Pluto, Vol. 1 - MXHDR BookWyrm

184 pages

English language

Published May 10, 2009 by Viz.

ISBN:: 978-1-4215-1918-0

(1 review)

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.

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popcar2 reviewed Pluto, Vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa

Pluto, Vol. 1 Review

5 stars

This was excellent, and I should've expected as much considering Naoki Urasawa also made Monster, another favorite of mine. Pluto is a sci-fi murder mystery where someone a human and a robot die with horns put on their heads, and it's up to detective Gesicht to find out the whos and whys.

Aside from the fact that the murder mystery is pretty interesting, the world here is refreshing compared to most sci-fi books. It's not about robots threatening humanity, or robots vs humans, or a robot revolution or any of that. The world feels very mature and surprisingly relevant today, there's even a chapter on "real art" vs "artificial art" which really couldn't be more relevant, and it's tackled in a nice and interesting way.

I read this volume before I realized the anime adaptation is coming in October. At this point I'm not sure if I should keep reading …

This was excellent, and I should've expected as much considering Naoki Urasawa also made Monster, another favorite of mine. Pluto is a sci-fi murder mystery where someone a human and a robot die with horns put on their heads, and it's up to detective Gesicht to find out the whos and whys.

Aside from the fact that the murder mystery is pretty interesting, the world here is refreshing compared to most sci-fi books. It's not about robots threatening humanity, or robots vs humans, or a robot revolution or any of that. The world feels very mature and surprisingly relevant today, there's even a chapter on "real art" vs "artificial art" which really couldn't be more relevant, and it's tackled in a nice and interesting way.

I read this volume before I realized the anime adaptation is coming in October. At this point I'm not sure if I should keep reading or wait for the series. It's only 3 months away so I might just hold out for that.