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Time of Eve (2008)First aired Aug 1, 2008Start here for a robot story small enough to fit around a cafe table. Rikuo follows his household android to a cafe where people and androids aren’t supposed to be distinguished. You get ordinary conversations made newly interesting by how much a customer might have assumed about the person across…0
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The Gene of AI (2023)First aired Jul 8, 2023Try this for a doctor’s view of what living beside artificial people can require. Dr. Sudo treats humanoids, and subjects like backing up a mind become choices about whether you’re helping the same person. The short cases give you time to think through one dilemma before the next patient comes in.0
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PLUTO (2023)First aired Oct 26, 2023Gesicht, a robot detective, investigates killings that reach prominent robots and humans. Choose it if you want questions about a robot’s inner life to grow out of a crime, with time spent on what people built these machines to do and what the machines remember about that work.0
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Plastic Memories (2015)First aired Apr 5, 2015Tsukasa shares a job with Isla, whose kind of android has a limited lifespan. The company retrieves others like her from the people who have lived with them. Try it when you want the question of what a machine is worth to come from having to say goodbye to a member of a household.0
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My Wife Has No Emotion (2024)First aired Jul 2, 2024Takuma buys a household robot named Mina and begins treating her as a partner. You get a small domestic show where repeating chores or deciding who is doing the caring changes what the relationship can be. The tricky part is watching two people who don’t have the same ways to express what they want.0
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ATRI -My Dear Moments- (2024)First aired Jul 14, 2024Natsuki retrieves the android Atri from a place under water in a world that has lost a great deal of dry land. Choose it for time spent with a robot helping somebody find a place in a struggling community. Atri’s lively reactions make her much more interesting to watch than a device that simply…0
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (1998)First aired May 21, 1998Alpha, who is a robot, looks after a quiet cafe in a region slowly being reclaimed by water. Watch the original OVA for a story that gives artificial life a lot of time to watch people come and go. You can feel the ordinary value of the business even as the world around it grows older.0
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Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- (2021)First aired Apr 3, 2021Vivy is built to sing and finds herself working with an AI from the future to prevent a war. Try this for a machine that takes its original job seriously even as another one starts claiming its time. The long view gives you several chances to notice how the work changes her.0
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Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet (2016)First aired Jul 7, 2016A man looking for supplies enters a damaged city and meets Yumemi, a robot still trying to run a planetarium. Pick it when you want the point of a robot’s work to emerge long after much of its audience has gone. The show's small scale keeps attention on the care Yumemi puts into repeating a…0
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Sing a Bit of Harmony (2021)Released Oct 29, 2021A new girl named Shion comes to school and starts singing to make Satomi happy, which would be a lot to handle even if Shion weren’t an AI. Choose the film for a musical about the awkward difference between having a goal for somebody and knowing what would actually help them.0