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Wed, 06-03-2015, 01:59 PM
#2
Since you made a thread for this, I dug up my self-deleted post from the early impressions thread.
Spoilers up to the ep #8.
I'm still watching Plastic Memories, but I think the only reason is Isla's cuteness. I guess there's some Type B blood in my veins in that sense. Otherwise it has miserably written characters and the plot is as stupid as SAO's. Basically the characters and their characterisation only exist to serve really simple and naive, not to mention exceedingly transparent, plot elements, which the episodes present one by one. It's almost painful, like in the episode 8 where the MC is wondering if anything of an android's personality might remain after the OS reinstallation and refitting - and, voila, we suddenly get a new character, an android, who just happens to be a side character's old friend, or was, because she was recently reset. Even of the Goddess of Convenience couldn't have thought of a more convenient coincidence.
The setting is getting more stupid by every episode. The androids suddenly turn into a super human killing machines if their expiration deadline is exceeded by mere hours (whoever designed that feature must be sitting a life sentence in a prison). Apparently the normal procedure by the android manufacturing company is to bully the owners of the androids into signing the release document, and the one retrieval section that actually tries to make sure the owners aren't left hating the company is considered a liability by the company brass. I admit we have Apple in the real world, so a company which despises its customers isn't exactly unrealistic, but the fact it works in reality doesn't mean it works in fiction, where the absurdity is underlined.
So, yeah, Isla is the only thing keeping me watching this. The rest is shit. I guess I have a thing for silver haired anime girls with suppressed emotions.
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