Finished Pluto by Urusawa and I had the time of my life reading this manga! I already loved the og astroboy and I loved even more how Urusawa build off of it.

Here's a thread with some of my thoughts, just gonna copypaste messages i sent to lisandro

Such a unnihilistic message in a way, I feel that urusawa even further tried to make this feel like something epic even more so then tezuka did in this arc. Character writing was done fantasticly and the human to robot dramatics was excellent

The world was built up very well an was consistent from start to finish in a way we saw the suffering of the robots from one side but on the other side we also saw how the humans were dealing with robots being in their society giving it a whole nother side to the argument

and urusawa handles this with a very blurred line he decides to really handle this with a nuanced approach sure we get to see more of the side of how robots get it worse yeah but the characters we follow are mainly robots so this makes a lot of sense

Urusawa was able to hold himself very well in tone to. The dialogue was very in touch and constantly engaging so to speak. Besides that he never tried to turn to much into little side ventures into the story

he was really able to combine all these elements and wrap them up in something awesome

I especially loved this a cathartic roaring in a sense after all the pain pluto and atom had to go through they finally both grasped the message gesicht gave off "nothing comes off hatred"

seeing this was "done fast" would be wrong I mean there was already foreshadowing to this happening a lot earlier in the story. with uran and the human form of pluto you could see that there wasn't always constant hatred. Pluto or sahad alway had this other side to him

But this is just also general something well handled in pluto the nature of humans and how it effected the futuristic society and the characters in it. How humanity would play into general robotics as well. "How can a robot overwrite their code and still kill"

thats because in the period this story takes place AI robot is so far that its become so incredibly human that the bad parts of the human are also now in the AI thats why gesicht a robot was able to murder that brother

Also idk if I said this in the thread somewhere already but Urusawa was able to wrap up everything very well and was able to pay a very respectable omage to astroboy while being its own thing and building off of it. Fantastically well crafted throughout.

also the persian war elements was super well handled