Somewhere between a detective story and a philosophical question about what a machine owes its creator, Pluto follows a robot investigator who realizes the case he's working might end with him.
What is Pluto about?
In a future where advanced robots and humans coexist uneasily, someone begins hunting down the world's seven most sophisticated robots one at a time, along with the human allies connected to them. Inspector Gesicht, himself among the most capable robots in existence, takes the case expecting to find a pattern he can outthink. Instead each murder scrapes closer to questions he'd rather not ask about memory, grief, and what separates his own mind from the machines he's investigating, until the line between hunter and target starts to blur.
Cast & crew
Shinshu Fuji voices Inspector Gesicht, anchoring a story that spends as much time inside his doubts as it does on the murders he's chasing. The 60-minute episodes give the mystery room to breathe, favoring slow-building dread over quick answers.
Context & significance
Pluto arrived in 2023 as an animated adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's acclaimed manga, itself a reimagining of a classic arc from Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy recast as a noir mystery for adult audiences. That lineage shows in how the series treats its science-fiction premise less as spectacle and more as a lens for questions about grief, memory, and what it would mean for a machine to inherit human trauma. Reviews on release singled out its patient pacing and willingness to let quiet character moments carry as much weight as the central case. That approach makes the eventual reveals land harder, since so much of the runtime is spent earning the audience's sympathy for characters on both sides of the investigation.
Where & how to watch
Pluto streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Farsi subtitles, so viewers can choose either. Reading about the series here doesn't require signing in, but watching the episodes does — a free K-Time account opens the door, inside a fully Farsi interface designed for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere.