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Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 Naoki Urasawa

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 By Naoki Urasawa

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa


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Summary

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.

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 Summary

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or somethinghas 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.

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 Reviews

The manga Pluto is one of the best robot stories ever told.

Naoki Urasawa's work is a masterpiece.

Naoki Urasawa has a knack for turning simple ideas into sprawling manga epics. -- Karen Han, Polygon * https://www.polygon.com/comics/2020/10/21/21527021/pluto-best-sci-fi-manga-naoki-urasawa *

About Naoki Urasawa

Naoki Urasawa's career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA! in 1983 and hasn't stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa's oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy (Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary (Pineapple ARMY; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga (20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka; co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys.

No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 2011 and 2013 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. Urasawa has also become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he teaches courses in, of course, manga.

Additional information

NGR9781421519180
9781260473698
1260473694
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa
New
Paperback
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
2009-10-29
200
N/A
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