Watch Sneak Peek at Incoming Anime Pluto from Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka is widely known as the “Godfather of Anime” having created Astro Boy, but even if he passed away back in the 80s, his work has always found a way to be relevant today.

Just in, we have a new sneak peek for the incoming anime adaptation of Pluto which is based on the Astro Boy story The Greatest Robot on Earth. It’s considered a collaboration between Tezuka and manga artist Naoki Urasawa (20^th Century Boys, Monster). Check this out:

The original Pluto manga had come out back in 2003 and had run until 2009, and was considered as a gritty update on the Astro Boy character that had come out back in the 50s. Pluto wasn’t as cartoonish, but a lot of the characters had come to resemble that of classic Astro Boy faces—only updated for the gritty reboot.

Though Astro Boy is considered an icon of anime and manga, there hasn’t been any significant reboot of the character in recent years. The animated Astro Boy movie had come out back in 2009, but it didn’t launch the franchise that it was expecting to.

Hopefully the release of Pluto will rejuvenate some interest in Tezuka’s work. After all, he did help establish the art form of manga, and without that, we probably wouldn’t have the billion-dollar anime industry as well.

No specific release date has been announced for Pluto, but you can watch out for it on Netflix sometime this year.