Pluto | Full Story, Analysis, and Review

Detailed Timecodes:

0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:40 Basics of Pluto

0:03:06 Full Story
0:05:47 Chapter One
0:10:01 Brau 1589
0:12:58 The Name “Pluto” – the horns
0:19:43 Atom and Astro Boy
0:24:53 39th Central Asian War – the inspiration
0:31:23 The Greatest Robot on Earth
0:51:45 Pluto, what is he?
1:08:33 Dr Roosevelt
1:18:08 39th Central Asia War – a beautiful mess
1:30:08 The Name “Pluto” – the enduring tulip
1:35:04 Gesicht’s Death
1:46:08 The End of the World and One Million Horses
1:51:44 An Atom Reborn

2:05:54 The Ending
2:27:22 The Overarching Plot

2:34:35 Misc Topics
2:34:51 Robo K
2:36:11 Worldbuilding and worldbuilding
2:37:17 Give ‘em the horns!
2:39:10 The Bora Survey Group
2:40:12 Abullah, Goji, and Bora

2:43:20 The Anime
2:51:06 Personal Take
2:57:26 Outro

First yooo thanks bro your the man

Just when I'd checked out of anitube the goat returns. The quality of your analyses is unmatched. Keep it up man!

Pluto and hades makres sense, as even greeks did rebrand hades as pluto to make him more apealing to talk about.

but horned, i would think about baccus or pan.

coudnt the manga just have him visit gstalts wife first to ask if he shall take revenge for her husband. in a melancholic weight , and her sayings omething that she loved him as person that tried to help, thats not right, or something. Why she chose to live with the pain and loss at it too showed her whats good in the world, or something. If a world with that misery deserves to end on his part or something. And him kinda hating but searreching for meaning and , that helping him realize how to griefe and that pain and loss is also meaning something worth loving or something, and worth protecting.

pluto could be nihilistic misetable angry asking why over plutos destructive hated and both mirror. ok thinking about whats said about the manga. why save the world, why even, anger, abd plutos revenge anger. It being clear that revenge born of hatred anger rand the pain of knowing existencial anger would be different angers,
and make the my anger s greater make sense? The anger of bearing the lives lost senseless connecting both? Dunno if ther ewere persioans pluto/zahad cared about. or accusing each other that ther eis no other way to ease the pain in angry accusations who was lost, and that they are similar.

and come to the agreement that those were worth existing and glad they did and the pain, i dont know spare the pain to the world that , ther is love basically. Give pluto a maria robotnik.

ok making astroboy existencial dreadful would probably make more sense, and ir would be a good ai theme too.

Nah man now i gotta read pluto to see this😅

I've never read this manga or watched the anime, my one exposure to Urasawa is 21th Century Boys and I love it. And I was expecting Brau to be connected to Rosevelt. An experiment to see how a robot could be made to break the laws of robotics. Maybe even a part of Rosevelt themself, broken free, that decided not to kill the president, instead destroying the supercomputer. To me it ties in both Brau and Rosevelt better, but I could only just be making assumptions.

Edit: Also I'm very, very keen on checking out the anime, thank you for introducing me to it!

You have to drop a Billy bat one. I know you already did those series of videos on it, but I’d love this style of review of it (ps; Billy bat is my favorite urasawa work and definitely his most underrated)

I had a very similar reaction to the manga, years later remembering it as a slightly better than average story. Everything after Gesicht's dead was a blur (besides that stinger because the tone of it was so out of left field I remembered it even though I couldn't 100% have said why shooting the Teddy Bear was important).

I really liked how you pointed out that there were no Persian characters who were able to tell their side of the story that weren't being manipulated or were mentally sound. The way they are almost throughout the entire narrative being painted as the 'Other', even when the story is showing them in a sympathetic light. I don't have a problem with all these characters having that world ending level of hatred, more that it feels like there is a disconnect between the horrific circumstances that inspired that hatred and the drive that is powering it now. I think it's partially due to Goji not being a well defined character. We are given a good past motive (war killing his family), but his largely unexplored multiple personalities makes it hard to get a clear picture of what sort of person he is now. I feel that if Goji was better characterized we'd also understand Pluto more. (I'm also iffy about Roosevelt stirring everything up and the Persian characters being left in the dark about it. It undermines their agency.)

It was boring

I know your channel doesn't get enough views but don't stop making content my man, you're an absolute gem