Audience reviews
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Meemitori
A forgotten, severely underrated piece. This anime was supposed to promote the manga, but it seemed to do quite the opposite.
I don't usually watch sci-fi anime, though I really like sci-fi as a genre, but Atom: The Beginning just had a certain mood or something that peaked my interest, even so that I can totally rewatch and reread this series. It's unique, though an Astro Boy prequel.
Unfortunately, for some reason the story of this anime is much slower-paced than the manga, making it more boring than it actually is. A very good thing I have to say about the anime is the opening! It's one of my all-time favorites. The characters are also about the same, usually, though a little more well-written in the manga.
HOWEVER!
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading the manga!!! I remember watching the ani…
Read at the sourceRobijet
ATOM= is a Robot
Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start!
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So Im a big fan of this anime. The Story and art is really nice. But the Soundtrack was a lidle bit bad, but ok. I give the show 8 from 10.
I liked the main charakters and the girls are cute to hehe. How did you like it?
Read at the sourceLord_Valzin
I liked the art style well the noses. Two guys making an ai robot that can interact with others.
Some episodes where the robot save the day at the end. Those episodes were enjoyable.
Then we have an antagonist type robot that shows up here and there then we get a fight.
Later on we have a tournament arc where the robot enters. The tournament arc was pretty good, then of course robo making it to the final against the antagonist, great fight. Well I hope for a 2nd season, but I highly doubt there is going to be a second season since this one didn't get more attention than it did.
Story-6
Art-7
Sound-8
Character-8
Enjoyment-8
Overall 7
Read at the sourceSanae28
I like this anime, because I think that it's in perfect Osamu Tezuka's style.
The graphic is modern and the story has been unpdated.
The story is really amazing and I love the 'humanity' of the protagonist, 'atom' aka 'six'.
You can find his evolution during the entire story and I suffered, like Ran, when he was under repair.
Ran, the little sister of Ochanomizu, is really interesting, a shy and cute girl with a great love for robots. She is a robotic true genius and probably could be more intelligent than her bif brother.
Being this a modern anime Ran stands out among many anime dominated by tsundere girls.
The family who grows around him is lovely and 'six' is a good and true hero.
The two young doctors are great.
It's a pity that only the first volume of the manga has been animated.
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At first, I went to watch Atom: The Beginning with no expectation. After I watched the OP, I knew what I was getting into, so I didn't expect much. If you already watched it OP, you know what I am talking about. Its OP just gave a spoiler at the end of the season. However, there were some interesting concepts laid out for Astro Boy universe in this prequel. I loved it. Judging by the concept, its target audience is supposed involved people who grew up with Astro Boy (20-30 years old) while wanted to have kids can enjoy, but it didn't go all out. If it were going to aim at adult, please make the whole concept adult. Overall, I enjoyed the story very much watching episode as its own individual, but expecting good amount of fillers that are going to introduce its characters via them.
Atom: T…
Read at the sourceJinzulen
Honestly, as much as I somewhat enjoyed this series, I can't help but think that so much of its potential was left unused and wasted.
Atom: The Beginning had a good basis upon which a fantastic series could have been established, the story was there, the characters were there, what could go wrong, right? Well, this is usually what happens when what a series has to truly offer is left unexplored, here we had the concept of artificial consciousness, AI is one thing, but to give a machine a soul, to make it sentient and aware, to have it feel and connect on a "human" level, it's exactly that what the series first hints that it will be focusing on, instead, it was left ignored and the application of it thrown aside until the couple last episodes, and even then it wasn't fully explored or give…
Read at the sourceGundroog
This has to be one of the most snubbed anime from its season. Can't say it's exceptional, nor would I strongly recommend it but I was still surprised that something so recent and generally fun went by unnoticed.
This show holds few surprises or twists so I think if premise got you interested, it should be a safe watch.
Art: solid all around. It's hard to praise it for anything in particular but in this day and age just having a good color direction and backgrounds that don't look like lazily filtered photos is already nice I suppose.
Character designs are a mix of generic anime and modernized Tezuka designs, made to fit among the more recent anime manga art styles. It can be a bit jarring to see plain as day anime character next one of the more unique looking Tenma and Ochanomizu but o…
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It is quite sad that few have seen this hidden gem of a series. As a person, who never saw Astroboy before, I was quite surprised how well this series was able to keep me interested even without me understanding refrences that were made about this old 60s anime.
Story 7/10:
I think that the weakest part of the series was its story. Until this anime reached Robot Tournmant arc story was a bit too similar to Slice of Life type of series. Usually I dislike such stories because way too often those series doesn't manage to make me interested in those characters from early on and thus doesn't keep me intrested when characters are having minor and relatively risk free adventures. Surprisingly my experience with this series was opposite to that. From early on I found most characters endering (e…
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Throughout it's entire runtime Atom the Beginning was a thoroughly unique experiences. Much like Astro Boy, the series it functions as a prequel to, Atom the beginning utilizes a light, colorful and action packed presentation to drive a rather complex idea home.
The idea that robotic beings created by man might gain sentience is no new concept. It's a concept explored multiple times by various authors of science fiction. And yet Atom the Beginning presents itself in a significantly different manner. The series focuses on the thoughts of the central character A106 instead. While most of the series is seemingly episodic in nature the actions of everyday life, the action set pieces and every small character moment slowly causes A106 to grow. Granting the eventual climax of the show immense…
Read at the sourceZerathus
A wasted potential.
Atom: The Beginning had a great premise. Tell the story of Doctor Tenma and Doctor Ochanomizu as they create Bewusstsein, the AI system which will revolutionize robotics and will lead to creation of one of the greatest anime/manga icons of all time, Atom.
And we get that, but we also get a lot of useless filler. First 7 or 8 episodes work in repetitive episodic format. X Slice of life situation happens. Everything goes well, until something goes wrong. A106 saves the day. The end. This would've been fine if it built the characters of the show, or the world of the show. But sadly it doesn't happen. After the first half of the series we enter the second half which has continuous plot up until the very end. Aaaaaaand...it's not very good either. There is some action bu…
Read at the sourceBlackCicero
Atom: The Beginning is another re-imagining of the classic anime, Astro Boy. The way it goes about doing this is handled a lot better than maybe it's MAL score might suggest.
I thought the story was great overall. Each mini arc that was given to us throughout the series was interesting. In particular, I thought the last part of the story was amazing.
The art and animation wasn't anything spectacular but I also had no complaints about it either. I share most of the sentiments for the soundtrack and sound design as well. The character designs felt familiar yet updated for a more modern look.
Where Atom: The Beginning really shines is with its characters. The way how they interacted with one another, Ochanomizu and Umatarou in particular, made for an entertaining show. I also thought that the…
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