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Dec 28, 2022 4:43 PM

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Asahi finally meeting Ai for the last time, it was sad to see how Ai got sick and still wanted to spend time with Asahi, at least they still met under the Cherry Blossom tree for the final time and then Ai disappeared forever. 

Asahi at least finally met again with the 4 AI girls that once disappeared, guess they got re-programmed. 

This was an interesting final, the anime itself had its sides but the story itself was okay at best, it felt like an rollercoaster lol. 
Dec 28, 2022 5:44 PM

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Not a fan of the ending.
If you decide to bring back the deleted AI's then why not bring back Ai?
I'm not buying these decisions, would be far more believable if he moved on without any of them returning, or find a way for Ai to keep excisting like the others...not this in-between solution.
Dec 28, 2022 5:46 PM
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Would be tough for asahi to make his harem always happy...

if ya know what i mean...

May ur nuts last longer than Ai... jkk (Best Childhood friend)
Dec 28, 2022 6:27 PM

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Well a good anime, I found it a little tiring in the middle but it was good right after, I really liked this drama about Ai's death.
But that ending. If they managed to put the girls in bodies in the real world, then why not do the same with Ai, she would continue to live. :I 

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Dec 28, 2022 7:01 PM

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This show would've been better if it stayed as generic harem romcom then this mess we got.  Heck, it still could've been a solid 6/10 if not for the ending.  It really undermines the message of "coping and moving on" if you revive the five AIs and turn them into Yuji Everylead's sex bot harem
Dec 28, 2022 8:15 PM

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I, for one, loved the ending. You can call me a sucker for sap or whatever, but it was all I could hope for. Although it seems weird for them to be a point to have realistic androids for the girls suddenly.

All in all, this series was a great hit to me. 9/10
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Dec 28, 2022 8:39 PM
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I really liked the twist the show had.From being a generic harem, to random shit that made me suspect about it, then the big reveal of all being a virtual world, then the death of the 5 girls, to the drama between Ai and Asahi that imo was very good and sad (with is the purpose), BUT I would prefer that the harem did not comeback in the end. I think it would be better that Asahi got over everything that happend to grow stronger and then live his life, with this the show will not have that "perfect" ending, I believe that the conclusion should be on the reunion of Asahi and Ai, with would have being a good close, and not on the comeback of the girls.
Dec 28, 2022 8:43 PM
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the last episode is satisfying ๐Ÿ‘€,
we are appreciated that asahi got them , back , this series was good / awesome, some words can't enough for this series ๐Ÿ‘€, in the beginning it was not soo , good , but although it was good ,but after the twist it becomes underrated ๐Ÿฅถ for me , in the middle of last episode i cried a little, but , now it's called a good ending, now wait for season 2 ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€, we want it , because i control my hype ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿฅด, for it , it's good and also just awesome, , i think it have a season 2 untill summer, โ— , for now we have to say it bye. ๐Ÿซ‚, , , see ya soon ๐Ÿ’•
Dec 28, 2022 8:58 PM

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Damn, talk about a roller coaster of a ride! Early on I thought that this one was going to be a harem with romcom and ecchi throughout but I did not expect the two swerves (1st swerve being all the girls being AIs in a virtual world and 2nd swerve being that they come back in what I guess are doll forms?) This reminded me of Akiba Maid War in so far as this not being what I thought it would be.

The last episode started out very touching and sad with finding out how Ai died due to a fatal brain tumor and her wanting Asahi to forget about her. NGL this brought a tear to my eye but the very end with the 5 girls back was quite frankly odd and a little confusing. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the girls (my favorite was probably either Amelia or Mongfa) but it may have been better if Asahi would've made real life friends and eventually meet a nice girl, know what I mean? Now the chance of him meeting a real life girl seems rather small but regardless I would welcome a 2nd season or an OVA to see where this goes. I may end up reading the manga of this (assuming there's an English version) to see what happens too.

