Pluto finally makes it to anime and it’s one of the best on Netflix

Netflix’s experience includes seeing something amazing debut without much fanfare. Netflix’s best or worst projects get the same treatment, whether they are the most successful or not: a trailer on YouTube with a queue spot between. WednesdayYou can also find out more about the following: It’s Too Hot To Handle. It happens all the time — but don’t let it happen to PlutoThe streamer premiered the mini-series on Thursday. Pluto It’s incredible. It’s a wonder the series even exists.

Pluto This is something of a rarity in the manga community. Created by Naoki Urasawa in collaboration with Takashi Nagasaki and the estate of Osama Tezuka via his son, Macoto Tezuka, the series is a mature retelling of Tezuka’s Astro Boy story “The Greatest Robot on Earth.” While this kind of revisitation is the norm in American comics and pop culture, in manga it’s far less common, and this is before you account for Tezuka’s stature in the medium.

It takes guts to remake Astro Boy this way will always get a little lost in translation — I’m not sure I fully grasp it, but I imagine it’s something like HBO making a Twin Peaks-level miniseries starring Mickey Mouse. It’s a familiar story: An all-ages favorite, reimagined for the new generation, by an adult-oriented master storyteller, but still faithful and reverent to the original character. It’s a mind-boggling thing to attempt, but from 2003 to 2009 the PlutoOne month at a tim, manga managed to pull it off.

Pluto on Netflix is a beautiful tribute to Urasawa and Nagasaki’s comic: a lavish, unhurried, and faithful translation of the eight-volume manga. It was announced six years ago and for some time thought to have been abandoned. Pluto was one of anime’s white whales: a critical and commercial manga hit that didn’t get an anime in an era when just about every manga hit does. The time spent on the series was evident when you look at it now.

The head of the robot Mont Blanc is placed on a hilltop between two tree branches in a forest ablaze, in a scene from the Netflix anime Pluto.

Image: Netflix

It is still possible to have a rich and impressive past. PlutoIt’s one of the most exciting sci-fi mysteries this year. A serial killer travels the globe in a world where robots and humans coexist uncomfortably. He kills the most famous robot heroes, as well as human activists who fight for robot rights. Hannibal-esque tableaus. Pluto follows Gesicht, a robot detective, as he tries to catch the killer and meets Atom, the boy robot who’s the most advanced ever created — and next on the kill list.

With eight hour-long episodes — each roughly corresponding to a volume of the manga, with some adjustments — Pluto It takes time to explore each character. This story starts where many other science fiction works about artificial life begin, by asking what makes us human and whether we can truly feel. From there, the author uses those questions as a basis for a series of stories dripping in pathos. The story is awash with pathos. Pluto introduces is learning to move past some prior tragedy, or struggling with finding meaning in what is beautiful with knowledge — unforgettable knowledge, in the robots’ case — of how hateful people can be.

Pluto’s adaptation is a strong contender for one of the best anime of the year, but it’s also just one of the best new shows on Netflix, period. It’s got a little bit of everything: It’s draped in a thoughtful air of melancholy, but it’s also wistful and surprising. Here is a remake of a beloved character that isn’t interested in introducing him as a dramatically powerful or charming hero, but instead shows him as a child crouching over in a downpour, stopping to pick up a snail he found on the road, an hour into a story we didn’t yet know was his.

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