The anime’s official Twitter account PLUTO The upcoming release, based on the manga of the same name by Naoki Urasawa, has revealed seven additional cast members on September 6, 2023.
The newly announced cast includes:
Hideyuki Tanaka as Brau-1589 Romi Park as Helena Toshio Furukawa as Professor Ochanomizu Eizou Tsuda as Dr. Tenma Kazuhiro Yamaji as Professor Abullah Michio Hazama as Duncan Kenyuu Horiuchi as President Alexander
Other cast members include:
Shinshu Fuji as Gesicht Yoko Hikasa as Atom Minori Suzuki as Uran Hiroki Yasumoto as Mont blanc Kōichi Yamadera as North No. 2 Hidenobu Kiuchi as Brando Rikiya Koyama as Hercules Mamoru Miyano as Epsilon Toshihiko Seki as Pluto
PLUTO The anime will release exclusively on Netflix on October 26, 2023 and include 60-minute episodes.
Studio M2 is responsible for creating animations for the anime PLUTO coming out and Genco will produce the film.
Toshio Kawaguchi is directing the film, with Urasawa as creative consultant, Shigeru Fujita designing the characters and supervising the animation director, and Yugo Kanno composing the music.
PLUTOis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Original magazine from September 2003 to April 2009, with the chapters collected into eight tankobon volumes.
The series is based on Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka, especially the “Greatest Robot on Earth” Side Story and named after the main antagonist of the series. Urasawa reinterprets the story as a suspenseful murder mystery starring Gesicht, a Europol cyborg detective trying to solve the case of a series of deaths of robots and humans.
Takashi Nagasaki is credited as a co-author of the series. Macoto Tezka, son of Osamu Tezuka, oversees the series, and Tezuka Productions is listed as having collaborated.
The series has been licensed by Viz Media and published in English in North America under the name Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka.
Source: Twitter