# Literally all of the anime - Let's play Astro Boy: Omega Factor! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Twilight LPZone\ **Tags:** anime, actionadventure, video, informative\ **Created:** [April 4, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/literally-all-of-the-anime-lets-play-astro-boy-omega-factor/1863 "2017-04-04T02:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
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Star #10: Jetter Mars ![](http://i.imgur.com/2YVsOhq.png) Through the ages: [Jetter Mars anime](http://i.imgur.com/clQKBqu.png) See him in action: [1977 Japanese anime opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHN574JsCU), [Jetter Mars Artificial Sun rip-off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywHnNUpmVQ) Tezuka character list bio: Number 34 ![](http://i.imgur.com/m5RoYQI.gif)- A super robot that had secretly been developed. The completion date was set for 2015. He was the main character in the self-titled anime released in 1977. He looks similar to Astro because Tezuka designed him as [a] modification of Astro. But unlike the super hero Astro, Jetter Mars is much more human-like. His body was built to grow and change, just as humans do as they age. Dr. Yamanoue appears instead of O’Shay (Dr. Ochanomizu in Japanese). There is a “Yamanoue Hotel” in front of the “Ochanomizu” train station in Japan. “But OP!”, I hear you say, “You already DID Astro Boy’s bio!” “Yes, my hyperbolic ham-brained reader” I respond, “But this guy’s different! Kinda.” Jetter Mars is incredibly interesting to me, not so much in the context of his story, but rather in how he came to exist in the first place. Had Tezuka had his way, Mars might never have even existed; he was and is VERY much a product of circumstances, and is quite frankly one of the most obscure Tezuka characters represented in this game. To understand this character, a knowledge of his background is needed, but if you want to skip the next couple paragraphs then just go ahead and read [THIS](http://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=861) and [THIS](http://www.astroboy-online.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6050), as they’re where I’m pulling most of my info from. See, Osamu Tezuka’s initial conduit for supplying anime to the world was an animation studio he founded known as [Mushi Productions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushi_Production). This was the place responsible for producing the original Astro anime, as well as other Tezuka works (Leo the Lion) and various well-known and respected series like [Tomorrow’s Joe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashita_no_Joe). Everything was going swimmingly for them until the 70s, at which point they landed themselves in a bit of financial trouble and went bankrupt; this caused the rights for many of Tezuka’s shows to change hands and fall into hazy legal territory, leaving them temporarily untouchable. By this time, Tezuka had already moved on from Mushi, founding another animation studio named [Tezuka Productions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezuka_Productions) and moonlighting as an animation director at [Toei Animation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toei_Animation), where he harbored thoughts of remaking, or creating a sequel to, a certain famous series in spectacular full-color. ![](http://i.imgur.com/okwHy3M.jpg) This proved to be a bit of a problem, as Astro’s rights were presently unobtainable. With an expectant Toei waiting for the next BIG THING from him, and facing difficulty reclaiming his works, Tezuka made a compromise: he retooled Astro’s look and location just enough to get around the legal hurdles, tweaked the story, and marketed it as a brand-new series, one which was neither Astro Boy nor a successor to it: JETTER MARS. ![](http://i.imgur.com/mdclLWN.jpg) The result was something of an Astro reboot; Mars is his own character with his own backstory, but there are parallels to Astro everywhere you turn, so it’s difficult to avoid comparing the two. His hair, facial structure, underwear and boots are all very clearly inspired by Astro’s; [his body was created and fitted with weaponry by a black-haired scientist (Yamanoue) whereas his mind was molded by a more kindly older scientist (Kawashimo)](http://i.imgur.com/ARipHLc.jpg); he has a robot sister with a similar hairstyle to Zoran/Uran (the girl that’s shown up briefly at the file screen and beginning of chapters 2 and 3), and he lives in a futuristic world prone to robot and machinery-related mishaps, some of which are ripped wholesale from Astro stories ([like the headless robot DamDam featured in the intro](http://i.imgur.com/gh1dqED.png)). Tons of Tezuka characters also make the rounds in the show, which makes the work as a whole feel somewhat recycled. HOWEVER. Mars’s series does differentiate itself from Astro’s in a couple ways. His powers are presented a little differently, losing the whole “seven” theming and exchanging legjets for a flight-enabling cape, but more prominent is the change in story tone. Rather than focus on the conflict between humans and robots, Jetter Mars the show instead looks at the development of the young bot’s personal feelings and emotions; as the bio mentions, he’s made more human-like than Astro, capable of growth and maturation, and this also applies to his mind – he comes out a blank slate, with no concept of right and wrong, and his two fathers (Drs. Yamanoue and Kawashimo) have very different plans for him. Yamanoue names him after the Roman god of War, fitting him with weaponry and intending to use him for militaristic purposes, whereas Kawashimo creates his brain and wishes for him to be more a keeper of the peace, with many episodes featuring these two opposing viewpoints and how they cause Mars to grow as both a robot and a person. It’s an interesting concept, but it doesn’t really get fully explored, mainly because of the small scale of this particular series – It was never drawn as a Manga prior to creation, it only lasted 27 episodes, and it was largely forgotten as Tezuka moved on to other things. The series never got an English dub, and the obscurity makes finding subs a pain, but there are quite a few Spanish-language episodes of questionable quality on Youtube, as well as a single subbed episode I was able to locate, so if you happen to be fluent in the language go ahead and knock yourself out. It’s basically the only place you’re getting a taste of this guy, as he’s never shown up in any other works that I know of – Tezuka all but abandoned him when the public reception to “Mighty Atom, but not” was mixed. --- _[View the full topic](https://www.lp.zone/t/literally-all-of-the-anime-lets-play-astro-boy-omega-factor/1863)._