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Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 by Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa
4.0

Pluto remains one of the most interesting and well written series I've read in awhile.

This volume decides to focus on more Robots. So we get a little bit into Hercules and Atom. Hercules is a fighter and Atom is a young boy looking robot and they begin to piece together the crimes that are happening to their friends along with detective Gesicht. However, when the creature/robot/monster is back and takes on another one of their companions things start to get darker for our heroes. Who is this thing killing all of them? Why? And what has happened to detective Gesicht to make him forget his own past?

Good: The storyline is still well throughout, and the characters are extremely well done, with perfect tone and atmosphere. I love the dialog, and sometimes it's profound to the point I try to gather my thoughts on a particular scene for a few minutes. The ending builds up to something new, bigger, and different than I expected and introduces the final piece to the puzzle.

Bad: The start is a little bit of a drag. I felt the first two chapters started off slow and kind of was losing a bit of interest.

This still remains very high quality and worth checking out. While I didn't love it as much as volume 1 I still thought it was fantastic. A 4.5 out of 5.