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How would you react to robotic AI reaching a level when they actually develop emotions? How would others? Will society ever be ready for such a thing? 

These are basically the most important quetions of this short-series. 

Psychological anime and overly artistic anime are usually pretty damn boring.

So what happens here?

Ill be honest, an anime like this should be short. Analysing different views is intiguing, but only to a certain point and after that it becomes boring. Truth be told I get bored pretty easy(you hear that Serial Experiments Lain?).So I think that chosing not to make this into a longer series was a great idea. They had exactly enough material for this mini-series and no more. 

Story: Basically robots develop emotions on their own. Most people have household robots or androids, but robots are not accepted in society. They are viewed as tools and no more. (We know how all that turned out in Animatrix, dont we?!). But these is a save haven. A cafe that has a single rule: do not distinguish between humans and robots. So we get a lot of different stories about people and robots: acceptance, childhood trauma, love, fear. In only 6 episodes, this series tackles mostly all the problems society will have to endure in such a situation. Bravo! 8/10

Animation: Top notch! Dont expect the best there is, but I dont think an anime like this could need any better. 7.5/10

Music: forgettable. 6.5/10

Characters: I can relate to all of them. The only negative thing here would be the fact that msot robots are much more sympathetic tham humans. Everyone has a pretty deep background and very respectable motives. So as you can see, you dont need 1000 episodes to describe one characetr, 6 episodes are more than enough to describe almost a dozen. 10/10

Overall: I was sceptical at first, it takes 2-3 episodes to understand the characetrs and the situation they are on. Great writing made this a great anime. Just think of the Katoran episode which is pure art, but its also funny and touching. I could urge everyone to watch this because its short, but thats not the reason I do. Its good! Surpisingly good. 

8/10