Overall I still enjoyed watching this and I liked the fanservice scattered throughout. The storyline was a little all over the place but it did keep me interested and the sad part in the final episode with Ai dying was done really well so I give this a 8/10 as I still thought this was very good hence my curiosity in seeing this continue.
Dec 28, 2022 9:00 PM

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I really like this series more when it was just a comedy harem tbh I still enjoyed the serious parts of the show just liked it more when it was a comedy but good thing like 9 of the eps were just comedy so its whatever

I really hope this gets another season 8/10

Dec 28, 2022 9:39 PM
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I can't decide whether I actually like this or not

Their whole sob backstory is pretty much a generic LN RomCom with a tragic twist
Dec 28, 2022 9:41 PM

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lol the ending certainly was a happy one in one sense but in another one it's like asahi will never be able to get over his AI partners and find a flesh and bone partner.

in any case i did like the ending a lot. the flashback with Ai was great and it was sad to see that a perfect love story like that had to come to an abrupt end because of some stupid brainn disease. it was too perfect.

seems like asahi at least got some closure and just when i thought he will live a normal life with real people, these girls come outta that boxes lol. i wonder what his parents will have to say about that or is it that asahi lives in a private apartment away from home now that he's in college? if it's the latter then it's fine.

i do smell some plot armour though. i thought everyone except aoi were erased but here we are.

i think it's safe to say that there will be no small asahi's in future.

overall, 8/10. enjoyed a lot. seems like a conclusive ending which is nice.

The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama.
Feeling half happy, half sad.
  

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Dec 28, 2022 9:48 PM
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i actually really liked how they ended this. the first half of this anime was so confusing and didn't really make sense, but once things started being revealed and explained, i actually started to quite like the show.
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Dec 28, 2022 10:38 PM
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it was very good af i might need another season
Dec 29, 2022 1:28 AM
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damn man cryed my eys out
Dec 29, 2022 2:37 AM
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So in the end he gets to have hot robot sex with all 5 girls.
Dec 29, 2022 2:52 AM
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This anime was a hot garbage roller-coaster, quite refreshing tbh
Dec 29, 2022 4:03 AM
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really crying for 2/4 episodes. at last a good, happy ending . love it.
glad started today and also finished it today.
i am feeling how heartbroken when everyone was waiting for weeks for 1 episode!
Dec 29, 2022 5:15 AM
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harem restored, god bless 6/10
Dec 29, 2022 5:53 AM

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Finally, the last episode hmm
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Dec 29, 2022 6:27 AM

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Loved the finale, anohana kimiuso and several more mixed up, but didnt like the girls part too, i would have loved a more "sadder" finale without them, this last 3 episodes were in vain...

Dec 29, 2022 7:28 AM

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Very emotional finale, good to see the girls are back, overall very enjoyable series.
Dec 29, 2022 8:11 AM
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Another strong Anime of the Year contender has emerged. Easily 10/10. Loved the ending.
Dec 29, 2022 8:16 AM
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Finale was fine, but disappointed… 5/10
Dec 29, 2022 8:37 AM
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it is a little sad to lose the one you love and live in a parallel world to reality but in the end, they all come back as robots
Dec 29, 2022 9:04 AM

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I've been thinking about this ep and while I loved the show, at first I had mixed feelings about the ending. Now my feelings have become more clear and more positive, even though at first it may seem like a waste of the history's point if the girls are back. 
However

  • Why bring the harem back? Aren't they still a part of Ai, which Asahi was supposed to finally say goodbye to? Not really, at least not anymore. The girls aren't an extention of Ai anymore, it's more as if she were their friend or relative who had influence on them, but at this point they are their own beings. They have learnt and become independent, they now have actual reasons for loving Asahi instead of being just programmed to. They have understood their nature and become closer to actual humans. And they do deserve the happiness and chance in real life, even if it's kinda an asspull but ehh. IMO it's forgivable. I'm only concerned about Aoi, since she was the closest to resembling Ai, and in her case I'm not entirely sure about her progressing from being just artifical being. In the end tho, I think it's better to bring them back than to let them disappear.
  • Why not bring Ai back? Because unlike the other girls, who were born as AI, she wasn't, and if she was brought to the real world it wouldn't truly be the same girl it was, it wouldn't be the same soul. IMO it would be disrespect to the actual girl, and THIS would be the real regress from the whole point of getting over grief. What remained of Ai's counsciousness has now dealt with losing Asahi. Let the girl rest in peace.
  • What about Himari? The girl has literally shown up once for just a moment. I prefer they don'r randomly hook up MC with her. We saw basically nothing of her.

