If you’ve finished watching Pluto on Netflix, you undoubtedly have a lot of questions. Unquestionably, the eight-part adaptation of the manga by Naoki Urasawa bears a dark and twisting sci-fi allure, but even with episodes lasting more than an hour, the tale is extremely difficult to follow.
By the time we get to the end, Pluto will have destroyed every one of the top seven robots in the world. Or, anyway, that’s how it looks from the outside. There’s only one atom left. Dr. Tenma, the child’s original designer, used drastic techniques to bring the robot back to life.
Dr. Tenma entered data into Atom that contained strong emotions, mostly hatred, which are alien to the robot race, in an attempt to bring him back to life. He thought that by doing this, Atom would be forced to wake up from what was effectively a coma and recalibrate.
Although Tenma’s scheme succeeded, is Atom still the same upbeat, charitable optimist that he always was? Is he something else entirely, perhaps? Maybe more important, though, is whether or not this new atom will be sufficient to overcome Pluto where others have failed.
Pluto’s Ending Explained
Even though Atom was back, Professor Ochanomizu started to doubt whether it was proper to ask Dr. Tenma for assistance because of the drastic changes he had undergone. This new atom looked disengaged, and perhaps more concerningly, it had begun writing arbitrary equations on the wall.
But those equations proved not to be as random as first believed. They were the recipe for an anti-proton bomb. “What is that?” one may ask. Atom has written a how-to manual for the end of the planet, to use Ochanomizu’s words.” Replicating the recipe for the most devastating weapon ever produced by humans, he was able to destroy the entire globe.
It soon becomes clear that this enjoyable Atom 2.0 is due to Detective Gesicht’s memories. Gesicht was the source of Tenma’s input into Atom; it included Gesicht’s memories, including the intense animosity he carried from a past incident in his life.
After Atom ran away, Professor Ochanomizu set out to find him in the hopes of reversing Dr. Tenma’s attempts to save him and bringing Atom back to his former, emotionally balanced state. Later, Ochanomizu caught up with Atom and watched him from a distance.
Atom had once looked upon a snail with unending delight, but now he glanced down at it with a blank expression that gave way to an intense one. Ochanomizu realized that Atom was analyzing what would later be revealed to be Gesicht’s memories.
Important milestones in Gesicht’s life happened under Atom’s metal eyes. He glimpsed Gesicht’s life with Helena in them. The mechanical kid they had taken in nourished and tended to The child’s murder and Gesicht’s retaliation on Haas, Adolf’s brother, for killing his kid
Atom also saw Gesicht’s last moments before he passed away, and Adolf and Gesicht reconciled despite their hostile past. Facebook learned a very important lesson in the final moments before he passed away: “Nothing comes from hatred but more hate.”
Atom’s conflicted, hate-filled mind was calmed by Gesicht’s final words, which also helped him return to his previous state. Now that Atom had stabilized, he could finally tell Dr. Ochanomizu everything Gesicht had not had time to do before he passed away: his research on Pluto, the killings by robots and humans, and the specifics of Bora.
Atom claims that Darius XIV, the former king of Persia, was the starting point of it all. Darius wanted to revivify the country’s vast deserts, and to that end, he asked Abullah to build a massive robot that could help terraform the ground and restore its lushness and fertility. They dubbed this the Bora project.
The original intention behind Bora was not to be a weapon of mass destruction. But Abullah gave up on the failed trials after the prototypes failed, leaving piles of robot corpses in a cellar.
Thracia said that Persia was building an army of war robots, and those were the bodies that Professor Ochinomizu and the Bora fact-finding team found. They went to war as a result, starting the 39th Asian battle.
Abullah enlisted Tenma to assist in the construction of a robot with the most sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) available to accomplish its mission.
He believed that they had failed to awaken the robot, but Abullah was able to build Bora with the assistance of a scientist called Goji. Our understanding is that a significant amount of time has elapsed between the founding of Bora and the current happenings.
In an attempt to force Dr. Tenma into implanting Abullah’s brain into Bora, the world’s most potent cyborg, Abullah abducted the reluctant doctor. Now, this is where things start to get crazy, complicated, and unexpected, so before we explain, let’s briefly recap Abullah’s past.
Abullah lost his family in the 39th Asian War, leaving him filled with anger and grief. He was unaware that he also passed away shortly after their passing.
As he was dying, he wished that Dr. Tenma would insert his downloaded memory chip into the flawless AI robot they had built—the one that had never woken up because it was having trouble deciding which of the 9.9 million personalities had been added to its database.
However, it appears that Abullah’s recollections were sufficient. The robot was able to awaken when fury, anguish, sorrow, and hate were introduced. They broke through all of the confusion. Because Abullah found the truth too difficult to face, he deceived himself into believing he was still human.
He was the one who created Bora by using his other identity, Goji, thereby uniting Goji and Abullah. “Two personalities operating out of a single robot.”
Today, this knowledge overwhelms Abullah, causing him to have a robot meltdown in which he starts to malfunction. His robot bugs took out his memory chip and inserted it into Bora while he lay motionless on the ground.
Bora was determined to wipe off humanity since she had become strong enough to do so. The robot intended to utilize the anti-proton bomb to bring off a doomsday scenario by taking advantage of the volcano that was scheduled to erupt.
The only person still capable of stopping him is Atom, but before he can do so, he has to deal with Pluto, who has resumed his pursuit of him since learning of his resurrection. When Atom and Pluto squared up, Atom’s resentment at the deaths of his fellow robot comrades gave him the strength he needed to defeat Pluto.
But just as he was ready to murder Pluto, he was stopped by a thought of Gesicht’s final remarks about the pointlessness of hatred, as well as a remembrance of the empathy shown to the six robots who perished before him. After Atom saved Pluto’s life, Pluto started to cry in agony, and Sahad’s inner self took over.
After solving the Pluto conundrum, Atom had Bora to deal with. He found Bora in the National Park, which served as the epicenter of the devastating eruption. Atom tried to use Gesicht’s final words to teach Bora about the cycle of hatred and to play on his compassionate side, but Bora was not interested in learning.
When that failed, Atom decided to defuse the bomb on his own, knowing that he would die in any case but hoping to do so before his body failed from the extreme heat.
But instead of leaving Atom to fight the bomb on his own, the transformed Pluto shielded the little robot with his strong palm, allowing him to endure the heat long enough to defuse it safely. Sadly, Pluto had Atom give him the recipe for the anti-proton bomb after Bora was shown to be a formidable opponent.
Pluto removed the hand that was holding Atom from his body against Atom’s will, keeping Atom safe as he continued to neutralize the threat. When Pluto and Bora crashed, the code that was implanted in him allowed him to neutralize the volcanic heat and preserve the planet. But in the process, his life is lost.
The season’s events, beginning with the plan to eliminate the most powerful robots on Earth, have been masterfully orchestrated by the president of Thracia and one malevolent robot bear. This is only one of several revelations that occur in the finale.
With everything going wrong, the president of Thracia escaped to the shelter of his robot bear buddy, ignoring his duties. The bear made it quite evident that robots would rule the planet after the volcano eruption wiped out all life, leaving only ten percent of people.
