Through them we the viewers would learn about Giftia’s roles in society. The beginning episodes give us the sense that the show is going to be about the Terminal Service members retrieving Giftias and the toll it takes on them as they interact with everyday people. With regards to plotting, the show wants a bigger scope than it can handle. Almost nobody gets much time to develop or as soon as real emotional development rears its head, it gets immediately squashed in favor of poor plotting. These partners don’t help the character arena much, as they consist of the same kind of troping as their human counterparts. Every member of the Terminal Service gets a Giftia partner to help him/her collect expired Giftias. There’s the secretly kindhearted but usually violent and drunk “it’s supposed to be funny #laugh” boss, the pervert guy who shows up late, the boy next door, the tsundere, and Tsukasa…the doormat. It’s basically all a cardboard play, setup to try and draw out emotion without ever telling you that you just paid for smoke and mirrors.Įvery character in Plastic Memories’ Terminal Service is a trope used for an uninteresting purpose or is not used at all. It sets itself up with a set of circumstances and never deviates. This bring me to the umbrella problem with Plastic Memories. Since we never leave the small town our main characters are in, we don’t really know the global impact of Giftias or how (heck.or if) they are used by other countries. They are accepted by society and they perform various duties for towns and cities (or so we hear…). Giftias look and act like humans for all intensive purposes. In this vein, Plastic Memories has a really interesting setup. What happens when it gets to a point where they (androids) looks and feels like us? What happens if/when they surpass us? We don’t know the answers, but stories that hypothesize help us mold our own personal opinions about the subject. We have AI that can make facial expressions and for crying out loud people in Japan practically worship Hatsune Miku and she’s nothing but an advanced voice synthesizer!Īs technology advances further along it becomes fascinating to look at or think about the role of AI in society. We have advanced AI that play chess better than humans and are learning to play games as complicated as Go. The idea of an AI in society is really not as far away as we think. I watched it during its run in 2015 with the hope that this original anime would deliver on the neat, albeit heartbreaking, ideas that it was throwing out in its premise. When I read the description for this show I was pretty excited. Along with his giftia partner Isla, he’ll learn and experience new things. Tsukasa Mizugaki is a new recruit to the collection agency. When a Giftia’s time expires it must be collected by a special government agency known as the Terminal Service, before it goes berserk. The catch to the system is that a Giftia can only “live” for nine years. A Giftia is accepted in modern society as use for labor, child rearing and other various needs. Japan has a new type of AI called Giftias.
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