In the first scene, Atom is sitting at a café with Gesicht eating ice cream, discussing the case. Urasawa brings out this paradox simply by juxtaposing two scenes. He is created to look and act exactly like an eight-year-old boy, and yet he is also the most advanced robot ever built. Urasawa brings home the great conflict at the core of Atom’s existence. It’s like going from a painting of the Mona Lisa to actually meeting the real woman.
Urasawa’s Atom is Astro Boy with a new dimension added that creates even greater nuances and makes the character feel so much more real. He is the hero that embodies the best of humanity, the person we all aspire to be. Often, he is the one who has to teach humans how to behave humanely. (He even has the ability to cry.) He is guided more by compassion and idealism than logic. Astro Boy is a robot with honest emotional responses. Over the history of the series, Tezuka crafted a wonderful character with lots of depth and complexity. Tezuka’s Astro Boy is in no way a cardboard character. He has improved on Tezuka’s portrayal of Astro Boy. Urasawa’s genius continues in this volume. In the midst of all this, Gesicht and his wife discover that they are missing memories and suspect they may have false memories implanted as a coverup. Brando broadcasts the fight to Gesicht, Hercules, and Atom, hoping to help identity his attacker and give them data to stop the killer. The mysterious robot killer comes for Brando.
However, unlike Brando, Hercules doesn’t feel the need to emulate humans and seems to enjoy solitude. Hercules, like Brando, is a fighting robot.
Gesicht moves on to Greece where he warns Hercules that he is also a target. Atom downloads Gesicht’s memories and agrees to help as he can. Also, Gesicht has decided to ask Atom’s opinion on the case so far. Gesicht is in Japan to warn Atom that the boy robot is one of the targets of the mysterious robot killer.
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