Mr. Tokugawa is a billionaire and former CEO of an energy company. He is Daichi Tokugawa's father and the one who had Daichi rebuilt as a robot.
Personality[]
He is a short, scowling man with brown hair in a slicked-back bowl cut and a short beard. He usually dresses in full suits and other formal clothing.
Early in Daichi's childhood, Tokugawa was a doting and caring father who helped nurture Daichi's interest in the cosmos. Over time, Tokugawa became more focused on operating his energy corporation, the Tokugawa Group. This led to neglecting his son, even missing Daichi's birthday parties in favour of staying at work.
Tokugawa was also adamant that Daichi would inherit the family business. In order to make this happen, Tokugawa went as far as to shoot down any of Daichi's artistic endeavors, going as far as to burn Daichi's paintings in their home's fireplace. Having spent much of his life passing Daichi's care off on others, he naturally assumes robot Daichi's rebellion is the fault of Dr. Tenma, who rebuilt him.
After Atlas's initial arc, Tokugawa begins to have a change of heart, coming to understand Atlas and Daichi are two different people. He begins trying to change his outlook on life and memorialize his son.
Story[]
When Daichi died in a shuttle accident, Tokugawa contracted Dr. Tenma to secretly rebuild him as a robot so Daichi could still take over the Tokugawa Group. A heavy-duty robot begins causing mysterious explosions begin happening around Metro City, especially around Tokugawa power plants. Tokugawa is quick to condemn robots in general for the attacks, but soon realizes the robot involved is his own rebuilt son.
Tokugawa blames Tenma for his robot son's rebellion and goes to confront him. Tenma explains to Tokugawa that Daichi's rebellion is, in fact, all Tokugawa's fault, after having watchec Daichi's memories for himself. After this, Tenma gives Tokugawa a plasma gun, telling him he has one chance to stop Atlas. Tokugawa goes to the Moon Plant with intentions of destroying Atlas. During a fight between Astro and Atlas, Tokugawa increases the room's gravity so he can easily shoot at the now-restrained Atlas. Astro gets in the way and interrupts Tokugawa long enough for Atlas to stand up and shoot the controls. Atlas then flies up to Tokugawa with the intention to kill him, but is knocked off balance by his physical damage. Tokugawa begins to get sucked out of the hole made by Atlas' blast but is then rescued by Atlas. He's later seen on the surface of the moon, holding the atlas he gave Daichi, and lamenting his role in his son's fate.
Tokugawa later appears in episode 37, bringing knowledge of where Atlas and Astro are being held by Dr. Pavlos. He volunteers one of his airships to help find the robots, also hoping to get at least Atlas' body back. He briefly sees Atlas fly by the airship on his way to rescue Dr. Pavlos.
In the English dub, Tokugawa's backstory is changed to portray Daichi as having always been a robot. In this version, Tenma was commissioned years before to make the childless Tokugawa a heir, and the moon shuttle accident only heavily damaged robot Daichi. This edit was made when the dub team assumed it would be too macabre to imply a human teenager had died.
Appearances[]
Tokugawa primarily appears in the 2003 anime (episodes 6, 7, and 37 in the Japanese broadcast order). He also appears in the corresponding Atlas chapters of Akira Himekawa's manga. The manga shows more of Daichi's childhood with Tokugawa, and a glimpse of Tokugawa's late wife.
Tokugawa's other major role is as a tertiary antagonist in Astro Boy: Omega Factor. Three years before the game's current events, he covers up his son's moon shuttle catch and hides Prime Rose's hibernation capsule.