{"id":178373,"date":"2023-07-05T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/?p=178373"},"modified":"2023-07-05T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:46:28","slug":"pluto-anime-expo-2023-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/post\/178373\/pluto-anime-expo-2023-panel","title":{"rendered":"Pluto’s Producer Masao Maruyama Looks Back on the 10 Years of Production at Anime Expo 2023 Netflix Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pluto<\/a><\/strong> may not be a manga that is widely perceived in the English circle, but if you are a fan of “the God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka or have ever heard of the name Astra Boy, you’ll understand why the expectation of an anime series is high-rocketing when it first reveals its steam in Netflix earlier this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday at the Netflix panel at Anime Expo<\/a><\/strong>, Pluto executive producer Masao Maruyama took the stage to talk a little bit about this upcoming adaptation of Naoki Urusawa’s famed take on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy. At the packed Main Event panel, Maruyama mentioned his aspiration of producing this signature manga into a fully-fledged animated series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I joined the Japanese animation industry when there wasn’t a word for “animation.” We called it moving pictures at that time. And ever since that, I’ve been in this industry for 60 years. And I’m pleased that I could showcase my 60 years of history in this anime series,” said the co-founder of Madhouse, as well as the founder of MAPPA and Studio M2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maruyama added that the Pluto anime series was created by a group of energetic creators who just want to do something fun. “We’ve worked Pluto for around ten years and it is probably the longest production we’ve ever made. We basically give it our all in this anime.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As one of the most experienced producers in the Japanese animation industry, Maruyama has worked in Tezuka’s Mushi Productions in his earlier years, making him the perfect person to be in charge of this anime series that pays tribute to the prominent manga artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reimaging Tezuka\u2019s mid-1960s \u201cGreatest Robot on Earth\u201d story arc for a new generation, Pluto revolves around a cyber-noir story about a future detective chasing down a string of murders that might have been committed by a robot. And to let us understand more about the efforts that the team has poured into the anime, a new trailer was shown during the panel highlighting the conflicts between humans and robots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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