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AstroBoy animators Tezuka & Yamamoto did this Animerama trilogy & this is the 1st one. The 2nd Cleopatra & 3rd Belladonna Of Sadness are much easier to find than this one. Our version is a censored cut with a half an hour removed & Spanish subtitles. However, out of nowhere in 2020 a North American version surfaced on disc that is English dubbed. We have blind folk in our family & would prefer that version, but it’s still elusive to us. No dice on that one, darn it.

These are wonderful works of art that are truly of their time in a very good way, yet it’s easy to see the techniques of Fleischer from 30 years earlier, but also easy to see this trilogy’s influence on Williams, Bluth, Tartakovsky, Noizumi, Green & peers. There’s a variety of multi-media styles from classical Greece to late 60’s psychedelia in the animation, & the music is so good, we’ve made audios for our own rotation. These works are brilliant, but are controversial for pedestrian reasons, so a minority don’t want this collection listed or available to collectors, so good luck on your treasure hunt.