Source: Pluto – a re-imagining of Astro Boy by the mangaka of MONSTER,
(FYI the man, Gesicht, is also a robot, just far more advanced)
Pluto is an amazing work in general, but this early scene stuck with me hard for how perfectly Urasawa communicated the sense of loss and sorrow without resorting to traditional visual cues of emotion for the robot woman’s reaction. It’s one thing to convey the loss of a loved one, but it’s a whole other thing entirely to convey it with a character who can’t physically emote and still have it work flawlessly.
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