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thowawayuntilfurthernotice · 6 months

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Whoever decided to remove the Dog Car gag from the Pluto anime ain't seeing heaven.

#Pluto #Astro Boy #Pluto Anime #Pluto Spoilers #They had one job

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soranatus · 6 months

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Dr. Tenma & Brau-1589 Pluto (2023) - Episode 8

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snaileo · 6 months

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Dr. Tenma // PLUTO

#pluto #astro boy #naoki urasawa pluto #naoki urasawa #my gifs #umataro tenma #dr tenma #pluto anime #pluto anime spoiler #pluto spoilers #pluto anime spoilers #im only tagging spoilers bc i kno ppl would love to see it animated for themself #even if theyve read the manga #also the thoughts i am having about this man are redacted for everyone's sanity #i was having trouble with this gifset bc photoshop was being difficult for NO good reason #also i chose this specific scene bc ive waited for so long to see this guguhghghg

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ghoooooooooooooooost · 5 months

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500 zeus

#my art #traditional #gesicht #pluto #naoki urasawa's pluto #pluto spoilers

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soleilenchaine · 6 months

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Brau 1589 // Pluto

#pluto #pluto anime #pluto spoilers #in case anyone wants to avoid one of the best and most terrifying scenes in the whole manga #seriously watch the anime it's very well done

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himawaari · 6 months

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pluto 01 - north no. 2

#pluto #plutoedit #pluto netflix #pluto spoilers #fyanimegifs #animangahive #usermoh #userroh #userjenny #userkyaa #usermoonz #kanamesengoku #mygifs #mine

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alitontress · 5 months

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A few of my favorite panels of Epsilon because although he is so extremely kind and gentle, he is still incredibly dangerous and powerful.

#pluto #naoki urasawa's pluto #pluto anime #epsilon #having Pluto thoughts #sobbing #pluto spoilers

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artistmitchy · 6 months

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I'd like to apologize to Osamu Tezuka and Naoki Urasawa for this one.

#I am aware Gesicht wasn't in this scene #I just thought it would be funny to draw him in the Markiplier part #Tezuka #Osamu Tezuka #Tezuka Osamu #手塚治虫 #Tezuka Productions #Naoki Urasawa's Pluto #プルートゥ #Pluto #Pluto spoilers #Spoilers #Astro Boy #Tetsuwan Atom #Mighty Atom #Gesicht #Epsilon #My art

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protect-tobio-tenma · 7 months

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This scene with Ochanomizu always makes me cry.

#pluto anime #pluto spoilers #naoki urasawa's pluto #hiroshi ochanomizu

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thursdayisbetterthanfriday · 6 months

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Science Fiction as a Reflection on Society - PLUTO & The Cycle of Hate

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING -You can read this before reading PLUTO but it will spoil many major plot points!

In 2015, I picked up a manga volume in a London bookshop called PLUTO. I had a burgeoning interest in AI, and computer science, at the time and had read Naoki Urasawa's manga Monster many years prior. It seemed a perfect read. Little did I know, it would become my favourite manga.

As I read the first volume I realised this wasn't just a simple Astro Boy adaptation. Like many of Urasawa's stories, PLUTO was a layered story which took its source material and asked fundamental questions about its premise.

The more innocent veneer of the Astro Boy world was stripped away, and echoes of the Middle East, of Afganistan, Iraq and Palestine, were transposed into the background of what was on the surface a simple detective story plot. The long memories, and relentless logic, of robots became a means by which conflict could be examined, but also a way to reveal the weaknesses in the non-empathetic nature of robotics and AI.

Instead of a traditional manga and anime trope of beating the strongest villain against the odds, it became a tragic, yet hopeful, story about the long-tail effects of trauma and how our memories of the past, remembered or misremembered, shape our present.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

From the 1980s Soviet invasion to the modern day US involvement in the Middle East, the trauma of the conflict had lasting impacts on both the invaded countries, and those who invaded. Talented people, who at peace could have done and produced great things, were reduced to administering corrupt governments, fighting occupying forces and wasting their lives on a fractious peace based on subterfuge and realpolitik.

Robot Mont. Blanc, killed in the opening part of PLUTO acts as the introduction of this theme. A deeply environmentalist robot, who was beloved by mountaineers and children alike, was sent to fight in a war whose values conflicted with his own.

Despite his experiences, he went on to live in his old life - tending to and caring for the Swiss Alps and those who lived within them, but was ultimately killed by a mysterious perpetrator.

This theme is carried through with all the "greatest robots on Earth", who are targeted by PLUTO, and who all are trying to make something of their lives after the end of the conflict, most of whom have managed to shake off the negative experiences of their past - while still being haunted by it.

During the gradual decolonization of the colonial powers of Europe in the Middle East, there existed periods in the Middle East of relative calm and stability. People were able to life affluent, and prosperous lives without the threat of violence and revolution - with collaboration between US, European and USSR workers and those who lived there allowing for the construction of infrastructure and advanced manufacturing facilities.

But what about those who can't deal with their past. What about those who are deeply damaged?

PLUTO - The Greatest Trauma on Earth

MAJOR PLOT SPOILER WARNING

So what is PLUTO? Who is PLUTO? He is nothing more than a robot who loves flowers, created by the Persian scientist Dr Abullah. His love for the plant makes him want to plant flowers across the country, to fill it with beauty and richness. He is someone with hopes, and dreams, to make a beautiful world which can be enjoyed by the people who live there.

At least, that's what he used to be.

