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Originally Posted by Gooral

But plot-wise and character-wise it's worse than any seinen I know (excluding Ubel Blatt). The kid is annoying from the start, something like Raki from Claymore but worse since he has almost as big role as Garami. And he's constantly in deep shit in one second and miraculously rescued in the next.

Spoiler for volume 1:

First, from all the people that were in the caravan only he wasn't killed. Then he was rescued from starvation by Garami. Then he ended up as a slave and had a broken bottle *by accident* near him and he was fast enough to use it. Then he was sent to a violent prisoner who turned out to be a child lover and he just happened to have a healing ointment (yeah, they've managed to put him into chains but couldn't search him? Or they did and they allowed him to have something like that even though he was supposed to become pig food? It would be better if he wasn't in full health in that case, wouldn't you think?). Then one of the blocks was loose enough to take it out and the hole big enough for him to get through. But the win (in a bad way) of this volume for me was for him *accidentally* fall into a sewer/underground passage that led directly to super valuable princess' room . Also the kid's family has just been massacred and he's as cheerful as a kid in Disneyland. If that's seinen than PLUTO is shounen.

Spoiler:

• He did not accidentally survive; he was spared to tell the tale—it was pretty clearly explained, how did you miss it.
• God knows how much time passed since Garami found him; she could have spotted the giant fire from the distance and just changed course towards him, seems pretty plausible to me.
• He ended up as a slave after several chapters, not right after, which is an untold amount of time. The strange part in that scene was that there should have been a lot more broken bottles, not that there was one.
• The violent prisoner there was not a child lover, he was just not the "violent prisoner" you were told he was. If anyone else was thrown with him the same thing would have happened. This was also explained quite clearly.
• As for the ointment, it's not like it was a lethal weapon or anything, or that they searched him that thoughrly. For all we know it was also inside the few clothes he still had on him. Also you've played too many RPGs if you think that little bit of powder is miracle dust and so important.
• What's so unrealistic about a block being loose? It did not look like were cemented together, if anything it's surprising a lot more were not loose.
• The princess was a slave too, so it's not like she was necessarily in a tower or anything

Personally I get the impression you just skimmed though it and looked at the pretty pictures. A lot of what you said was so blatantly explained using entire pages it's not even funny.