So on Friday I believe, I sat down to start watching the new season of anime.

I’d already scoured the anichart to find the shows that I thought looked interesting, and Plastic Memories was one of them. So I watched it and; spoilers, it was really good.

The basic idea of the show seems to be that there are some android/robots that look and act and feel and remember just like real humans do, except they have a ‘soul life span’ of around 9 years and 4 months. These androids are called Giftia’s and some of these Giftia’s also work to retrieve/delete other Giftia’s when their life spans are almost over.

This involves going to the owners home, and asking them to sign off and watch as you delete the Giftias memories, and place them into the back of your car to be; presumably, dumped in a pile of other expired Giftia’s. But Giftia’s cannot work alone, and are therefore under the supervision of a human, who more or less just watches them do their jobs.

That is the outline of the plot so far, and it seems interesting though much more interesting when the not-at-all-generic-but-I-dont-care-I-like-them array of characters are thrown in. Anyway, the show progresses and we see a team (Giftia and Human) go to collect a ‘dying’ Gifita, and the owners sadly, but swiftly, say goodbye to their surrogate son Edward. This moment exemplified the show as being kind of sad, more so than the obvious and inevitable death of half of the cast.

Then, bla-bla the rest of the show happens with some fairly funny moments spattered about, mostly if not entirely based around our sad Giftia girl Isla. But the crux and selling point of the show to me was the ending sequence involving the retrieval of a young girl who is her grandmothers’ only family. After much turmoil and difficulty, the Obaasan finally allows her family to be taken away and there is the bittersweet saying of goodbyes that leaves our MC feeling pretty sad about the whole thing – understandably so Tsukasa, understandably so.

And then as you’re wiping away your tears, an entirely welcome bit of humour pops up and saves you from killing yourself.

Overall I thought this episode of this show was pretty good, it most assuredly compelled me to watch next weeks episode.

If you like anime, and don’t mind shedding a tear or two watch it.

Arbitrary score – 8/10

bye.