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    Astro boy

    Original price was: £6.00.Current price is: £4.00.

    stro Boy, known in Japan by its original name Mighty Atom (鉄腕アトム Tetsuwan Atomu), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka from 1952 to 1968. The story follows the adventures of a robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters.

    The manga was adapted into the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime.  After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as New Mighty Atom, known as Astroboy in other countries, andagain in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan’s envoy for overseas safety.  An American computer-animated 3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka was released on October 23, 2009.

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    Description

    A handmade / hand crafted doll made from a single flax rope. Each doll is hand decorated and adorned with recovered textiles; as well as other detailing such as beads, buttons, and metal ornaments. Each doll has a chain to enable the doll to be used as a keychain, a mobile phone strap, added to jewellery, or similar use like a bag accessory. Can also be used as a X-Mas tree accessory. As the dolls are handmade, each doll is unique and may differ slightly in size or shade of colour. Approximate size is 2.5-3 inches.

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