Manga Book Review: PLUTO: Vol.1 by Naoki Urasawa , Takashi Nagasaki , Osamu Tezuka (Schöpfer) and Makoto Tezuka (Aufsicht) .

 

Title: PLUTO

Series: Pluto #1

Author: Naoki Urasawa,Takashi Nagasaki,Osamu Tezuka  (Schöpfer),and Makoto Tezuka  (Aufsicht)  

Genre: Manga, Sci-Fi, and Robots

Publications: September 30, 2004

Format: Paperback

Source: Borrow it from the library

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Rating

4 Stars

SYNOPSIS

In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders; the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.

MY THOUGHTS

Pluto was an awesome great ride to read this manga was for me. It is the first manga that I read with a plot where man and robots coexist in the futuristic ideal world. This is also a mystery manga as well where a powerful most love swiss robot Mont Blanc has been destroyed and a famous robot detective Gesicht is assigned to the Mont Blanc case. The world building of the futuristic ideal world was done amazingly well that you understood how all the ins and outs of Pluto's ideal world works. The graphics in this manga were really greatly drawn in descriptive and reflective details in every great way.  All the characters were also done amazingly well and they were all different diverse characters which I absolutely love reading diverse characters in books especially in manga. My all time favorite character in Pluto is of course is detective Gesicht and his lovely wife Helena, All and all I absolutely love and enjoyed Pluto so much that I actually read the 2nd volume already and I can't wait to share my review with you all for the 2nd volume of Pluto soon!

Katiria

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Urasawa Naoki 

  Urasawa Naoki (浦沢直樹) is a Japanese mangaka. He is perhaps best known for Monster (which drew praise from Junot Díaz, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner) and 20th Century Boys.

Urasawa's work often concentrates on intricate plotting, interweaving narratives, a deep focus on character development and psychological complexity. Urasawa has won the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Japan Media Arts Festival excellence award, the Kodansha Manga Award and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. In 2008 Urasawa accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University. 

Takashi Nagasaki

A manga author, editor and producer.
He's best known for his collaborations with Naoki Urasawa.

Writes under pen name Richard Woo
Alternate names: リチャード・ウー, Richard Woo, 空論, Kuuron, プランダ村, Prandamura, 江戸川 啓視, Keishi Edogawa, 東周斎 雅楽, Garaku Toushuusai, ビッグ・オー, Big Woo