For Pluto to have been worth the wait when the wait was as long it was is the sort of success story we almost never see.
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First Impression: PLUTO
One of the staples of popular anime has always been robots, often giant in scale and battling in space. Long before Gundam and others, Astro Boy, created by Osamu Tezuka, was…
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Review: PLUTO
Of course, I can't talk about robot manga without talking about this one. While it's only tangentially connected to one of mecha's foundin...
Pluto – 05
I can't help but wonder what inspired Urasawa to take something that was already seminal in Japanese culture and reimagine it like this.
Review: PLUTO
Of course, I can't talk about robot manga without talking about this one. While it's only tangentially connected to one of mecha's foundin...
Review: Pluto
This ONA series, which debuted on Netflix in late October, has a very interesting pedigree. It adapts a lauded manga by Naoki Urasawa (the manga-ka behind titles like…
Pluto – 04
I was spellbound for the entire hour, but my instant reaction when it was over was "how the hell am I supposed to write about that?".
Pluto – 02
I've said all along (without expecting it) that if this manga got a really top-shelf adaptation it would be in anime of the decade territory.
Pluto – 03
It's all pretty breathtaking to be honest - the sheer weight and dexterity of the storytelling and the way it's brought to life both.
Pluto – 07
I only just realized it, but there's something just a bit childlike in all the great robots of Pluto as Urasawa writes them.
Pluto – 06
Pluto as a whole is Urasawa Naoki's creation, but of course the roots of it are in Tezuka Osamu's creation.
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