No words, genuinely no words. This is quite possible one of the best first episodes of all time.
I know a lot about Naoki Urasawa but haven't got round to reading any of his works yet. I have however, watched all of the Monster anime, which is the best anime of all time (my opinion). So when I saw that the anime of 'Pluto' had released and it has his name written on it of course I felt obliged to watching it. But bloody hell I was not expecting it to be this masterful.
The first half has a great introduction to our main character, and sets the mood of what's to come. But then the second half completely changes as it tells the story of a grumpy bitter old renowned piano composer and his butler, North No. 2. After watching heaps and heaps of anime I can say that the writing for these two characters are phenomenal and found myself in awe at the creativeness and the level of detail in which (presuming) Urasawa was writing in.
Please give the first episode a watch. I haven't seen the other episodes yet but if they continue to be at this level then this may be better than monster. Thank you for reading my review, I hope all of you will enjoy episode 1 of Naoki Urasawa's 'Pluto' as much as I did.