I've read the first (published in English) volume of Astro Boy; it was cute but too kiddie to make me want to pick up another volume (and Astro Boy's not that emotionally riveting a protagonist). It did have some golden WTFery, like Astro Boy firing explosive rockets out of his butt. And the angsty subplot about the collie dog whose brain is surgically removed and installed into a walking/talking/thinking robot soldier body as part of an evil plot to take over the moon, and the new cyborg doesn't remember he was a dog but is haunted by his doggy past nonetheless, until Astro Boy helps him remember by showing him the tanned skin of the collie he used to be. After that the collie-cyborg has a tearful reunion with his old human master, defects from the robot army and helps Astro Boy save the moon, decides he wants to be a dog again because complex human thought and morality are too painful, and lives happily ever after in a new cyborg collie body with his old skin sewed on.

I am not making any of this up.