Pioneering author and artist Osamu Tezuka, usually referred to as “the godfather of manga,” is broadly credited with serving to give Japanese comics and animation their distinctive look and visible language. But he impressed generations of creators in extremely particular methods in addition to basic industry-wide ones. The manga collection Pluto, serialized from 2003 to 2009, is one instance — based mostly on a narrative arc from Tezuka’s signature Astro Boy manga collection, Pluto was an award-winner and bestseller, a collection that re-imagined Tezuka’s mid-Sixties “Greatest Robot on Earth” story arc for a brand new era, as a cyber-noir story a few future detective chasing down a string of murders which may have been dedicated by a robotic.
Netflix has now launched its first teaser for an anime adaptation of Pluto, which updates the unique manga collection’ feel and appear but once more. The four-minute trailer units an explosive struggle and different scenes from the collection to music, with no audible dialogue, however it showcases fast-moving motion, a chilly however elaborately lovely tech-focused future, and a grimly adult-focused design, drawn from the manga collection illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, from a script he and co-creator Takashi Nagasaki wrote collectively.
The collection is produced by anime home GENCO (Sword Art Online, Accel World), with animation manufacturing by Studio M2. The collection will debut in 2023.
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