Pluto Urasawa x Tezuka. 001 /
In a world where man and robots coexist, the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc has been destroyed. 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...
Main Author: | Urasawa, Naoki, 1960- |
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Other Authors: | Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989., Nagasaki, Takashi., Cook, Jared., Schodt, Frederik L. |
Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
Language: | English Japanese |
Published: |
San Francisco, CA :
VIZ Media,
[2009], c2008.
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Edition: | Viz Signature ed. |
Series: |
Pluto ;
001. |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
In a world where man and robots coexist, the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc has been destroyed. 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. -- [Viz Media.com] |
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Item Description: |
Published in Japanese right-to-left format. Originally published in 2004 by Shogakukan Inc., Tokyo. Based on Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka. "A new vision based on Astro Boy, the greatest robot on Earth." |
Physical Description: |
[190] p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
Audience: |
Rated T+: for Older Teen; contains violence and mature themes. |
ISBN: |
9781421519180 1421519186 |
Author Notes: |
No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 2011 and 2013 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material--Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. Urasawa has also become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he teaches courses in, of course, manga. |