Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa’s oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy ( Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary ( Pineapple ARMY story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga ( 20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka ( Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions).
Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA! in 1983 and hasn’t stopped his impressive output since. The clock is ticking, and Gesicht has to figure out who is behind these brutal killings before time runs out.Naoki Urasawa’s career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Seven of the remaining greatest robots built by humanity are on the murderer’s list, including Gesicht himself, as well as humans connected to preserving the International Robot Laws, which grant robots equal rights. The clues lead Gesicht to realize the killer is a robot, which would make it the first case in the past 8 years where a human is killed by a robot. Gesicht, a German Europol robot detective and a war veteran, is investigating a series of robot and human murders around the world, where the killer leaves behind his signature mark on the victim two pointy objects jutting out of their skull resembling horns. Set in a distant future where humans and sentient robots have come up with a peaceful coexistence after several years of a brutal war, Pluto drives its plot through post-war PTSD and a message of anti-war.
The manga series ran from September 2003 to April 2009, publicized by the magazine Big Comic Original. Urasawa and Nagasaki's Pluto is based on Tezuka’s Astro Boy storyline known as “The Greatest Robot on Earth" from 1964.
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