Welcome to my weekly blog post where I give thoughts on whatever dramas I’m watching, whether I’m at the beginning, middle or end. I give my thoughts on dramas.
This week I decided to go rogue and start recapping an anime!
A Sign of Affection – ゆびさきと恋々 – Anime – Japan 2024
Recently aired Japanese Anime with 12 episodes.
A 2024 Japanese anime about a sheltered young deaf woman who meets a handsome, interesting, world-traveling guy.
You can read more about A Sign of Affection and my dark anime past here.
This week I recapped episodes 1-2.
This week I finished:
Anti Reset – 恆久定律 – 2024
Currently airing Taiwanese BL with 10 episodes.
A dull, emotionless man is injured and given a cute robot helper, who has a lot more life and emotion than him.
Sigh. I can’t say I didn’t warn myself with my first review.
And I guess there wasn’t an evil mother, though there was a super annoying, pushy co-worker and another evil-not-evil family member. Why does a show (clumsily in voice-over) tackling questions of humanity have an annoying co-worker pushing herself on our human guy?
Like the other three shows put out by this same production company (Stay By My Side, You Are Mine, and VIP Only) this show isn’t rich in plot. Their characters were pretty shallow, the robot was the more interesting of the two. Most of the show is spent watching a robot and a human guy hang out at home, go on dates, ponder love and humanity, and be sweet together.
I have no real problem with that. The guys are cute if overly-skin-smoothed. They have a nice chemistry.
So what’s the problem?
Outside of the domestic sweetness, the ticking clock of our robot being, well a robot, hung over their heads. He belongs to a corporation and is considered by them to be something like a luxury vacuum cleaner. Against this threat, our main characters didn’t try to do much. So when not engrossed in watching them feed capybaras it felt like you were waiting for the inevitable.
Ultimately, that conflict was resolved with the usual tropes of weak drama writing.
And while the voiceovers about robots and humanity were almost interesting, they were also pretty superficial. I’m not quite sure what the show was trying to say.
One of the characters is a robot. This shouldn’t be taken seriously and I would have enjoyed it more if they hadn’t. As it is, this is another fairly standard romance plot where one of the guys happens to be a robot. If you like your romances with these tropes and like robots, maybe it’s for you. In general, I’m recommending people pass.