EPISODE 015
EPISODE 015
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植物人間
植物人間
April 9, 1963
植物人間
Plant Person
Viewer Rating: 31.7%.
Atom, visiting a lakeside hotel with the Professor, rescues a boy from Alsoa 12 during a stormy night. However, the boy is kidnapped by someone. Soon, a flying saucer from Alsoa 12, which was supposed to have exploded, appears, demanding Earth's water and beginning to absorb the lake water and snow from the mountains...
The original manga is a short story "The Plant Man" published in the January 1961 New Year's special issue of the monthly "Shonen" magazine. After the anime episode aired, it was included in Kappa Comics Volume 5, published in May 1964. In the manga, Atom is on a ski trip with Tamao, Shibugaki, and five other classmates, including Kenichi.
EPISODE CREDITS
EPISODE CREDITS
Screenplay/Direction: Konno Shuji
Key animation: Konno Shuji, Sugii Gisaburo, Tezuka Osamu, and others
VOICE CAST
VOICE CAST
Atom: Shimizu Mari (清水 マリ)
Professor Ochanomizu: Katsuta Hisashi (勝田久)
Boy from Alsoa 12: Toko Kiga (貴家堂子)
Alsoa 12 Robots: Kazuo Kumakura (熊倉一雄)
Old Man at the Lakeside Hotel: Keiji Fujita (藤田敬二)
Tamao: Shigeru Takizawa (滝沢茂)
Shibugaki: Hiroji Miki (三木広治)
TRIVIA
TRIVIA
The newspaper that Professor Ochanomizu is reading is dated April 9, 20X1, and states in English that "Professor Ochanomizu has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Science."
Tamao and Shibugaki appear for the first time as Atom's friends. In the anime, there are no scenes depicting Atom attending a human school, but the two seem to be classmates at Ochanomizu Elementary School.
In this episode, Tezuka was in charge of the original drawings for the opening scene where Atom saves a bird's nest.
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