As the 39th Central Asian Conflict drags on, Dr Abdullah become bitter and resentful at what has happened to his country. A once proud nation reduced to rubble and ruin. Instead of encouraging his robotic son to plant flowers, he fills his son with a vast hatred against those who have committed violence against his people.

The son who wanted nothing more than to make the world a better place is indoctrinated by his father into a being of pure rage, while fully knowing his previous self. The two sides of his personality ripping and tearing at each other in a self-contradictory nightmare.

Just as PLUTO is turned into a loathing monstrosity by his family, upbringing and situation - so too are those who live, fight and die in conflicts. Both the 2023 murder of innocent Israelis by Hamas, and the subsequent murders of innocent Palestinians by Israel have no doubt radicalised a new generation of martyrs, while their leaders - those meant to be inspiring and running the country in their name - directly encourage mass murder on both sides.

In Afghanistan, the hopes of a democratic society were undermined by a corrupt Western imposed system which broke down into Taliban rule in 2022. Collaborators killed or tortured. Women, once again, forced into roles they had broken out of.

But this cuts both ways.

In Afghanistan, both the Soviet invasion of the 1980s and the US/Coalition invasions of the 2000s led to a surge in Western soliders who came home from war angry, disillusioned and in mental and physical pain. Sometime from IED amputations, sometimes from PTSD and severe mental health issues.

Some survived the war, only to transfer their trauma to others at home or to end their own lives at their own hands. A generation of young military lives lost.

The Politics of Hate

Newton's third law states: Each action has an equal, but opposite, reaction. This often occurs socially.

This is ever present in PLUTO with the Anti-robot league. That robots have any rights at all is anathema to these people, who organise a conspiracy to destroy the social fabric of robots in society through targeted assassinations and hatred.

Through their actions, they aim to convert others to their cause and roll back decades of progress in the world of PLUTO.

This occurs in reality just as readily.

The 9/11, 2001 Twin Towers bombings brought together the American people in sorrow, but they also led to the enabling of war.

It didn't matter that Saudi Arabia had allowed Osama Bin Laden to live, and plan, in their country prior to the attacks. It was Afghanistan and Iraq that were targeted on the most spurious of grounds. This was enabled, in part, by swathes of the public who wanted a form of revenge but was mainly supported by neo-cons in government.

The two sides of the coin in Gaza are Hamas, with their backers, and the hard right Israeli government.

Hope

Despite the past, hope and recovery are still possible. This is what the story of North #2 and retired composer Paul Duncan reveals to us. An early inclusion in the manga, it also reveals some of the lighter themes of the work.

Paul Duncan's memories of his childhood, and his perceived Mother's abandonment of him to boarding school and almost terminal illness have coloured his entire life. When we meet him, he is a bitter old man who has a writer's block, and has taken on the ex-military robot North #2 as his butler.

But as the story reveals, Duncan's memories are coloured by his misconceptions of events. As North #2 learns to play the piano, against Duncan's wishes, he reveals the notes of the song that Duncan has been humming from his sleep - a song Duncan's mother used to sing to him as a child. It turns out that Ducan's mother didn't abandon him for a rich husband, but used that husband's wealth to pay for his expensive life-saving treatment and schooling.

It is only by dealing with the past, working through his trauma, that Duncan is able to heal in the present and move on with his life.

Conflict in Northern Ireland existed until the recent past of the late 1990s. This was against a backdrop of centuries of conflict between British settlers and the Irish natives. The Republic of Ireland was created in 1916 - but several Northern Counties remained in British control.

The period between 1916 and the Good Friday Agreement were filled with terrorist action by the IRA against the British Army and the repression of Catholic Irish people in the form of police/army brutality, gerrymandering, discriminatory hiring practices and in other forms.

This was only resolved through dialogue at the highest level between the British Government and Sinn Fein - the political wing of the IRA. It resulted in a peace process which has lasted decades, and has resulted in a generation who can now live, love and work with each other. This required hard decisions, to put past differences and strong emotional ties behind both sides. The results are extraordinary - and offer hope for any conflict.

Conclusions

The best stories I have read take the author's present experience, and insight, and use fiction as a vehicle to explore their themes and ideas. PLUTO takes the historical context of modern world events, and wraps it in an Astro Boy story which tells a story of how trauma, and hate, perpetuate themselves in cycles which come back to haunt and destroy others.

We can learn a lot from such stories. We should learn from them.

It is easy to continue to hate others, and react against clear provocations. It takes courage, bravery and sacrifice to break the cycle and begin anew - to create a new world. A world that Atom represents. A world with a brighter future.

#pluto #pluto manga #pluto anime #pluto spoilers #pluto netflix #naoki urasawa #science fiction #scifi #sci fi #politics #literary Analysis #long reads #long read

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choberr · 6 months

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my favorite part of Pluto is that one chapter/episode where Atom just

>wakes up >sits down >writes out an entire anti-proton bomb formula, a bomb that can (and will) bring the world's and mankind's demise, to the walls of the room he's placed in >refuses to elaborate >leaves

#naoki urasawa's pluto #pluto #pluto spoilers #pluto anime #pluto manga #tetsuwan atom

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submareena · 6 months

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Color in Naoki Urasawa's Pluto - Chapter 41

#pluto #pluto spoilers #naoki urasawa #astro boy #tetsuwan atom #osamu tezuka

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mapletine · 2 months

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you appear to have a vested in interest in dudes w/ white hair who are doomed by the narrative for their protective instincts. im not complaining by any means i just enjoy observation

anon you summed up my taste in characters perfectly… thank u…

have an extended collection of past favorites