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Beginning with first person view of a nameless android supposedly a houseriod taking care of a kid and its sound and vision are distorted as if the memory was corrupted then suddenly later a view of it from a remote back alley as if it was abandon by its owner. Back at home, Naoko inform Rikuo that their father is very busy again due customer complain about the new android model and the TV news advise the public to properly dispose of their old android and not to abandon it (due to the high cost of proper disposing it). Rikuo comment that the new android AI still need fine tuning and unable to really comprehend instruction from its owner and would questions the owner.

Back at Time of Eve, Masaki and Rikuo are hanging out there and were having a discussion with Nagi. In the café there are no other customers around except the 2 of them and Nagi who manages the café. So they ask Nagi why she work in the cafe and Nagi reply that she like it here in the Time of Eve and also like the customer there as well but sad recently because she did not see her favorite customer around. Then Nagi left to the store room to get new a tin of coffee bean to make refill coffee for Rikuo. A nameless android then makes an appearance and step into the Time of Eve cafe like a fragile android with terminator style entry. Rikuo said that it is an old LUH model that used to have a lot complains and it hard to use. The old LUH model decided to sit on the same table with Rikuo and Masaki. Being nice to the nameless android Masaki and Rikuo decide to introduce themselves to the nameless android. Since the nameless robot have corrupted memories of its name it pronounce its corrupted name which is a very high pitch noise that are screeching to human hearing. So Rikuo and Masaki have to cover their ears but due fail logic reason the nameless robot keeps repeating its name because they keep covering their ears. After failing to reason with it Rikuo and Masaki accepted to hear its screeching name with their ears not cover. But later the nameless android head could not stay straight up and bend to the left side and then request to excuse itself to go to the restroom to amend it. After the nameless android when to the restroom both Rikuo and Masaki take laugh because of the nameless head issues and was notice by Nagi. So Nagi was not happy about that then reminded both of them again the rules of the place.

The nameless android came back from the restroom with the bend head fixed and back to its seat and decided to order a cup of coffee after looking at what Rikuo drinking which is a cup of coffee. Masaki realize that android cannot drink coffee and share it with Rikuo and they think it will explode after drink it. But too late Nagi just served the nameless its coffee, so Rikuo and Masaki tried to stall the nameless from drinking the coffee by keep questioning the nameless like its age, job and other stuff to stall it from drinking the coffee. To no avail to stop it the nameless from drink it, Rikuo and Masaki try to dock for cover and the nameless did drink the coffee. To their surprise the coffee did not make the nameless explode as they thought it would and notice that it drinks into the radiator inside the nameless body. With their fear of explosion relieved Chie and her care taker the old man appear. As usual with Chie appearance there will her fooling around making commotion of everything and causes the nameless to confuse to process anything. She even removed the right foot of the nameless and causes the nameless to fall when standing up. With so many things happening Masaki take back the nameless right foot back from Chie and ask the old man and Chie to leave the café.

Unable to do anything with removed foot they seated the nameless in on the chair. Nagi try to have a nice conversion with the nameless together with Rikuo and Masaki to get to know the nameless more. In the conversation they know that the nameless was a childcare android and since the child that it looks after was 8 years ago and now grow up and no long require its service anymore. Rikuo ask about the name of the child that it was taking care of but only get a tone of corrupted data. Rikuo also realize the label on the nameless body also have been torn up and then ask about the name, address and contact information of its owner. Since the data was to delete or corrupted by the owner the nameless unable to process to reply Rikuo questions then short circuited itself. Nagi feeling emotional then hug the nameless and the nameless which is already short circuit by processing only to say please don’t forget its name and in the nameless HUD display show its name “Katoran” is shown then fail to process to function and just die of short circuits. Rikuo and Masaki came to realize that the nameless was an abandon robot because of the owner doesn’t want to pay the price of disposing and decide to erase the memory and dump it. Nagi commented that the nameless was trying run away from the “Ethics Committee” a group responsible for disposing android because it was trying remember its name. Even they don’t know the name of the nameless but the nameless knows it in its heart. Masaki got emotional after a few flash back during this episode said that machine don’t have heart and don’t try to pretend that they have then pushes Nagi away from hugging the nameless then left the café.

This episode started the first half more of a typical anime dubious comical with the terminator like style entry and get quite emotional at the end. The thing that are not making sense here is the nameless android which from my point of view does not really serve any objective other than being a victim of abandon by its owner. Its appearance presented in a way that does not really contribute to the plot development of the story other than making Masaki flashback his memories and rather than doing any good the nameless becomes a laughing stock and just die. Also note that the nameless can drink coffee because it have radiator built in, alright lets quiz a bit, what kind of design electronic design that need so much cooling power? Is it the CPU I think not because even today the world most advance android Asimo made by Honda also don’t have a radiator because of that I think this idea is rubbish. Other thing that does not make sense is how can Chie be so strong that she can rip off the nameless foot which is metal joint when she just about an 8 years old child or is she is another machine? Step all those stuff aside we know that in this episode Rikuo father work for a company that manufacture android and also get to see the emotional side of Nagi and Masaki on how different their opinion oppose each other and get a sense that there are more to be explain about Masaki flashback. 

Episode Rating: 2 out of 5

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