Professor Ochanomizu

Professor Ochanomizu
Professor Ochanomizu (a.k.a. Doctor Elefun) from the 1966 episode of Astro Boy: "Time War".
First appearance	Captain Atom - April, 1951
Created by	Osamu Tezuka
Voiced by	Hisashi Katsuta (Japanese) Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese, 2009 film) Wally Wingert (2003) Ray Owens (1963) Bill Nighy (2009 Film)

Professor Ochanomizu (お茶の水博士, Ochanomizu-hakasei^?) is an anime and manga character from the animated series Astro Boy. He is featured in all versions of Astro Boy to date, including the 1980s series, 2003 series, and the film. Created by Osamu Tezuka, the character has since appeared in many of his other works. He serves as a guardian to Astro, and sometimes also a caring family member. He is also known in various English adaptations as Dr. Packadermus J. Elefun, Professor Peabody and Dr. O'Shay.

Ochanomizu realizes that Astro Boy is unique from the other robots and accepts Astro Boy in as a foster son. Ochanomizu gives Astro Boy a robotic family so that he can experience family life.

Professor Ochanomizu is generally portrayed as the head of the Ministry of Science in the Astro Boy series. He is relatively portly, and has a large elongated nose which is his most sensitive area. Sometimes he is involved in nose fights it tends to falls off. His other notable features are the white fluffy tufts of hair that wrap around his head in a male-pattern baldness style.

Ochanomizu is portrayed as a caring father figure to Astro. After Doctor Tenma abandoned him, Ochanomizu has always gone to great lengths to retrieve him. The character is a supporter of robot rights, and believes that humans and robots can co-exist peacefully, as opposed to Tenma. He is the only major human character to support this view, with the majority opposed to it (such as Acetylene Lamp). Ochanomizu also has the belief that robots can think for themselves and can behave like humans, extending Astro's robot family to include his parents, younger sister Uran and also older brother Cobalt. Although the fact is that Astro is indeed a robot hero, he also wants Astro to be a regular human boy. Due to this, he often sends Astro on missions and repairs him when needed.