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アトム ザ・ビギニング [Atom: The Beginning] #6
Atom: The Beginning, Vol. 6
Se está celebrando la primera edición del WRB (World Robot Battling), en la que participan los robots más punteros del mundo. Tenma y su equipo inscriben a Yuran, su nueva creación, pero...
¡Llega el trepidante sexto tomo de la historia previa al nacimiento de Atom (Astroboy)!
¡Llega el trepidante sexto tomo de la historia previa al nacimiento de Atom (Astroboy)!
196 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2018
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June 13, 2020
Our MCs and their team are bringing their newly developed A.I. to a massive A.I. contest, with a lot of combat scenes included! The action scenes are exciting, the artwork is warm and lovely, and perhaps we are going to see more about the conspiracy sub-plot in the next volume?
January 7, 2025
Je m’attendais à un banal tournoi de robots comme la dernière fois, mais non, les auteurs parviennent à nouveau à me surprendre de la plus belle des façons, introduisant de l’inconnu au milieu du prévisible. J’adore !
U-ran est donc invitée à participer à un tournoi visant à faire se battre ensemble des dizaines de robots du monde entier. La première épreuve commence et tout va bien, puis la seconde se corse, U-ran est perdue et…
J’ai beaucoup aimé à nouveau la dynamique de ce tome, qui nous fait croire à un développement assez banal dans un premier temps avec une épreuve à règle assez simple où notre nouvelle héroïne excelle. Puis tout part en vrille dès que cela se complexifie. Et quand ça part en vrille, ce n’est pas qu’un peu ! L’exploitation des nouvelles caractéristiques de la nouveauté qu’est U-ran est vraiment bien vu. C’est à la fois d’une belle efficacité et cela apporte une nouvelle profondeur encore à l’oeuvre sur la conscience et les sentiments des robots. U-Ran est vraiment une nouvelle génération qui montre les ravages d’une programmation un peu hâtive qui a manqué de finesse, ce que son créateur n’imaginait pas.
Alors entre philosophie robotique et action bien sentie, la lecture est vraiment percutante et prenante. On enchaîne les pages tandis que c’est jouissif de voir tout dérailler. Il y a aussi de l’émotion avec cette jeune U-Ran qui est un peu comme un bébé qui découvre le monde avec force et fracas devant nous. On a envie de l’aider à redresser les choses. Enfin, les surprises sont également au rendez-vous également à l’arrière avec une sacrée révélation sur le Dr Lolo. Tout est très bien pensé par garantir notre intérêt de bout en bout, et c’est réussi.
Tome d’action et de réflexion, je me suis régalée une nouvelle fois avec ce qu’U-ran apporte à la série. Les questions qu’elle pose sur les robots, leur programmation, leur évolution et les conséquences d’une conscience qu’il porterait sans tous les éléments qui participent à celle des hommes, sont passionnantes. Tout se lie à merveille. On est aussi bien percutés qu’émus par ce qui se joue et c’est excellent !
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U-ran est donc invitée à participer à un tournoi visant à faire se battre ensemble des dizaines de robots du monde entier. La première épreuve commence et tout va bien, puis la seconde se corse, U-ran est perdue et…
J’ai beaucoup aimé à nouveau la dynamique de ce tome, qui nous fait croire à un développement assez banal dans un premier temps avec une épreuve à règle assez simple où notre nouvelle héroïne excelle. Puis tout part en vrille dès que cela se complexifie. Et quand ça part en vrille, ce n’est pas qu’un peu ! L’exploitation des nouvelles caractéristiques de la nouveauté qu’est U-ran est vraiment bien vu. C’est à la fois d’une belle efficacité et cela apporte une nouvelle profondeur encore à l’oeuvre sur la conscience et les sentiments des robots. U-Ran est vraiment une nouvelle génération qui montre les ravages d’une programmation un peu hâtive qui a manqué de finesse, ce que son créateur n’imaginait pas.
Alors entre philosophie robotique et action bien sentie, la lecture est vraiment percutante et prenante. On enchaîne les pages tandis que c’est jouissif de voir tout dérailler. Il y a aussi de l’émotion avec cette jeune U-Ran qui est un peu comme un bébé qui découvre le monde avec force et fracas devant nous. On a envie de l’aider à redresser les choses. Enfin, les surprises sont également au rendez-vous également à l’arrière avec une sacrée révélation sur le Dr Lolo. Tout est très bien pensé par garantir notre intérêt de bout en bout, et c’est réussi.
Tome d’action et de réflexion, je me suis régalée une nouvelle fois avec ce qu’U-ran apporte à la série. Les questions qu’elle pose sur les robots, leur programmation, leur évolution et les conséquences d’une conscience qu’il porterait sans tous les éléments qui participent à celle des hommes, sont passionnantes. Tout se lie à merveille. On est aussi bien percutés qu’émus par ce qui se joue et c’est excellent !
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January 18, 2024
Another robot competition. Six might need to help out his "little sister". A surprising reveal about one of the love interests.
December 12, 2025
She misses her brother 🥺
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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