Also the end is fitting for the entirety of this show, which wasn't really ever fully serious despite turning out to be tackling a real problem.
I think this anime would benefit from having a few more episodes, heck, maybe even just one more would make the finale more impressive, but it is what it is and for a short anime original it did well enough. I barely watch any seasonals recently, and this season I only watched Spy x family 2 and picked this up quite randomly. And I'm happy I did. I laughed my ass off at some moments, I cried, and generally I never was bored and just embraced this show with its strengths and weaknesses and the wackiness.

Torn between a weak 8 and a strong 7, but giving the 8 because I rly enjoyed this and appreciate this anime
Dec 29, 2022 11:56 AM
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So they decided on a happy ending. Well I knew the girls were coming back someway or another.
Dec 29, 2022 12:48 PM
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I don't know how to describe this feeling I have for this series

I have to admit that after watching first 6 episodes I was really done with any kind of hopes for it and for that reason it was almost in my 2-3/10 rating category but after the 7th episode, it took a strange turn & probably one of the biggest twists I had seen in a romcom

There were some kind of plotholes which degraded it's quality like how did all of them got those power ups in the second half of story? I thought that their data has been deleted from AI but how could they still exist!?? I am not convinced with this plus not to mention some of those awful scenes in first 6 ep although it is a harem series so it wasn't something which I would take into consideration for my ratings however this marks the end of negative points of story for me

There were so many beautiful & wholesome moments and series did a wonderful job in making me emotionally invested with this series, I can still feel that pain of that final goodbye exchanges between Asahi & Ai, the girls were actually pretty good & Asashi's character chemistry was handled really well, that twist was top tier & the sci fi element of the story made up for the lots of unnatural events & tropes of the initial & even final phase

However the ending could have been better, those sacrifices would have meant even deeper value if the girls would have been engraved just in his memories and he would have started a new life, the finale first 18-19 minutes almost melt my heart & almost made me cry but the way they pulled off that lame ass ending of bringing those girls in real life just to give a happy ending to this story made it lose its potential

Nonetheless a really heart melting series with one of the most sad confessions (which should haven't been possible realistically) & last 2-3 minutes won't change the fact that I will be one of my memorable series, I am gonna pretend that those last 2-3 minutes were just blooper & Asahi actually preferred moving on

7/10
Dec 29, 2022 1:31 PM
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one of my fav animes harem
Dec 29, 2022 1:53 PM

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happy ending let's goooo
Dec 29, 2022 2:21 PM
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Anime ini bagus, ceritanya menyentuh
Walau di awal episode sempat ingin berhenti menonton hehehe
Dec 29, 2022 11:16 PM

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Wlep, that's all folks.....

side question, given that the four of them were delivered in boxes...is it possible that Aoi is the only human of the group....
I mean, when we saw her she doing some groceries which indicated that she can consume human food, next she the only one who is not delivered in box...I guessing that she could be the girl we saw in ep 9, you know the one who is looking at Asahi.
Dec 29, 2022 11:54 PM

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It's a weird ending. I have seen chobits. I don't know.

Though this was one of the possible endings that I could think of. I was hoping that his female school mate girl would play a bigger role in his life. A start over with all the AI gone would have been a good ending also.
Dec 30, 2022 12:28 AM
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As a normal slice of life harem anime. It worked pretty good. Unlike other anime like it, where something out of pocket happens, this anime actually uses it as a jumping off point to start moving in a completely different direction. It all culminates in a sad, but good ending nonetheless. I recommend it if you miss old school harem animes, and anime with both sad and happy moments.
Dec 30, 2022 3:47 AM
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the plot twist was wild and the ending was kinda wholesome and it wrapped up the whole story nicely but a bit heartbreaking in parts
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Dec 30, 2022 8:12 AM

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the last 2 minutes of final episode is ruined entire of this show !!!
Dec 30, 2022 8:31 AM
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mthl deez adham 3la deez zaid
Dec 30, 2022 12:05 PM
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feels too fast and rushing, absurd ending, harem-forcing, and lastly,
why must you Professor made 5 robot with the same memory but not Ai instead?
Dec 30, 2022 12:32 PM
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And so it ends.

Although I think I more or less said everything I wanted in the last ep, let's see.

Overall the ep had a very strange pacing and mood and whiplash effect.

