The greatest robot in the world – not named Optimus Prime – is coming back to television. Well, a more mature version actually.
It’s reported on Crunchyroll that the popular Astroboy remake, Pluto will be adapted into an anime soon. Japanese company Genco featured a poster for the series in its booth at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.
Check out the synopsis for the Pluto manga below:
In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated…except for one very conspicuous clue – the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims’ heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case – and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.
