Pluto

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Japanese: プルートウ
English: Pluto
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Type: ONA
Episodes: 8
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 26, 2023
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Studio M2
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, MysteryMystery, Sci-FiSci-Fi, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: DetectiveDetective, PsychologicalPsychological
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 1 hr. 1 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.441 (scored by 102636102,636 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #1842
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1172
Members: 233,237
Favorites: 3,124

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Synopsis

Gesicht, an android police detective of Europol, is tasked with finding the murderer of Montblanc, a retired war hero robot. Although it appears that only a robot could have committed this crime, the murder of a renowned robot rights activist casts doubts on the criminal's identity. Indeed, outside of an isolated and unexplained incident that occurred eight years ago, robots are programmed to be unable to kill human beings. However, the lack of human evidence on the crime scene and the similarity of modus operandi lead Gesicht to suspect that the two murderers might be the same being—be they man or robot.

Shortly after Montblanc's passing, another retired elite war robot is mysteriously eliminated. Gesicht notices a pattern in the choice of murder victim: both dead robots belonged to a group of the seven most powerful war machines ever designed. Determined to stop the murderer from eliminating the five remaining veterans, Gesicht seeks help from Atom, a cutting-edge android who resembles a human boy. The duo must now hunt down the rogue killer before the series of murders is carried on, lest the very fabric of society suffer irremediable damage.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Gesicht

Main
Fuji, Shinshuu
Japanese

Atom

Main
Hikasa, Youko
Japanese

Epsilon

Supporting
Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

North #2

Supporting
Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Brau-1589

Supporting
Tanaka, Hideyuki
Japanese

Tenma, Umatarou

Supporting
Tsuda, Eizou
Japanese

Pluto

Supporting
Seki, Toshihiko
Japanese

Dr. Ochanomizu

Supporting
Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Ali, Muhammad

Supporting
Minami, Wakana
Japanese

Duncan, Paul

Supporting
Hazama, Michio
Japanese

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Ending Theme

1: "Clues to the Truth" by Yugo Kanno (eps 1-5)
2: "Zeal for Life" by Yugo Kanno (eps 6-8)




Reviews

Sep 9, 2025
Rapid development of artificial intelligence always comes with difficult questions. Can robots develop a heart and feel emotions like humans? What is the correct way to evaluate the life of a robot? Do robots deserve equality? Will they inevitably lead humanity to extinction? All of these themes and ideas have been tackled by many different authors and presented to us through media. Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots is a classic example, while Detroit: Become Human is one of my favorite games relevant to this topic. However, one individual that was far ahead of his time in presenting his ideas about artificial intelligence was Osamu Tezuka, ...
Apr 18, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Pluto is a show I really wanted to like but despite having a compelling mystery, it is ultimately disappointing on too many key aspects to be considered truly great. It adapts the eponymous manga by Naoki Urasawa - who gave us the amazing manga Monster (the great anime adaptation of which I highly recommend) - who significantly reimagines an arc from Astro Boy. The show presents itself as a tense, dark and suspenseful mystery in its trailers but the experience of watching it often doesn't live up to that promise. The story is often predictable and the pace is slow and meandering, making it frequently ...
Sep 27, 2025
PLUTO IS FAILURE OF URASAWA
Pluto follows the Europol robot detective Gesicht in his attempts to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths around the world where all the victims have objects shoved into or positioned by their heads, imitating horns
Though the premise is great and you have urasawa sounds like a masterpiece but no its so boring you will fall sleep multiple time the mystery done here a so so bad It includes so many irrelevant garbage characters that dont matter in long term there are literally low hyped momments and I knew that because he made it based on astro ...

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