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May 11, 2026
Did you know readers are not interested in how a show or movie made you feel? In fact, the experience you had is perfunctory and irrelevant as art is not made to make you feel anything.
Does this site think people are fucking robots? How apt.
My Wife Has No Emotions conjures the same FEELINGS as other works of similar topics. I thought of Her quite often during the show. Sci-fi with darker takes like Blade Runner pretty much helped form this entire wing of androids in media. Inspiring other cyperpunk entities like Ghost in the Shell.
What makes this show interesting is its lighthearted take. It's very
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much pro-robot, pro-technology. I didn't really have a problem with that. Because, I think they knew certain viewers would be turned off out the gate.
What made the show work was the hoops it was willing to jump through. The robot in question has way more autonomy than a simple wish fulfillment fantasy would allow. The show also doesn't really contain much sexuality (several shows I enjoy unnecessarily shoehorn in fan service).
The show is really about making an odd connection and having that connection on your own terms. Really, it's about letting someone be happy in their own way. I think that's perfectly fine. In reality land, this would be some kind of connection with a person, but sci-fi is about investigating a theoretical.
And while yes, this is largely a slice-of-life romance, it does still put in some attention to the technical side of the sci-fi. A silly ah premise/show like this often won't and could get away with not getting into technicals. Which is why I do appreciate it acknowledging some ethical quandaries and answering questions of how this world functions. It's kinda fun how it does the two.
Ultimately, the focus is on the relationship and its characters. They're interesting and often humorous. There's a cutesy mascot character who actually is fun to have around. The love story part has a lot of sweetness.
I do think that powering through it all at once, it probably isn't one I'm gonna flock back to immediately. It's cute and has it's moments. I don't think it strikes me the way other slice-of-life have. Also, it kinda confused me who it was for. Was it for 20-30 year olds or is it for teens? The humor and cartoonier parts feel adolescent but several concepts reach further up the age range. Idk. Enjoyed it overall and glad I watched it. That's called an emotion and it's what you fucking have watching something!
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 4, 2026
It's so fucking disappointing. After years of buildup and a kind of unfaithful movie, the anime looked promising. In fact, the first episode isn't awful. It looks nice. Stock sound effects and cramming events did feel off. So, I stopped watching and went and read the source material, which I had minimal experience with. After returning, the issues were super apparent.
This is so truncated. The odd, episodic form of the comic has been aggressively lost. It's like they ran out of time on the test and started scribbling in answers. Shoving unrelated events from the manga together ad nauseam. Even if I hadn't read it,
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there would still be a feel of crowding out. Like those great, old communal houses that keep growing, the problems kept growing too. Good lord is the animation junky. They really dumped the funds into the first episode and buttfucked the rest of it.
Let's circle back to that and get to the core issue. Adult Swim. They greenlit the show and helped make it happen. They were also heavily criticized by the production team in Japan for cutting their budget. Unlike a shoestring budget show like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Uzumaki needs fucking money. Money to make it look good. The animation (along with breathing room) makes or breaks this as an adaptation. Which is why it fails so hard. I mean, AS has done this before. Aforementioned Aqua Teen was randomly cancelled and The Venture Bros had it's last season cut down to one movie. They often make odd choices at the expense of the end product.
As a result, the show has no breathing room. The major events of the manga all build upon each other as one bizarre and unnerving set piece to the next. The show is rushing these events, ruining the pacing and not giving it the proper detail. This isn't the first ruining of Ito's work in anime. The other adaptations looks really bad too. It's such a shame that they were so close yet so far. I mostly blame Adult Swim.
Strangely, I would recommend the film adaptation. It has its own issues. It doesn't have the means or length to go through the whole novel. However, it economically chooses major events, paces it way better and has the sickly, early 2000s J-horror look. Giving it a unique, grossly green feel. They even invent a couple cool concepts for it. And Ren Osugi is perfect as the dad. There are some lame elements like Saw-style editing, bad acting (from the lead in particular) and some parts not being scary. But, it is miles ahead of the fucking anime.
It's a shame seeing such potential wasted (on a male) (sorry, I'm referencing Dune). They are so close to having made something good. The black and white approach is a solid choice. It was almost there. But when your animation movement reminds me of Beavis and Butt-Head (in a bad way) and you're more focused on sprinting to the finish line. Well. Then, you don't really get horror. This kind of horror. It needs a slow burn. And not a fucking sequel bait. Fuck off.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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May 4, 2026
For some reason, around the time this dropped, Josee had a random revival. It was a Japanese short story from the 80s. Made into a serious live-action film in the early 2000s. All of a sudden, 2020 hits and it had a manga run, anime film (which both directly follow each other), and a South Korean adaptation all dropping the same year. I don't know why it had all this activity all at once, but if the core of the story is what was faithful, I can see why it would have some kinda spotlight in time.
It has the disability angle, which has many
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different appeals (anything from Diving Bell and the Butterfly to Children of a Lesser God). Something about intense hardship has this almost innate sympathy from general audiences. For me, I was interested because it's in the slice-of-life genre. I've been about that for a couple years now.
Though heavier than a typical day in the life anime/manga, it contains the appeals nonetheless. It has drama, but we also see the characters' relationship front and center. The experience goes back and forth between lighthearted following-the-characters-everyday-life to tragedy. Pretty well actually. The manga and anime never get so heavy that it becomes a depressing experience. Which would fit. But, for what they both go for, they accomplish going between tones pretty well.
The relationship is really cute. It's one that feels earned and built up to. They do a bit of suffering to get there. I also enjoy the side characters. A minor issue with some slice-of-lives is that characters can start to sound interchangeable, especially if they're background. Here, each one is distinct and talks in their own way. There's a lot of character to it in general.
Now, it does succumb to some melodrama. Things get so heightened that it recalls those other inspirational hardship stories, where things get sappy. Not every dramatic beat fully works. I'm a little mixed on the major third act change the lead goes through.
On the whole, it's a beautiful and properly heart tugging story. I think both lead characters have a romance that can be rooted for and it ultimately picks you up and makes you feel good. Glad I hit both the film and manga (which are almost surgical with how similar they are to each other). It's funny. My brother has the manga lent from a friend for the past few years, and I've read it before he has.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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