Pluto (manga)
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Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Gesicht.
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プルートウ (Purūtō) |
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| Genre | Detective, Science fiction |
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| Written by |
Naoki Urasawa Osamu Tezuka (original creator) Takashi Nagasaki (co-author) |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Big Comic Original |
| Original run | September 9, 2003 – April 5, 2009 |
| Volumes | 8 |
Pluto (Japanese: プルートウ Hepburn: Purūtō?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original magazine from 2003 to 2009, with the chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes. The series is based on Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, specifically "The Greatest Robot on Earth" (地上最大のロボット Chijō Saidai no Robotto) story arc, and named after the arc's chief villain. Urasawa reinterprets the story as a suspenseful murder mystery starring Gesicht, a Europol robot detective trying to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths. 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 was a critical and commercial success, winning several awards, including the ninth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and selling over 8.5 million copies. The series was licensed and released in English in North America by Viz Media, under the name Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka.
Pluto follows the European robot detective Gesicht in his attempts to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths. The case becomes more puzzling when evidence suggests a robot is responsible for the murders, the first one in eight years.
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