Here’s our first release for 2024, another episode of Osamu Tezuka’s groundbreaking first anime series. This episode has some impressive credits, written by Masaki Tsuji and directed by Rintaro. The latter even appears in a fourth-wall breaking opening, voiced by Shoji Ichimura. This episode features the debut of a new recurring character, Atom’s “older brother” Cobalt, a robot created by Professor Tenma before he made Atom. Cobalt has the same 100,000 horsepower as Atom, but he doesn’t have Atom’s seven special powers. He’s a bit of a bumbler, but he is kind and good-hearted like his younger brother. Obviously I don’t have the resources to do a complete subtitle of all 193 episodes of Mighty Atom, but hopefully I will be able to continue releasing a few odd episodes of the series now and then. I really wish Right Stuf would release this whole series in Japanese with English subtitles, or somehow work out a sub-license with another company like Discotek. It’s a shame that so many anime shows from the 1960s are available only as English dubs. Massive props to Funimation for their deluxe release of Speed Racer, complete with subtitled Mach GoGoGo (both the original series from 1967 and the 1997 remake). That’s the way you do it!