Pluto (プルートウ) (2023)

“After twenty years, it’s finally here, the long awaited adaptation of the beloved manga Pluto, itself a reversion of an arc of Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy, and although it rearranged the order of some events, it did a great job in translating the original to the screen.

In terms of visuals, as you have come to expect from something done by Naoki Urasawa, there is a consistent artwork, realistic character designs, beautiful and accurate renditions of real locations around the world, and great paneling and special effects. The anime does a good job in capturing the aesthetics of the manga but not in the same level of quality, the artwork is indeed very good, the backgrounds are indeed beautiful, and the updated designs for the robots are far better than the originals from seventy yea” read more