Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai

The Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart was founded alongside the development of "Machinart," machine magic capable of giving life and intelligence to mechanical dolls subsequently called as "automaton." Its aim: train skilled puppeteers to control the automatons, as militaries across the globe have begun incorporating Machinart into their armies.

After miserably failing the academy's entrance exams, Raishin Akabane and his humanoid automaton Yaya must defeat one of the top one hundred students to earn the right to take part in the Evening Party, a fight for supremacy between puppeteers using their automatons. The last one standing is bestowed the title of "Wiseman" and granted access to the powerful forbidden arts.

Thus, Raishin challenges Charlotte Belew and her automaton Sigmund to a duel, but before they even begin, Sigmund is attacked by other students. After saving his opponents from their assaulters, Raishin cancels the duel but is forced to search for a new way to gain access to the Party. Driven by the tragedies of his past, Raishin fights alongside Yaya to rise to the top and claim the title of Wiseman.

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Yaya Main

Harada, Hitomi Japanese

Akabane, Raishin Main

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Frey Supporting

Asumi, Kana Japanese

Belew, Charlotte Supporting

Takamoto, Megumi Japanese

Irori Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Karyuusai, Shouko Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Loki Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Sigmund Supporting

Nakata, Jouji Japanese

Komurasaki Supporting

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Hotaru Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Tanaka, Shou Producer

Usui, Hisato Producer

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May 19, 2024

niconico_86

Recommended

A blend of 50% battle, 30% drama & mystery and the rest mix of slice of life, jokes and ecchi (with visible nipples). If you like ecchi isekai anime with good story & interesting plot & development then this is for you.

Note that this is not comedy so don't expect many jokes. Instead the jokes are intermezzo and often related to ecchi. This is more of serious battle and story-focused anime with much explaining background individual story.

[The Girls]
The girls are cute and sexy, it is one of the main selling of this anime.
- Yaya is very cute and erotic, always attempt to gain ... love for the MC and will do many naughty things in order to do that.
- Charlotte is your typical tsundere with big boobs.
- Frey is the funniest character, very clumsy and plain stupid and honest, she also has voluptuous delicious body too.

Overall this is a great and fun anime to watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 9, 2022

Ant-Fan

Mixed Feelings

Unbreakable Machine Doll is a perfectly decent anime. The characters are likable and the story is decent. However, it falls far short of being a great work for the medium. I went into this with high expectations, as this is a Lerche anime and Lerche is my favorite studio. Their animation is always gorgeous and they are responsible for some of my favorite series ever made. However, Unbreakable Machine Doll does not feel up to par with their other series.

First of all, the animation. Lerche usually has some of the best animation in the industry. However, Unbreakable Machine ... Doll does not meet their usual standard. Most of the time, it looks serviceable. The characters are well-designed and stay on model. It's not a stand-out style or anything, but it's perfectly fine. The issues, however, come from the action scenes. In almost every action scene with the automatons, the animation will switch to very low-quality CG models. The change is very jarring. Some characters look better than others, but Yaya in particular looks really off due to her human appearance. It's really disappointing because the fight scenes are a focal point of the anime, and there are some good ideas in terms of choreography, but it all falls apart in the execution.

As for the story, it's decent. It's nothing particularly groundbreaking and I don't think it's going to be anybody's favorite anime, but it's extremely watchable. In particular, the characters are largely very likable. The main character, Raishin, is enjoyable (albeit a bit one-note at times) and most of the supporting cast, especially Charlotte and Loki, are very well-written and I found myself liking them a lot. However, the biggest issue the story has is that it all feels like setup. The series ends with pretty much just as many questions as when it started, and the whole season feels like it's just introducing characters and concepts to be used further down the line. However, it's abundantly clear that season 2 will almost definitely never happen, so if you want to see where the story goes, you'll have to read the light novels, which have never been officially translated into English.

There's a lot to like in Unbreakable Machine Doll, but overall, it just feels extraordinarily average. It's not something I think anyone needs to go out of their way to watch. However, if the premise really sounds interesting to you and the idea of CG battles and a lack of resolution don't bother you, I recommend giving it a watch and forming your own opinion. It can be quite an enjoyable show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 29, 2022

EyeAmTheI

Not Recommended

Well, yeah. The plauge of the "stupidly naive and dense moral-compass protagonist" trope. I mean, when I see this archetype, I already know, I'll feel bad for all of the people around the MC, because they'll suffer a lot while they try to protect the dense protagonist from his own stupidity. I really don't get it why do people glorify recklessness. Not to mention the complete ignorance of the safety of the loved ones. Sadly, if I see these absolutely avoidable situations, I cannot hate the "bad guys", I can only blame the MC for his rush, stuipd, and stubborn decisions. What makes this even ... worse, if the plot is written in a way, that the MC gets rewarded for his stupidity... Now, this show is the perfect exectution of the trope. Meh...

Other than that a pretty generic shallow story full of plotholes. The world could have been interesting, but there is no world building. There are these battle dolls and be happy about it. It is not much, but it's honest work, I guess. The characters are the typical cardboard cutouts, none of them has anything what would resemble a personality. Yaya is fine, I guess, but she lacks of the depth as well. She is not much more than a budget yandere like waifu bait from the wallmart. The dialogs are dumb as hell. I genuinely felt bad for the sidecast. They tried to talk some common sense into our resident dense mofo, but they got only some shallow and really badly written one liners or some pretentious bs in return... Visually, the waifu candidates are fine, but the animation is kinda cluncky here and there, the sounds are nothing fancy neither (especially the OP made my ears bleed, but that's just subjective taste, so you may like it).

So all in all, this is pretty medicore. If you like the aforementioned tropes, you may have a good time with this one, but for me it was a cringefest. I barely managed to watch until the end.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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