Thread 279811316

do you love robot girls /a/?

For me, is Kokone.

Robot girls are the cutest. I hope Japan keeps making more shows about them, and I hope Ponko gets her own anime.

>>279811316 (OP)
Yes

>>279811316 (OP)
maybe

>>279811316 (OP)
I certainly do.

>>279811316 (OP)
Yep

>>279811316 (OP)
Once every couple of years or so I binge read this while listening to the clannad soundtrack. Sets the melancholic but peaceful mode really well.
https://youtu.be/z_67RDMBEuQ?si=huNDstH0q9yLNJhJ

>>279811316 (OP)
No, robots are just objects.

ponkotsu

>future nearer than ever in robotics
>robot girls have vanished at large from anime
But why?

>>279812570
?

>>279813024
>>279813050
Not really comparable in amount provided 20~ years ago innit?

>>279812570
Spitballing here, but it feels like there's a bit of discouragement seeing that the robot girl reality that's upon us is underwhelming enough to severely impair the hype. Granted, it's always the problem of comparing fiction to reality, but there's still the reality of trying to make it a reality and all the opposition to it laying in wait.

>>279811316 (OP)
It's strange. Something about Alpha just causes the heart to race, and not in the 'i want to fuck this' kind of way. I look at her, and it just soothes the soul; makes things feel like things aren't so bad. Especially that chapter that's essentially a first-person POV visit to Alpha's cafe. There's just a warmth to her that I just can't put into words.

>>279812570
They stopped making space anime too.

>>279813648
I suppose so, which is why the industry has doubled down so hard on isekai and romcom stuff at large.

bros I love alpha

>>279811316 (OP)
I could die happily if I got a hug from Alpha

>>279812570
The closer we get to a sci-fi future the more we realize how shitty that future will be.

of course

I love robot boobies.

>>279813024
Is this the poor man's SSR?

>>279811316 (OP)
Uh huh.

>>279812038
So is pasta, doesn’t stop Italians from loving it.

>>279811316 (OP)
Yes

Yup

any higher power levels than her?

>>279811474
>there's currently an anime airing about a robot maid, and in it there's a character named "Ponko", BUT it isn't her anime.

>>279811316 (OP)
Always

>>279811379
BASED
Alpha is great but Kokone is my wife

>>279811316 (OP)
I do!

Who cares? They can't love you back anyway.

>>279821712
Neither can humans.

>>279818066
Rolltan

>>279819662
We also recently had an anime air about a small, obsolete, robot that lives in a tiny seaside town with a local curmudgeon, and is called a ponkotsu. But, it also wasn't her anime.

>>279819662
At first I thought that Ponko anime would be a no brainer and the story is strong and diverse enough to be adapted but I’m really losing my hope.
I guess the manga wasn’t popular enough…

>>279811316 (OP)
Unfortunately... A bit too much...

>>279823311
Maybe once they start running out of manga to adapt

>>279823311
Lucu Lucu is another one it is weird it never got an anime.

>>279816100
My wife.

>>279811316 (OP)
Yes.

>>279811316 (OP)
Yes, especially if they're mothers

>>279811998
Damn I should do this

>>279813024
Shame the anime won't get to Eight's arc, because that was the most touching story involving a robot I've ever read.

>>279812570
We just had multiple robot gf/wife anime including one where realistic humanoid robots exist but the main girl is a more primitive humanoid robot! These 3 are robots but the robot wife is the middle one who don’t even have a mouth (the face is a single solid piece)

>>279825451
How does that work?

>>279828364
She just picked him up as an orphaned baby, pretty standard stuff

>>279826757
God this shit dropped off so fucking hard

yes

>>279830092
Drinking a cup of Saori's piss at Cafe Alpha.

It's my favorite series.

I would die happy if I ever got my own alpha

>>279820790
Watching Honey while she's changing

>>279811316 (OP)
I tried to read that and it's boring/uninteresting, I don't know why it's hailed as great. Don't get me wrong on paper I like the idea of it but something about the execution is poor.

Imagine getting filtered by YKK

>>279826757
Mina love! Too bad the series is on an indefinite hiatus.

Only watched the OVAs, does the story in the manga go somewhere or is it all slice of life?

>>279812570
It's because Megaman died.

yes

>>279836204
it's not for everyone and especially not you

>>279837627
It's the same little sol adventures, you find out more about the world and's the people and watch the kids grow up. The ovas are great but you're definitely missing out not reading.

>>279811998
I finished reading this recently. Rather unintentionally it ended up taking me over a year to read it. I would just read the odd chapter or two here and there, and then leave it for a few weeks before picking it up again. I feel like doing so helped emphasise the passage of time between certain chapters. When Takahiro or Makki suddenly aged by several years it would hit me like a pallet of bricks.

I'd like to do a binge read at some point though since I think I'd be more likely to notice details across chapters that way. I'm curious whether anyone has had a similar experience taking a long time to read a manga (excluding ones that are still releasing of course) and how it impacted your impression of it?

For the final two chapters I decided to take a trip to the coast. Reading them while sat in the dunes with the wind breezing by felt very appropriate.

>>279811316 (OP)
yes

>>279842369
That's actually really cool anon

>>279842369
>I'm curious whether anyone has had a similar experience taking a long time to read a manga (excluding ones that are still releasing of course) and how it impacted your impression of it?
I wouldn't necessarily take a year or so but usually I read manga around real life moments, for instance I read YKK during summer vacations each night and it really made it something I'd remember for a much longer time, I can still picture the return trip on the boat and reading some nice chapters during this.
I ended up finishing it and finding the final chapter very soothing and a much needed salvation for Alpha's character. Went for a swim right after it to think about it and it's still one of my favorite media experiences ever.

