History YMMV / Pluto

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A number of readers found Pluto's characterization in the original Manga/AstroBoy manga to be [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic very hard to sympathize with]], due to the fact he showed no remorse for the murders he was ordered out and did not have enough of a sympathetic backstory, other than just being programmed that way by his creator. In this series, however, [[AdaptationalSympathy he is rewritten into a more tragic figure]], where he is now a more TragicVillain, brainwashed into becoming a killing machine against his will, and he shows remorse for his actions multiple times, wishing to be put out of his misery so he can stop killing. It's easy to see why many prefer this version of Pluto's character over the original version.

* SuperlativeDubbing: The Netflix animated series is lauded for its excellent voicework, with heavyweights like KeithDavid lending gravitas to already-well-written characters.

** The Anti-Robot Supremacist disappear from the plot after Gesicht saves Adolf.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Epsilon. What makes it even more difficult is that ''Pluto''[='=]s Epsilon is a composite character of the original & 2003 series Epsilon, the latter of whom was "[[RobotGirl female]]". The anime adaptation gave him a male voice courtesy of Creator/MamoruMiyano and Creator/KeithSilverstein, the latter whom previously voiced Johan Liebert in Naoki Urasawa's previous work, ''Manga/{{Monster}}''.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A number of readers found Pluto's characterization in the original Manga/AstroBoy manga to be [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic very hard to sympathize with]], due to the fact he showed no remorse for the murders he was ordered out and did not have enough of a sympathetic backstory, other than just being programmed that way by his creator. In this series, however, [[AdaptationalSympathy he is rewritten into a more tragic figure]], where he was a former human turned cyborg, brainwashed into becoming a killing machine against his will, and he shows remorse for his actions multiple, wishing to be put out of his misery so he can stop killing. It's easy to see why many prefer this version of Pluto's character over the original version.

* {{Applicability}}: The war in Persia is a direct parallel to the Iraq War, but the messages of a vague hard to pin down target granting justification to attack civilians has lead to fans applying it to numerous other conflicts as well. With the anime's release in late 2023 it was very common for fans to draw parallels to the genocide in Gaza.

* {{Applicability}}: The war in Persia is a direct parallel to the Iraq War, but the messages of an imaginary target granting justification to attack civilians has lead to fans applying it to numerous other conflicts as well. With the anime's release in late 2023 it was very common for fans to draw parallels to the genocide in Gaza.

** [[spoiler: Adolf's Brother, like Adolf himself he's part of a Anti-Robot bigot movement but was hated by even his fellow racist for how far he took it, we get an Idea how depraved he is from the reveal he had killed Gesicht's robot child among several other robot children.]]

** Adolf's Brother, like Adolf himself he's part of a Anti-Robot bigot movement but was hated by even his fellow racist for how far he took it, we get an Idea how depraved he is from the reveal he had killed Gesicht's robot child among several other robot children.

** Bora itself for that matter, for all the destruction it was capable of and the fact it left the few who saw it in action with horrible PTSD, you'd probably have expected it to be a truly horrible monstrosity instead of a chunky rock golem with no discernible features.