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A review by drtlovesbooks
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 6 by Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa
3.0
I think my basic problem with this series is this: There are parts where there are page after page meant to convey fast-paced action, but some of that action feels like it's superfluous. And there are parts where there are pages and pages meant to convey cinematic world-building with subtle detail, but they feel repetitious and superfluous. Maybe my brain has just been ruined by the ever-increasing pacing of modern media, but despite the basic neat ideas behind this series, the pacing feels slow.
This volume took some unexpected twists and turns that I enjoyed, but it also introduced one element that really didn't work for me. I'm willing to accept super-advanced robots robot children and robots inside of robots and all the other semi-fantastical elements of this series, but in this volume, there's a robot that changes dramatically from being the size of a regular human to twice that size for no apparent reason, and with no reasonable explanation. It is a ridiculous element on which to fixate, but it broke my suspension of disbelief in this already insane world.
This volume took some unexpected twists and turns that I enjoyed, but it also introduced one element that really didn't work for me. I'm willing to accept super-advanced robots robot children and robots inside of robots and all the other semi-fantastical elements of this series, but in this volume, there's a robot that changes dramatically from being the size of a regular human to twice that size for no apparent reason, and with no reasonable explanation. It is a ridiculous element on which to fixate, but it broke my suspension of disbelief in this already insane world.