What Wikipaedia says: The story is set in the year Mobile Century 8013 where humans no longer inhabit the planet Earth. However, remaining military robots continue to fight for unknown purpose(s). Three non-combatant robots, Fuji, Kato, and Mori attempt to end the war that lasted for 7 millennia by investigating on human laughter.
KoanMan says: KoanMan is not really sure about this series. It is definitely not an action, not terribly serious, and is not fast-paced. It will not tax the viewer. What it is, seems to be a repetitive documentary on humour/comedy. Despite this, KoanMan actually blitzed this whole series in just 2 sittings, and the small differences between episodes became the feature that kept one watching. How many different scenarios will still lead to the same annihilation of the planet in a continual robot war several thousand years in duration? Well, a lot, as it happens - and perhaps this is the point. The "futility of hostility"...History repeating itself...
The female worker-bee robots, Fujii, Mori and Kato carry the exploration of laughter, with random voice-overs by a particularly dandy male (DELETED - Possible spoiler) narrator (DELETED - Possible spoiler). The characters do develop in interesting ways, a quiet feature of the series that requires some close attention.
How About the Music?: The music is frenetic during the high action opening sequence and the "experiments", and, well, actually that's about it.
Overall Grade: KoanMan has mixed feelings. The series is s-l-o-w. However, the episodes are short, and there are not many of them. For the TPO these are positives, as are the characters themselves and KoanMan found some potential here, and the pinnacle of the series, Episode 11, without which it would have been rated much harder. As it was, it simply slowed right down to a C.
tTPO says: I took a different view to this series than KoanMan. While at first glance it seems an awful lot like the Endless 8 from Haruhi (though mercifully shorter and more varied) there is steady character development, that by the time the end hits (and it does hit surprisingly hard considering the rest of the series) I cared about the characters. The repititous nature of the episodes I found really quite educational about the nature of comedy and so for me, while the structure of each episde was very similar, the content varied enough to keep me interested. I think to be fair though you could remove about 5 or 6 episodes from the middle of this series and not lose too much.
This is no Attack on Titan but I enjoyed this more than (the apparently heartless) KoanMan. With the short episode format working its favour I give it a B.
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