apologizes to Mars, telling him that he has changed his mind because so much of his body had to be replaced with mechanical parts that he has to consider himself a robot now.
Has anyone else seen this series?