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アトム ザ・ビギニング [Atom: The Beginning] #9
Atom: The Beginning, Vol. 9
Questa è la storia che porta alla nascita del robot eterno "Tetsuwan Atom" (Atom braccia di ferro) per mano del professor Tenma e del professor Ochanomizu che, durante la loro gioventù, si sono dedicati completamente allo sviluppo dei robot.
192 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2019
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January 9, 2025
Quand philosophie, robotique et médecine se rencontrent cela donne un tome surprenant et plein d’avancées ! Lecture en deux parties : l’une très forte et intense, l’autre qui nous raccroche à l’intrigue et la relance. Que demande le peuple ?
Je me suis à nouveau régalée avec ce tome. J’ai eu une grosse surprise au début lors de l’attaque de la clinique des jeunes Thaïlandaises qu’ils suivent depuis quelques temps. Les auteurs nous font un coup de maître, un moment intense et bouleversant, qui nous scotche. Un moment hors du temps aussi qui est l’occasion de synthétiser tout ce qu’on a eu jusqu’à présent sur l’amitié des héros, l’émerveillement de la conscience qu’ils ont insufflé dans leur robot et même les mystères de la catastrophe qui a eu lieu des années plus tôt. En l’espace d’un court chapitre, tout y est et même plus ! J’ai adoré !
Ce fut l’occasion, à nouveau, d’un beau développement sur les robots et ce qu’ils peuvent apporter à l’humanité, mais aussi sur la solitude de ces êtres s’éveillant à la conscience mais encore tellement différents, une émotion qui m’a parlée. Une émotion que j’ai retrouvé dans la relation, portée à son paroxysme, entre Tenma et Hiroshi. Les auteurs se jouent en plus des flashbacks pour bien accentuer cela et y glisser des messages sur leur amitié à la vie, à la mort, depuis toujours, c’était beau.
Du coup, même si j’ai trouvé cela intéressant, repartir ensuite aussi sec sur les recherches du grand-père d’Hiroshi avec un duo entre lui et Six, lors de l’exploration d’un étrange chantier à l’abandon, je ne sais pas, cela ne m’a pas autant emportée. La cassure dans le rythme, l’émotion et les messages était trop grande. Pourtant, on suit le canevas de l’histoire et c’est logique. Il y a même une nouvelle rencontre percutante d’un robot bien singulier et Six démontre encore son originalité, mais je ne sais pas, ça me semble presque redondant et facile après ce moment si inattendu et intense.
J’ai donc eu une lecture en deux temps. Un premier temps très intense où j’en ai pris plein les mirettes, où j’ai adoré être surprise, où j’ai vécu intensément ce qui se passait et où j’ai aimé les indices glissés. Puis un moment, plus classique, presque formaté, où on tente de faire avancer l’histoire mais où l’engagement était moindre. Atom reste cependant une excellente série avec énormément d’éléments de SF que j’adore.
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Je me suis à nouveau régalée avec ce tome. J’ai eu une grosse surprise au début lors de l’attaque de la clinique des jeunes Thaïlandaises qu’ils suivent depuis quelques temps. Les auteurs nous font un coup de maître, un moment intense et bouleversant, qui nous scotche. Un moment hors du temps aussi qui est l’occasion de synthétiser tout ce qu’on a eu jusqu’à présent sur l’amitié des héros, l’émerveillement de la conscience qu’ils ont insufflé dans leur robot et même les mystères de la catastrophe qui a eu lieu des années plus tôt. En l’espace d’un court chapitre, tout y est et même plus ! J’ai adoré !
Ce fut l’occasion, à nouveau, d’un beau développement sur les robots et ce qu’ils peuvent apporter à l’humanité, mais aussi sur la solitude de ces êtres s’éveillant à la conscience mais encore tellement différents, une émotion qui m’a parlée. Une émotion que j’ai retrouvé dans la relation, portée à son paroxysme, entre Tenma et Hiroshi. Les auteurs se jouent en plus des flashbacks pour bien accentuer cela et y glisser des messages sur leur amitié à la vie, à la mort, depuis toujours, c’était beau.
