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Netflix Confirms Pluto Anime Series in 2023 With Sneak Peek Video
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Pluto manga this year, and it also confirmed the project's main Japanese voice cast and studio:
The Japanese cast are:
- Shinshū Fuji as Gesicht
- Yōko Hikasa as Atom
- Minori Suzuki as Uran
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In a quote provided by Netflix, Urasawa said, “I applaud the courage of everyone that has taken on the challenge of making an anime based on PLUTO. I am excited about the birth of this new series to win over people's hearts. I hope that now more than ever, Macoto Tezka, a son of the late Osamu Tezuka, said, “The animated PLUTO is the real deal, and in addition to this being Urasawa's latest work, this is also a new Tezuka anime. I can hardly wait to see how this new generation of anime turns out.”
The Pluto manga is Urasawa and producer Takashi Nagasaki's Viz Media, which released the manga in North America, describes the story:
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots for human, someone or something is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders - the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.
GENCO's booth at the MIFA film market at the 2017 Annecy International Animation Film Festival had Madhouse Studios.
Actor second stage play adaptation ran in Japan in 2018, and then had an international run in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium later that year.
acquired the film rights from Tezuka Productions for a planned live-action/computer-graphics (CG) hybrid film of Pluto in 2010.
Source: Press release
