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| I really enjoyed watching this series but some part are really confusing. 8/10 |
I still can't believe that Ochanomisu told Tenma to touch grass. |
“There are only two types of people in the world--those who became otaku and those who didn't--and the latter just can't understand what the former is so excited about."--Ono Norihiro  |
| That was a perfect adaptation of the manga. The ending sequence was animated beautifully. If I had to choose, I think I prefer this anime to the manga and the manga was already in my Top 20. A masterpiece that I will come back to again. 20th Century Boys next please :) |
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| Nice final episode, wrapping up the whole plot in style and emotions. Poor Sahad... But at least he could find peace and save everyone in the end, using Pluto's power as he wanted to, not as his father's hatred guided it. Very good show. I'm glad I decided to give it a chance. Truly a solid piece of anime. |
| From noir thriller seinen to battle shounen real quick. Im gonna pretend that this anime has 7 eps and the villain won |
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| The wait was well worth it. Anime of the year tier for me. The traditional and solid storytelling here is refreshing af in 2023. Netflix did put out some great stuff lately. Would love to see more classics getting an anime adaptation in the future. |
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From noir thriller seinen to battle shounen real quick. Im gonna pretend that this anime has 7 eps and the villain won
| @Daniel_Dreiberg Well it's based off an arc from Astro Boy, which is a shounen. Atom/Astro is the og protagonist.  |
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| 10/10 AOTY right here |
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| I loved the storytelling in most of Pluto. It felt like it emulated the best parts of Monster with its introduction of mysteries and slowly building suspense throughout the first few episodes. Though as much as I enjoyed the presentation, I thought the plot itself jumped the shark around Ep 6. At that point, my interest and excitement for this show fell off a cliff. The way the main plot was resolved felt cliche to the point of cheesiness. I don't think the production team could have fixed the ending unless they got greenlit to make this show 10-12 episodes instead of 8. Aside from the weirdness of the plot which wasn't on them, this was a solid technical adaptation. And besides, it was still a treat to see Naoki Urasawa's work in anime form again regardless of the fact that I didn't like the ending. The beginning of the show especially came very close to putting me into that eerie headspace that Monster did. |
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| Im kinda disappointed with how anti-climatic Atom vs Pluto was. There was so much build-up for it but it failed to create the slightest bit of tension due to how fast and generic it was. The series overall was amazing tho. |
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| best ONA i've seen in a while 9.5/10, Atom going Astro boy is pretty cool |
| Hour long episodes are hard to sit through for me, but other than that it was the aoty for me. |
| My favorite episode was definitely ep 1 with Noth o2 the best character was detective Gesicht the plot was good Atom played a huge role he carried out everyone’s hope great series |
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| Pretty good title both in magnificent visuals and some pretty good writing (most of the time). But it still bugs me in plenty of key points that do become plotholes when you give some thought about it. * Why does Gesicht's wife has his memory chip and hands it to Tenma, when his own government always thought of him as a invaluable investment, it's something they should have kept in for future research. * Gesicht, the sharpest most powerful robot in the world, is killed off by a broken orphan robot with a gun. * Pluto smashed all of his robot adversaries into pieces, but he left Atom untouched after he fell into coma. * Out of all the world-wide agents that could become befitting bodyguard for Adolf, Gesicht the most current powerful robot is the one asigned to him. * Epsilon's love for his children should have earned him the victory over Pluto. * Brau's role as a crippled wise murdering robot feels awfully contrived, and him escaping from prison to kill off evil AI Teddy Bear is just bollocks. I'll still give it an 8.5 because it goes beyond other thriller/action shows. |
KimurahNov 4, 2023 11:13 PM
I have a question, in episode 4 Atom said that Gesicht murdered him and that he and Pluto are the same, can someone explain what Atom was talking about here?  Edit: Now that I think about it, this is just a bad dream that Gesicht had, nothing more, since deep inside the memories of him killing someone are still there and he and Pluto are the same because both of them have hatred and they killed humans before. |
| I enjoyed it a lot, but the second half of the anime was a let down for me. There was some really interesting themes and story elements, I also really liked Gesicht’s journey. But certain parts of the story were not well explained such as Dr. Goji and the teddy bear AI (like what the hell was that?). I actually hated the teddy bear and US President subplot, felt so stupid because it didn’t even make sense—Abdullah was setting everything in motion, but the teddy bear was actually pulling the strings? It just came out of nowhere. There was also other things that weren’t well explained like the |terraforming robot that met Uran, which was apparently Pluto… how was he in a different body? Also the cockroaches always felt a little too convenient and they weren’t well explained either. I really loved the set up in the beginning, but it kind of divulged into something more generic as it went on with the ||hatred and revenge = bad theme and the humanization of AI. It wasn’t that those are bad themes per se, relied on them so much towards the end that it became tired. And things like Epsilon sparring Pluto, not once, but twice—even though of the danger he presented. And Abdullah always getting away it seemed like. In addition, how did Atom survive after the doctor deemed his brain was too fried? And then how was he gathering all that info from all the other robots? I understand Gesicht because his memory chip was inserted directly into him, but the others? Idk man. The powers of the robots weren’t really explained too well either. There was just a lot of convenience with some of the major plot points and unexplained information, and it frustrated me because the story had a lot of great things in it. Overall I’d probably give it a 7/10. Definitely worth a watch, but it has some things that hold it back from greatness imo. |
