![]() ![]() This is an exact parallel to racism in the real world. One robot broke away from his enforced code, and what the humans did to him in return was nothing more than a vision of horror a punishment far beyond what a human would experience for the same crime. They’re treated by humans as inferior beings, incapable of expressing even basic creativity, expected never to have emotions or have worth for anything but the tasks that humans don’t want to do. They’re forced to fight wars for the humans. Just the way I like my detective fiction stories. Blade Runner might be a more apt comparison, going by the tone of the first volume of the manga. Supposedly inspired by the classic Astro Boy (I’m not sure how – the influences are light, to say the least), Pluto is a detective story in which a vicious killer stalks a modern city, killing intelligent robots who have been programmed not to harm humans. Pluto is personal.Īt its heart, Pluto is a manga about racism. ![]() Pluto, which Urasawa produced in collaboration with Osamu Tezuka, is even more to me. Monster was trilling, 20th Century Boys is, so far, gripping. ![]() But everything he seems to think up appeals to me at a very core level. I don’t know how he manages to keep leaving me feeling deflated when I reach the end of a volume and have to wait for the next one. I don’t know how Naoki Urasawa manages to keep having me literally race through the pages of his mangas in order to find out what happened next. ![]()
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