{"id":1100,"date":"2014-01-29T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=1100"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:29:14","slug":"jetter-mars-star","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=1100","title":{"rendered":"Jetter Mars (Star)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jetter Mars was the protagonist of the 1977\u00a0anime television show<\/a>\u00a0of the same name.\u00a0 Mars was a character that Osamu Tezuka created because the rights for\u00a0Astro Boy<\/a>\u00a0were owned byAstro Boy<\/a>‘s sponsor, Meiji Seika Kaisha at the time.\u00a0 Mars’s first appearance was on a New Year’s postcard that Tezuka drew in January 1977.<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0Astro Boy<\/a>, Mars is a powerful android with the appearance of a boy but the Mars has some notable differences both in origin and personality.\u00a0 There are two people responsible for his creation.\u00a0 His body was built by Dr. Yamanoue but his artificial intelligence was designed and implemented by Dr. Kawashimo, since Yamanoue was unable to create a working AI for his robot.\u00a0 Dr. Yamanoue named Mars after the Roman God of War as he was originally built for military purposes.\u00a0 Mars was born as a blank state and did not understand the difference between right or wrong.\u00a0 However, due to Dr. Kawashimo’s design, Mars was capable of feeling emotions.\u00a0 Dr. Kawashimo and Dr. Yamanoue often fought about how he should be raised and treated.\u00a0 Through the course of the series, he learns to understand his emotions and about morals.\u00a0 Mars is very close to Dr. Kawashimo’s robot \u201cdaughter\u201d, Miri.\u00a0 She helps Mars in understanding the world around him and Mars is very open with her.<\/p>\n

Mars has a childish personality is very naive about the world.\u00a0 Mars trends to trust people very easily which at times leads him into dangerous situations.\u00a0 Also, unlike\u00a0Astro Boy<\/a>, Mars is mischievous.\u00a0 Sometimes he plays practical jokes on people and he enjoys slapstick.\u00a0 Mari Shimizu, the voice actress who played both Mars and\u00a0Astro Boy<\/a>, was asked about his mischievous nature in a lecture that Mari Shimizu held at the Kanda Univesity of International Studies.\u00a0 At the end of the lecture, she commented on the difference between the two characters, as Mars had a mischievous personality while\u00a0Astro Boy<\/a>\u00a0was portrayed more as an \u201chonor student\u201d type character.\u00a0 Mari Shimizu also noted that Mars\u2019s relationship with Miri was the opposite of\u00a0Astro Boy<\/a>\u00a0and Uran\u2019s since the hero (Mars in this case) was the one being helped by his sister. Mars is also affectionate as he cares deeply for his friends and family and he willing to protect them from danger.\u00a0 Mars also gains a strong sense of justice throughout the series.<\/p>\n

Mars is not a common character in Tezuka’s\u00a0Star System<\/a>. Besides appearing in his own series, Mars has only made an appearance in the Gameboy Advance game,\u00a0Astro Boy: The Omega Factor<\/em>.\u00a0 Mars is one of the many Tezuka characters that help upgrade one of\u00a0Astro Boy<\/a>\u2019s stats.\u00a0 Mars\u2019s origin story is slightly different from the one in the anime.\u00a0 This time, Mars was a prototype that was hidden on the moon.\u00a0 In Omega Factor, Mars was developed by Dr. Yamanoue and Dr. Kawashimo from the start .\u00a0 In Mars\u2019s character profile it states that Mars can grow both physically and mentally.\u00a0 Although the anime mentioned that Mars ages mentally, it was not specified on whether or not Mars can also age physically.\u00a0 Mars also made a brief appearance in\u00a0The Last Mystery of the 20th Century<\/em>\u00a0OVA where he sported a slight redesign.<\/p>\n

Please Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Yamanoue is a name sometimes used for characters played by\u00a0Dr. Hanamaru<\/a>, however, Dr. Yamanoue in\u00a0Jetter Mars<\/em>\u00a0is someone entirely different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jetter Mars was the protagonist of the 1977\u00a0anime television show\u00a0of the same name.\u00a0 Mars was a character that Osamu Tezuka created because the rights for\u00a0Astro Boy\u00a0were owned byAstro Boy‘s sponsor, Meiji Seika Kaisha at the time.\u00a0 Mars’s first appearance was on a New Year’s postcard that Tezuka drew in January …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6977,"parent":6270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6vZWu-hK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6979,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1100\/revisions\/6979"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}