The upcoming Pluto anime has revealed information on the additional cast members ahead of its October 26 release date exclusively on Netflix. Studio M2 is animating the series, while GENCO is producing it.
Included in the additional cast is Toshio Furukawa as Dr. Ochanomizu, Eizou Tsuda as Dr. Tenma, Romi Park as Geschit’s wife, Helena, Michio Hazama as Duncan, Hideyuki Tanaka as Brau-1589, Kazuhiro Yamaji as Professor Abullah, and Kenyu Horiuchi as President Alexander. Previously announced cast members include:
- Gesicht: Shinshu Fuji
- Atom: Yoko Hikasa
- Uran: Minori Suzuki
- Mont blanc: Hiroki Yasumoto
- North No.2: Koichi Yamadera
- Brando: Hidenobu Kiuchi
- Hercules: Rikiya Koyama
- Epsilon: Mamoru Miyano
- Pluto: Toshihiko Seki
The Pluto anime was first announced in 2017 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France. It has been in production for 7 years, with Studio M2 founder Masao Maruyama confirming in 2022 that the anime is still in the works.
The Pluto manga is based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy manga, specifically the “The Greatest Robot on Earth” arc. Pluto was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Original magazine from September 2003 to April 2009. Viz Media has licensed the manga in English, describing the first volume as:
In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated…except for one very conspicuous clue – the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims’ heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case – and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.
Source: Official Website, Netflix Japan Twitter
© Tezuka Productions / Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki / “PLUTO” Production Committee
