I like the way on the cover the creators are given as Naoki Urasawa multiplied by Osamu Tezuka. I honestly nearly did lose it whilst reading this on the way home on the tram, I could feel the tears welling up.īased on an ASTRO BOY story by Osamu Tezuka its been completely deconstructed and rebuilt from the ground up by Naoki Urasawa, he of MONSTER fame. There is one particularly pathos-filled moment involving North 2, a former military robot now working as a butler for a blind and embittered reclusive composer who is tormented by the strange snatch of song he has stuck in his head. There is so much emotion packed into the writing in this book it's surprising it's not oozing out of the pages.
But who exactly would have the means to execute such crimes and not leave even a single trace of evidence behind?
There are, however, some humans who are not comfortable at all with robots, particularly those very advanced ones which are indistinguishable from humans, and it appears that someone is determined to destroy all seven. Set in a world where mechanoid-looking robots, having been granted limited rights, perform many everyday jobs and live harmoniously alongside humans, there are seven well known and almost universally loved robots which are much more advanced than all of the others, although as yet, no robot is known to have developed any true emotional capabilities.
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