I was right.
Pluto is a sci fi series set in about 200 years in the future give or take. Everyone is driving cool cars, lives in cool buildings and have holograms and robots at there service. The series kicks off with a murder. Someone murdered a robot and our main character needs to find out who is doing and exactly who is capable of pulling this off.
As you'd except from a series with robots they ask the questions like what is a robot what is a human. Whats the difference between a robot and a human. What differentiates them. Where do you draw line. What do you do when someone crosses it. Its something done a million times before but I do believe it works here much better as they author actually tries to dig deep into this specific scenario and honestly executing it well.
If you couldn't tell i hated it monster. Calling it a bad series is me being nice about it. So imagine my surprise when i was somewhat enthralled by the first 2 volumes of this. Like the series does an excellent job in making the robots feel alive and blurring the lines of who gets to choose what has a heart or not. The reason for this is mainly due to the charisma of the main character. He is incredibly engaging. I really liked the dynamic between him and the humans and robots he surrounded himself with. The series isn't some masterpiece but it is interesting and exciting to make want to keep reading, the story is coherent and no one spends an entire fucking episode getting gas. However most of this feeling begun to dissipate when volume 3 starts or more specifically these KKK clan wannabe's join the story.
For a story thats able to convey emotion of the robots the author is ironically incapable of making the human characters convey the same emotion. Everything beyond volume 3 just begins to dissipate. The feeling of being engaged gets removed as the main characters takes a back seat for other less interesting characters to take the stage. Its worse too as there are more human characters that shows up that no one gives a fuck about. It also starts introducing weak subplots that pull the series down.
The later half takes more of gets even worse as the main characters takes even more of a backseat. The story starts slipping and my enjoyment lessens to much more significant degree. The villain was already weak and unmemorable but when the whole story gets unraveled the twist begun to show you start noticing cracks and inconsistencies. One of the main villains the titular character Pluto just doesn't make sense. His entire story is just weak. There wasn't a single villain that really was able to stand out besides being the general bad guy.
The ending is fine but if this is Naoki's best ending im gonna be incredibly disappointed for the rest of his series. He can make great premises but his execution are just horrifyingly poor. though the epilogue ending was just... eh.
TLDR: Overall i was happy at first and then disappointed but im iffy on how to score. A part of me wants to rate it poorly but I feel like that would be unfair as it would be my bias in play. Which im trying hard not to put in. But at the same time i feel im being too nice. But considering how good the first 2 volumes of the series was.... i guess i'll barely give this one a 6/10
