While it doesn’t add too much to what we already knew, the first promotional video has arrived for Plastic Memories, which is due out in 2015 in Japan through Aniplex. The promo shows off the character designs and a version of the key visual that was released yesterday while reaffirming the production team behind it and its main concept, all of which is wrapped up in a particularly haunting song.

The series is an original creation between okiura of Infinite Stratos character designs and Steins Gate writer Naotaka Hayatashi. The series is being directed by Yoshiyuki Fujiwara with Chiaki Nakajima providing the character designs for it. Te animation is being produced at Dogakobo.

Plot concept: This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they… Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but…

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