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Urasawa Boys

A podcast about the collected works of Naoki Urasawa

Pluto 9: Wrap-Up

After taking a quick video detour with our extremely serious and scientific RANKING OF ROBOTS - the Urasawa Boys are back to wrap up this season on Pluto! We spend some time talking about our final feelings on the comic before getting into some of the neat stuff from the afterwards of each volume, which Matt admits, he should have been reading the whole time! After that we get into a few quick questions, and then talk a little bit about what's coming down the road - a brief hiatus, and then the start of a new season on Master Keaton! Thanks for sticking with us through the ups-and-downs of our journey through Pluto, please enjoy this final episode of us getting into it on Tezuka, Urasawa, and all those dang

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Pluto: Ranking of Robots

A quick announcement! In lieu of the traditional wrap-up episode, Matt put together a tournament style bracket to determine which of the robots that appeared in PLUTO was The

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Pluto 8: The Greatest Robot in History

Ah, Montblanc... Ah, North No. 2... Ah, Brando... Ah, Hercules... Ah, Gesicht... Ah, Epsilon... Ah, Pluto... You lived the live given you without hesitation, self-doubt, shame

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Pluto 7: The Greatest Bodyguard on Earth (Again)

Urasawa Boys is BACK and there's no time to mourn for Gesicht! Just like that, we're in Australia! Tune in for some heated discussion of the story's pivot to Epsilon's turn in

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Pluto 6: The Most Indestructible Robo-Botanist on Earth (Tragic)

And we're back! Here to welcome in the summer season after a nice 3-day weekend here in the US, Matt and Quinn re-convene for another episode of Urasawa Boys, to discuss the

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Pluto 5: The Most American Teddy Bear on Earth

Flashbacks, revelations, symbolism, religion, history, and incredible robot battles - all of these things and more are here, in this month's groundbreaking episode of URASAWA

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Pluto 4: The Greatest Bodyguard(s) on Earth

Seminars on software to replace paperwork - a massive workplace machine disassembled into Ikea-esque pieces - newspaper interviews of a local heroic pizza parlor employee - a

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Pluto 3: The Worst Detective on Earth

Move over THE BRUTALIST - Urasawa Boys is back with episode 3 of our season on Pluto! Just as long (three and a half hours) but also featuring powerful robots who understand

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The Quickest Announcement on Earth

Whoops! We accidentally recorded a 4-hour podcast on this week's reading. Matt has to teach a class at work today and tomorrow, so he couldn't finish the edit on time, but it

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Pluto 2: The Luckiest Robot at the Bottom of the Ocean

Woah! Two in a row? We're BACK! This time, Urasawa Boys delves deep into the second volume of Pluto, and we talk about how maybe this comic about giant robots fighting (with not

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Pluto 1: The Saddest Robot in Scotland

URASAWA BOYS is back!! Exactly on schedule - 2 weeks (and 1 year) after our Episode 0 on "Astro Boy: The Greatest Robot on Earth," we're finally beginning our coverage of Pluto.

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