Astro Boy (Season 1)

"Astro Boy" (鉄腕アトム, 1980) is the colour remake of Osamu Tezuka's 1963 anime classic you can watch online on iFILM — Tezuka being the man whose work essentially built modern manga and anime as a medium.

The premise is bleak at its core: a scientist in 2030 builds a boy-robot with extraordinary capabilities and then abandons him. Dr. Elefun takes him in, names him Atom, and gives him purpose — to protect both humans and robots in a world that hasn't worked out how to treat either fairly. Each episode functions as its own contained story. The 1980 production gave the original colour and a refreshed visual style without touching what made it matter: Tezuka's insistence that conscience outranks power. Stream "Astro Boy" online on iFILM.