A detective and their partner should be a strong unit… What if your partner’s a sentient robot, though? Grey, a seasoned detective prone to cynicism, and his new partner Light Bulb, a database on metal legs, try to work it out from case to case…
Note: Winner of the Yu Suzunoki Award.
Light & Specs has finished publishing and it has 1 Chapters. It is also Known as: Lights and Specs, Lights and Specs (moya)
Genres: Science Fiction , Seinen , Slice of Life , Robot , Detective
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5. Melancholia
An omnibus collection of short stories.
Melancholia has finished publishing and it has 26 Chapters. It is also Known as: メランコリア, Melancholia
4. Boku no Tsuma wa Kanjou ga Nai
Takuma is a single guy who does nothing but go to work and come home. Too tired to do chores, he decides to get a robot to cook and keep house. “Mina-chan” is such a good housekeeper, Takuma jokes that she should become his wife. Mina takes Takuma’s joke seriously, and slowly the two start doing more things together, like having a picnic outside. As time goes by, Takuma starts to fall for Mina, but can a human and a robot ever have an equal, loving relationship?
My Wife Has No Emotion is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 僕の妻は感情がない, Boku no Tsuma wa Kanjou ga Nai
3. Yome ga Kore na mon de.
Nobuo is an ordinary salaryman with a dark secret-his wife is an alien. Despite her tentacle hair and tendency to shoot beams from her eyes, he wouldn't trade her for anything. Love knows no bounds in this extraterrestrial romantic comedy.
Oh, My Sweet Alien has finished publishing and it has 13 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヨメがコレなもんで。, Yome ga Kore na mon de.
2. Ponkotsu Ponko
The near future, in a quiet seaside town. Yoshioka, who had recently lost his wife, just wants to spend the rest of his days in peace. However, Yoshioka's children, worried about their father's health, sent a housekeeping robot to help him. Yoshioka's quiet life is now changing.
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1. Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?
Five hundred years have passed since humanity went extinct at the hands of the fearsome "Beasts." Even up in the sky, where the surviving races dwell on floating islands, these monstrosities constantly threaten to bring death and destruction. Only a small group of young girls, the Leprechauns, can wield the ancient weapons needed to defeat these creatures. Into the girls' unstable and fleeting lives, where a call to certain death could come at any moment, enters an unlikely character: a young man who lost everything five hundred years ago, the last living human awakened from a long, icy slumber.
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? has finished publishing and it has 25 Chapters. It is also Known as: 終末なにしてますか？忙しいですか？救ってもらっていいですか？, SukaSuka, Do you have what THE END? Are you busy? Shall you save xxx?, What are you doing at the end? Are you busy? Can you save me?
