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

Pluto is without a doubt one of the best manga and story adaptation ever made. Naoki Urasawa is the GOAT of manga.

5/5

Urusawa is a great artist

I've never read a Astro boy story before nor seen the movie. The only contact I had with the character is a cartoon on Sunday Morning... that I've seen only one time. But this manga is pure fun. I'm not a big manga reader, but for what I've read, it's the BEST... Usarawa manage to tell an amazing thriller. One interesting fact: the story doesn't feel like a manga, but more like an european «bande-dessinée» and it's one of it's charm.

The story itself is very well craft. the dialogue are sharp and the reaction of the robots are very interesting. Urasawa introduce in the story some ideas and concepts of more recent sci-fi story (like the robotic laws of Asimov), which add an interesting dimension to the story. As a first volume of a serie, it manage to make you wonder to read the others volumes right now. But for a manga, it's not only the writing that count. The art is an important part of a story. And in Pluto, it's great. really great. But, there is one «hick»... For the background of some panels,Urasawa used collage... it's well done, but sometime it's... annoying. There is too much details in panels who are small. But it's easily overlook.

It's a book that I'd recommend to anyone, even non-comics/mangas readers. it's a cleaver story with interesting plot. The art is great and not to «sketchy». everything is sharp and well drawn. And the characters are well known (Astro boy is an known character, and with the recent animated movie...). This more serious take, added to the «investigation» story.

Highly Recommended !

Naoki Urasawa is an incredible artist and writer, his stories are incredible and Pluto is no exception 10/10.

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

Good manga

I was familiar with Urasawa's work through his legendary story Monster, but Pluto Nr.1 also didnt dissapoint, so i ordered four more volumes after reading the first one.

Great story, characters and a plot, after reading Pluto i will definitely take a look at his other master?piece 20Th Century Boys.