{"id":33638,"date":"2023-10-28T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostinanime.com\/?p=242602"},"modified":"2023-10-28T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T14:35:36","slug":"pluto-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/28\/pluto-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto \u2013 02"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re at the point now where the only question for me is “how high”?\u00a0 The first two episodes are truly spectacular, and judging by the reviews and aggregator scores it seems a safe bet that the rest of Pluto<\/em> doesn’t drop the ball in any way. And why should it?\u00a0 The source material is truly elite, and it’s obvious that the team Maruyama Masao assembled has the chops to do it justice.\u00a0 I’ve said all along (without truly expecting it) that if this manga got a really top-shelf adaptation it would be in anime of the decade territory.\u00a0 Well, it just may be happening – I can’t say that yet, but at this point the floor seems to be serious AotY contender (in a very tough year to contend).<\/p>\n

I have a page full of notes on that episode, but the show is so good and the material so smart and dense that it seems almost pointless to try and dissect it.\u00a0 On the groundwork that Tezuka has laid Urasawa is unspooling a truly fascinating detective story.\u00a0 At the same time, he’s fleshing out every character with far more nuance and depth than the average series protagonist, and subtly deconstructing themes of racism and global politics (as he often does).\u00a0 Pluto<\/em> is good enough at a bunch of different things that any one of them would be a great anime.\u00a0 It just happens to have all of them rolled into one.<\/p>\n

The way Urusawa constructs the series does lend itself to the elevation of every major character.\u00a0 Atom and Gesicht are the closest thing to true protagonists here, but so many others are allowed to fully flower during their time in the spotlight.\u00a0 We briefly saw Atom<\/a> (Hikasa Youko<\/em><\/a>) at the end of the first episode, and he commands much attention in the second.\u00a0 Atom is a hugely important character in every sense, not least in that he’s Urusawa’s most direct link to Tezuka’s original and one of the most recognizable figures in Japanese entertainment.\u00a0 But he’s also a crucial player in the story, because he’s the most advanced of all the seven great robots.\u00a0 And the most human-like – though whether that’s the same thing is one of the fascinating questions Urusawa (and Tezuka) ponder.<\/p>\n

Atom is a kind of “zettai shounen” – an adorable and utterly real boy who also happens to be probably the smartest being on Earth.\u00a0 Gesicht is fascinated by him – the way he seems balanced between human and robot, the way he mimics human actions with unerring accuracy and utter sincerity.\u00a0 But Gesicht is in Japan for a reason of course – to warn Atom about what’s happened in Europe, and why he suspects Atom himself could be in danger.\u00a0 Atom asks to see Gesicht’s memory chip, and after some hesitation – even Gesicht is reflexively taken in by the boy’s appearance and demeanor – the detective relents.\u00a0 Atom’s AI is miles ahead of his own, and it would be foolish not to let him peruse the evidence and search for answers Gesicht missed.<\/p>\n

When another robot activist (this time the one who originally wrote the International Robot Laws) is murdered in Japan<\/a>, Superintendent Tawashi<\/a> (Hashi Takaya<\/em><\/a>) and Inspector Nakamura<\/a> (Aoyama Yutaka<\/em><\/a>) are put in charge of the case.\u00a0 Eventually Atom joins them – it’s clear he’s worked with the police before (and it’s implied he’s a part of Europol).\u00a0 This is a showcase both for Atom’s astonishing detective skills and the casual racism directed at robots throughout Pluto, as Tawashi makes no effort to hide his bigotry.\u00a0 When Nakamura cautions Atom that the body (part of a very well-executed 3-D re-creation sequence<\/a>) is not for the eyes of a child, Tawashi sneers that Atom is “not a real child, he’s just a robot”.<\/p>\n

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Tawashi is convinced the killer is a robot for much the same reason Gesicht suspected it in the Frankfurt case, but Atom unearths evidence to the contrary.\u00a0 A piece of that evidence – an ink-stained business card – connects the case to Professor Ochanomizu<\/a> (Furukawa Toshio<\/em><\/a>), Atom’s creator (and another iconic Tezuka character).\u00a0 Concerned, Atom comes to Ochanomizu’s lab and the professor reveals the connection between himself and the two murdered humans.\u00a0 They all served on the BORA commission, investigating “robots of mass destruction” claims leveled at the Kingdom of Persia by the president of the “United States of Thracia” (oh, boy).\u00a0 The RMDs were never found, but the 39th Central Asian War ensued anyway (oh, boy).<\/p>\n

As did the first episode, this one shifts gears midway to focus on another of the seven – in this case two of them.\u00a0 Brando<\/a> (Kiuchi Hidenobu<\/em><\/a>) is based in Istanbul, and Hercules<\/a> (Koyama Rikiya<\/a><\/em>) in Athens.\u00a0 Both are “pankration suit” fighters, and both veterans of the 39th Central Asian War.\u00a0 As with North No. 2 there’s never any question of Brando’s fate – he hoists an entire United Nations HQ worth of death flags in his time on-screen.\u00a0 In that sense Pluto<\/em> is fundamentally a tragedy, as we know what’s going to happen and the pathos comes from the build-up to that.<\/p>\n

Gesicht visits both men to warn them, stopping first in Turkey and spending an evening with Brando and his extremely lively family.\u00a0 Brando has a huge heart, and the death of Mont Blanc – another war comrade – has broken it.\u00a0 He speaks of what a lucky man he is, and how his adoption of his five children has given him a desire to live on (hoist that flag).\u00a0 But ultimately he ignores Gesicht’s pleas to be careful and lures the killer to an isolated spot on the Black Sea coast, far from his loved ones, with the intent of taking it out himself and avenging his friend.\u00a0 He patches through to Gesicht, Hercules, and Atom when he’s attacked. And though Brando says he’s taken down the enemy despite being taken down himself, it soon becomes clear that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

Tragedy cuts through this story on so many levels.\u00a0 It’s clear most of the seven were created as killing machines, and the weight of what they’ve done is one they carry with them.\u00a0 Ochanomizu didn’t create Atom for that of course, but Atom is a person of such empathy that his own burdens are obviously massive.\u00a0 He sees something in Brando’s dying transmissions (mostly a vision of his wife and children) the others didn’t – a “noise<\/a>” that he associates as “Shinigami…emotion…overwhelming pain”.\u00a0 Is this Pluto, the God of Death incarnate?<\/p>\n

It’s hard to overstate just how compelling all this is – and not only because of Urasawa and Tezuka’s writing, either.\u00a0 The sound design here is phenomenal, and the cast is hitting all their marks with flying colors.\u00a0 Hikasa as Atom was an interesting choice, as she has relatively little experience playing boys, but despite going up against heavy hitters at every turn she’s holding her own thus far.\u00a0 The hard thing for me, really, is knowing the whole series is out there when I’m disinclined to binge it even if I had the time (which I don’t).\u00a0 I know that impacts buzz and discussion for a series, and that really annoys me.\u00a0 I was planning on an episode a week, but Pluto<\/em> is so good it’s going to be almost impossible to stick to that plan.<\/p>\n

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