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[	 			 PLUTO Act 18					]		
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[ First Published in:	Big Comic Original #08/2005 				]
[ Artist: 		Naoki Urasawa						]
[ Based on:		"Tetsuwan Atomu - The Strongest Robot on Earth" 	]
[  			by Osamu Tezuka						]
[ Official Site:	http://www.bigoriginal.shogakukan.co.jp/pluto/	(J)	]
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[ Translator:		Stephen Paul						]
[ Editor:		petr							]
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[ Being the latest manga by Naoki Urasawa (Monster, 20th Century Boys) 		]
[ "Pluto"'s story is actually based on a very old source, Osamu Tezuka's 	]
[ "Tetsuwan Atomu" (a.k.a. Astro Boy). Using the characters from the ever-	]
[ popular "Chijou saidai no ROBOTTO" (engl. The Strongest/Biggest Robot on	] 
[ Earth) story arc published in the 13th volume of the original manga series	] 
[ Urasawa has created a suspenseful SF-thriller which centers around the 	]
[ Europol robot officer "Gesicht" and his attempt to catch a sadistic and 	]
[ powerful killer in the futuristic Germany who victimizes both robots and 	]
[ humans for no apparent reason. The case becomes explosive when the first 	]
[ evidences indicate a robot's doings -- something that hasn't happened		]
[ in 8 years...   								]
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[ About this release:								]
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[ This scanlation was created from low-quality magazine scans. A high-quality 	]
[ edit using the paperback (tankoubon) as source is expected to be released by	] 
[ MangaScreener (http://www.mangascreener.com) in the near future.		]
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