Police Inspector Tawashi (a.k.a. Inspector Gumshoe) is a law enforcer and recurring character in the Tetsuwan Atom mythos. Known for his surly demeanor, Inspector Tawashi is a dedicated officer. And he hates robots.

He is similar to Inspector Geta in that both always appear as police investigators, and both are known for their dedication to their job. However, while Geta is known for his honesty and uprightness, Tawashi is most known for his suspicion of people. He is suspicious not only of Tezuka villains such as Ham Egg and Lamp, or of ambiguous characters such as Rock Holmes, but is even critical and untrusting of such figures as Astro Boy. The series which contains most of his appearances is Astro Boy, but he also has notable appearances in such series as The Amazing Three, Black Jack, Lion Books, Unico, and Rainbow Parakeet.

Police Inspector Tawashi is named for his most distinguishing facial feature: the fact that his mustache looks like a scrub brush, or “tawashi” in Japanese.

(Source: Tezuka In English)

Atom is a robotic boy that posses super human powers and an artificial intelligence system that is unparalleled to any robot. His creator, Dr. Tenma, created him to replace his late son, Tobio. Dr. Tenma soon destroys his laboratory, after the creation of Atom, and shuts down Atom. Soon after, Dr. Ochanomizu, the head of the Ministry of Science revives Atom, and tries to give him a normal life as a 6th grade student that helps the police agency keep renegade robots and bigot humans from causing harm. Atom faces extreme racism for being a robot, and he must discover the truth about his creator Dr. Tenma.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

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Married to voice actress [Gara Takashima](https://anilist.co/staff/95497/).

__Non-Anime Roles:__
- Hythlodaeus V - Metaphor: ReFantazio (VG)
- Commander Abraham Tower - Shadow the Hedgehog (VG)


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José Santa Cruz Costa was a Brazilian actor, voice actor, presenter, radio host, and comedian. He is the great-grandfather of voice actor Ivan Franco.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Danny DeVito, Ian McKellen, J. K. Simmons, Bernard Lee, Robbie Coltrane, Peter Boyle, Gustavo Rojo, Jorge Vargas, Mario Casillas and Julio Vega (Most of the productions)
- Earl Sneed Sinclair (Dinosaurs)
- Megatron (Transformers franchise)
- Erik Magnus Lehnsherr / Max Eisenhardt / Magneto (X-Men 1992, X-Men: Evolution, Ian McKellen's movies, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends [1st dub] and MAD)
= Professor Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter franchise)
- M (Sir Miles Messervy and Admiral Hargreaves in 007 franchise)
- J. Jonah Jameson (Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy)
- Jar Jar Binks (1999-2014; Star Wars franchise)
- Dr. Julius Hibbert (10th voice - 14th-31st season; The Simpsons)
- Mr. Omar (Everybody Hates Chris)
- Professor Archimedes Q. Porter (Tarzan, The Legend of Tarzan and Tarzan & Jane)
- Auguste Gusteau (Ratatouille)
- King Randor (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe)
- Stinky Pete / Prospector (Toy Story franchise)
- Bigweld (Robots)
- The Toad (Flushed Away)
- Mordekaiser, The Iron Revenant [2010-2019] and Volibear, the Relentless Storm [2011-2020] (League of Legends)
- Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
- Detective Will Jeffries (Cold Case)
- Devon Miles (Knight Rider)
- Uncle Max (The Lion King 1½)
- Hiroshi Sato (1st voice; The Legend of Korra)
- General Li (Mulan)
- King Mondo (Power Rangers: Zeo)
- Clayton Farlow (Dallas)
- Harvey Bullock (Batman: The Animated Series)
- Captain Rumford (Diablo III)
- Ginjirō Mizuno / Bicrosser Jin (Bicrossers)
- Velen (World of Warcraft)
- Mayor Johnathan "John" Carlton Lynch (Rango)
- Scrooge McDuck (Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas)
- Mouse King (Barbie in The Nutcracker)
- Boris (Balto II: Wolf Quest)
- Farmer (Barnyard and Back at the Barnyard)
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In the distant year 2003, Japan is a technological utopia, and robots are everywhere. One such robot, Tobio, was built by the brilliant Dr. Tenma to replace his dead son. But when it soon becomes apparent that Tobio is an imperfect copy of his departed child, Dr. Tenma throws him out. He is rescued from the scrap heap by the benevolent Professor Ochanomizu, a crusader for robot civil rights. Now the little robot, renamed Astro Boy, is given a mission to defend Japan and the world from all manner of sinister threats. Using his seven super-abilities and 100,000 horsepower worth of strength to battle evil, Astro hopes to set an example to the world of the good which all robots are capable of. 

