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Dr. Tenma soon realized that the little android could not fill the void of his lost son, especially given that Astro could not grow older or express human aesthetics. In one set of panels in the manga, Astro is shown preferring the mechanical shapes of cubes over the organic shapes of flowers. In the original 1960 edition, Tenma rejected Astro and sold him to a cruel circus owner, Hamegg, the Great Cacciatore in the 1960s English dub. In the 1980 edition, Hamegg kidnapped Astro while Tenma was trying to find him.

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