Pluto 9: Wrap-Up

After taking a quick video detour with our extremely serious and scientific RANKING OF ROBOTS - the Urasawa Boys are back to wrap up this season on Pluto! We spend some time talking about our final feelings on the comic before getting into some of the neat stuff from the afterwards of each volume, which Matt admits, he should have been reading the whole time! After that we get into a few quick questions, and then talk a little bit about what's coming down the road - a brief hiatus, and then the start of a new season on Master Keaton! Thanks for sticking with us through the ups-and-downs of our journey through Pluto, please enjoy this final episode of us getting into it on Tezuka, Urasawa, and all those dang robots! Folks, it's a good one!

Links to the supplemental content mentioned:

Bartkira - A collaborative rewrite/redraw of Akira inspired by The Simpsons

The Anime Business - Documentary series by AnimEigo

How to Read Nancy - A book-length essay on "The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels" by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden

Dinosaur Comics - A truly classic webcomic by Ryan North

Jon - Garfield mini-comic by Gale Galligan

The D*lbert Project - Blog post and post-modern D*lbert cutup comic(?) by Kaleb Horton

Material Covered: Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion

Next Time: Master Keaton (Chapter 1 - 12)

Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening!

CONTENT WARNINGS

We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war, civilian and child casualties, war related trauma, the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, bugs, child abandonment, and parental trauma. Please proceed with caution!