Pluto (manga)

Pluto
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Gesicht
Genre	Mystery[1] Science fiction thriller[1] Superhero[2]
Manga
Written by	Naoki Urasawa Takashi Nagasaki
Illustrated by	Naoki Urasawa
Published by	Shogakukan
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Magazine	Big Comic Original
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	September 5, 2003 – April 4, 2009
Volumes	8
Original net animation
Directed by	Toshio Kawaguchi
Produced by	Shintarou Maruyama Yuushi Ikou Sumio Udagawa Ge Yangqin
Written by	Heisuke Yamashita Tatsurou Inamoto
Music by	Yugo Kanno
Studio	Studio M2
Licensed by	Netflix
Released	October 26, 2023 (2023-10-26)
Runtime	56–71 minutes
Episodes	8
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Pluto: Urasawa × Tezuka (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from September 2003 to April 2009, with its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes. The series is based on Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, specifically "The Greatest Robot on Earth" story arc, and named after the arc's chief villain. Urasawa reinterprets the story as a suspenseful murder mystery starring Gesicht, a Europol robot detective trying to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths. Takashi Nagasaki is credited as the series' co-author. Macoto Tezka, Tezuka's son, supervised the series, and Tezuka Productions is listed as having given cooperation.

The series was licensed and released in English in North America by Viz Media under the name Pluto: Urasawa × Tezuka. A play adaptation directed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui opened in January 2015 and has been performed internationally. An original net animation (ONA) series, produced by Genco with animation production services by Studio M2, premiered on Netflix in October 2023.

Pluto was a critical and commercial success, winning several awards, including the ninth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and selling over 10 million copies.