{"id":3222,"date":"2015-01-15T03:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=3222"},"modified":"2023-01-23T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:58:21","slug":"astro-boy-youth-gas-manga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=3222","title":{"rendered":"013 – Youth Gas [Astro Boy] (Manga)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
English Title:<\/strong><\/td>\nYouth Gas<\/em>
\n[Original Title: A Living Meteorite<\/em>]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Japanese Title:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u82e5\u8fd4\u308a\u30ac\u30b9
\n[Wakagaeri Gasu<\/em>]\n

\u539f\u984c\uff1a\u751f\u304d\u3066\u3044\u308b\u9695\u77f3
\n[Original Title: Ikite Iru Inseki<\/em>]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Original run:<\/strong><\/td>\n1955\/02
\n1955\/03
\n1955\/04
\n1955\/05
\n1955\/06
\n1955\/07
\n1955\/08
\n1955\/09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Published in:<\/strong><\/td>\nShonen\u00a0<\/em>
\n[\u5c11\u5e74]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Type:<\/strong><\/td>\nSerial<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Astro Boy<\/em> (1952-68)<\/a>, Chapter 013 \u2018Youth Gas\u2019 (\u82e5\u8fd4\u308a\u30ac\u30b9), was originally serialized on a monthly schedule from February to September 1955 in Shonen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What it\u2019s about?<\/h3>\n

A meteorite has crashed in the southern alps of Japan near Mount Komagatake. When investigated by Astro it is discovered that it is emitting a strange gas. Experiments reveal that exposure to the gas rejuvenates plants and animals making them young again. They get an elderly man who used to be a famous dancer to volunteer for a human experiment and he is restored about fifty or sixty years off his age. so now he can go back to performing once more.<\/p>\n

The new youth gas attracts the attention of a greedy man named Kurobe Ohno. He sends huge robot servants to steal the gas but Astro destroys them. Ohno is outraged and devises a plan to get rid of Astro. He overhears some bullies from one school picking on Astro’s friend Tamao who goes to a different school. They run away when Astro suddenly turns up. They lament that their school doesn’t have a robot student like Astro and one of them adds if only Astro’s brother Cobalt would enroll in their school.<\/p>\n

Upon learning of this Ohno manipulates things with Professor Ochanomizu to put Cobalt into that school. Under the influence of the bullies Cobalt follows their example and they even arrange for Cobalt to fight against Astro in the interschool Robotting Tournament. In the combat Astro and Cobalt both destroy each other and Ochanomizu yells at all the schoolkids in the audience that because of their school rivalries the world has lost two of its greatest robots. He says they’ve both been damaged so badly they’ll never be able to be repaired.<\/p>\n

While Japan goes into mourning the villain Ohno sends more of his robots to steal the youth gas. But they are attacked and destroyed by a mysterious robot about Astro’s size in a masked disguise. He realizes too late that the gas was stored inside the robot’s stomachs as it evaporates into the open air. However one of them did survive the battle and Ohno’s two henchmen are relieved that they still have some gas to deliver to their boss. Ohno has the gas transferred to a cylinder and takes it by himself into a private laboratory to make himself young again. The strange robot shows up and accosts the two frightened henchmen. Just as they plead for mercy promising to talk the cylinder accidentally blows up. The robot smashes into the laboratory only just in time to rescue the baby that Ohno has reverted to. If he had stayed exposed to the gas a moment longer he would have faded out of existence. The robot order the henchmen to take responsibility for raising their boss so that this time he grows up to be a good man.<\/p>\n

Later Professor Ochanomizu orders the robot to unmask in front of the authorities. It’s none other than Astro himself. Ochanomizu apologizes for the deception saying that he was so angry with humans for making Astro and Cobalt fight that he announced that they couldn’t be repaired to teach them a lesson. He had them sent to his lab where he secretly repaired them. He planned to hide them for awhile but when the youth gas was stolen he knew they needed Astro, so he sent him to investigate in disguise. But everybody forgives and makes up with each other as the kids all promise to never coax robots into fighting anymore.<\/p>\n

Astro confesses to the professor that the youth gas is all lost. Ochanomizu says it’s better this way. Before humans have the right to live as long as possible they need to learn to be really good humans..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A meteorite crashes in the mountains of Japan and test quickly reveal that exposure to the gas being emitted from it will rejuvenate plants and animals, making them young again. News of the gas spreads and a seedy character named Kurobe Ohno sends giant robots to steal it. Of course Astro Boy intervenes and destroys the robots. Enraged, Ohno arranges for Astro and his brother, Cobolt, to face each other in a robotting contest, and both robots are destroyed as a result. Believing the way clear, Ohno once again sends his robot henchmen to steal the gas, but they are thwarted by a mysertious masked robot. Despite this, Ohno is able to retrieve one cylinder of the gas and intends to use it to make himself younger. However the cylinder explodes, exposing Ohno to an overdose of the gas, and luckily the masked robot intervenes in time to prevent Ohno \u2013 who is now a baby – from reverting completely out of existence. In the end, Dr. Ochanomizu reveals that the masked robot is indeed Astro and that the deception was an attempt to teach humanity a lesson after they made Astro and Cobolt fight. Although the gas is lost, Dr. Ochanomizu tells Astro it is probably for the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":714,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-3222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-shonen-manga"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6vZWu-PY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222","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=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11297,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222\/revisions\/11297"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}