History Trivia / Pluto

* AllStarCast: The anime’s English dub cast includes several voice actors who don’t often dub anime, notably Adrian Pasdar, Nolan North, Eric Bauza and Keythe Farley.

* AllStarCast: The anime’s English dub cast includes several voice actors who don’t often dub anime, notably Adrian Pasdar, Nolan North, Eric Bauza and Keith David.

* AllStarCast: The anime’s English dub cast includes several voice actors who don’t often dub anime, notably Adrian Pasdar, Nolan North, and Keith David.

* AllStarCast: the English dub has many big names in the anime even some celebrities in it.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: the English dub has Creator/KeithDavid playing Dr Tenma.

** In his cameo, Black Jack is voiced in Japanese by Creator/AkioOhtsuka and in English by Creator/KirkThornton, just like in the OVAs of his own series.

* RealitySubtext: The Iraq War and Saddam Husein's capture and execution loom large in the story, despite ostensibly taking place in the future. ''Pluto'' debuted in 2003, which in the original ''Manga/AstroBoy'' manga from the 1950s was the year Astro was created, but in real life was the year the Iraq War began.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: the English dub has some legendary actors like Creator/KeithDavid.

** Creator/SungWonCho, the voice of BRAU-1589 in the anime adaptation, [[https://twitter.com/ProZD/status/1717482734808113175 has cited the original manga]] as being one of his all-time favorites. Twelve years before the anime's debut, he even voiced and edited a fandub of Gesicht and BRAU's meeting from the manga.

* CastingGag: The LawyerFriendlyCameo of ''Manga/BlackJack'' is voiced by Creator/AkioOtsuka and Creator/KirkThornton in Japanese and English respectively, both of whom having previously voiced the character.

** Similarly Creator/PatrickSeitz (who both directed/wrote the dub & voiced North No. 2) became a huge Urasawa fan after working on ''Monster'' and [[https://twitter.com/Seitz_Unseen/status/1626090486430842881 publicly lobbied for the opportunity]] to work on ''Pluto'' which, of course, came true.

* CastingGag: The LawyerFriendlyCameo of 'Manga/BlackJack'' is voiced by Creator/AkioOtsuka and Creator/KirkThornton in Japanese and English respectively, both of whom having previously voiced the character.

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/SungWonCho, the voice of BRAU-1589 in the anime adaptation, [[https://twitter.com/ProZD/status/1717482734808113175 has cited the original manga]] as being one of his all-time favorites. Twelve years before the anime's debut, he even voiced and edited a fandub of Gesicht and BRAU's meeting from the manga.

* DevelopmentHell: The anime was announced in 2017. After six years, it finally premiered on Netflix in 2023.

** In the English dub, some of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'''s voice cast were reunited like Creator/PatrickSeitz (Wolfgang Grimmer) as North No. 2, Creator/RichardEpcar (Inspector Lunge) as Hercules and Creator/KeithSilverstein (Johan Liebert) as Epsilon. Seitz also directed and wrote the anime adaptation’s English dub much like he did in ''Monster''.

** In the English dub, some of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'''s voice cast were reunited like Creator/PatrickSeitz (Wolfgang Grimmer) as North No. 2, Creator/RichardEpcar (Inspector Lunge) as Hercules and Creator/KeithSilverstein (Johan Liebert) as Epsilon. Seitz also directed and wrote the anime adaptation much like he did in ''Monster''.

** In the English dub, some of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'''s voice cast were reunited like Creator/PatrickSeitz (Wolfgang Grimmer) as North No. 2, Creator/RichardEpcar (Inspector Lunge) as Hercules and Creator/KeithSilverstein (Johan Liebert) as Epsilon. Seitz also directed and wrote much like he did in ''Monster''.

** In the English dub, some of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'''s voice cast were reunited like Creator/PatrickSeitz (Wolfgang Grimmer) as Mont Blanc, Creator/RichardEpcar (Inspector Lunge) as Hercules and Creator/KeithSilverstein (Johan Liebert) as Epsilon. Seitz also directed and wrote much like he did in ''Monster''.

** In the English dub, some of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'''s voice cast were reunited like Creator/PatrickSeitz (Wolfgang Grimmer) as Mont Blanc and Creator/KeithSilverstein (Johan Liebert) as Epsilon.

* PlayingAgainstType: A ReusedCharacterDesign version. Urasawa gives the philanthropic Epsilon the same character design as the sociopathic Johan from ''Manga/{{Monster}}''.

* YouSoundFamiliar: Gesicht's wife, Helena is voiced by Creator/RomiPark in the anime, prior to this Park had voiced Astro/Atom himself in ''Go Astro Boy Go!''.

* YouSoundFamiliar: Helena is voiced by Creator/RomiPark who previously voiced Astro/Atom in ''Go Astro Boy Go!'', the most recent ''Astro Boy'' anime prior to ''Pluto''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The Iraq War and Saddam Husein's capture and execution loom large in the story, despite ostensibly taking place in the future. ''Pluto'' debuted in 2003, which in the original ''Manga/AstroBoy'' manga from the 1950s was the year Astro was created, but in real life was the year the Iraq War began.