Ahhhhhh Opening song as their fifth stage song. I started crying.
Ahhh ehhhh they met again 10 years later😭

The sad thing is when they meet again, those 4 don't even remember him. ;-;
I know this the hard way by playing the game...

OMG ahhhhhhh😭

Ikr T-T I cried too when I found that out. But it was unavoidable since something or someone erased their memories and even locked them in a storage room until us players found them there and accidentally woken them up....

T____T

Bet it was that guy and/ or Android hate group

I don't think it's them this time. I haven't finish the story in the game yet but so far the clues either points to the world government or a drug called "Apple" which is called "ringo" in the game. Based on what I learned from bora. He said that normally human's drug and alcohol doesn't effect android no matter how much they take it but "Apple" is different. It's a drug that effects android. The android will be OK if they only take it a little but the more they take it, the more they get addicted.since the drug makes the taker thinks they're set free from everything and know everything about the world. And in the long run, the drugs will destroy their body and mind/brain system and they malfunction and then they'll never wake up ever again. So that's in my opinion, the drug is probably the biggest clue that links to why knoccs ended up that way.

They sang the opening credits!! :D #justmaleidolthings
EDIT: oh wow his hair got long! really cool show that went in unexpected places

Admittedly, 10-years-later bishounen Esola is not where I expected this series to go. XD

Great performance, good episode 7.1.

nooo i hope Kite survivess come on
he and Chris from high card are the sacrificial oni chans of the season
ADULT ESOLA LOOKS SO BEAUTIFULL AAA
i hope they can be all together again TwT

Agreed.

what the heck did he have to do to save his sister that'd put his life at risk?donate part of his organ to her?i thought he was contemplating turning her into an android,like those 4.
what adult esola?u mean that one at the end on the bridge?that looks like a woman,are u sure its him not kite's sister?

Whos ready for the12th episode lets goo.

not the best show of the season, but for what it set out to do, I think it was alright! <3

It was good in its on way Maki.

Why do you think I said it was still alright paradise SLU?

Oh I think I get it now Maki.

Season 2 when?? OwO

Next Doga Kobo anime is "Oshi no Ko" for Spring.

Guys is this the final episode or is there 1 more to go.

Is over

Thanks Lord WillYung.

OMG having the opening song as the 5th song in the Climbers battle was so wholesome I started crying!!! :') This anime was an emotional rollercoaster and the characters are so friendly and lovely i might die from it! The apology scene was perfect and judging by the ending I believe KNOCC won against STAND_ALONE! A super happy ending and Esola letting them follow their dreams was also beautiful! I feel so bad for Kite for shortening his life for his sister, but I guess being a big brother means more to him. Still, a beautiful series and Esola with long hair is beautiful! :)

Overall Score: 9/10. Sayonara and you will be missed! :')

Yes it was super beautiful but it was super painful and hit super hard to those who play the games...

Why does Esola suddenly have bishounen hair? XD

Fixed life span… So they‘re going to be reformatted when it comes to the time???

We will see.

Bet this ain’t gonna get no season 2.

Lets wait and see.

It is Plastic Memories all over again T_T
The pain

n here i thought esola was gonna grow old eventually while those 4 would never age,n maybe esola could consider making a 20 yr old android body of himself so he can stay with them forever when his human body gets too old to function properly...guess now that means all 5 of them can grow old n die together.

Not my normal type of show but tbh I enjoyed this very much

Their 5th stage song being the OP and also the lullaby that Esola's mom used to hum to him T____T

Esola's hair got so long, what a redesign haha. And they met again on the bridge in the same way! This episode really knows how to tug at the heartstrings haha

thats a woman right?how can that be esola??kite's sister??

No, Kite's sister has blonde hair. That's definitely Esola, same hair color, eyes, and mole under the eye. His hair is just long af after 10 years haha. It's a throwback to how they met the first time, with him dropping something off the bridge and the four catching it while riding the hovercraft thing.

i know anime loves bishounen,but isnt that taking it abit too far?n those four droid cant have only come back to see him after 10 whole years?i'd expect them to visit their darling human brother at least once a year.

No...? Pretty sure his hair length is just supposed to help us resonate with how long it's been, Esola is all grown up and looks completely different than the kid he was when they left, but the Androids look the same because... well, obvious reasons.

Depends, Esola told them to go live their lives without being bound to him. Time passes by quickly when you're focused on your passions, I have friends who haven't visited home in 5+ years but that doesn't mean they love their family any less. Plus letters and phones exist, especially in a tech-based world like this one. The whole point is that they are family, whether they're physically together or not doesn't change that.

u mean esola didnt cut his hair for like...how long?

its still surprising they could be away for 10 years.in the first place when they were human they chose to come together to babysit n tutor him,so i'd have thought that that was their new passion.well they could be pursuing old interests theyve shelved aside for so long.but the fact they each had different passions mean they didnt all four go together,so how did they come together on that hovering scooter?my first guess is that if they'd met up it'd be at esola/their home,not somewhere else n then finally only just meeting esola at the bridge.another reason why i thought he/she mustve been someone else instead of esola.also esola was just a kid,who took care of him?he only has AI eliza to keep him company.

