Shogakukan's website for its Big Comic series of magazines began listing on Tuesday that Naoki Urasawa's Pluto manga is getting an animated series adaptation that will stream exclusively on Netflix.
GENCO's booth at the MIFA film market at the 2017 Annecy International Animation Film Festival had listed that the manga was getting an anime adaptation, but the anime was never officially announced. According to GENCO at the time, Studio M2 was producing the anime. Masao Maruyama, who is the representative director at M2, served as producer for anime adaptations of Urasawa's Monster, Master Keaton, and Yawara! manga when he worked at Madhouse Studios.