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7. Pluto

For: Your Friend Who Just Adored Blade Runner 2049

The first and only manga on this list, Pluto is phenomenal.

It justifies the existence of manga to me, and that’s something I previously thought impossible. Pluto is also maybe the only good grim and gritty reboot.

The series took an arc of the beloved children’s manga Astro Boy and turned it into a serious detective thriller about Geischt, a robot detective who tracked a series of ritualistic robot and human murders. If your buddy likes thinky sci-fi that’s mostly about the emotions of robots, this is exactly what you want to give him.

Honestly, the first volume is worth it, even if just for the specific mini-arc about North No. 2, the former war robot who found new life as the butler to a composer. That little tale has so much depth and meaning that it will blow you away.