We’re getting closer to the big premiere of the adaptation of Urasawa and producer Takashi Nagasaki’s senien drama Pluto, which features a re-imagined world based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy.
Somebody, stop this hatred. The tagline in the final visual for PLUTO features Atom, who is protecting his younger sister Uran. The anime is set to premiere on October 26 and consists of eight one-hour episodes.
PLUTO is directed by Toshio Kawaguchi with Character Design and animation direction by Shigeru Fujita. Naoki Urasawa serves as the Creative Adviser, and the animation production is handled by Studio M2 and produced by GENCO. PLUTO was serialized in Shogakukan’s Senien manga magazine BIG COMIC ORIGNAL from September 2003 to April 2009. The story consisted of 65 chapters and was collected into eight tankōbon volumes. Takashi Nagasaki is credited as the series’ co-author. Macoto Tezuka, Osamu Tezuka’s son, supervised the series, and Tezuka Productions is listed as having given cooperation. PLUTO won several awards over the years, including the prestigious Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. It would be licensed by Viz Media for English Audiences, under the title Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka.
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In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot, Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated…except for one very conspicuous clue – the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims’ heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case – and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.
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