Pluto volume 1 Review
Stop what you're doing. Stop reading this. Close your browser... including the LOLcats window. Actually, keep one window open, go to Madman and order Pluto volume 1 by Naoki Urasawa. I have never been more excited, nor more emotionally invested in a single manga volume the way that I am about Pluto (プルートウ) volume 1. What makes this all the more impressive is that the story is about robots, so emotion shouldn't necessarily be a given. Retelling what is arguably Osamu Tezuka's greatest Astro Boy story arc, "The Greatest Robot on Earth", Pluto is gritty, grim and potentially surpasses the source material in terms of execution. The Astro Boy franchise, furthermore the Tezuka brand, is notoriously picky about licensing the likeness of its character for third party release which is fair enough when it is generally credited as being the birthplace of modern manga and anime. Considered to be the "God of Comics" and the "Godfather of Anime...