He gives chase and confronts the assailant. Gesicht finds that the officer is alright but his robot partner has been smashed to pieces.
Suddenly, he the police report that a police officer and his robotic partner have been assaulted by a man wielding a pipe. A connection is quickly made concerning this man’s identity as well as his interest in robots. Interestingly enough, the murder seems to be of a human whose body was adorned with makeshift horns just like Mont Blanc’s body.
Gesicht is quickly called to Dusseldorf on another murder that he’s told might be connected. As it turns out, and I’m not spoiling anything by revealing this (especially those who already know the character), Gesicht is a robot himself who just happens to look and respond like a human. So, during a fire in Switzerland’s forest, Mont Blanc’s dismantled body is discovered and it’s a shocking scene to be sure and even more so when they discover that the one responsible set the body up to look like the head had horns.Įuropol sends investigator Gesicht to look into the matter and, at first glance, he seems to be the workaholic type who worries even his wife. He’s also one of the most powerful robots created. As it turns out, one of the world’s most loved robots – named Mont Blanc – is beloved throughout Switzerland and all throughout the world. Urasawa paints an intriguing picture of a future where humans and robots coexist peacefully to the point that even the robots that don’t look like humans are accepted in society. Like most of his work, he can hook you into his story effortlessly and the same can be said about Pluto as it introduces familiar characters in new and impressive ways. Then again it might not come as a surprise that this title is good enough to be considered a masterpiece thanks to Naoki Urasawa’s list of accomplishments that include brilliant titles like Monster as well as 20th Century Boys. It is none other than Urasawa who proposed to take Tezuka’s revolutionary story arc and comes up with Volume 1 of Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka … a true manga masterpiece. It took one man to change the face of manga forever and that man is Osamu Tezuka and back in the day his Astro Boy series took an interesting turn in a story arc known as “The Greatest Robot on Earth.” It was not only a great Astro (or Atom, if you prefer our favorite robotic boy’s true Japanese name) tale but inspired many future manga authors like the great Naoki Urasawa.
Author: Naoki Urasawa & Osamu Tezuka & Takashi Nagasaki
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