Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1

The product came in perfect condition. And the story by Naoki urasawa is just phenomenal. The plot of this manga is very great and just how the author uses just irrelevant characters in such a refined way to Make the story interesting is just amazing.

Naoki Urasawa famous for 20th century boys, Monster, Yawara, etc. works his magic once again with this sci-fi thriller manga. Consider it as the movie 7even with robots and a more fleshed out and interesting story and characters. It is a manga masterpiece.

The book was in pristine condition. Excited to start reading yet another masterpiece by Naoki Urasawa. Not to mention the God father of Manga Industry himself..Osamu Tezuka sensei.

It is part of an 8 book series and I am planning to get them all.

Another reviewer has beaten me to pointing out that this has an Alan Moore feel to it. Based on an Astroboy story about a robot sent to kill the seven most powerful robots on Earth, Pluto proves to be more than that. Urasawa takes the opportunity, as all science fiction writers must, to use the robots to look at what it means to be human. The events of the original story take place off-camera or at a distance, never moving away from the close and personal stories being told. Gesicht is a depressed main character not out of place in a Moore story or a Philip K. Dick tale (there are distinct hints of Do Androids Dream and Blade Runner in the narrative too). A robot and a detective searching for the killer of Mont Blanc, he is married to another robot in a touchingly normal relationship. There may be more to the mystery though. Not just robots are being killed, humans are too, and the deaths appear linked. References to a Central Asian war seems to have something to do with the story too. The story is very well written and Urasawa knows how to use panels to convey emotion. All the hype this series has gotten seems to be well-deserved. Anyone who likes a bit of cyberpunk and well-drawn characters is in for a treat.

The interesting aspect of the story is that robots and humans coexist. I do not how the story will play out after Volume 1, but at this moment, it looks like a varied version of Master Keaton, nothing like Astro Boy, except that there are robots in the story.

Amazing Go out and buy

Fun to read after watching the series. Took a bit to get used to the format, no, it's not printed backwards.

Good manga