Do you believe robots will gain the power to live just like us humans? In the new show Pluto that was released on October 26, 2023 on the streaming platform Netflix a world with robots being identical to humans is explored. It is directed by Toshio Kawaguchi and the lead voice actor is Jason Vande Brake.
The anime consists of a few main characters who are involved with the conflict evolving from Dr. Tenma the scientist behind inventing the ultimate AI system. A child robot named Atom is one of his creations who helps investigate the murders with a robot detective named Gesicht. Gesicht views Atom as a very intelligent and advanced robot, which makes them both targets to a murderous robot tasked with hunting down the advance robot sepecies.
Atom is also very close with a scientist by the name of Ochanomizu, who can fix damaged robots. Lastly, a fighter by the name of Mont Blanc, one of Gesicht’s friends, was the first to die by this murderous robot.
Detective Gesicht was assigned to investigate the case but had many issues trying to understand who the murderer is. There is a rule that humans can’t kill the robots and vise versa, so while Gesicht got new information about the killer, he was afraid that he may become too identical to a human since the killer is a robot created with human feelings.
Robots are afraid and about becoming human, because they don’t want to feel the range of emotions we go through and the fear of memory loss. He was ordered to leave the case alone due to this reason; but as the killer kept attacking, he couldn’t help but receive frequencies from Atom, who felt something was wrong with Ochanomizu.
While Ochanomizu was at his home, a robot named Goji who was created by Dr. Tenma broke into his home asking for him to call Atom, because he was the next victim. Ochanomizu didn’t give up Atom’s location nor call for him, but during their conversation he arrived and saved Ochano from being killed by a robot.
The main issue of robots not being able to murder humans and humans not being able to murder robots is the central issue of the show. As robots and humans become almost identical, the lines are blurred and become more complicated. Overall, Pluto is an excellent show and worthy of a five out of five rating.