Ame no Hi no Iris (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 2
• 2008 - 2009

Gifuko is a robot in the form of a cute little girl. Unlike other robots, Gifuko is able to feel emotions and learn new ones by experiencing them. She lives with a professor who always has a bear mask on and goes on daily adventures outside to learn new emotions. As she becomes friends with all the people in her town, she is able to sync up their emotions with hers and downloads it into her own data file. With each new friend she makes and every connection Gifuko makes with them, she becomes closer to becoming human.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 1+
• 2022 - ?

• Vol: 6; Ch: 33
• 2000 - 2002

In these haunting tales, Dolls-- human-like androids-- have an uncanny way of working themselves into the lives of their masters. DOLL examines the question of what it means to be truly human.

• Ch: 5
• 2022

• Vol: 3; Ch: 30
• 2003

• Vol: 5; Ch: 38
• 2013 - 2015

A secret social experiment is led by two Japanese engineers, having an android every move, expression and decision decided through a majority vote from a collective of ca. 3000 randomly chosen people. The vote system offers the opportunity to any member of the collective to set forward his/her proposition. The 3 most proposed actions as well as two propositions made only once are submitted to the majority vote.Rules and systems have been set to ensure the dynamism of that community, and to prevent identification of people and places where the android evolves in modern-day Japan. And so the Dēmokratía android came to life.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2018 - 2019

In the future, robots are more than machines. Autonomous “cyber-persons” with A.I. brains are part of society, interacting with humans and growing their own culture. In fact, they may be surpassing humans, as biological homo sapiens and their own world have begun to die out. But are humans truly disappearing, or are robots the new “humans”?

• Vol: 1
• 1949

Metropolis is a grand high-tech city-state populated by humans and robots alike. It is in these streets that Detective Shunsaku Ban and his sidekick Kenichi search for the rebel scientist Dr. Laughton who unbenounced to them, is developing a super android named Tima as a tool for the Duke of Metropolis. What starts out as a normal case turns into mayhem as the scientist is murdered, and the true plans of the Duke are finally revealed...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2010

Time of EVE: Another Act explores wrenching emotional conflicts of high schooler Rikuo as he tries to make sense of a world in which androids match humans in terms of intelligence and emotions, and yet they are barred from forming relationships with humans. A mysterious strand of data in the activity log of Sammy, his family's android, leads Rikuo and his pal Masaki to a cafe called "Time of EVE," which blatantly challenges social mores by requiring that humans and androids be treated equally. Initially suspicious of the cafe, Rikuo and Masaki soon become regulars as they are charmed by the charismatic proprietress Nagi and get to know the other patrons. In this new environment, Rikuo comes to see to that androids are different from, but not inferior to, humans. And, he is challenged to confront a traumatic experience from his past...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 18
• 2022 - 2023

A robot on a solitary journey in a world that has ended. Ars aims to help the human survivors' by taking their bad memories and "killing" them. They also want to learn more about humans and their relationships with each other. A fragile but gentle journey to the end of the world begins...