Pluto

Pluto
Original Title	プルートウ (Purūtō)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Iyuno, Los Angeles
Voice Director 1	Patrick Seitz
Voice Director 2	Kirsten Perotti
Translation & Adaptation	Patrick Seitz
ADR Production
Recorded	May 2023-August 2023
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	8
Year	2023

Pluto is a 2023 anime series based on the manga with the same written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized and published in Shogakugan's Big Comic Original Seinen magazine from September 5, 2003 to April 4, 2009, with a total of 8 volumes.

The anime was announced to be in production in 2017. In May 2022, the adaptation was confirmed to still be in production. animated by Studio M2, directed by Toshio Kawaguchi, It premiered worldwide on Netflix on October 26, 2023.

Synopsis Based off of a story arc from Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, Pluto follows the Europol detective Gesicht as he tries to uncover the mystery behind a string of robot and human deaths. The case becomes much more puzzling when evidence leans toward the murders being the work of a robot, which is something that hasn't happened for 8 years.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Gesicht	Shinshū Fuji	Jason Vande Brake
	Atom	Yōko Hikasa	Laura Stahl
	Uran	Minori Suzuki	Lisa Reimold
	Epsilon	Mamoru Miyano	Keith Silverstein
	Hercules	Rikiya Koyama	Richard Epcar
	Brando	Hidenobu Kiuchi	Adrian Pasdar
	North No. 2	Kōichi Yamadera	Patrick Seitz
	Mont Blanc	Hiroki Yasumoto	Keythe Farley
	Pluto	Toshihiko Seki	Fred Tatasciore
			Sean Rohani (Sahad)
Secondary Characters
	Helena	Romi Park	Mara Junot
	Professor Hiroshi Ochanomizu	Toshio Furukawa	Mike Pollock
	Professor Umataro Tenma	Eizō Tsuda	Keith David
	Professor Abullah	Kazuhiro Yamaji	Kamran Nikhad
	Brau-1589	Hideyuki Tanaka	SungWon Cho
	Professor Hoffman	Hiroshi Yanaka	Michael Sinterniklaas
	Director Schelling	Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi	Kirk Thornton
	Becker	Tsuguo Mogami	Keythe Farley
	Superintendant Tawashi	Takaya Hashi	Michael Sorich
	Inspector Nakamura	Yutaka Aoyama	Bill Chott
Recurring Characters
	Adolf Haas	Masafumi Kimura	Nolan North
		Shōgo Sakata (young; ep. 3)
		Miho Morisaki (child; ep. 3)	¿?
	Hans Haas	Arisa Sekine	Greg Vinciguerra
	Ilsa Haas	Chika Fujimura	Erica Schroeder
	Wassily	Chiyuki Miura	Cherami Leigh
	Dr. Roosevelt	Marina Inoue	Melissa Hutchison
	Shunsaku Ban	Wataru Takagi	Paul St. Peter
	Darius XIV	Shōzō Iizuka (eps. 4-5)	Zuhair Haddad
		Yasuhiro Mamiya (ep. 8)
	Arnold	Yūki Hoshi	Eric Bauza
	Minister Thomas	Yasuhiro Kikuchi	Kaiji Tang
	Junkyard Man	Ikkyū Juku	Doug Stone
	Roach Man	Masamichi Kitada	River Kanoff

