Pluto: Created With Love Through It All (2023 Anime Series)
It takes a deft hand, a warm soul, and a weary heart to portray a world and a tone within that world where one can feel the history dripping out of it’s environments, it’s people, and their collective will that has been tested and tried through their own personal histories and how it relates to that of the state of society and the world the people inhabit as a whole. Even as its artistic trimmings fade into the imitation of life we know it to be, we can’t help but feel that this world we experience through its respective medium continues to turn, even after we disengage with it. Pluto is an eight episode anime series (specifically an “original net animation” or ONA) based on the 2003-2009 manga of the same name by Naoki Urasawa which is itself a reimagining of “The Greatest Robot On Earth” story arc from manga legend Osamu Tezuka and his trailblazing “Astro Boy” series. While distinctly different from it’s source material, Urasawa’s interpretation of Astro Boy’s fiction is one that is ...
