This story takes place in a reality in which there are humanoid robot ukes that look like cute little “teenagers.” I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a brilliant idea coming on, which is: we can give them to pedophiles to keep them from hurting real kids! Just let them diddle androids all day! Unfortunately our real world technology hasn’t reached the level of this manga but I believe in the future, guys. A future of sex androids for pedophiles. Well, and the rest of us too, obviously. Because I want a Giyu Tomioka android who will fuck my brains out and I don’t care what strangers on the internet know it (mom? you haven’t found my blog yet, right?). Seriously, why is Elon Musk screwing around with social media and electric cars and rockets when he could be making sex androids? Talk about wasting your time…
Kokuyo is a cranky shut-in writer who has lived alone his whole life, until one of his friends who works for a robotics company gives a prototype of an android called an “Etowa” that they’ve been developing. Etowas mostly look like cute little ukes boys (stated to be 18 years old; press X to doubt) so maybe this is really just a deep state psyop to turn men gay…and by how the story goes, it’s working pretty well too. Kokuyo’s Etowa is Shiro, a naive cutie who mainly does housework. At first annoyed by him, Kokuyo eventually warms up to Shiro and gets attached to him, until he eventually realizes he’s in love with him, which eventually leads to Kokuyo inserting his 8in floppy into Shiro’s disk slot if you know what I mean. I used a 20 year old joke for a 20 year old manga, get it?!?!?
The second story is another master/android pairing between two characters who make appearances in the first story, Saeki and Hachi. Hachi is an identical model to Shiro’s which I guess could be the mangaka’s way of, like, designing one less character. I liked Saeki slightly more than Kokuyo because I thought he was more attractive, but the Saeki x Hachi pairing isn’t as developed.
The conflict in both stories is kind of silly and formulaic. In the Shiro’s story it’s something about possible android memory loss, and in Hachi’s story it’s about the company wanting to turn Etowas into sex bots instead of house slaves (I mean, why not both?) The android idea is cute and the art is passable I guess, but I couldn’t really get too invested into either. Both are more on the romance side and the highlights are the sweet moments between master and android.
The last story is the odd one out, it’s like the editor said ‘hey Tsuge, we need one more story, what else do you have for filler?’ It’s a story about a vampire kid and his lover who is apparently also a high school student (press X to doubt again). This guy literally looks like a teacher, I can’t believe they’re supposed to be the same age.
Oh but there’s TWO sex scenes in this one, they really spoiled us! I realized as I was writing this that there’s actually four sex scenes in the whole book, and I put pictures of all of them in this post. Bread and circuses, folks, I know what the people want. Well actually, they probably would prefer much better sex scenes from books that weren’t written during the Bush administration, but obscure shitty yaoi needs some love too.
Overall, I’d say skip this one, it’s just allaround snoozy. Even if the android thing is like your one true fetish or something, you’d never be able to guess they were robots just by looking at them, they’re basically just humans and they even do stuff like eat human food (uhh…I guess this means they poop too?). If you just really like ukes that look like children, there’s tons of much better artists and stories out there for that.
Honestly this ad in back is better than most of the book:
TL:DR: Romantic but snoozy fluff about two robot android boys and their loving human masters, with a dumb random vampire story shoehorned in at the end. Cute but pretty bland, lame sex scenes, and nothing that makes it worth seeking out in this day and age unless the pursuit of shota ukes is the hill you’ve picked to die on.