That flower moment plays a lot different in the Pluto manga

polygon.com:

Pluto, the long-awaited anime adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s 2003 manga based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, is finally here and it’s amazing. The eight-episode series is a fastidiously faithfull retelling of the original story, following the globe-spanning adventure of a robot detective named Gesicht investigating a mysterious series of killings in a futuristic world where humans and robots live side by side. It’s a genuinely beautiful and engaging series, garnering effusive praise from none other than Hideo Kojima himself, and easily one of the most impressive anime to premiere this year.

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While the anime is for the most part a one-to-one adaptation of the manga, there’s one crucial moment in the story whose impact may be lost on audiences only familiar with the anime — and it’s entirely attributable to the gap between the medium of animation and comics.

[Ed. note: Spoilers for the Pluto anime and manga follow.]

In episode 3, audiences are introduced to Uran, a highly advanced humanoid robot and the “sister” to Pluto’s secondary protagonist, Atom. Equipped with the ability to sense human, animal, and robot emotions, Uran is a mischievous yet kindhearted character who cares deeply for the safety of others (as seen in the episode’s opening scene, when she stubbornly rescues a young boy from a group of lions and tigers without any casualties).

Later in the episode, Uran chooses on a whim to skip school after sensing