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Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka
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Pluto

Alternative Titles

Japanese: PLUTO
English: Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 8
Chapters: 65
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 9, 2003 to Apr 1, 2009
Genres: Action Action, Award Winning Award Winning, Mystery Mystery, Sci-Fi Sci-Fi, Suspense Suspense
Themes: Detective Detective, Psychological Psychological
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Big Comic Original
Authors: Urasawa, Naoki (Story & Art), Tezuka, Osamu (Story)

Statistics

Score: 8.621 (scored by 5062150,621 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #952
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #101
Members: 135,699
Favorites: 5,572

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Volumes: /8
Chapters: /65

Synopsis

Famous for his military service in the 39th Asian War, the legendary Swiss robot Montblanc is violently murdered. Humans and robots around the world mourn for the beloved celebrity. Montblanc's popularity only grew in the years following the war, thanks to his dedication to nature conservation and his loving personality.

Fellow war veteran and robotic Europol detective Gesicht is sent to investigate Montblanc's tragic demise. In his pursuit, Gesicht uncovers evidence of a mysterious entity known only as "Pluto." He also learns of a conspiratorial plot to dismantle the eight specialized robots from around the world who participated in the war. Racing against time to save those who still remain, Gesicht grapples with his memory, morality, and a world full of hate, desperately attempting to defend the fragile coexistence of man and machine.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's acclaimed Tetsuwan Atom, seinen mangaka Naoki Urasawa collaborated with Tezuka Productions to create a dark adaptation of The Greatest Robot on Earth story arc. The adaptation shifts the focus from Tezuka's protagonist, Atom, to his supporting character Gesicht in order to better ground the story in realism.

Pluto won the ninth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Excellence Prize in the Manga Division at the seventh Japan Media Arts Festival in 2005. It also won the 41st Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2010.

The series was published in English as Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint from February 17, 2009, to April 6, 2010.

Characters

Gesicht
Main
Atom
Main
Epsilon
Supporting
North #2
Supporting
Brau-1589
Supporting
Tenma, Umatarou
Supporting
Pluto
Supporting
Dr. Ochanomizu
Supporting
Ali, Muhammad
Supporting
Duncan, Paul
Supporting

Reviews

Oct 7, 2025
Very good and original story! I had already seen the anime adaptation a few years ago before even realizing this manga existed. The mystery aspect throughout was very well done. The pro and anti robot characters on either side of the story was nicely portrayed. It created a great backbone to rest motivations for other parts of the story on.

Some of the seven robots could have been touched on a little more such as Brando and Hercules. I also think that the ending with the "mastermind" behind everything wasn't quite fleshed out enough.

Overall very glad that I read this and will be adding it to ...
Nov 7, 2024
Pluto – Spoiler Free – Recommended

TLDR
Story – 8/10 – 8 x 0.275 = 2,2
Art – 9/10 – 9 x 0.2 = 1,8
Characters – 8/10 – 8 x 0.225 = 1,8
Enjoyment – 8/10 – 8 x 0.3 = 2,4
Total: 8,2 -> 8

Story – 8/10
...
Jan 12, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Pluto is something of a disjointed narrative that seems to want to say a lot but trips over itself so clumsily that I can't really take it as seriously as it wants to take itself.

To be clear this is a mostly competent story but it's definitely strongest at the start and gets progressively worse as the series goes on, culminating in a fairly contrived ending. This is a similar pattern to that of the other Urasawa work I have read/watched, Monster, where the general concept of the story and sense of journey is strong but the landing can't be stuck and in the end it ...

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