Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1

Story is nothing short of amazing! A must read for any comic fan!

Oh man, what a treat. Pluto is such a solid series with a thoughtful and gripping story. Just take my word for it and read it. Astro Boy was cool enough before this more mature spin-off. It won’t disappoint.

I cannot recommend this series enough, it’s a terrific mystery-thriller with a cool futuristic setting, characters that are well-written and complex, and GORGEOUS, highly expressive art. Also the volume itself is of such a nice quality, very sleek and nice to see on a shelf. It’s an adaptation of an Astro Boy story, but you don’t need any knowledge of that series to enjoy this (I still haven’t read/watched Astro Boy and this is one of my favorite series). This is the first of Naoki Urasawa’s series that I’ve read and it definitely won’t be the last. This is his shortest series to my knowledge, and therefore a good starting point if you’re interested in his work. I encourage you to give it a try and see if you like it!!!

So far I have only read the first two volumes but the volumes I have read were amazing, the art is awesome and the story is great. Higly recommend it and plan on getting the rest. Once I finish this series I plan on reading Astro boy, the original story. This series is about a serial kiler who is killing off all the great robots of the world. One of the great robots is a detective in charge of this case. This robot has to stop the killer before himself and the other great robots are destroyed. This series deals with the great concept of robots with emotions and is a great thriller. I highly recommend this series.

The beginning of one of my fav series, came in great condition

Pluto Vol. 1 is a good manga, but that's it. Those who swallow all the "groundbreaking" hype might be disappointed. If the only manga you've ever read before is Love Hina then yes, this will rock your world. Otherwise, it's a good start to a story that increasingly fails exactly because it doesn't offer anything that hasn't been done to death already. Nostalgic readers tuning in to see Astroboy again need to wait until volume 2 for his story. Buy that one too, then quit while you're ahead. That's where the series peaks, then it's all downhill from there. The storytelling quickly gets politicized and commandeered by surprisingly trite and omnipresent messages about prejudice (Guess what? It's bad.) and an embarrassingly naive straw-man argument against the Iraq war (Guess what? Starting a war solely to murder innocent women and children is also bad.) -- he's not exactly going out on a limb to take any controversial or enlightening stands here. If that's what passes for deep and groundbreaking for you, then I'm sorry, but the Older Teen rating means you're probably not old enough to read this series anyway. The Pluto universe, with it's inconsistent use of technology and intelligent machines, is inevitably more a facade of convenience than a good sci-fi universe. This is fine at first, but it starts getting silly after a while when the rules keep changing to fit the preaching. Your money is better spent on Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys. It's extremely long-winded but a lot more fun.

Seen the anime on Netflix. It was sooo good. So naturally I had to get the Manga. Good quality.

Excelentes condiciones

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