I’m seeing some people who have watched the Pluto anime but haven’t read the manga and are confused about some aspects of the story.
If anyone wants anything clarified I think I have the answers. I’ve read the manga a million times and waited 6 years for the anime to come out, so it’s really cool to have more people interested in the story! The fandom is finally getting bigger!
My tag for questions is “#pluto q&a”.
I recommend for anyone who hasn’t watched the anime or read the manga but you plan to watch the anime first, please skip the intro of the anime as quickly as possible because it contains spoilers.
EDIT: I have created a new side blog for Pluto related questions. (https://www.tumblr.com/500zeusabody — @500zeusabody) You can still send me asks on this blog and I'll answer them here, but I'll move the post over to the other blog so it's easier to find those answers.
I’m going to be answering all of your asks about the story under a cut so no one gets spoilers.
Ask about Blue Knight Wikipedia information:
hello, hoping you could clarify if this is true or false, just read about Blue Knight in Astro boy wikipedia and on the Brau 1589 section: Brau uses the spear in his chest to kill the supercomputer power behind Thracia, the true mastermind behind the entire conflict and "the true person responsible for Brau's crime" so my question is did Teddy command Brau to killed human? or did someone on wiki made an error? thank you for your time.
The information is false. Teddy didn't command Brau-1589 to kill anyone.
Brau-1589 described killing the human as an execution; so from his standpoint, the person he killed deserved to die. I think that is the implied parallel between who he killed and Gesicht killing Haas' brother—it was a righteous execution. Those two humans deserved to die. Part of why Brau-1589 killed was because of intense emotion which is why he knew Gesicht and he were alike. Brau-1589 understood true pain and the feeling of hatred.
He didn't kill because the supercomputer told him to. Killing who-ever-it-was probably wouldn't benefit Teddy in any way.
I’m going to be answering all of your asks about the story under a cut so no one gets spoilers.
Ask about the caretakers’ decision regarding Wassily going to Oslo:
Hi. Idk if you’re still doing Pluto asks but I have a question. I felt a bit confused about why the care worker ladies just let a couple strange men take Wassily away without consulting Epsilon. Maybe I wasn’t fully paying attention and there was some larger unavoidable reason for them giving him up? Did I miss veiled threats or something? Just felt like the ladies were all “oh well, we have to I guess…” Many thanks in advance.
Listen! When I tell you that part of the story makes me rage like a white boy punching drywall I just—! Ugh. Just call Epsilon *dial dial, beep boop bop* 'oh hey Epsi, my boss, the dude who takes care of the orphanage, hey ya listen, I know you're getting grilled right now, but uh there are some wack dudes here who want to take your kid away, you cool wit dat? no? okay. how fast can you get back here??' Done. Easy. Epsilon wouldn't have been put in the situation to go into Abra's trap. *punching drywall
I digress.
Here is my theory as to why they justified letting Mr. Johansen take Wassily without telling Epsilon based upon the circumstances and other factors which might have motivated them.
Of the seven most advanced robots, Epsilon has the most powerful and destructive capability. If he had joined in the war a lot of battles would have ended very, very quickly if he unleashed his photon energy.
The world might have believed a lot of people and robots wouldn't have died if he'd joined the fight. So they could've blamed him for not preventing so many deaths.
In the manga, it's stressed that people around the world very much despised and even abused Epsilon.
Not only did the world hate him for not fighting in the war, but also for raising human children.
Even though the war was over, Epsilon was still contemptible.
What I think is interesting is the false claim Mr. Johansen makes about him and his wife visiting the orphanage before, (in the anime, he says they've visited several times). Perhaps he's implying that Epsilon hadn't let them foster Wassily in the past and he's come back to try again but without Epsilon present to deny him. A child protection service would find Mr. Johansen, "a famous figure", being denied numerous times concerning if he had reported that experience to them. They might even send a representative with Mr. Johansen to see if something could be done about it...
What Ms. Griffith I think has to weigh is whether to deny Wassily being adopted because Epsilon wasn’t there to approve it, which would likely cause further scrutiny and a full investigation into Epsilon's orphanage as to why/if he's preventing children from being adopted and raised in a normal, human family environment possibly resulting in all of his children being taken away and the orphanage being shut down—or let Wassily be taken. They might even want to still take the other children away simply because they finally have enough of an excuse to prevent Epsilon from raising children, no matter how small the excuse was. Ms. Griffith knows the children are cared for by Epsilon more than any human could and she doesn't want that to stop. She could fear that if Epsilon had been there or if they had called him, that he might have denied Wassily being taken by Mr. Johansen which wouldn't have looked good, (unless, of course, Epsilon was given the opportunity to research the man and find out he had a fake identity and was working for Abullah). If the man accompanying Mr. Johansen had the authority to take Wassily away because of being some kind of child service representative, then maybe the caretakers legally didn't have a choice and they really were going to take Wassily no matter what. Letting Wassily be taken away would be beneficial to the orphanage and the children under Epsilon's care financially and maybe even legally.
So maybe the caretakers made the decision with the best interest of the other children in mind—and even to protect Epsilon.
But in the end, no one could protect Epsilon. Wassily and the other children still lost the one person who loved them more than anyone else in the world ever could...
Brau-1589 killed Teddy because Atom asked him to. (Atom has a bit of a relationship with Brau-1589 because he is/was the Blue Knight/Blue Bon). I don't think Atom wanted to get his hands dirty by killing a robot, but Brau-1589 would be fine with it.
