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S1 E38 The Man-made Solar Sphere

Anime

TV-14

23m

Apr 21, 2026

A man-made solar sphere starts attacking the earth. English detective Holmes finds out that Dr. Elephant made it a long time ago. Holmes, whose whole body except his head has been replaced with machinery by a robot doctor, hates robots.

Season 1, 51 Episodes

Season 1 (51 Episodes)

Astro Boy - The Birth of Astro Boy

The Birth of Astro Boy,

Dr. Boynton loses his beloved son Toby in a traffic accident. Out of grief, he tries to make a super robot with a heart, which looks just like his son. Jiss orders a spy to copy the blueprint and makes a duplicate robot, Atlas, which has the omega factor.

Astro Boy - The Robot Circus

The Robot Circus,

Toby is deceived into joining an American robot circus. Dr. Elephant, soon to be appointed as the new Minister of Science, sees Toby fail in his job as a stagehand, but save the circus from chaos.

Astro Boy - Save the Classmate

Save the Classmate,

Astro has returned to Japan with Dr. Elephant. The Declaration of the Rights of Robots is proclaimed. Astro attends school and becomes the first robot student.

Astro Boy - Atlas Lives Again

Atlas Lives Again,

A plane with Dr. Elephant and Astro on board is caught in a magnetic storm, but Astro saves the plane. Atlas, who has remodeled himself into the form of a young man, rescues Skunk.

Astro Boy - Robot Land

Elephant and Astro visit an island called Robot Land, made by Dr. Hyde who is Dr. Elephant's former colleague at the Ministry of Science.

Astro Boy - Frankenstein

This is the robot manufacturing center at the Ministry of Science. They make thousands of robots here. One day a thunderstorm activated an unfinished robot - Frankenstein!

Astro Boy - The Red Cat

Professor Leopold, who appealed to stop a construction project that is destroying nature in the Basin Valley, fakes his death.

Astro Boy - The Crystal of the Desert

The Crystal of the Desert,

Hi! This is Astro. I found big trouble in the desert when I went to investigate a strange series of droughts. After a little help from a new friend I stumbled across a huge crystal in the middle of the desert.

Astro Boy - The White Planet

The White Planet,

Skunk's gang plots to win a round-the-world race around the equator, but destroys the White Planet, reigning champion Konrad's vehicle. Dr. Elephant tries to use Astro's electronic brain to repair the White Planet.

Astro Boy - A Robot President

A Robot President,

Astro and Daddy Walrus are invited to a presidential inauguration in Garavia, but the president and Daddy Walrus are abducted by the Dead Cross Party that objects to the world's first robot president.

Astro Boy - Goliath's Head

Goliath's Head,

A rocket carrying a Mars development robot named Goliath crashes in an accident and Goliath loses his head, which can fire a neutron beam. Dr. Elephant has sensed that the head is dangerous and has had Astro hide it. But the head is stolen by a thief.

Astro Boy - The Light Ray Robot

The Light Ray Robot,

The Light Ray Robot, an innocent, transparent robot which has won the Robot Art Grand Prix, is manipulated by Skunk to rob money and valuables. Daddy Walrus lures Skunk but lets him get away.

Astro Boy - Uran the Tomboy

Uran the Tomboy,

Hi! This is Astro again. Dr. Elefun presents me with a most unusual surprise - a sister of my very own.

Astro Boy - Robio & Robiette

Robio & Robiette,

The Donohues and the Cavalets have been enemies for generations. Their racing teams are rivals and their robot brothers are opposed to each other.

Astro Boy - Astro Fights Aliens

Astro Fights Aliens,

Astro is appointed leader of the second Mars resources investigative team, but sub-leader Lieutenant Blackstone is hostile to Astro. Lieutenant Nelson of the first investigative team has been left on Mars and it's up to Astro and his team to save him.

Astro Boy - Save the Carolina 3

Save the Carolina 3,

Astro's friend Gene hates his father's job of managing an air traffic control satellite by himself.

Astro Boy - The Rainbow Comet

The Rainbow Comet,

This is one of Tezuka Osamu's monumental works that brought an epic-making change in the history of Japanese animation. This first animated TV series in Japan formed the basis for a long lasting and flourishing culture of Japanese animation.

Astro Boy - The Death Balloon

The Death Balloon,

One after another, children get hurt in the explosion of a balloon in the shape of Astro. It is reported to the police that Astro is the guilty one and people despise him. While chasing balloons Astro is shot by Balast.

Astro Boy - The Transformation Robot

The Transformation Robot,

Astro visits the underground uranium quarry on Cross Island with Dr. Elephant and meets Buck, an incomplete robot.

Astro Boy - The Wreck of the Titan

The Wreck of the Titan,

Titan was the most advanced luxury spaceship in the world. But on her maiden voyage, the computer failed and couldn't protect the ship from meteorites.

Astro Boy - The Liar Robot

The Liar Robot,

True was a robot who didn't live up to his name. He told all the people a terrible earthquake was coming and put the whole city in panic. It was a lie.

Astro Boy - The Girl from Alsoar

The Girl from Alsoar,

During a snowstorm at night, Astro meets a girl who identifies herself as Violet. She is captured by robots but Astro rescues her from the robots' flying saucers that steal water.

Astro Boy - The Greatest Robot In The World (Part 1)

The Greatest Robot In The World (Part 1),

Bruton destroys Mt. Blanc and Molnar. He kidnaps Uran but returns her to Astro and defeats Brondo, but gets hurt in the process.

Astro Boy - The Greatest Robot In The World (Part 2)

The Greatest Robot In The World (Part 2),

Bruton, who has defeated Hercules and Fotar, has a duel in the Mountain of Tears with Astro. But the volcano starts to erupt and Bruton helps Astro to avert disaster. Bruton refuses to fight Astro.

Astro Boy - The Robot Vikings

The Robot Vikings,

Astro's dog is seriously injured by a group of rogue robots that devastate the town. Astro changes himself into a dog and fights them but they unite in the shape of a centipede and run away, although they later die.

Astro Boy - The Time Machine

The Time Machine,

Rock, a time patrolman of the 23rd century, goes to the country of Molavia in the 15th century with Astro, Uran, brilliant surgeon Dr. Roget and his assistant Penny.

Astro Boy - The Robot Stuntman

The Robot Stuntman,

The stunts of action star Tom Stanton are actually done by a tiny stunt robot named Sam. When Uran finds this out at the studio, she takes Sam home.

Astro Boy - The Great Meltdown

The Great Meltdown,

Livian's plane is brought down by a tracking plane. Astro saves her but she suffers a loss of memory. Meanwhile, ice at the North Pole melts and world cities start to be submerged.

Astro Boy - Uran's Twin

Uran sneaks into the Roboting Championships and takes part. She defeats a player and the promoter scouts her but Daddy Walrus refuses. Prof. Haggarty remodels Uran at the promoter's direction.

Astro Boy - Speeding Through the Storm

Speeding Through the Storm,

Astro and his classmates go on a field trip to see a dam and stay in a lodge. Due to a storm, an upstream dam is on the point of breaking. Astro's jets fail so the party tries to flee on a D51 steam locomotive kept in the lodge.

Astro Boy - The Return of Queen Cleopatra

The Return of Queen Cleopatra,

Cleopatra is resurrected before her Egyptian public. Caesar, a robot, steals the ladle, the sign of the queen, but is shot by pursuers after giving it to Astro.

Astro Boy - The Runaway Subway Train

The Runaway Subway Train,

Atlas, who has been released from ice by Livian, challenges Astro to a duel in a ballpark. But Daddy Walrus intervenes and Atlas withdraws. Astro is hidden in the vault of the Ministry of Science.

Astro Boy - The Baby Elephant Pook

The Baby Elephant Pook,

A mother elephant and her baby wander into a safari park of robot animals in Africa, and the mother is shot dead by a hunter.

