Pluto Episode 1 Reaction

I couldn't be more excited for you to finally react to Pluto <3 it will bring such great discussions

Good show! Really amazing and definitely worth watching. Can't wait for the reactions! "Pluto" may be one of the very best anime series.

I tried so hard to get people to watch this masterpiece but for some reason people don't seem to be very interested in it. It's one of the best anime I watched. The manga is made by the author of monster and it's based on astroboy the legendary manga made by the father of manga.

Wild to think about how Urasawa was making this and 20th Century Boys AT THE SAME TIME lol Also yes as Robert pointed out. This is a prequel to Astro Boy. Which I have to assume yall have at least heard about haha

YEEEES I’VE PRAYED FOR THIS DAY

Peak

Lola were you thinkin about Pluto the dog from Disney lmao

Como amo este capitulo

two reactions in a single day?

Yeeah its a very classic Monster style of an episode. *Minor spoilers for Monster below* The main plot of Monster was Tenma finding Johan, but every now and then we found ourselves in self contained episodes with unrelated characters, but all of the plotlines are related to the central themes of the story - the value of life, what it means to kill and the weight that action puts on a person. Its the same with this pilot episode. The main plot seems to be about the detective finding out who or what is killing these robots, then we move to an unrelated side story with North Number 2 and the old man. Both are connected by the themes of prejudice against robots as nothing but weaponary machines, and the humanizing connection between robot and human through memories and trauma - one being the trauma of a perceived hatred from their own mother, and the other being the trauma of the horrific experiences of war.

Good show! Nothing amazing but definitely worth watching. Can't wait for the reactions!

I love love love this. Can’t believe you guys are reacting to Pluto!

Channel should be called L&M react to cartoons.

Did you guys know this show was named after the rapper Future Pluto Hendrix? Urasawa is a big fan on him (just made it up)

HYPE

Been waiting a long time for this one. Let’s gooooo

NO WAY LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I’m excited to watch Pluto myself for the first time thanks to this reaction I’ve heard great things. I hope we get Takopi after!

C'mon 2:20 am your time? When do you girls sleep.

Astro Boy, created in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, is one of the most important manga ever made. It tells the story of a robot boy named Atom who fights injustice in a future where humans and robots live together. Tezuka had lived through the war and saw its destruction. He used his stories to write about war guilt, discrimination, fear and how technology can be used for violence. But the biggest question was always: "What makes someone human? Is it having a human body or is it the ability to feel?" One famous Astro Boy story arc was called "The Greatest Robot on Earth". It was about the world’s strongest robots being hunted and destroyed. After Tezuka died, his son Makoto Tezuka, who runs Tezuka Productions, contacted Naoki Urasawa. Urasawa had often said this was one of his favorite stories when he was young. He agreed to remake it, but only if he could tell it in his own serious and realistic style. That new version became Pluto. Urasawa started Pluto in 2003, the same year the Iraq War began. At that time, world politics focused on weapons of mass destruction, preemptive war, and invading countries in the name of peace. Instead of turning the story into a simple robot battle, Urasawa made it a slow political thriller. He moved the focus away from Astro Boy and made Gesicht, a robot detective working for Europol, the main character. And as always with Urasawa, he added many side characters with their own emotional stories. In the first episode, the parallels to the modern conflicts in the Middle-East are obvious. But this story is not really about the war itself. It is about what comes after. The way robots are treated is very important too. They work normal jobs. They have families. They have memories. They dream. They grieve. They form real emotional bonds. In many ways, they act more calm and moral than humans. Yet society still treats them as tools. If a being can love, suffer, and feel guilt, why should it be treated like an object? Robots are praised when they are useful. But when something goes wrong, they are blamed and thrown away. Urasawa used them to represent many groups in society who are accepted only when they are useful, but are not truly seen as equal. The best example is the US who are happy about cheap labor and at the same time hate the people doing them. The hate against robots in Pluto clearly represents racism and xenophobia and more generally how political systems decide whose life matters more. After Monster, Urasawa again asks whether evil is something people are born with, or something created by systems and trauma. In Monster, Johan is shaped by ideology, experiments, and the influence of Franz Bonaparta. He is not simply born evil. He is shaped by his environment. Pluto seems to ask a similar question, but on a global level. Can hatred be programmed? Can a system create an enemy? Can war create the very monster it claims to fight? In the first episode, you can clearly feel Urasawa’s style. The slow pacing, the quiet tension, the moral grey areas, and even the character designs feel familiar. He also reused places he studied and visited for Monster. The story even begins again in Düsseldorf, Germany. But because Pluto is a global political story, we will travel to many different countries and cultures. You will probably also notice that some characters look or are named similar to people from Monster. He often uses similar faces and designs, but places them in different situations to explore new moral questions. I'm so excited for your reaction to this show. This will be a lot of fun.

We are being fed with greatness

We are finally back with peak.