Reviews

Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka 2 by Osamu Tezuka, Naoki Urasawa, Makoto Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki

zodiacsama35's review against another edition

This volume was emotional, and as it seems childerns play a big role in naoki stories

woowottreads's review against another edition

5.0

I swear everything Urasawa-sensei writes is amazing.

muffinadorable's review against another edition

5.0

Madre mía. MADRE MÍA. QUE DOLOR. Además, que guiños. Astroboy es un amor, y prácticamente todos los robots lo son. No es justo lo que les pasa, y lo que hay detrás de sus muertes me inquieta y mucho.

drtlovesbooks's review against another edition

3.0

The second volume of the collection moves a bit slower than the first. It's still pretty good, but I feel like the story could be moved along.

typewriterdeluxe's review against another edition

4.0

I am loving this series so much! It's an emotionally-charged, thought-provoking story with interesting characters and a huge mystery to uncover. I'm actually going to stop reading PLUTO now because I realize I need to go back and read Astro Boy in order to better appreciate this. I'll check back in on this review after I've read the source material and am re-reading this series.

gilwen's review against another edition

4.0

Avec ce tome, l'intrigue gagne en densité. Quelques indices apparaissent bien, mais ils ne font que complexifier la chose. Quant au passé, il s'entremêle de plus en plus à l'enquête, intriguant le lecteur. Et avec les nouvelles morts qui surviennent, la tension est à son comble. Pour compliquer l'aventure, une autre intrigue s'esquisse à peine, celle-là liée au personnage de Gesicht et touchant à ses rêves et souvenirs. De nouveaux éléments bien alléchants, qui donnent envie de voir comment ils vont s'intégrer au reste de l'histoire.

A propos de nouveauté, d'autres personnages font leur apparition. Des enquêteurs, bien évidemment, mais aussi, et surtout, des robots. Des membres de ce fameux groupe des 7 qui semblent tous plus ou moins liés à des événements antérieurs. Dans la masse, le petit Astro se démarque particulièrement. Il apporte à l'histoire une fraîcheur et une touche d'émotion toute bienvenue

cosmological's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

“I can still remember that war, fresh and clear. . . The mountains of robot bodies. . . And then I learned . . . Bloodlust. But ever since then, I haven’t been able to destroy my opponents. What would humans call this?”
“Pity?”
“Hey. Do you think. . . We’re evolving?”

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Legitimately this manga is fucking incredible everything about it is making me fucking insane also I LOVE Atom I love Atom so much 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

danteandvirgil's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

thesinginglights's review against another edition

4.0

The story continues to develop in interesting ways. Urasawa writes these robots with a significant amount of empathy and deepens the world meaningfully.

miguel's review against another edition

5.0

In volume 2 of Urasawa's Pluto, the plot barrels forward and the stakes of the conflict are raised. Urasawa utilizes both Gesicht and Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy) as point of view characters. Urasawa confines himself to the overarching narrative in this volume, rather than focusing on a North #2 style digression that would be so familiar to Urasawa's plot construction in Monster. The art is of the consistently high quality fans would have come to expect throughout the volume. Additionally, Urasawa reveals some much needed back story about both Gesicht and the political climate of the world these vivid characters inhabit.