In the early 2000s, coming off his classic manga Monster, Urasawa came up with the idea for Pluto, reimagining the Astro Boy story arc “The Greatest Robot on Earth” as a murder mystery.

As mentioned above, the Pluto anime and its source material do share a connection to Tezuka's Astro Boy universe. In essence, Urasawa's series serves as a retelling of one of the most famous story ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. During Anime Expo, I spoke with Masao Maruyama, producer of Netflix’s upcoming Astro Boy-inspired anime, Pluto. We spoke about the pressure his ...

Netflix released a four-minute teaser trailer for Pluto, the anime adaptation of the manga by Naoki Urusawa that's a gritty reboot of a classic Astro Boy manga from the 1960s. The new anime series ...

Astro Boy's entire character arc from the manga about his need to get stronger is cut. Likewise, so is Epsilon's arc about struggling with the moral implications of killing Pluto through ...