The following review may contain elements that may be considered as a spoiler. However, I will try not to describe the flow of the story beyond the first episode without clearly indicating it.
Being alone is not an easy task. Most people despite everything need the presence of others in their life. Moreover, being left alone for longer period can have a very negative reflection on well-being. Thats exactly the case with Takuma, who looks like someone who has no one close to him in his surroundings. But is there surely no one?
Takuma lives with his housekeeping robot, Mina, who is mainly responsible for preparing his meals. As he is introduced in the story and is presented to us, he bought Mina for sole purpose of executing tasks he does not have time due to his work. Thats my main criticism towards his character. In my opinion what fuels the whole story is what I mentioned at the very beginning, the lack of proper contact with other people. Takuma as a character does not display the perception of robots as entities equal to humans by his behaviour or words he uses. Thats makes his actions towards Mina purely opportunistic. Given the lack of other options and a little alcohol, he begins to push against a character who, due to their relationship, essentially has nothing to say. Their relationship at its core is not quite fair, as on Takuma’s part it is solely due to lack of human contact, and on Mina’s part it is a simple command from the owner.
The whole story is rather light and marketed as slice of life so it might be reasonable to say that all this is just an excuse for the action to flow along. However, it’s not like the whole series is not tying to speaking or considering the topic of robots and how they suppose to be treated. These questions recur between episodes, but each time they seem shallow. As somewhat as if the autor wanted to touch on them, but at the same time not go into a deeper more philosophical tone. Naturally, not all productions need to go into a more serious tone, but it is difficult to shrug off when the situations presented ask for it all by themselves.
Through lack of willingness to address more serious discussions, the whole series falls into a rather silly daily life where a relationship at its core is creepy. Moreover, when those series are stripped of the setting, it does not present anything interesting. The only premise is relationship of a robot with a human, but when this itself is lacking in depth then we get something that leaves nothing afterwards. In my opinion, there will be better things to watch and spend time on in practically every comparison. As a frivolous story about characters it comes off not so well, because the characters themselves are not particularly interesting. It has no interesting commentary about the world around us and it adds nothing to the discussion, so it's not best one if you want something to stretch the brain. The only thing that remains to be recognised is the lack of invasiveness, watching it does not leave any particular kind of bad taste, and that's something. Could be better, could be worst.
I may have lied a little in my summary, because it's not that this production didn't trigger any emotions for me. It left one, and it is unsatisfaction, especially since the whole story begged for more serious commentary about relationship between humans and robots.
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