Du coup, même si j’ai trouvé cela intéressant, repartir ensuite aussi sec sur les recherches du grand-père d’Hiroshi avec un duo entre lui et Six, lors de l’exploration d’un étrange chantier à l’abandon, je ne sais pas, cela ne m’a pas autant emportée. La cassure dans le rythme, l’émotion et les messages était trop grande. Pourtant, on suit le canevas de l’histoire et c’est logique. Il y a même une nouvelle rencontre percutante d’un robot bien singulier et Six démontre encore son originalité, mais je ne sais pas, ça me semble presque redondant et facile après ce moment si inattendu et intense.
J’ai donc eu une lecture en deux temps. Un premier temps très intense où j’en ai pris plein les mirettes, où j’ai adoré être surprise, où j’ai vécu intensément ce qui se passait et où j’ai aimé les indices glissés. Puis un moment, plus classique, presque formaté, où on tente de faire avancer l’histoire mais où l’engagement était moindre. Atom reste cependant une excellente série avec énormément d’éléments de SF que j’adore.
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December 12, 2025
If electricity is noise, and our brains send out electrical signals, does that mean brainwaves are also noise? Could we perform advanced brain surgery with music?
Atom: the Beginning Review
5/5 stars
This will be a spoiler free review. Onto the review!
I started this manga series because the first volume’s cover has a robot with a kitten. I knew nothing about this going in, and I’m so glad that cover caught my eye. This was so good!
This series is technically a prequel series to the 50s manga called Astro Boy, which became well known for being the first anime ever. I’ve never watched or read Astro Boy, but it turns out that’s not necessary to understand this series. I might try reading Astro Boy at some point, because I’m curious how anime got started, but I also don’t want to accidentally spoil anything from this series since this is a prequel.
In this story, we follow a bunch of college kids who are part of their college’s robotics program. They’re all part of different research teams, trying to create unique and interesting robotic projects in order to get more funding from the school. We’re following the team with the least amount of funding as they try to work around budget constraints to create robots that will earn them more funding in the future.
What sets our team apart from the rest is that they want to create a robot that doesn’t just perform tasks and follow programming. They want to make a robot that will have a consciousness and heart. Everyone else thinks they’re crazy, but they go ahead with the project anyways, because they’re so passionate about it that they don’t care about anyone else’s opinions.
The robot they end up creating is the one from the first volume cover, although they have a few other smaller projects as well, such as the kitten robot. They name their robot Six, because he’s their sixth attempt at a robot with a heart. I fell in love with Six from the very first moment I saw him on the page. He’s so kind, and just wants to help people and make friends with everyone.
As the story goes on, we learn that most people who build robots want to create robots that can fight. This seems to be the priority for most engineers, which really makes Six stand out as something different. I’m not sure how this connects to Astro Boy’s plot, and if we’re going to meet any of its original characters or villains, so I can’t speak on that. There are a few notes at the end of each volume which talk about how certain robots we meet are taken directly from Astro Boy, so that helps a bit. But I don’t really know what any of it means for the story.
What continued to be the most compelling part of this story as I kept reading is the commentary on AI. Most of the people seen as villainous or at least a little morally gray don’t seem to care how their robots function in terms of AI, as long as they get the job done. This unfortunately results in a lot of hurt where it probably wasn’t necessary.
Six is the first to point this out in every situation, and he does his best to try and help the other robots learn from their mistakes. He has an interesting way of communicating with other robots via unspoken signals, which he uses to try and help robots learn to have a heart and be kind like him. With all the talk about ethical/unethical uses of AI here in the real world, I really felt this so hard. AI is such a wonderful tool, but unfortunately it’s the kind of technology where people can also choose to do awful things with it, such as stealing art, with little effort.
I recently learned that this manga is actually a reverse adaptation of an anime with the same name that’s been airing. I don’t know how far into the story the anime is, and how caught up the manga is to the show, so I’ve been avoiding it until I can figure that out without accidentally spoiling myself. I’m dodging spoilers left and right with this one, because I have to avoid this anime as well as Astro Boy…and apparently there’s another connected anime/manga called Pluto which might also spoil me on the story. When this series is complete, I’ll go watch/read everything else I’m missing out on, because I’m really loving these characters and this world.
