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Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 Naoki Urasawa

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 By Naoki Urasawa

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 by Naoki Urasawa


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Volume 2 in the ground-breaking new manga series from award-winning author Naoki Urasawa

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 Summary

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 by Naoki Urasawa

In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders - the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.

An advocate for robot rights and a renowned European robot have been murdered. Gesicht, the detective assigned to the case, has deduced that the killer is targetingthe great robots of the world - which means that he too is one of the targets. Gesicht takes it upon himself to warn the potential targets, and Atom, the famous boy robot from Japan, is next on his list. Elsewhere, the Turkish robot hero Brando sets out on his own to take on a mysterious challenger. As the robots traverse a labyrinthine path edging toward their own souls, the question remains: Who is the killer and what is his motive?

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 Reviews

The manga Pluto is one of the best robot stories ever told.

Naoki Urasawa's work is a masterpiece.

Naoki Urasawa has a knack for turning simple ideas into sprawling manga epics. - Polygon -- Karen Han * Polygon *

About Naoki Urasawa

Naoki Urasawa's career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA! in 1983 and hasn't stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa's oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy (Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary (Pineapple ARMY; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga (20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka; co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys.

No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 2011 and 2013 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. Urasawa has also become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he teaches courses in, of course, manga.

Additional information

NGR9781421519197
9781421519197
1421519194
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 by Naoki Urasawa
New
Paperback
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
20091029
208
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