Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?, episode five, gave me a taste of the future we could have had. Imagine a world where AI can take you to Poundland instead of the unemployment office. I swear, we killed Harambe, and the “good” future went with him. My laments aside, this show is finally touching on one of the things I like to ponder the most: “What is love?”
Baby…don’t hurt me, no more…
Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?, Episode Five — Custom Made Love
Akane seems to be experiencing a moral and ethical dilemma, falling in love with Nadeshiko. While this provides viewers with plenty of eye candy and yuri fornication, it also prompts us to reflect. People fall in love with things all the time. That scenario is so common that it has a name: objectophilia. Do you remember that dude who got married to Hatsune Miku? Maybe you’ve heard about people falling in love with ChatGPT? Whichever scenario you’re most familiar with, the sentiment remains the same: a person falls in love with an object. Its psychology is debatable; no one really knows if it’s a kink, fetish, mental disorder, or another part of the romantic spectrum. I’m not here to debate that. I’m here to sell doujins and talk about the romance and yuriness of Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?
We get a lot of human x robot rom-coms, and I can’t help but wonder why more of them don’t deep dive into the concept. Most people will dismiss a robot’s affection as part of its programming, “it’s nothing more than 1s and 0s,” they say. I can’t see how that’s any different than what we do. All your feelings are nothing more than the product of neurotransmitters firing in your head. Unless you’re monkish in your behavior and have mastered self-control, you’re doing what your brain tells you to. Some say that’s different, that’s a biological process. But I say that if something has twintails, thigh-highs, and says “baka,” it’s a tsundere. What you want to call it doesn’t matter.
LOCK YOUR BATHROOM DOOR!!!
For most of my life, I lived in a place that, in 20 years, only recorded a single murder. The town was so tranquil that people would leave their doors and windows open on summer nights. I always locked mine. Even if safety wasn’t a concern, privacy was. But as every rom-com, harem, and even Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?, shows, those aren’t concerns in anime. That may sound like a complaint, but it’s not. Every unlocked bathroom scene has brought me joy, but I would change something about them. The violence that usually follows these scenarios has never amused me. Instead, I always wished for it to turn into a sexy moment, and that’s exactly what I got in this episode.
It’s comforting to know that tired scenes can excite when they include ecchiness. Getting told “Do you want dinner, a bath, or me?” takes on a whole new meaning when the person saying it is half-dressed. It’s a life worth living when walking into someone’s bathroom results in fornication, and not a beating. If only this could be anime’s new standard.
OceanVeil streams the uncensored version of Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?
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