Astro Boy - The Secret of Bee City

The Secret of Bee City,

Astro and Uran visit Bee Island, a breeding ground for bees, on an island-hopping cruise. They meet Christopher, who is looking for his father Prof. McGowan who has disappeared on the island.

Astro Boy - The Monster of Clarken

The Monster of Clarken,

Astro visits an undersea farm where the mermaid robot Peppy works. He fights off descending sharks and a submarine belonging to Mandrake who seeks golden coral. He also helps with the breeding of fish.

Astro Boy - Lilly on Peligro Island

Lilly on Peligro Island,

Astro picks up a letter in a bottle in the sea and goes to find Peligro Island. But he is swallowed by an artificial sea snake and taken to an undersea mining base. Astro meets an old man and his daughter Lilly, who threw the bottle into the ocean.

Astro Boy - The Anti-Proton Gun

The Anti-Proton Gun,

Banned from using the Anti-Proton Gun by the United Nations, Capt. Perot sets out to destroy a moon of Jupiter to prove the effect.

Astro Boy - The Man-made Solar Sphere

The Man-made Solar Sphere,

A man-made solar sphere starts attacking the earth. English detective Holmes finds out that Dr. Elephant made it a long time ago. Holmes, whose whole body except his head has been replaced with machinery by a robot doctor, hates robots.

Astro Boy - Blackie Young

A small parcel containing some broken parts is sent to Dr. Elephant. When he assembles those parts, a mysterious robot is restored.

Astro Boy - The Genie from Outer Space

The Genie from Outer Space,

Astro reassembles an artificial sphere fallen in the Northern Alps. It turns out that the sphere is a robot named Garon developed by an alien to alter other planets, which unfortunately has fallen on the earth in transit.

Astro Boy - The Robots Nobody Wanted

The Robots Nobody Wanted,

Astro meets discarded robots and tries to find them jobs.

Astro Boy - Atlas Forever

The Defense Force formed against the assaults on airships in the solar system attacks Atlas's crystal castle. Astro finds out that this isn't the work of Atlas and Atlas is his own brother.

Astro Boy - The Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard,

Robots become immobilized when unexpected snow falls in October. Dr. Elephant, then, discovers the snow actually is a microorganism which absorbs energy from robots.

Astro Boy - Uran's Quest

Uran asks Dr. Oz, a computer in the Children's land, where she can meet God. Dr. Oz, not knowing what to answer, suddenly claims that he is the God, and makes all the rides in the land runaway.

Astro Boy - Outer Spaceport R-45

Outer Spaceport R-45,

Astro is sent to Outer Spaceport R45 by Dr. Elephant to clean up space pirates, while Captain Tenison Jr. happens to see his father throw the robot parts away. His father reveals that Captain Tenison Jr. is actually a robot, not a human.

Astro Boy - The Hijacked Airship

The Hijacked Airship,

Longing to have dreams as ordinary people do, Astro asks Dr. Elephant to suspend his ultra powers only for 24 hours.

Astro Boy - The Human-Faced Rock

The Human-Faced Rock,

Accompanying Astro and Uran, Daddy Walrus visits his old colleague now running a small inn in the village, where the earthquake often occurs these days.

Astro Boy - Uran Falls in Love

Uran Falls in Love,

The assassination of robots by Zeus, a destroyer robot, has occurred continuously. Lamp who strongly claims robot slavery is the one who pulls the strings behind it.

Astro Boy - The World of Odin

The World of Odin,

Receiving the last word from Prof. Gould in Northern Europe, Astro and Dr. Elephant help Captain Cloud find the sacred land.

Astro Boy - The Secret of the Mayas

The Secret of the Mayas,

Astro heads to Mexico to help excavate. Senor Garcia and his team move forward to the Mayan pyramid with the help of Astro, where Dr. Perez who has been placed in the cryogenic chamber is found.

Details

Astro Boy

Anime

TV-14

1 Season

25m

A crime-fighting young robot named Atom finds himself battling the harsh realities of the world in his pursuit of justice.

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