Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Pluto 6


Pluto 6
Naoki Urasawa
ISBN 978-4-09-182127-0

I was really looking for the 6th book of Pluto by Naoki Urasawa.
This story is based on a sub story of the Astro Boy, "The Greatest Robot on Earth" by Osamu Tezuka as you can find it out in the link above, and in this 6th book Urasawa's story turned the corner.

Note that Urasawa's story is not just a simple remake of Tezuka's original story. Urasawa is one of the best manga authors in today's Japan, and because of the difference of historical backdrops he focuses on other point of view than Tezuka's original works, humanity. Here, I don't mean Tezuka's work does not contain the view point of humanity, but I think Tezuka focused on more social view point such as citizenship of robots.
Anyway, it's worth reading, and I think it's a good time to begin reading the series. :)

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