Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 (Volume 2) Paperback – 29 Oct. 2009

It's psychologically complex. It's well-drawn in a style that is neither too cartoony nor too realistic, but convinces one of the integrity of the universe presented. The characters live and breathe. The story is developing into quite the thriller.It's manga meets Blade Runner meets Miracleman.In the second volume we meet Atom (better known in the west as Astroboy). The way Atom is written, the way that he affects the other characters by his very presence, is inspiring. His innocence and child-like appearance belies the fact that he is the most complicated robot in the world. And he cries. It is such a wonderful scene.Meanwhile the killer claims his next victim. Again, we only see the blank spaces of the battle but it is titanic.Also, the story of the 39th Central Asian war becomes more complicated. We begin to see that the seven greatest robots in the world are tied together by the time they spent in the war.Gesicht discovers something is wrong with his past.And we're introduced to Dr Roosevelt. Who looks like a teddy bear.I really can't explain to you how excited this series has me. It makes me feel like a child, but is written at such a level that I know I can only get it because I'm an adult. It's like I'm discovering Halo Jones again.I do not know how to express how great this is. But it really is. It's science fiction written by a humanist.

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Item arrived in good condition and on time. Art's fantasic, as expected of Naoki Urasawa. Storyline is also amazing, a more serious take on Osamu Tezuka's astro boy.

The Pluto series was devised by its authors in 2002 as a tribute to the late Osamu Tezuka, who stands as the man who shaped mangas as we know them. This I read in the notes from Pluto vol. 1 & 2. I'm not a manga fanatic. You don't have to to be taken by these Pluto series of books of which I only read two up to now. The plot is loosely based on an Astro Boy story by O. Tezuka and is approved for by the Tezuka family. But you don't have to know this to read Pluto. The plot? 7 veteran robots helped the U.S. of T. to win a war against a middle-east country that was supposed to stock robots of massive destruction. Said popular veteran robots are killed one after another by an unknown someone/something. Detective Gesicht (himself/itself one of the veteran robots) investigates. The plot or pitch is brilliant, the drawings are top notch and exactly what the story needs. In Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka volume 1 you just have to read about the British robot and tell me if you have ever read something even approaching such depth in another comics/manga. Just like stuarthoratiobentley, I urge you to discover and appreciate Pluto.