Um... should I like explain to you guys as to why he has long hair after ten years?? Oh well I'll explain either way.
The reason why is because that's what his design looks like in the game technoroid: unison heart. And apparently something happened to knoccs after they left esola and go on their own journey. 10 years later we (the player) was at babel and the player is esola's student while we were at babel, we got lost and ended up in a storage room and there we found knoccs in there unconscious. We accidentally woke them up and knoccs went up on stage without saying anything but after the performance was over knoccs who were in a daze like state finally became conscious but they no longer contain any memories from their past and after that we the player and knoccs went around trying to look for esola and there we found him on the bridge but the moment esola saw the four he fainted. But the weird thing is no one remembers knoccs except nobel and esola. Everyone seems to forgot they ever existed. Something must have happened since knocs lost their memories plus all of their emotions and stand alone members are no longer human but android with no memories of their past either . All of these are from the stories in the game. I'm trying to finish the story to find out more since esola seems to know something and he apparently acted super sus since he acted like he never met the four at all even though he remembered who they are. Plus the most surprising thing is bora ended up doing a 180° with completely different look, new personality, new job and he now hate human and police and he doesn't recognise knoccs either.....oops sorry I went off topic but still I hope that answers your questions even if it's only by a little....( also if you're interested in seeing what bora looks like now, go to youtube and search " D.M.A don't mess around" and you'll see a song with 3 members and there the white hair one is bora)

Damn… Way into the future & they still couldn‘t figure out taxed based health care :(

great anime

lolll now i understand the comment about esola becoming a bishounen 🤣🤣🤣

if you're here reading comments in advance, then yes it ends up happily and all well.

well i mean....

why didnt knoccs help kite find the best doctor to cure his sister?they owe him a favour for all the help hes given n for turning over a new leaf from his old robot hating self.does stand alone work as espionage part time outside of their time as idols?cos they sure look like they can infiltrate enemy ranks n hold their own in a fight.

you are reading, its already too late. you've entered the curse of peepee poopoo man. if you do not share this on 5 other anime, a kfc smelling man with black eyes and a **** stained dress will stare at you through the night. you have 5 days until he rips you apart with his razer sharp teeth during your sleep. (I'm sorry... i was a victim like you i need to be freed from this curse.)

It's time for you to grow up ngl

My only itch is that the 4 people who died- what happened to the robots should've been left up to their individual families. Leaving it up to the "owner" who's "father" did not have the right to take their lives did not sit with me. Those families had to relive seeing their lost one's image take on the host as something else. At the very least, they should have been given their own image as robots. I really enjoyed this anime despite being in opposition to giving robots hearts. It certainly had an interesting take. My biggest concerns are explaining the feeling of "pain". They dont have organic receptors that tell them what physical pain means... as well as the fact that animals and plants are actual living things but still get treated the worst but suddenly non living things are on par with humans. Great story though. I give it a solid 8/10 tbh.

the families of those four had never once appeared;its like they dont exist or took it that their loved ones died n those four arent them,just robots with heart.
im doubtful giving pure robots hearts will suddenly make them behave like humans,cos those four had human hearts from their previous lives,thats the chief difference.
not sure what u actually mean by animals and plants get treated worst.i dont see any animal or plant exclusionist group rallying for the destruction of all plant n non human animal life form,cos that'd mean certain doom for us too,esp if plant life were gone.plants are mostly inanimate,but animals,no matter how much u view them as having human characteristics,u dont know whats actually going on inside them,n they may still act on beastly instinct.if robots can truly act on every level like human,will they not be more human than an animal that still stays as an animal,ie not sentiently reasoning enough to communicate n reason with us on an equal level?take like the movie artificial intelligence,where the boy robot was brought in as a replacement for a couple's comatose kid but when the kid wakes he gets abandoned but unable to forget his feelings for the mom hes programmed to love,n goes all around the world in search of getting back to her,but never did get his wish.all he got was a dreamlike state from future sentient beings.

Just because they didnt appear doesn't make the situation irrelevant? My point is the outcome is a lot less realistic. You are completely blowing over my point. That if 80 to 90% of the world are watching them as this anime stated, that these 4 cause unwanted psychological distress to their families? Also time did not skip ahead by a lot. We know this because of the kid's age between the time they met and now. I doubt all their loved ones are dead (people tend to have mothers, fathers, cousins, aunts, etc. its hard to think ALL 4 of their families ALL died).

Also 4 of them are imitations, not the original. They were copied, not transferred. It's just memories. Overtime they wont "remember" what its like to feel physical pain. You don't think that's an issue?

My point is, making laws for robots to be as equal as humans is not realistic. Just because you are dependent on animals and plants for food does not mean they arent treated worse than humans. In fact, it means the opposite. We dont see other living things as equal on this earth. Thats my point. How are you going to push for objects to be equal, when other living things arent? We know enough about animals to know when they are hurt, they wimper and cry. Imo thats enough to question if robots should get equal rights like humans, versus animals/plants first and foremost.

Just because we cannot understand other animals means they are lesser than us. The literal difference is our ability to comprehend more (or so we say because we can't even communicate to them to know the difference, but I agree we are smarter anyways because I'm not a scientist). You say "beastly instinct" but humans have "instincts" too? By definition humans are animals. We are composed of the same genetic material and more. And just because you can act like an animal/human, does not make you one.

the whole point of shows like this is to show that robots can have the same feel n emotions as humans.if like what u say thats a whole lot of bullcrap,then the purpose of debating all this becomes moot,n u are better off just boycotting it.