Episodic Characters

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
	Paul Duncan / Paulo Holy	Michio Hazama	Ron Bottitta	1
		(child)	¿?
	Black Jack	Akio Ōtsuka	Kirk Thornton
	Professor Reinhardt	Ikkyū Juku	John Snyder
	Inspector Wallace	Jirō Saitō	Jamieson K. Price
	Robby's Wife	Yuka Terasaki	Erin Yvette
	Fireman	Kōsuke Tanabe	Elias Toufexis
	Russell		Tom Bromhead
	Marshall		Christopher R. Sabat
	Memorial Narration	Kanako Takeuchi	Rachel Slotky
	Mine	Rie Takahashi	Marissa Lenti	2
	Al Haft	Katsuhisa Hōki	Doug Stone
	Fight Commentary	Tatsuki Kōbe	David Errigo Jr.
	Painter Robot	Shinichirō Miki	Ben Lepley	3
	Cult Leader	Ikuya Sawaki	Steve Kramer
	Detective Fersen	Daichi Endō	Jason Marnocha
	Dr. Schiller	Yasuhiko Kawazu	Paul St. Peter
	Hercules' Mechanic	Yūki Hoshi	Elias Toufexis
	Adolf's Father	Kōsuke Takaguchi
	Adolf's Brother	Hideto Nitta	¿?
		Ai Kaneta (child)	¿?
	Civil Engineering Work Robot	Kengo Tsujii	¿?
	Wagner		Jesse Corti
	Yujiro	Kenji Hamada	Isaac Robinson-Smith	4
	Detective Lieman	Kengo Tsujii	Paul St. Peter
	Takashi	Mariko Nagai	Jessica DiCicco
	Goji	Masami Iwasaki	Cam Clarke
	Yamagishi	Masamichi Kitada	Elias Toufexis
	Takashi's Mother	Akira Kuwabara	Erica Mendez
	Armstrong	Yasuhiro Mamiya	Christopher Sabat	5
	Meyer	Takeshi Hirabayashi	Marc Thompson
	Detective Henry	Junya Miura	David Errigo Jr.
	Sakamoto		Sean Rohani
	Bullied Boy	Eri Kitamura	Valeria Rodriguez	6
	Sahad's Landlady	Kaoru Katakai	Lori Alan
	Muhammed Ali	Wakana Minami	Christina Costello
	Anton		Jessica DiCicco
	Florist	Yūko Minaguchi	Cherami Leigh
	Botany Professor	Minoru Inaba	Joe Ochman
	Hogan	Kōsuke Takaguchi	Imari Williams	7
	General Scott	Kenichirō Matsuda	Jamieson Price
	Griffith	Yūko Tachibana	Lori Alan
	Simon	Mitsuru Ogata	Joe Ochman
	Johansen	Zenki Kitajima	Robert Clotworthy
	Deacon		Colleen O'Shaughnessey
	Eden National Park Guide	Naomi Maruyama	Laila Berzins	8
	President Alexander	Kenyū Horiuchi	Kiff VandenHeuvel
	Kurt	Yūna Ogata	Colleen O'Shaughnessey
	Kurt's Father	Kei Kawamura	¿?
	Kurt's Mother	Hidenori Kondo	¿?
	Robita		Christina Costello
	Bora	Shūhei Matsuda	¿?

Additional Voices

Lori Alan Laila Berzins Johnny Yong Bosch Tom Bromhead Bill Chott Cam Clarke - Old Fireman, Additional Voices Robert Clotworthy Jesse Corti Christina Costello Noshir Dalal Jessica DiCicco David Errigo Jr. Cassie Ewulu Keythe Farley Zuhair Haddad Melissa Hutchison Andrew Kishino Steve Kramer Aleks Le Cherami Leigh Marissa Lenti Emi Lo

Jason Marnocha Kyle McCarley Erica Mendez Joe Ochman Colleen O'Shaughnessey Jamieson Price Isaac Robinson-Smith Valeria Rodriguez Sean Rohani Erica Schroeder Patrick Seitz Rachel Slotky Michael Sorich Doug Stone Kaiji Tang Marc Thompson Kirk Thornton Elias Toufexis Greg Vinciguerra Imari Williams River Kanoff Erin Yvette

Notes

• This is Patrick Seitz’s first dub he directed and written at Iyuno, Los Angeles.
• This is Jason Vande Brake, David Errigo Jr., Keythe Farley, Zuhir Haddad, Eric Bauza, Melissa Hutchison, Ben Lepley, Fred Tatasciore, Bill Chott, Cam Clarke, Robert Clotworthy, Jesse Corti, Keith David, Paul St. Peter, Nolan North, Kamran Nikhad, Adrian Pasdar, Ron Bottitta, Jason Marnocha, Lisa Reimold, Isaac Robinson-Smith, John Snyder, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Elias Toufexis, Greg Vinciguerra, and Erin Yvette‘s first anime dub contribution at Iyuno, Los Angeles.
  • It's also John Snyder's first anime dub not done at either Bang Zoom! Entertainment and New Generation Pictures respectively since the dub of Monster recorded at Salami Studios 14 years ago.
  • It's also Lisa Reimold's second anime dub not done at Bang Zoom! Entertainment.
  • This is also Emi Lo's first anime dub at Iyuno, Los Angeles since the dub for Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles released back in December of 2021.
  • This is also Marissa Lenti and Erica Mendez’s first anime dub at Iyuno, Los Angeles since the dub for Pokémon Journeys: The Series released back in June 12th, 2020.
  • This is also Marc Thompson's first non-Pokémon role at Iyuno, Los Angeles.
  • This is also Erin Yvette’s first anime dub not done at Studiopolis.
• This is Melissa Hutchison's first anime dub in 4 years since Cannon Busters.
• This is Fred Tatasciore's first anime dub in 3 years since Great Pretender.
• This is Keith David's first anime dub in 23 years since 3x3 Eyes.
• Steve Kramer voiced the Director in the English dub pilot for Astro Boy (2003).
• Kirk Thornton respired his role as Black Jack as cameo at flashback in episode 1.
• Dallas-based voice actor, Christopher Sabat, made a guest appearance in this series as Armstrong and Marshall.
• This is Jason Vande Brake, and Bill Chott's debut anime role.

Transmission via Streaming

Company	Date	Category	Format	Content	Classification	Country
	October 26, 2023	Anime / Netflix Original series	Digital	8 eps.	TV-14	United States

External Links

• Pluto at the Internet Movie Database.
• Pluto (anime) on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia.
• Pluto on Behind The Voice Actors.