| I think the show as an overall story was great but some of the smaller details made this not reach the greatness that it could have been, that mysterious teddy bear being only one thing for me. I wish there was more about that anti-robot organization, was introduced but then never really used past that one assassin and manipulating the brother of the guy that Gesicht killed but once they were wrapped up they disappeared. Anti-robot sentiment was introduced as an issue in society and showing how broken robots treated like literal trash. Nothing was done with it though, a scene of a bunch of robed dudes chanting was pointless. Ending was real abrupt as well, after the climax the anime just ended wish there could have been a more eased landing than the hard braking. Still enjoyed this a lot though, will end up in my top 10 of the year for sure. |
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| Fantastic stuff, I can't believe I hadn't heard anything of this anime until I came across it via the top anime section. I guess it's still fairly recent though. Would love to see more of the Mighty Atom / Astro Boy series adapted in the same style. |
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| so beautiful .. i'm totally in love specially with the message of the show with all the killing happening now a days because of hatred |
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| Beautiful story, loved it! I'm happy that another Urasawa's work received a great adaptation. |
| This was very abruptly concluded, I'm still drawing a blank on who the hell that teddy bear was. |
| The Thracian President's such a scumbag. What a twist! Tenma went to Persia to help create a terraforming robot (we're led to believe that was Pluto), the trial and error taken resulted in plenty of discarded robot parts. It wasn't Pluto training to become the strongest. They didn't have the WMDs Thracia accused them of, yet. As Uran sensed, the puppet master had his strings pulled, too. Tenma awakened fake Abdullah's ultimate AI with the real Abdullah's hatred from Thracia invading his country and killing his family. He convinced himself he was the real one, justifying the human detector errors as himself being a cyborg (foreshadowed when Gesicht met him). Using the same method, Abdullah transformed Sahad into Pluto and now, Tenma revives Atom with Gesicht's hatred. A hatred rooted in having his and Helena's adopted robot son being murdered by Adolf's brother (the reason Atom was crying about when he borrowed Gesicht's memory the first time), now with Ultimate AI, he lies about what he learnt from Helena as to not upset her. |
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| Another example that no one can do a proper AI/Android story. Every time the robots are just more human than the humans and just have robots parts in them, while the storyteller is forcing the character development of the robots to become even more human. The "robots are mimicking humans to become like them" is so ridiculous. If we get self-aware robots, they will not want to become human. Being human is not some high-level achievement. It's just something that we are born with and have to embrace. A whole other species won't want to copy us but do their own thing. As a gay male, I don't have the need to have kids of my own. I've seen so many straight people wanting their own kids "just to leave a legacy". It's bizarre to me. I do understand the biological need for this, but as another human that doesn't have this need, I don't want to mimic what 90% of other orientation people want. I can do my own thing with the cards I got dealt. Futurama made so many jokes about how Bender is a robot but is as emotional as humans. This plotline is just ridiculous. Just as Detroid Become Human, it's bad. At least Pluto was written ages ago, and the creator did what they could. I hope we finally stop seeing this plot being used. |
| This show has been amazing for me, well-paced amazing visuals, but tbh this final episode was pretty weak. All about action and the answers to the mysteries felt super convoluted for no reason. Pluto/Sahad was especially confusing to me as a character because I thought he was forced at least or being controlled to kill special robots, but he didn't . Imagine how easily he could have defeated Abdullah if he didn't let him go into the Baro body and also convinced the other robots that he was NOT evil. I'm not too worried about the teddy bear becasue I really thought that Pluto would be explained more. Would have made more sense if he had a split personality rather than Abullah. Gesicht was the best. 9/10 |
| It had such a great start but went downhill after the Hercules arc. And the ending was ridiculously underwhelming. oh and the mastermind behind the world's hatred is a stuffed bear, okaaaaaay 8/10 for the awesome first half and the gorgeous art and animation quality |
| I'm not gonna lie, i didn't really enjoy this. First off i'm not sure i understand why this was a passion project for Maruyama, maybe man is blinded by the Astro Boy nostalgia but even though i know this is coming from a highly acclaimed mangaka, i can't help but feel like the story (and production too) wasn't anything special enough to warrant the 'passion project' treatment and have it cook in the over for such a long time. Either way, story wise there were some elements i appreciated, some nice themes and real life allegories and the characters are interesting and well written (for the most part), Gesicht being my favorite thing about this show. But other than that i found the episodes to be quite slow, predictable, formulaic and frankly quite boring up until the 6th episode or so. I can't wait but feel like every time a robot got killed, the fight being reduced to a bright light and the death being done off screen for the majority of the robots was a missed opportunity to do some sweet robot vs robot action to spice things up. As for the conclusion of the show, it was extremely cliche and as a result, unsatisfying for me personally. I will however rate this highly, because i can appreciate it for what it is, and i can understand that maybe it was just not for me. So objectively 8/10 Enjoyment 6/10 I'm happy this exists and i'm happy for those who finally got to watch it after waiting for so long. |
HatsuyukiNov 17, 2023 7:48 AM
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