Pluto Trivia | 35 facts about the anime series

“Pluto” is an anime series streaming on Netflix based on the popular manga of the same name.

Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the series.

1. Pluto is a Japanese manga series
2. The title is stylized in all caps
3. The series is written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa
4. It was serialized in Shogakukan’s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from September 2003 to April 2009
5. With its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes
6. The series is based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy
7. Specifically “The Greatest Robot on Earth” story arc
8. It was named after the arc’s chief villain
9. Urasawa reinterprets the story as a suspenseful murder mystery
10. In the series stars Gesicht, a Europol robot detective trying to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths
11. Takashi Nagasaki is credited as the series’ co-author
12. Macoto Tezka, Osamu Tezuka’s son, supervised the series
13. Tezuka Productions is listed as having given cooperation
14. The series was licensed and released in English in North America by Viz Media under the name Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka
15. An original net anime series premiered on Netflix in October 2023
16. The anime series was produced by Genco
17. With animation production services by Studio M2
18. Pluto was a critical and commercial success
19. Winning several awards
20. Including the ninth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
21. The manga series sold over 8.5 million copies
22. An anime adaptation by Studio M2 was announced to be in production at the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June
23. In May 2022, the adaptation was confirmed to still be in production by Studio M2 founder Masao Maruyama
24. Toshio Kawaguchi is the series’ director
25. With Urasawa as creative advisor
26. Shigeru Fujita designed the characters and serves as supervising animation director
27. Yugo Kanno composing the music
28. The series made its premiere exclusively on Netflix on October 26, 2023
29. It consisted of eight episodes
30. Each episode was produced with assistance from another studio
31. It adapts one of the manga volumes
32. The 2023 Netflix anime adaptation received positive reviews from critics. Ali Griffiths of Digital Spy said, “Pluto sets a new gold standard for Netflix original anime”
33. Devin Meenan of Slashfilm compared the complexity and characters to the celebrated graphic novel Watchmen
34. Elijah Gonzalez of Paste magazine applauded the story’s fresh takes on themes first introduced in Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics
35. Joshua Rivera of Polygon called Pluto “one of the best sci-fi murder mysteries you can watch this year”