The most I can say is hopefully we MAYBE get an ova to sort things out? I'm not sure.

Fundamentally while I still like the series, I feel like the damage has already been done by the pacing of the previous episodes.

Ultimately the question I have is, what is the point of everything? The characters are great, amazing even, but it feels like the first half was just shenanigans and the second half was just dorama.

The last second plot twist that all five of the girls survived (and even have human bodies now my gawd) is interesting for sure but by itself, I mean.

Otherwise it really felt that there was a bit too much emotional and tearjerker stuff, I get that its supposed to be a emphatic and romance and/or love anime but uh.

Anyway I think that's about it. All I can say is that even at the end (plot holes aside) it seems even aoi got shafted, really peculiar isnt it.

Maybe I'm just coping, but perhaps the manga could continue on, but I'm not very optimistic about that.

EDIT: After a bit of thought, I (and a few others) definitely thought of angel beats, though its quite a lot different, but some similarities.
Maybe its a bit of a stretch but I thought of vividred operation as well, though its possible there's other anime here and there.

It happened last ep but its a bit jarring that, we had ONE ep (11) with a different title, and then ep 12 was like uh.
Otherwise though.
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Dec 30, 2022 2:38 PM

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 I think it honestly had a lot of potential to be something great. The cast is awesome. The art and animation was beautiful. And the characters themselves were okay. But what didn't connect was the emotional feeling I was supposed to have for Ai in the end. I felt like they didn't know if they wanted us, the viewers, to have sympathy for Ai or for Aoi, Amelia, Karin, Irina and Mongfa.
 I like how there was a reason behind bananas being a big thing in this anime but again it went from what seemed to be a wacky rom/com to something serious that I couldnt get on board with. It's not a bad anime but it's just not good.

6/10
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Dec 30, 2022 2:50 PM
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I enjoyed it a lot so I rate it 8/10, but I don't see why Ai had to die and the others didn't. She could have gotten a robot body (or whatever they got) like the other girls did and lived a new life, but I suppose it is what it is. 

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Dec 30, 2022 4:56 PM

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Prolly the only proper episodes, The part where ai put on make up too cover up her baggy black eyes was some real attention to detail tho.

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Dec 30, 2022 6:13 PM
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I want season 2......
Dec 30, 2022 9:37 PM
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I never realised how many people enjoy depression until I came back to this discussion. I would have absolutely hated this anime had they not brought the girls back.
While Ai's backstory is tragic and sad in its own right, the five girls had far more character development than Ai. I borderline hated Ai/Aoi for making such a demented system to reach them which caused the girls to suffer, only to inevitably vanish after her purpose was fulfilled.

I believe the ending to this was executed perfectly with the exception of being a little rushed. I would take a SoL season 2 any day purely about asahi, his friends, and the girls' antics, but considering the plot of this I imagine there would be more to it than that. I'm glad this didn't turn into another plastic memories bit where the show ends with everyone feeling nothing but a void of existential dread and depression. For now a 9/10 since this show is stuck in my head.
Dec 30, 2022 11:14 PM
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Fun series about A,I
Dec 31, 2022 5:22 PM
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Mó bad essa história da AI. Chega até a ser tenso ela evitando o protagonista enquanto sabe que vai morrer para que ele não se atrapalhe ou não sinta que a culpa seja da sua partida.
A única coisa que me bugou foi que as waifus voltaram em forma de robô no final. Eu achei que as memórias que carregava as personalidades delas tinham sido tudo apagadas.

Ps: Eu pensei aqui mais sobre enquanto escrevia e o "robô" que apaga as informações não pegou a Aoi, amélia, Ilya e a Karin. Mas eu achei que tinha pegado a Mongfa(que, aliás, foi a "morte" que mais tinha impactado).
Jan 1, 2023 1:22 AM
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Truly a roller coaster experience xD You can't expect it to be a simple harem anime
Jan 1, 2023 4:57 AM
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Weird and good at the same time
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Jan 1, 2023 7:12 PM

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I understand wanting the waifus to come back to "life" but it ruins the whole message of accepting loss and moving forward with those memories, Asahi is now never going to have a real girlfriend or create a real family because he is going to live with his 5 sex robots for the rest of his life.

Good luck explaining that especially when he gets older and the robots stay the same age lol.
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