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アトム ザ・ビギニング [Atom: The Beginning] #5
Atom: The Beginning, Vol. 5
Tenma y Ochanomizu avanzan en el desarrollo de un nuevo robot de la serie A10 sobre la base de lo aprendido gracias a A106 o “Six”. Cuando ya se empieza a vislumbrar la finalización del séptimo robot de la serie, Yuran, los dos reciben una invitación...
¡Este es el apasionante quinto tomo de la historia previa al nacimiento de Atom (Astroboy)!
¡Este es el apasionante quinto tomo de la historia previa al nacimiento de Atom (Astroboy)!
198 pages, Paperback
Published December 28, 2017
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July 24, 2019
In volume 5 the plot picks up with the arrival of Six's 'younger sister'---another A.I. who looks like a little girl, and with the personality of one too.
The story is interesting and the artwork is great, I will look forward to reading more from this Sci-Fi series.
The story is interesting and the artwork is great, I will look forward to reading more from this Sci-Fi series.
January 7, 2025
Comme prévu, la série décolle de plus en plus. Je me régale avec les thématiques des auteurs sur les robots. C’est exactement ce que j’attendais du titre.
Nos jeunes inventeurs sont à pieds d’oeuvre, choisis pour participer à un grand combat de robots, ils décident d’en profiter pour finir de mettre au point leur petit dernier : A107, aka Uran, la fameuse petite soeur d’Astro ! Le fan de l’univers en moi a trépigné de joie en voyant l’arrivée de ce robot dans le tome qui lui est ici consacré.
Rien que du classique mais du classique bien fait et avec de vraies portées philosophiques. Avec l’arrivée d’Uran, c’est un autre robot au système de conscience révolutionnaire, capable d’apprendre et de ressentir. En plus, nos héros la mettent sous la coupe d’A106, son »grand frère », et lui font subir un apprentissage accéléré. Résultat, c’est un robot un peu déviant qui sort sous ses allures de robot modèle qui va vite, est trop fort, etc. Et même si cela va vite pour nous aussi, ou justement pour cela, ce fut une lecture intense où j’ai aimé voir les dérives d’une éducation à laquelle ces inventeurs n’avaient pas pensé et à laquelle A106 n’a pas de réponse et va devoir réfléchir. Uran suscite toutes ces réactions et c’est jouissif.
Avec elle, on pousse donc encore la réflexion sur la conscience et les sentiments des robots, sur ce qu’ils interprètent et comprennent de nous, et ce qu’ils en font après. Quand Uran pense avoir tiré une morale des contes qu’on lui a lu et qu’elle couple cela avec le résultat de ses recherches en douce sur internet, cela donne un résultat détonnant. Quand A106 voit cela, il ne peut rester insensible aussi bien en tant que »grand frère », qu’en tant que robot de Tenma et Ochanomizu. Chacun d’eux a donc une réponse différente, logique et parfois violente, mais différente et ils s’interrogent. J’aime voir les robots évoluer ainsi. Et je suis encore plus fan de leurs interactions juste entre eux, sur ce quoi ce centre ce tome, car les humains sont bien en retrait. Les sentiments qu’ils développent, colère, frustration, solitude, les rendent encore plus intéressants.
Alors certes, je ne suis pas fan du tournoi qui se profile, car en soi, ça ne m’intéresse pas de voir des robots se taper dessus ou s’envoyer des rayons lasers et autres attaques dévastatrices. Mais je suis curieuse de voir les interactions qui vont s’y développer, les rencontres qu’ils vont faire, comment tout cela va les faire encore évoluer en terme de conscience, morale et sentiments. Je sens ce bouillonnement des plus prometteurs et j’ai hâte d’y être.
Nouveau tome charnière où l’arrivée d’un autre personnage culte va venir secouer la série et apporter aux lecteurs de nouvelles réflexions sur la conscience, la morale et les émotions des robots. Des questions classiques en SF mais toujours passionnantes et mise en scène de manière fort dynamique et intéressante ici par le duo Uran – futur Astro. J’ai très très hâte de voir comment cela va évoluer.
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Nos jeunes inventeurs sont à pieds d’oeuvre, choisis pour participer à un grand combat de robots, ils décident d’en profiter pour finir de mettre au point leur petit dernier : A107, aka Uran, la fameuse petite soeur d’Astro ! Le fan de l’univers en moi a trépigné de joie en voyant l’arrivée de ce robot dans le tome qui lui est ici consacré.
Rien que du classique mais du classique bien fait et avec de vraies portées philosophiques. Avec l’arrivée d’Uran, c’est un autre robot au système de conscience révolutionnaire, capable d’apprendre et de ressentir. En plus, nos héros la mettent sous la coupe d’A106, son »grand frère », et lui font subir un apprentissage accéléré. Résultat, c’est un robot un peu déviant qui sort sous ses allures de robot modèle qui va vite, est trop fort, etc. Et même si cela va vite pour nous aussi, ou justement pour cela, ce fut une lecture intense où j’ai aimé voir les dérives d’une éducation à laquelle ces inventeurs n’avaient pas pensé et à laquelle A106 n’a pas de réponse et va devoir réfléchir. Uran suscite toutes ces réactions et c’est jouissif.
Avec elle, on pousse donc encore la réflexion sur la conscience et les sentiments des robots, sur ce qu’ils interprètent et comprennent de nous, et ce qu’ils en font après. Quand Uran pense avoir tiré une morale des contes qu’on lui a lu et qu’elle couple cela avec le résultat de ses recherches en douce sur internet, cela donne un résultat détonnant. Quand A106 voit cela, il ne peut rester insensible aussi bien en tant que »grand frère », qu’en tant que robot de Tenma et Ochanomizu. Chacun d’eux a donc une réponse différente, logique et parfois violente, mais différente et ils s’interrogent. J’aime voir les robots évoluer ainsi. Et je suis encore plus fan de leurs interactions juste entre eux, sur ce quoi ce centre ce tome, car les humains sont bien en retrait. Les sentiments qu’ils développent, colère, frustration, solitude, les rendent encore plus intéressants.
Alors certes, je ne suis pas fan du tournoi qui se profile, car en soi, ça ne m’intéresse pas de voir des robots se taper dessus ou s’envoyer des rayons lasers et autres attaques dévastatrices. Mais je suis curieuse de voir les interactions qui vont s’y développer, les rencontres qu’ils vont faire, comment tout cela va les faire encore évoluer en terme de conscience, morale et sentiments. Je sens ce bouillonnement des plus prometteurs et j’ai hâte d’y être.
Nouveau tome charnière où l’arrivée d’un autre personnage culte va venir secouer la série et apporter aux lecteurs de nouvelles réflexions sur la conscience, la morale et les émotions des robots. Des questions classiques en SF mais toujours passionnantes et mise en scène de manière fort dynamique et intéressante ici par le duo Uran – futur Astro. J’ai très très hâte de voir comment cela va évoluer.
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June 11, 2024
And now we have two robots with AI, siblings. This book keeps getting more interesting but also continues to be quirky as ever.
December 12, 2025
She's been thrown into this too quickly...I feel so bad for her...
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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