__Date of Birth:__ October 12, 1932
Originally from Fukuoka Prefecture (located on Kyushu Island).
On February 24, 1991, he died of intra-axial hematoma at the age of 58.
After his death, his ongoing roles went to [Takeshi Watabe](https://anilist.co/staff/100766/Takeshi-Watabe).

In 2015 A.D., Dr. Yamanoue, the Secretary of the Science Ministry, who devotes himself assembles the Android robot on an artificial island. He intends to live together with him as his own son. But the robot has a deficiency in his electric brain. He comes to the conclusion that Dr. Kawashimo's help is essential to correct his defective rain. Although they are friends, they are rivals not only in private life but also in scientific study. Dr. Yamanoue is very jingoistic and only thinks of the robot as one of his strategic arms. On the contrary, Dr. Kawashimo is a pacifist and devotes his affection to robots. 
Dr. Kawashimo hurries to the island on request of Dr. Yamanoue, taking his pretty young daughter Miri with him. Arriving on the island, Dr. Kawashimo sets the electric brain into Jet Mars, a robot boy. Thus Mars comes into the world. Everything is new to Mars and he doesn't know what is good or bad. On the next day he lifts Dr. Kawashimo and Miri up onto the building. When he sees a glint of moisture in Miri's eyes, he has a mysterious feeling in his mind. Then he asks Dr. Yamanoue what it is. He is taught that it is a tear a weak girl sheds, but, a strong man never does. 
One day, the electric brain of Fainton, another robot, is put out of order. So Fainton goes-on a wild rampage and the island is plunged into a crisis. When the seawater runs into the facilities from the big hole made by Fainton, only Mars stands in amazement and is quite at a loss what to do just then Miri exhibits her ultra ability and covers the big hole. Led by her, Mars also carries a sheet of iron and makes repairs. At last they rescue Dr. Yamanoue and Dr. Kawashimo from being washed by seawater. Miri is the robot made by Dr. Kawashimo. Mars learns how to cry and learns how to perform a kind deed. 
(C)Tezuka Production, Toei Animation

Young Black Jack is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's classic manga series about a brilliant maverick doctor who practices without a license.
 
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Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.

Rainbow Parakeet is a genius actor and a fantastic mimic, but also a thief. He can act out any role to the best of his abilities, while robbing the richest members of the audience during his performances. His methods are a mystery, even to the detectives charged with apprehending him: Police Inspector Senri and his daughter, Police Detective Mariko Senri. (Source: Wikipedia)

The adventures of three agents from outer space who are sent to Earth to determine whether the planet, a potential threat to the universe, should be destroyed. The instrument of destruction is a device resembling a large black ball with two antennae that is variously called an anti-proton bomb, a solar bomb, and a neutron bomb. Although the three agents (Captain Bokko, Nokko, and Pukko) are originally humanoid in appearance, upon arrival on Earth they take on the appearances of a rabbit (Bokko), a horse (Nokko), and a duck (Pukko) that they had captured as examples of Earth life forms. While on Earth they travel in a tire-shaped vehicle capable of enormous speeds called the Big Wheel, which can travel on both land and water (and, with modifications, through the air).
 
The series tackles a number of issues which were surprisingly progressive for a manga of that period; particularly ecological concerns and poverty. 
(Source: DMG)

It is a series of short stories that freely develop SF-like ideas. Returning from their exploration of Venus, the expedition saw a devastated earth... A boy faces a thug at a space airport where the lives of various aliens intersect... It is a pioneering serie in which Osamu Tezuka's SF-like concept was developed vertically and horizontally in such various settings in various eras.
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Based on the brilliant maverick doctor created by manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka. This prequel follows Black Jack when he was still a medical student in the 1960s.
 
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In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.
 
(Source: Viz Media)

A murder occurs in an orderly world where robots are unable to kill humans. The robotic Europol investigator Gesicht takes the case, but the mystery deepens when he finds no trace of a human at the scene of the crime. As he pursues the truth, Gesicht uncovers the most evil manifestation of hate that history has ever seen, one that is bent on bringing destruction to the world ... 
 
(Source: Netflix)

Michael Sorich is an American actor, writer and director active since 1977. He is currently known for his voice roles in the popular anime series <a href="https://anilist.co/anime/269/">Bleach</a>. 
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