A Day to Remember

A Day to Remember ("Robotto nagashi" ロボット流し) - is a chapter of the Astro Boy manga which originally ran in the expanded summer edition of Shonen magazine in August 1960.

Plot Summary
Mr. Mustachio has asked a special request of Astro Boy. Every fifteenth of July, many families place orders with the Ministry of Science for robots built in the images of their dearly departed loved ones for three days. After which the robots are all sent down the river in boats with lanterns in memory of the dead. Mustachio is friends with a couple who lost their only son, Jiro, a year ago. Jiro looked just like Astro so he agrees to stay with the couple to cheer them up.

While there Astro discovers that Jiro had built a time machine in his bedroom. Astro tries it out and discovers that Jiro is still alive! He has been trapped in the 20th century when his machine accidentally went back without him. He returns home with Astro just in time to rescue his parents from gangsters whom Jiro had borrowed money from to help build his invention. Jiro's parents are overjoyed by the unexpected surprise of getting their real son back.

Characters

 * Astro Boy
 * Jiro
 * Mr. Mustachio
 * Jiro's parents
 * Gangsters

Collected Volumes
This story has been collected in the following volumes:


 * Astro Boy, Volume 8 (Kodansha)
 * Astro Boy, Volume 4 (Dark Horse)