Plastic memories ep1

by Serg · Published January 28, 2022 · Updated January 28, 2022

Find Plastic Memories – Vol. 1/Ep.1-6 [DVD] [2015] at Amazon.com Movies & TV, home of thousands of titles on DVD and Blu-ray.

It’s not that I want Blade Runner redux. I don’t. Blade Runner is its own thing, and Plastic Memories can be its own thing. That doesn’t mean, however, that I’m going to be fond of whatever the anime chooses to be. And there’s a lot of pain inherent to its premise. Maybe Nina can accept the finality of her short-lived life, but you certainly don’t expect all of her kind to act the same way. And you can perhaps expect resentment to breed in the other robots. But how far can Plastic Memories actually go? Again, we don’t necessarily have to get violent, but the tone is established by the first episode leaves me wary. I can imagine all sorts of scenarios. I can imagine protests as people don’t believe robots should be designed to be so humanlike just to live such short, unfulfilling lives. I can imagine robots running away from home because they want to embrace the sweetness of the time they have left. I can imagine other robots lashing out because the finality of their existence feels so arbitrary (why such a specific number?). Perhaps their lives have been conveniently left short so that customers would have to replace them every so often, thereby providing their creators with a steady supply of profit. And as short as ten years might be, these robots are nevertheless a functioning, contributing members of society. Should they have rights? And if the answer is “Of course!” then how much rights do they get? The same as us?

Looks like “Plastic Memories” have been stealing the plot premise from the Shounen Ai anime “Hybrid child” especially the first chapter.

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