The award-winning manga, PLUTO, is getting an anime adaptation! The manga based on the culturally iconic series Astro Boy will debut in 2023. Stick around for more info.
Anime Netflix has announced that Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s manga will have an anime adaptation and will premiere sometime this year on the streaming platform. The anime first came to par in 2017 with Tezuka Productions in cooperation. However, the anime producer Masao Maruyama gave an unofficial update to the project in 2022. It is now confirmed that GENCO will produce the series along with Studio M2 providing animations.
Netflix provides a trailer and poster that showcases the amazing visuals of the anime.
Check them out below:
The initial cast for the anime series was also shared, with Yoko Hikasa playing Atom, Shinshu Fuji as Gesicht, and Minori Suzuki as Uran. More information in regards to the anime will be released on March 25 at this year’s Anime Japan.
What is ‘PLUTO’?
The manga Pluto reimagines the story of Astro Boy as a suspenseful murder mystery. The story depicts a German robot inspector for Europol named Gesicht, which translates to “face” in German. The robot must solve a thread of robot and human deaths where the murderer has placed objects into the victims’ heads to create makeshift horns. On the other hand, things become complicated when the evidence seems to claim that a robot was the culprit, even though it has been a decade since a robot has done so.
Netflix has described the anime as such:
“Praised by many as a masterpiece, the manga PLUTO is based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy ‘The Greatest Robot on Earth’ arc from 1964 and created by Naoki Urasawa (20th Century Boys, Yawara!, Master Keaton) and his long-time co-creator Takashi Nagasaki.
The suspense drama takes place in a neo-futuristic world where humans and high-functioning robots live in complete harmony. The globally acclaimed manga has won numerous awards, including the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. The 2015 stage adaptation of PLUTO returned in 2018 by popular demand and toured Japan and Europe.”
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