If you’re a fan of Astro Boy or Pluto I definitely recommend giving this one a try, and then come back here and tell me if I can start either of those without spoiling myself for this series. If you know nothing about either of those, I recommend giving this series a try if it sounds interesting, because I’m having a blast with it despite not knowing anything about the original source material.
Random aside to myself: Does that one kid look a lot like Joey from Yu-gi-oh, or am I just going crazy? Update: I checked and yeah, they look like they could be twins. Wow. Maybe Joey’s design was based on his design? Which character design came first? The timeline is too confusing. help
Have a nice day/night everyone!
Atom: the Beginning Review
5/5 stars
This will be a spoiler free review. Onto the review!
I started this manga series because the first volume’s cover has a robot with a kitten. I knew nothing about this going in, and I’m so glad that cover caught my eye. This was so good!
This series is technically a prequel series to the 50s manga called Astro Boy, which became well known for being the first anime ever. I’ve never watched or read Astro Boy, but it turns out that’s not necessary to understand this series. I might try reading Astro Boy at some point, because I’m curious how anime got started, but I also don’t want to accidentally spoil anything from this series since this is a prequel.
In this story, we follow a bunch of college kids who are part of their college’s robotics program. They’re all part of different research teams, trying to create unique and interesting robotic projects in order to get more funding from the school. We’re following the team with the least amount of funding as they try to work around budget constraints to create robots that will earn them more funding in the future.
What sets our team apart from the rest is that they want to create a robot that doesn’t just perform tasks and follow programming. They want to make a robot that will have a consciousness and heart. Everyone else thinks they’re crazy, but they go ahead with the project anyways, because they’re so passionate about it that they don’t care about anyone else’s opinions.
The robot they end up creating is the one from the first volume cover, although they have a few other smaller projects as well, such as the kitten robot. They name their robot Six, because he’s their sixth attempt at a robot with a heart. I fell in love with Six from the very first moment I saw him on the page. He’s so kind, and just wants to help people and make friends with everyone.
As the story goes on, we learn that most people who build robots want to create robots that can fight. This seems to be the priority for most engineers, which really makes Six stand out as something different. I’m not sure how this connects to Astro Boy’s plot, and if we’re going to meet any of its original characters or villains, so I can’t speak on that. There are a few notes at the end of each volume which talk about how certain robots we meet are taken directly from Astro Boy, so that helps a bit. But I don’t really know what any of it means for the story.
What continued to be the most compelling part of this story as I kept reading is the commentary on AI. Most of the people seen as villainous or at least a little morally gray don’t seem to care how their robots function in terms of AI, as long as they get the job done. This unfortunately results in a lot of hurt where it probably wasn’t necessary.
Six is the first to point this out in every situation, and he does his best to try and help the other robots learn from their mistakes. He has an interesting way of communicating with other robots via unspoken signals, which he uses to try and help robots learn to have a heart and be kind like him. With all the talk about ethical/unethical uses of AI here in the real world, I really felt this so hard. AI is such a wonderful tool, but unfortunately it’s the kind of technology where people can also choose to do awful things with it, such as stealing art, with little effort.
I recently learned that this manga is actually a reverse adaptation of an anime with the same name that’s been airing. I don’t know how far into the story the anime is, and how caught up the manga is to the show, so I’ve been avoiding it until I can figure that out without accidentally spoiling myself. I’m dodging spoilers left and right with this one, because I have to avoid this anime as well as Astro Boy…and apparently there’s another connected anime/manga called Pluto which might also spoil me on the story. When this series is complete, I’ll go watch/read everything else I’m missing out on, because I’m really loving these characters and this world.
If you’re a fan of Astro Boy or Pluto I definitely recommend giving this one a try, and then come back here and tell me if I can start either of those without spoiling myself for this series. If you know nothing about either of those, I recommend giving this series a try if it sounds interesting, because I’m having a blast with it despite not knowing anything about the original source material.
Random aside to myself: Does that one kid look a lot like Joey from Yu-gi-oh, or am I just going crazy? Update: I checked and yeah, they look like they could be twins. Wow. Maybe Joey’s design was based on his design? Which character design came first? The timeline is too confusing. help
Have a nice day/night everyone!
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