Astro Boy is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime. It originated as a manga of the same name in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, revered in Japan as the "God of Manga" It lasted for four seasons, with a total of 193 episodes, the final episode presented on a Saturday, New Year's Eve 1966. 104 episodes were aired in the United States, adapted to the English language. The first Astro Boy anime is set in the year 2013, rather than 2003 of the original manga.
