Prima Doll

TV (12 eps)
3.362 out of 5 from 332 votes
Rank #9,269

Autonomous mechanical dolls, also known as automata, work at Kuronekotei, a coffee shop that sits at the corner of the fifth district of the imperial capital. However, they were originally made as weapons for a great war that ended a few years ago. Now, they have been restored and dressed in shiny kimonos.

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krofire
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Bibury Animation Studios’ 2022 sci fi show blends cute battle-bots with a café lifestyle threatened by war. Only in an anime universe would anyone consider these waifus to be weapons of war. It is the same obvious absurdity that we witness in “Nier Automata” (but at least that was good). The concept of former combat androids working in a café after the war is a solid one and formed the basis of a multimedia project that included figurines, web novels, visual novels and manga. However, there is two ways to work this: the first is the sublime route taken by Kyoto Animation in 2018 when they adapted “Violet Evergarden” to the small and large screens. It was a landmark moment in anime. It created a memorable and iconic character who was a child soldier now recovering from wartime traumas whilst working at a post-office. It was known for its intense emotional extremes – a real roller-coaster without a dry eye in the house. Then there is the other way to get cute waifus into mechanised conflict: “Azure Lane”. This is what we might call the “ultra-moe” route where the girls are all so terribly cute and girly. They cry all the time. The audience isn’t crying though as there are no actual emotional hooks here to invoke any gut reaction in the watcher. It is as shallow as a puddle on a dry day. Desperately so. Nothing about the story makes any real sense – it isn’t meant to. We are all meant to be enthralled by the cute droids serving coffee. So much so we don’t notice that it is rubbish. Scenes of combat with actual battle-droids are nicely worked but the writers then inject the girls into the war. Yet they are stupidly fragile and wander around the battle field looking good in kimonos and custom-made uniforms designed to show off their butts. Why are they there? It makes no sense. After the war they get refurbished and start singing in café cabaret acts. This could have worked but it just doesn’t here because the story is lousy and paper-thin. Somewhere here there is a plot about two special android girls who have the ability to control all the other bots by singing. Yes, singing. Ugh. Like everything else it is senseless nonsense. This is such a terrible shame. We really, really wanted to like this show and the concept had promise. It was a wasted opportunity falling to the lowest-common denominator of base moe-fantasy drivel that so much bad anime falls back upon when it can’t actually think of anything better. Check it out but do not expect much.

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