Straight Title Robot Anime

This is not at all what I was expecting at all. It's goofing. A few robots trying to learn how to laugh. Was this done by college students? There's no way a studio did this. If this is their television series producers, they did a fair job with probably no $. As for the story, pretty bad. The writers need more experience. I'll give it another couple episodes, but I'm disappointed. If this is by an established studio shame on you!
Episodes only 13 mins. I must say it was the longest 13 minutes of my life.

Sooo it starts off with lots of explosions.,.,., but most of the show ends up as puns.,.,., sooo 3 robots try to end the 10000 year war after all humans are gone.,., but end up trying to find out human emotions.,.,., but it doesnt working out too well.,.,., but it a so so show.,.,., but if u will watching lots of different puns u will enjoy the show.,., but if u dont like a show all about jock and puns then this show is not for u.,.,.,

but sorry for my bad spelling.,.,.,.,

The first attempt to use MikuMikuDance to make something marketable other than a Hatsune Miku dance video is pretty much as bad as expected. After someone managed to make a robot throwdown worthy of Banpresto's Super Robot Wars with it, we get this, which is pretty much three passable robot girls trying to make sense of human life after humanity has left their robots running far far far too long.

The throwdown showed how much you can do with MMD, and the fact the models used for the girls are over-bright and not even high poly models means that, even before you get into the slapstick aspects, it's a failure.

Despite all appearances, this is actually an extreme meta-comedy. The premise is that humans are all dead and a trio of emotionless moe robots are left to dissect the strange science of "comedy." The joke is that they lack all the basic human social cues that make comedy work, so it's a total ordeal for them to try and explain and understand a gag. They swing, and they miss, they never really get there, and that's the point.

If you don't have a certain sense of humor this is going to go flying over your head, as it has for most people on CR. It's on another level. It is actually way smarter than most anime. See also gdgd Fairies.

From the teaser to the webpage before its release, we are led to believe this is a mecha war Anime, with references to every major series, including Macross, Gundam, and Shin Getter. What we get is exactly that... for the title sequence. The rest of the time, it's three robot girls trying to end the war in their own way... by searching for the secret of human laughter. A lot is left unexplained, as to why these three, who obviously have purpose elsewhere, are standing out in the middle of a battlefield, musing on laughter in the first place. Apparently they've discovered downtime?

The show itself is very formulaic. For the first half, they discuss a new way to create laughter. For the second half, they spend time in two rooms, one to simulate what would happen if they introduced a new element to the world, and one to look into human society. The simulation room uses the novel approach of re-enacting the title sequence, with the atmosphere changed. I found the first episode's gag to be actually amusing, but it was obvious that by the second episode they were trying too hard. The human database room is more interesting, because as robots with little to no knowledge of the human world, their impressions are spot on, yet completely misunderstood. The only thing I don't understand is why Kato isn't the one in charge of this room, as she's the library robot.

I won't fault the technical merits of this Anime. Using MikuMikuDance as a production medium is a real budget saver, and cooperating with those with their hands in Vocaloid, including KEI and Kohei, makes it all the more popular with those circles. The opening is actually using motion data from the MMD Super Robot Taisen video that won the MMDCUP 9 competition. For a free 3D animation program, and using custom models there's very little clipping in the animation of the three main characters. The voice acting is spot on, and in the human database room, they're actually allowed to giggle off the cuff.

A lot of english-speaking viewers won't be able to understand the genre here that makes this Anime funny. It essentially ridicules human life as a whole, from an objective point of view, something that's been done before from, say, aliens coming to Earth, but I don't know of any other show on American TV that actually dedicates an entire topic to it other than 3rd Rock From the Sun. I personally find it funny.

I do however have to fault the execution on this. Doing a bait and switch on your first ever Anime is a bad move, especially when switching genres between pure sci-fi action and comedy. The approach is so very formulaic that it has already started to get old. This isn't like Azumanga Daioh, where the formulaic 4Koma works. By the second episode, I was hoping that there would be a new room introduced to the second half. No such luck. Since they had introduced those features in the first episode, we didn't need any explanation to what the rooms were. It felt like less time was spent in each, so by the end of the episode, it felt like it was shorter than the first episode. It was definitely lacking something, and they won't be able to keep up these gags for a full 13 episodes. They'll need to start introducing new elements soon or this series will tank.

In the end, the technical merits are good, the provenance is good, but the execution needs work, and quickly.
Animation: 3.5/5
Voice/Sound: 4/5
Execution: 1.5/5
Humor: 4/5
Overall: 3.5/5 (after 2 episodes)

My opinion, by far the most funniest cartoon. Surprised by the designs of the cute female robots (Thank you, MMD), but the storyline makes no sense. Learn laughter to ending a war? Sorry, but that seems a bit confusing. If the intro showed some sort of action scenes, and cut to three robots, it almost makes "Hetalia" put to shame. But Hetalia has popularity; Straight Title Robot Anime must've rubbed some hilarity and talking from it AND Lucky Star.

Plus, Kato's voice reminds me of a female version of Warsman of "Kinnikuman" (but with silver than black, and the bear claws), picturing a female version. Love the robot voices.

If you want my opinion, bring in newer topics and even show some sort of fun scenes from these robots, maybe some repairing scenes and even a few new robot fight snippets, and you're all set.

Overall, the anime is great, but not great enough.

Realmente Malo.
Vi los 2 primeros y me aburri mucho.
Intente con el 7 y sigue peor o igual de malo.
Robots pendejos que tratan de hacerse reir uno al otro.
Solo por que ellos mismos exterminaron a los humanos.
Solo para terminar
El peor programa que he visto hace mucho tiempo

Really bad.
I saw the first 2 and got bored a lot.
Try the 7 and still just as bad or worse.
Robots assholes trying to laugh become one another.
Just because they themselves humans exterminated.
Just to finish
The worst program I've seen in a long time

This show starts slowly but ultimately delivers. Three robots--three cute robots--try to discover laughter and end a worldwide robot war. The trouble is that both laughter and the war are relics from a long-extinct humanity, so that neither are well-understood (the robots could probably end the war without an outside catalyst if they at least understood why they were fighting). The humor is subtle, but becomes more obvious (and more conscious of the characters themselves) as the series progresses. Be warned, however, that the ending is unexpectedly abrupt and moves directly from the humorous to the philosophical without preparing its audience for the transition.