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アトム ザ・ビギニング [Atom: The Beginning] #10
ATOM: The Beginning Vol.10
Les origines du mythe Astro Boy ! . A la recherche d'indices sur le garçon robot venu du futur, Six et Ochaji sont partis à l'aventure à Hô Chi Minh-Ville.. Ils s'introduisent dans un complexe commercial abandonné, où ils sont accueillis par un robot de sécurité possédant cent yeux !.
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208 pages, Paperback
Published February 4, 2025
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May 26, 2021
Me gusta mucho este tomo: ver como las IA van evolucionando hasta más allá de lo que sus creadores habían pensado y parece que nos vamos acercando a la aparición de Atom.
January 9, 2025
Je pinaillais dans le tome précédent à cause de la transition entre l’excellente première partie et la seconde que je trouvais plus classique. Bien mal m’en a pris car les auteurs ont transformé cela en dialogue fort intéressant, encore une fois sur les robots, mais aussi sur le but même de la série !
Ce n’est pas facile de suivre le rythme presque effréné des auteurs de ce titre. Leurs arcs sont courts mais intenses. On n’a pas le temps de s’attacher aux personnages secondaires qu’ils disparaissent déjà. Et pourtant, c’est passionnant. Passionnant, parce qu’il y a une vraie culture »robot » dans ce titre et surtout qu’ils titillent comme jamais les lecteurs fan de Tezuka avec la promesse d’une rencontre qui semble de plus en plus se préciser.
J’ai donc eu beau trouver le démarrage de cette nouvelle rencontre entre Six et un nouveau robot un peu classique, un peu déjà vue surtout dans la série, je ne m’en suis pas moins régalée. Dans une ambiance très polar dickien avec robots tout terrain submergeant le héros par leur nombre, nous avons assisté à un vrai combat de guérilla urbaine, face à un robot qui semble incarner l’essence du samouraï 2.0. J’ai trouvé la mise en scène excellente ! En plus, elle se couple avec des trouvailles qui viennent tendre l’intrigue ou la rendre plus mystérieuse et c’est excellent, que ce soit la rencontre entre Six et North, et les sentiments qu’elle avoue, ou cele entre Six et Mars, qui ressemble de plus en plus à un Devilman robot, sans oublier ce que le grand-père d’Hiroshi a enfin trouvé et qui suscite de nouvelles questions. Vraiment, les auteurs savent mener leur intrigue pour nous passionner.
En plus, le développement philosophique de l’oeuvre n’est pas en reste. Six est fidèle à lui-même mais ses rencontres et dialogues avec d’autres robots l’affinent en quelque sorte. Cet adversaire lui fait découvrir de nouvelle possibilité et lui offre une autre vision des affrontements. Le revirement si sombre de Mars l’interpelle. Quant à la réponse de North sur son absence de communication jusqu’il y a peu et ce qu’elle révèle le laisse sans voix. C’est vraiment passionnant. On avance pas à pas vers une construction toujours plus complexe de cette »conscience robotique » unique et je me régale avec.
J’ai donc encore passé un excellent moment. Alors que je m’attendais à un banal moment d’action et de combat entre robots, j’ai eu bien plus grâce à ces auteurs férus de pop culture qui la maîtrisent si bien. Ils savent maintenir le suspens quant au fil rouge de l’histoire. Ils savent aussi tisser des toiles complexes sur la philosophie de l’oeuvre et chaque rencontre ne fait que nourrir leur héros et leur histoire. C’est passionnant !
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Ce n’est pas facile de suivre le rythme presque effréné des auteurs de ce titre. Leurs arcs sont courts mais intenses. On n’a pas le temps de s’attacher aux personnages secondaires qu’ils disparaissent déjà. Et pourtant, c’est passionnant. Passionnant, parce qu’il y a une vraie culture »robot » dans ce titre et surtout qu’ils titillent comme jamais les lecteurs fan de Tezuka avec la promesse d’une rencontre qui semble de plus en plus se préciser.
J’ai donc eu beau trouver le démarrage de cette nouvelle rencontre entre Six et un nouveau robot un peu classique, un peu déjà vue surtout dans la série, je ne m’en suis pas moins régalée. Dans une ambiance très polar dickien avec robots tout terrain submergeant le héros par leur nombre, nous avons assisté à un vrai combat de guérilla urbaine, face à un robot qui semble incarner l’essence du samouraï 2.0. J’ai trouvé la mise en scène excellente ! En plus, elle se couple avec des trouvailles qui viennent tendre l’intrigue ou la rendre plus mystérieuse et c’est excellent, que ce soit la rencontre entre Six et North, et les sentiments qu’elle avoue, ou cele entre Six et Mars, qui ressemble de plus en plus à un Devilman robot, sans oublier ce que le grand-père d’Hiroshi a enfin trouvé et qui suscite de nouvelles questions. Vraiment, les auteurs savent mener leur intrigue pour nous passionner.
En plus, le développement philosophique de l’oeuvre n’est pas en reste. Six est fidèle à lui-même mais ses rencontres et dialogues avec d’autres robots l’affinent en quelque sorte. Cet adversaire lui fait découvrir de nouvelle possibilité et lui offre une autre vision des affrontements. Le revirement si sombre de Mars l’interpelle. Quant à la réponse de North sur son absence de communication jusqu’il y a peu et ce qu’elle révèle le laisse sans voix. C’est vraiment passionnant. On avance pas à pas vers une construction toujours plus complexe de cette »conscience robotique » unique et je me régale avec.
J’ai donc encore passé un excellent moment. Alors que je m’attendais à un banal moment d’action et de combat entre robots, j’ai eu bien plus grâce à ces auteurs férus de pop culture qui la maîtrisent si bien. Ils savent maintenir le suspens quant au fil rouge de l’histoire. Ils savent aussi tisser des toiles complexes sur la philosophie de l’oeuvre et chaque rencontre ne fait que nourrir leur héros et leur histoire. C’est passionnant !
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December 12, 2025
I can't quite explain what gets me about this series. Is it the sentient robot? Is it the complex story? Is it the themes? All of the above? Something else I'm missing?
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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