This is a new favorite for me. Thank you so much, InexCuesable Scans!

All's well that ends well, eh?

I liked this a lot, its sad to see many people didn't. A cautionary tale of the arrogance and wastefulness of man, who discard things, animals, people as soon as they find something else they want.

I like it alot but this is a big yikes.

It got worse before it got a lot worse.

RIP Bozo

ez clap, good kills

RIP Bozo

ez clap, good kills

gg no re

instead of explaining things she could just turn her off and reprogram her like it was nothing, but to me this short story was excellent.

I wonder how it feels like to be stabbed at the heart?
Does it hurt so much or does it hurt too much that one will pass out without feeling any pains?

You’d almost say. It feels like getting told “I have someone else now” after being created to unconditionally love that person and being lied to for weeks.

You reap what you sow I guess.

Exactly why I don’t feel bad for Marie

You literally created a robot to love you like a human can. OF COURSE she’s gonna get violent when you suddenly says”I have someone else now, also you’re a bot so your feelings are fake”

Like Christ, that’s cold AF

There are some flaws with this story but at face value I like it lol

instead of explaining things she could just turn her off and reprogram her like it was nothing, but to me this short story was excellent.

Pretty sure that same thought occurred to her on the bottom of page 38.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYO-VMZUGo&t=461s

Detroit: Become Yandere

holy kino...

Perfect happy ending <3 loved it !

evil yuri evil yuri evil yuri nyehehehehehe >:D

She's smart enough to build a robot that can simulate emotions but doesn't include anything like the 3 Laws of Robotics as a fail-safe?
And she tells the robot all that stuff instead of simply reprogramming her? If you see her as a robot then treat her as one...no explanation is owed to "it" before you reprogram.

Kinda breaks my suspension of disbelief. Would be quite the oneshot if those issues were fixed.

What a fucked up story, I love it.

Glad it's getting some praise. I thought I was crazy for liking it

this is the first post I’ve read after coming back here, holy moly……

She deserved the fate she got, the bitch. You don't play with someone like that then throw them away.

Live in the hell you created, Kei. You deserve nothing less.

Honestly I just find the plot fundamentally unbelievable. You're telling me someone who can whip up an intelligent, human-passing synthetic with full sapience couldn't get funding from corps? Techbro investors would be dumping money on her faster than you can say "cheap labor." And that's not even getting into the idea that someone smart enough to make a sapient robot would go "oh you're just a robot, let me edit your mind now that you're obsolete."

Just incredibly contrived for the sake of the "disturbing" ending.

Do you also complain that Ray Bradbury stories are unbelievable? Because I think this manga fits right in with Bradbury and other works of speculative function.

Art doesn't have to be realistic--it doesn't have to be anything, it's art.

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Honestly I just find the plot fundamentally unbelievable. You're telling me someone who can whip up an intelligent, human-passing synthetic with full sapience couldn't get funding from corps? Techbro investors would be dumping money on her faster than you can say "cheap labor." And that's not even getting into the idea that someone smart enough to make a sapient robot would go "oh you're just a robot, let me edit your mind now that you're obsolete."

Just incredibly contrived for the sake of the "disturbing" ending.

Dawg it's a one shot, did you really expect some Dune level world building lmao. This is like watching a Black Mirror episode then complaining it's not realistic. The realism of tech is not the point of the story. There are many short form media that are supposed to be unrealistic because realism is not what they're going for. In fact you'll find loads of them here, including by the same author. The only difference is they're happy stories so no one complains. Users in this site is obsessed with complaining about unhappy stories. Be honest, if the ending was happy you would swallow any unrealistic elements before I can say "suspension of disbelief".

I also thought if Kei-san thought that Marie was just a robot running a program, to simulate love, why did she even bother with her little "breakup speech". She could have shut Marie down for maintenance and removed the "love code" with no fuss or muss.

Exactly. Good concept, but forced. Maybe instead Marie could have seen Kei with her new gf and then done it.