The year is 2040.

Japanese robot technology is making remarkable progress; they can understand human language, and they've even succeeded in developing a humanoid robot that can feel emotions. The setting is a future town on the outskirts of Musashino in the Tokyo area, where humans and robots live together, "New Musashino City". In this town, our main character Ichiro and his friends, as well as some robots, all get along very well. Before these friends appears a mad scientist, Professor K, bent on taking over the world. Ichiro and his robot partner, Kombock, and his other friends stand against him to crush his schemes.

Will they be able to protect the peaceful lives of humans and robots from this evil!? The story of the friendship of Ichiro, Kombock, and their friends begins!!

Source: AnimeNfo

Note: This is a South Korean animated television series created by Cinepix. It first aired first in the US from 11.08.2001 to 26.04.2003, as a 26 episode series, NOT in production order. It later aired in South Korea from 18.04.2002 to 06.05.2004, in proper production order. Episodes are numbered based on Korean production order, and airing dates are given based on the initial US airing.

It finally aired in Japan from 06.10.2003 to 29.03.2004, with the following mapping. See the episode notes for further detail.

Spoiler

US/Korea - Japan
1 - 1
2 - 2
3 - 3
4 - not aired
5 - 4
6 - 5
7 - 6
8 - 7
9 - 8
10 - 9
11 - 10
12 - 11
13 - 12
14 - 15
15 - 14
16 - 13
17 - not aired
18 - 16
19 - 17
20 - 18
21 - 19
22 - 20
23 - 21
24 - 22
25 - 23
26 - 24
does not exist - 25 (AniDB ep S1)

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