The upcoming Pluto anime adaptation has received a wave of other cast announcements, including names like Toshio Furukawa, Romi Park and Kenyu Horiuchi.
The full list of announced names is:
Furukawa as Dr. Ochanomizu
Eizou Tsuda as Dr. Tenma
Park as Gesicht’s wife, Helena
A Michio Hazama as Duncan
A Kazuhiro Yamaji as Dr. Abdullah
A Hideyuki Tanaka as Brau-1589
Horiuchi as Chairman Alexander
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— Netflix Anime (@NetflixAnime) September 6, 2023
Pluto is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on October 26. It is based on the manga published by Naoki Urasawa in Shogakukan from 2003 to 2009, reimagining the “Greatest Robot on Earth” arc. from Astro Boy’s Osamu Tezuka. Viz Media describes the manga published under the name Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka as follows:
In this bold reimagining of the story “The Greatest Robot on Earth” from Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy series, the world is a place where humans and robots coexist. The lives of the world’s seven great robots – Atom, Mont Blanc, North No. 2, Brando, Hercules, Epsilon and Gesicht – turned upside down into a virtual garden of terror filled with carnage and destruction. A killer is on the hunt for them, but what exactly is his motive? The story becomes more thrilling when Pluto, the name of the lord of the underworld, appears in this finely crafted work of science fiction and suspense.
Studio M2 is producing the anime with Toshio Kawaguchi (Phoenix: Kizuna-hen, character designer Mokke, 3D co-director Allison to Lillia) as director and Studio M2 founder Masao Maruyama (also founder of MAPPA and co-founder of Madhouse) is one of the executive producers. Other staff members include:
→ Character Designer: Shigeru Fujita (Monster, Luck and Logic [dưới bút danh])
à Art Director: Chikako Shibata (Kiniro Mosaic: Thank you!!)
→ Composition director: Mitsuhiro Sato (Typhoon no Noruda, Miru Tights)
à CG and Special Effects Director: Takahiro Miyata (Onihei)
→ Sound Director: Masafumi Mima (Attack on Titan)
→ Composer: Yuugo Kanno (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean)
Creative consultant: Urasawa
Previously announced cast members include Youko Hikasa as Astro/Atom, Minori Suzuki as Uran, Shinshuu Fuji as Gesicht, Hiroki Yasumoto as Mont Blanc, Koichi Yamadera as North No. 2, Hidenobu Kiuchi as Brando, Rikiya Koyama as Hercules, Mamoru Miyano as Epsilon and Toshihiko Seki as Pluto.