僕の妻は感情がない

BOKU NO TSUMA WA KANJOU GA NAI

ONA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
September 14, 2024
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

Takuma isn’t the most exciting guy. He’s awkward, single, and does nothing but go to work and come home. Tired of doing chores, he decides to buy a housekeeping robot named Mina. She can cook and clean perfectly, and the two get to know each other better over time. Soon, Takuma starts to fall for Mina! But could a robot ever love him back?

(Source: Crunchyroll)

Note: Boku no Tsuma wa Kanjou ga Nai was streamed 3 days in advance of the TV broadcast on ABEMA, dAnimestore, and Crunchyroll beginning June 29, 2024. Regular broadcasting began on July 2, 2024.

CAST

Mina
Konomi Inagaki
Takuma Kosugi
Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Mamoru
Yuuki Wakai
Super Mina
Yuu Serizawa
Akari Kosugi
Yoshino Aoyama
Senju
Madoka Asahina
Tomiichi Ootani
Shuichirou Umeda
Emi Kosugi
Akiko Hiramatsu
Rihito Saionji
Risae Matsuda
Iida
Rika Nagae
Koushirou Minegishi
Akimitsu Takase
Daisuke Kosugi
Masaki Aizawa
John
Kunihiro Kawamoto

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

Nvminer
50/100
My wife has no emotions and so do I when watching this series.
The following review may contain elements that may be considered as a spoiler. However, I will try not to describe the flow of the story beyond the first episode without clearly indicating it.

Being alone is not an easy task. Most people despite everything need the presence of others in their life. Moreover, being left alone for longer period can have a very negative reflection on well-being. Thats exactly the case with Takuma, who looks like someone who has no one close to him in his surroundings. But is there surely no one?

Takuma lives with his housekeeping robot, Mina, who is mainly responsible for preparing his meals. As he is introduced in the story and is presented to us, he bought Mina for sole purpose of executing tasks he does not have time due to his work. Thats my main criticism towards his character. In my opinion what fuels the whole story is what I mentioned at the very beginning, the lack of proper contact with other people. Takuma as a character does not display the perception of robots as entities equal to humans by his behaviour or words he uses. Thats makes his actions towards Mina purely opportunistic. Given the lack of other options and a little alcohol, he begins to push against a character who, due to their relationship, essentially has nothing to say. Their relationship at its core is not quite fair, as on Takuma’s part it is solely due to lack of human contact, and on Mina’s part it is a simple command from the owner.

The whole story is rather light and marketed as slice of life so it might be reasonable to say that all this is just an excuse for the action to flow along. However, it’s not like the whole series is not tying to speaking or considering the topic of robots and how they suppose to be treated. These questions recur between episodes, but each time they seem shallow. As somewhat as if the autor wanted to touch on them, but at the same time not go into a deeper more philosophical tone. Naturally, not all productions need to go into a more serious tone, but it is difficult to shrug off when the situations presented ask for it all by themselves.

Through lack of willingness to address more serious discussions, the whole series falls into a rather silly daily life where a relationship at its core is creepy. Moreover, when those series are stripped of the setting, it does not present anything interesting. The only premise is relationship of a robot with a human, but when this itself is lacking in depth then we get something that leaves nothing afterwards. In my opinion, there will be better things to watch and spend time on in practically every comparison. As a frivolous story about characters it comes off not so well, because the characters themselves are not particularly interesting. It has no interesting commentary about the world around us and it adds nothing to the discussion, so it's not best one if you want something to stretch the brain. The only thing that remains to be recognised is the lack of invasiveness, watching it does not leave any particular kind of bad taste, and that's something. Could be better, could be worst.

I may have lied a little in my summary, because it's not that this production didn't trigger any emotions for me. It left one, and it is unsatisfaction, especially since the whole story begged for more serious commentary about relationship between humans and robots.

If you are sensitive to any information about the plot, skip this section. It's not essential, but adds some complains about plot.

There is that one part of the story that somehow breaks out of the softer tone - Mina's past. It's pretty obvious from the first episodes that she's no ordinary household robot, and this part of the story is also somewhat addressed. But it just exists, it doesn't seem to have any major impact on story, it doesn't make an interesting point of view. The disappearance of this whole plot would change absolutely nothing. At the same time, it seems quite inconsistent with how all characters except Mina are presented. Mina should be that unique model that has the ability to become attached to someone, who is something more than normal robot. However, all the robots presented seem to have more or less the same capabilities as her, which puts them on an equal footing. So actually what was the purpose of this attempt to show that Mina is something more?
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