Astro Boy (2003) Sub/Dub Scene Comparison

A comparison of a scene from the show's sixth episode, "Atlas". Two of the biggest differences between these two dubs are the soundtracks and screen ratio. The original Japanese dub had a very nice sounding, orchestrated soundtrack and was shown in widescreen. The English dub replaced the orchestrated soundtrack with a new, techno sounding one and was cropped into a 4:3 ratio. Another big difference are the scenes cut of Astro being emotional or childish. The English dub focuses much more on Astro's heroism. Also early in the dub, they really downplay Dr. Tenma being Astro's father, instead calling him his, "creator" (you can even see in the video that the clip of Tenma hugging Astro when he is "reborn" is not present in the English dub). Only at the very end of dub does Astro finally call Tenma his father. The death of Tobio is also no where to be seen in the dub. There is also a lot of violence cut. Credit for the original Japanese scene goes to TheTetradecimal. Here's his original video (it's in much higher quality than in this video):    • Video   Personally speaking, despite it's glaring flaws, I think the dub is acceptable. I would still absolutely love to see the original Japanese dub, but since it is very hard to come by (no where to be found on the Internet unfortunately) the English version will have to do.