The Pluto anime was originally announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2017, revealing that Maruyama’s Studio M2 was to produce the series.
Maruyama had previously produced the Monster and Master Keaton anime adaptations at MADHOUSE, both of which adapted Urasawa’s manga series of the same name.
After years of silence about the anime adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning Pluto manga, Studio M2 founder and producer Masao Maruyama confirmed in a Twitter reply today that the series is still happening and that the staff “are working hard on it.”