In 1964, influential manga artist Tezuka created a revolutionary story arc in his Astro Boys series called The Greatest Robot on Earth. Now, four decades later, Urasawa creates a daring revisionist take on Tezuka's masterpiece and transforms it into a new groundbreaking series of his own. In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.