Astro Boy is a Japanese anime television series based on Osamu Tezuka's manga of the same name. It premiered on Fuji TV on New Year's Day, 1963 (a Tuesday) and is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime. It lasted for four seasons, with a total of 193 episodes. 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.
