Mad Machine

Mad Machine ("Maddo mashīn" マッドマシーン) is a chapter of the Astro Boy manga which originally ran in Shonen magazine in September 1958.

Plot Summary[]

The first robot representative in parliament, Mr. Colt, passed a law that all robots get an official annual holiday each year called “Machine Day”. This means that one day a year, all the robots in Japan get to have a rest from all the constant work that humans created them to perform. But some humans strongly resent being deprived of their robot workers on this one single day.

A mad scientist named Dr. Foola agrees to help them put the robots in their proper place. They agree to pay Foola one billion yen for him to activate his mad machine that emits waves that causes all machines including robots to go crazy. But Foola announces to Ochanomizu that mad machine will activate in five minutes at noon and demands another billion yen to prevent it.

The Professor calls Astro to the laboratory and dismantles him so he won't go crazy. Chaos ensues as robots, cars, radios and everything else turn wild at noon. Even Dr. Foola's clients are appalled and beg him to turn mad machine off. But he refuses unless they give him another two billion yen.

Fortunately, Ochanomizu notices that the mad machine stops for a rest every once in a while, for about three minutes. He quickly reassembles Astro during the break period and Astro is able to locate and destroy the mad machine before he goes crazy. Dr. Foola goes to jail and Mr. Colt renames the robot holiday "Astroboy Day" in honor of his heroism.

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This story has been collected in the following volumes:

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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