Astroboy is a robot boy with amazing powers and abilities and also human emotions who goes through life trying to be accepted as a robot and someone people can depend on. He uses his powers to fight injustice and protect humans and robots.
He was created by Osamu Tezuka and the television show first aired in 1982. The original format for Astroboy was a comic was a comic book. Long before the animated series came out. But back then, it was known as Mighty Atom. Astro looked pretty much the same but just black and white.