Acclaimed Pluto Manga To Get Anime Adaptation

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival is a huge international film festival that takes place in France every year, and big anime news has already come out of the festivals opening days. Japanese company Genco revealed a surprising poster for an anime adaptation of Pluto. Pluto, is Naoki Urasawa’s adult remake of Osamu Tezuka’s classic Astro Boy The Greatest Robot on Earth. The manga has been released in North America by Viz Media, and has been nominated for an Eisner award.

If you are unfamiliar with Pluto, it is an internationally popular series, that has sold over 8.5 million volumes and has won and been nominated for numerous awards. It was first serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Original magazine from 2003 to 2009. Viz media then licensed and released the popular series in English in North America, under the name Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka. Viz describes the story as the following:

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated…except for one very conspicuous clue – the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims’ heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case – and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.

Also spotted in the Genco booth was a new poster for an upcoming anime version of the upcoming realistic police mecha series Patlabor, award winning drama In The Corner Of The World, Sushi Ninja, and more.

There is no official word on any details of the upcoming anime, but the poster is sure to get anime and manga fans talking.

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