Pluto (manga)

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Pluto
プルートウ
(Purūtō)
Genre Detective, Science fiction
Manga
Author Naoki Urasawa
Osamu Tezuka (Original creator)
Publisher Flag of Japan Shogakukan
Demographic Seinen
Serialized in Big Comic Original
Original run September 9, 2003 – ongoing
Volumes 5

Pluto (プルートウ Purūtō?) is a manga series by Naoki Urasawa published in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original since 2003.

The series is based on Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, specifically "The Greatest Robot on Earth" (地上最大のロボット Chijou saidai no robotto?) story arc, and named after the arc's chief villain. Urawasa reinterprets the story as a suspenseful murder mystery starring Gesicht, a Europol robot detective trying to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths.

Urasawa's manga received an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize.

[edit] Plot

Pluto follows the Europol robot detective Gesicht (German for face) in his attempts to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths. The case becomes more puzzling when evidence suggest a robot is responsible for the murders, the first one in eight years.

[edit] Awards

Pluto received an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival. The series also received the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize, which Urasawa also won for his work on Monster.

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