Daily Hidamari Sketch on each morning routine was also quite a treat and it lasted for a few months too. I very much recommend that kind of pacing.

And I guess reading Ten during some of the most challenging parts of my studies helped me stay collected and stand my ground. I remember reading some of the most competitive parts when I had to take flights on a very short notice for final examinations, I could definitely resonate with the gambles as I went forward

/blog

>>279843514
Thanks, I actually used my motorbike to get to the coast. It felt a bit like one of Alpha's outings.
>>279843921
>Daily Hidamari Sketch on each morning routine was also quite a treat and it lasted for a few months too. I very much recommend that kind of pacing.
Interesting, I wonder if that's why following daily threads is so appealing. I guess that kind of pace gives you the time to digest each chapter but ensures you're reading them frequently enough to keep the manga in your thoughts.

>>279844441
For me part of the appeal is that you're incorporating the aesthetic of what you're enjoying into your daily life and mood. At the very least it gets your thoughts flowing in a given direction. Dailies truly are man's finest invention.

>>279811316 (OP)
YKK is one of the few series to get robots right by making them emotional creatures first and foremost. For decades people frequently get the fictional imaginings of robots wrong. "They're coldly rational creations with no emotion, we have to figure out how to build emotions into them!" This is completely backwards. Existential micronarrative, and the emotion it engenders, comes first, as no intellect can exist without an a priori framework that it is "good" (an overly simple yet extremely important term) to behave in a manner that is consistent with one's perceptions of reality and to maintain an updating catalog of these perceptions. Without the unconscious emotional impetus to classify the hierarchical value of perceptions and rank order them according to probability and integrity, there can be no logical qualifying force to direct the physical form into the conscious moving towards a goal consistent with these present perceptions and the relative value ("goodness") of predicted future outcomes.

>>279841645
Vivy is so fucking good.

>>279844836
Yeah

>>279811316 (OP)
HOLY SHIT SHOPPING LOG THREAD IM GONNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Be aware at the slow, sad and beautiful passage of time.

I'd like to remind everyone that there's supposedly some grim, somewhat-canon novel about Alpha being turned off in the cafe post-series, and it hasn't been translated yet...

>>279844836
Ashinano has an interesting take on AI, since humanity has pretty much accepted its fate of extinction, the robots are 'programmed' to find a purpose for themselves. They've got a human 'consciousness' but they don't have a human 'context', which is pretty cool. It makes Alpha unique by making her take on hobbies like playing the ukelele or riding her motorbike around. Like she's experimenting instead of living through a perceived outcome.

>>279815241
whats robotic about them? just looks like regular boobies.

>>279842369
beautiful picture

>>279845084
>I'd like to remind everyone that there's supposedly some grim, somewhat-canon novel about Alpha being turned off in the cafe post-series, and it hasn't been translated yet...
I refuse to acknowledge this exists.

>>279845139
I don't like it either, the epilogue with the weird bug and the kid was better

Why can't a get a cute robodaughter?

Karinka!

>>279846483
Why do robot girls like spreading their legs?

Do you Hoi, /a/?

>>279812570
We can see now that the robot girls are 1) made in a lovely shape to take advantage of our primal urge to protect and 2) will be made to sell us things.

>>279830216
zoo wee mama

>>279828501
this is a really cute story so far, im glad i came across this

consider this machine

>>279845084
>and it hasn't been translated yet...
Yeah it has, I have pdf of it somewhere

>>279842369
>For the final two chapters I decided to take a trip to the coast. Reading them while sat in the dunes with the wind breezing by felt very appropriate.
Very based. I should do this as well, but maybe go somewhere cooler like to the mountains

>>279811316 (OP)
yeah of course

>>279811316 (OP)
Yes, especially if they look cartoony rather than human-like.

>>279811316 (OP)
Needs more chrome.

>>279845084
>I'd like to remind everyone that there's supposedly some grim, somewhat-canon novel about Alpha being turned off in the cafe post-series
Where can I find this?

>>279845084
>Alpha being turned off in the cafe post-series
Reminder: She's not turned off. She goes in to low power mode for fifty years whilst waiting for a customer to show up. At the end of the book she's fine.

>hasn't been translated yet...
Incorrect.

>>279851284
PDF: https://mega.nz/file/EOMXgYyI#4IAsTj0rzVjk4hTQH1NJy50eOgfmnV-8q2qOxD6_H44
epub: https://mega.nz/file/hLUkhBBA#398jYlDlg54y5Unek8jY8uvDcFfQmbFReDBTDWIj0Ng

>>279851564
Except aren't Kokone and Maruko supposed to be living with her by then?

>>279851781
IIRC it's further in the future than that (been a while since I read it, just knew it had been translated)

>>279851440
get these slambots off my screen

>>279851985
>image

>>279851564
Thanks for sharing this anon. Gonna read this before sleep tonight

>>279852247
I legitimately can't tell if this is ai slop or not.

>>279853393
>AI drawing art of robots
How perverse.

>>279842369
I did something similar to the Aria anime, watching one or two episodes every week, it felt like a natural progression and didn't get tired of the slow pacing. But i watched the final 5 in one night crying like a little girl.

>>279821411
She's MY wife, not yours.

>>279848775
>1) made in a lovely shape to take advantage of our primal urge to protect
>2) will be made to sell us things

>>279849627
It's pretty good yeah I'm glad Rainy's adjusting to losing his arm and getting a robotic one well.

>>279856193
please do not take advantage of kerfus

>>279855471
What a coincidence, I've been watching ARIA for the past 4 months, just 3-5 episodes a week. It's a way better experience than binge watching.
Just finished the 3rd season last week and will soon wrap up the OVAs and movies. It's gonna be rough when it finally ends