Pluto Anime: Blade Runner meets Astro Boy

Blade Runner is famous for blending film noir with sci-fi, inspiring countless similar works and helping to codify the aesthetics of the Cyberpunk genre. In the most unlikely of pairings, Astro Boy received the Blade Runner treatment with a dark manga retelling called Pluto.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:11 What is Pluto?
00:01:55 Sponsor: Kings Comics
00:03:05 Blade Runner
00:04:57 Pluto & Blade Runner Comparison
00:06:43 Why Astro Boy?
00:07:40 Pluto's Context
00:09:01 Monster
00:09:44 Pitching Pluto & Naoki Urasawa
00:10:50 Pluto's Plot
00:13:09 Pluto Anime & Masao Murayama
00:15:57 Comparative works & Recommendations
00:17:12 Conclusion

Music sourced from Pixabay.com

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