Jungle Devil Boundary

Jungle Devil Boundary (ジャングル魔境 Jungle Maikai) is a chapter of the Astro Boy manga which originally ran in Mighty Atom Club magazine from issues December 1964-February 1965..

Plot Summary[]

The chapter is a reworking of an earlier Tezuka story from 1948 previously centered on the character of Kenichi Shikishima, here replaced by Astro Boy.

The robot actor who plays Tarzan falls while shooting "Tarzan's extraordinary love". Uran, who was driving in Africa with Atom and Higeoyaji , was scouted for looking similar to the actor. When flying from tree to tree, Uran gets kidnapped. When Atom sets out to look for her, he finds human remains in an old fortress. Uran is taken to the mysterious area at the back of the jungle, where Queen Myra tells him that she will become the heir. Myra has lived for 30,000 years, and the flowers that bloom there have been around 100,000 years.. Astro Boy, Higeoyaji, and the director find the remains of Professor Hensen's will, who the bones that the Atom found belong to. It describes an unexplored area where the Queen had lived for tens of thousands of years. Then one day, a black poisonous snake attacks and the ceiling of the fortress collapses. Atom starts to approach the unexplored area with Higeoyaji, but for some reason his energy is cut off and he falls. Astro Boy becomes disoriented, but when Higeoyaji tries to climb a cliff, he is attacked by the inhabitants of a secret civilization. So the two try to approach from underground. They realize that Atom's power dimenishes when he goes near the mysterious-thorny substance. The two make it to higher ground managed to find a flower garden as far as their eyes could see, but suddenly, dinosaurs started to attack them. Although Atom manages to drive the dinos off, he is caught by the queen and Uran in a nearby location.

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This chapter is one of the few Astro Boy manga chapters to have never been reprinted and, therefore - outside of the original printing - is considered to be a "lost" chapter.

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Image found and taken from Mandarake

Description taken from Phoenix.to

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Astro Boy Manga Chapters
Shonen Magazine
Ambassador Atom • Gas People • Frankenstein • Red Cat • Sea-Serpent Island • Mission to Mars • Cobalt • The Coral Reef Adventure • Fuhrer ZZZ • Electro • Gernica • Youth Gas • The Frozen Human • Yellow Horse • Shootout in the Alps • Atlas • The Midoro Swamp • The Test Pilot • Robot Bombs • Ghost Manufacturing Machine • Black Lux • The Mysterious Ball • Super Cyclone • Crucifix Island • Fortress of the Centaurs • Mad Machine • Count Bat • The Eyes of Christ • Ivan the Fool • The Secret of the Egyptian Conspirators • S.O.S. from a Satellite • Gademu • Subterranean Tank • The Artificial Sun • Space Snow Leopard • The Invisible Giant • A Day to Remember • Uran • His Highness Deadcross • The White-Hot Being • Plant People • The Hot Dog Corps • The Blast Furnace Mystery • The Third Magician • Space Parasites • Robot Land • Astro vs. Garon • White Planet • Demon Bees • The Robot Spaceship • The Devil's Balloons • The Last Day on Earth • The Greatest Robot on Earth • Roboids • Robio and Robiette • Blue Knight • Astro Boy Reborn • The Melanin Tribe • Meeva • The Faceless Robot • The 100 Million Year Old Crime • Zolomon's Jewels • The Man Who Returned from Mars
Mighty Atom Club
Bad-Guy Robots • The Lying Robot • The Brain Swap • Jungle Devil Boundary • Earth Defense Force • Astro's Been Stolen! • Broadcasts from Outer Space • The Face in the Rock • Chi-Tan
Sankei Newspaper
Beginning of the Contradiction • Living on Earth, 101 • The Birth of Neva No. 2 • Baro, the Robot • Scara Disappears • The Energy Tube • The Angel of Vietnam • The Summer of 1993 • The Bomb Train • Robot Chiruchiru in Danger • Astro's Energy Runs Out • Dr. Tenma • The Tragedy of Bailey • Astro Goes to the Circus • Living Mold from Outer Space • A Declaration of Robot Rights • Astro Goes to Elementary School • Gone with the Snow
Second Grader
The Robot Disposer • Franken • Astro vs. Atlas • Pula, the Baby Elephant • Guinness Book Robots • The Berserk Robot • The Magnet Robot • Giant Uran • Space Doll • Ghosts in the Desert • The Space Bug • Crazy Duck • A Feline Guardian Deity • The Space Shuttle • Showdown on Mt. Fuji
One-Shots
Slippery Catfish in Imminent Danger • Astro's First Love • The End of Astro Boy • Astro Returns • Astro II • Showdown in the Standard Deviation Kingdom • The Silver Tower