Hacka Doll The Animation

Hacka Dolls are AI that scan a person in order to tailor news recommendations and information to their users. These widespread, personalized robots have served many citizens, from government officials to professional sports players.

A severe drop in quality leads to the production of three substandard Hacka Dolls. Due to their personality defects, they are sent to Earth, tasked with advancing humanity in whatever way they can. Whether it be encouraging a fujoshi to sell a doujinshi at Comiket or performing in an idol group, the three dolls will complete any task as long as it abides by their moral compass. Despite their shortcomings, they take their mission very seriously and always try their best to assist everyone with incredible enthusiasm.

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Hacka Doll No.3 Main

Yamashita, Nanami Japanese

Hacka Doll No.2 Main

Okuno, Kaya Japanese

Hacka Doll No.1 Main

Takagi, Miyu Japanese

Hacka Doll No.4 Supporting

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Hacka Doll No.0 Supporting

Yuzuki, Ryouka Japanese

Mobami Supporting

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

Yuppi Supporting

Aoyama, Yoshino Japanese

Takayuki Supporting

Shimoyamada, Ayaka Japanese

Kirara Supporting

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

Uragami Supporting

Kawanishi, Kengo Japanese

Usa, Yoshiki Producer

Fukuda, Jun Producer

Tanaka, Hiroyuki Producer

Beppu, Youichi Producer

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Dec 30, 2015

Tettsui

Recommended

There have been plenty of shorts this year, but almost none of them were as good as this one. At first glance, it doesn't look like anything special, but I was surprised to find how entertained and engrossed I was, despite it only being about 7 minutes long.

I enjoyed each individual story, loved the characters and music, and was really impressed with the different drawing styles introduced during certain scenes. I didn't expect that from a short anime! I also really liked the casual references to other anime.

I'm not sure how well this one would work as a full-length anime, but I really wish ... there will be a second season. I think it's a fun, entertaining anime with a lot to offer!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 25, 2015

lawlmartz

Mixed Feelings

Hackadoll is my surprise anime of the season. I picked it up about halfway through expecting it to be a stupid boob comedy based on the moe blob art style and the obvious character archetypes they were shooting for in their three characters: dumb blonde genki girl, big boobs-chan, and sleepy loli girl. However right I was about these characters, I was also very wrong. Hackadoll turned out to be a very entertaining short anime, much in the vein of Comical Psychosomatic Medicine of this past summer season.

Hackadoll's strength is that it picked one anime franchise or a trope and made that the backbone ... of the joke it told throughout the 7 minute runtime of each episode. They lampooned everything from Neon Genesis Evangelion to Dragonball Z to Shirobako to dating sims and hentai. In fact, nearly every episode makes fun of a different genre or series with the antics of the bumbling, clueless Hackadolls, a trio of AI whose purpose is to "advance" the people who download their app. "Advancing" people typically turns into the Hackadolls screwing up the person who summoned them's life beyond repair, but then by some horrifically humiliating or mortally dangerous event, the person manages to achieve their goal... mostly. It plays out on screen a lot better than it sounds on paper.

Hackadoll's animation is fairly simple traditional style- since it's a web series with probably a negative budget, but blowing the audience away with visuals isn't the point of the show anyway. The three main VA are all relative newcomers (two of them are even younger than I am) and give solid performances as the aforementioned character archetypes, but are backed up by the awesome veteran Ryouka Yuzuki, or LADY SATSUKI KIRYUUIN herself, as the irascible, overbearing boss, Hackadoll 0.

This show was a good way to blow 5 minutes (because a minute and a half of it is the intro song) with some lighthearted, goofy humor and a bit of parody of some series that I love. I'm not sure how much studio Trigger had to do with the production of this show (they're tagged as a producer), but their influences are strong here. It's zany, off the wall; a lot like watching some kids on a sugar high acting crazy.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 4, 2018

Nomi-san

Not Recommended

Hacka Doll is an advertising anime for an eponymous app. From a common logic, such types of works are supposed to be quite weak, since their sole purpose is for the viewer just to look up the odject of marketing. What's somewhat surprising in this title is that for such a medium it's actually decent.

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STORY:

Episodic and parodical in it's nature, the show stay this way all the way, though the a few recurring characters and themes. The premise of the show is quite basic: a not-so-well AIs that are supposed to help app users in their deeds. What's actually interesting is that every episode usually ... has an aesop of sorts that even makes sense.
It's hard to rate low the series' pacing, since it stays pretty much the same throughout it and this pacing works well for such a type of anime. I find it's good, though, that the series ends, in a sense, with a Where It All Began trope, which is a nice touch that creates a somewhat solid ending. Again, we're talking about an ads 7-min per episode anime, so keep that in mind.

As a side note, the series, being made with the help of Studio Trigger (which was formed by former GAINAX employees), even has a roundabout moral right to parody some shows, namely Evangelion. I'd say that to me the parody and humor were fine; they would even work for someone not familiar with the subjects.

ARTWORK:

Hacka Doll uses some nice techniques like zooming in on actual images for comedic effect (though it suffers from low resolution in that case), which, with the overall good production values, ends up in a decent art quality. Main characters' design is catchy, though everyone besides them looks generic. The general artwork is surprisingly good and has it's own style, though. For a short series, that is. Which is to be exacted given the supposedly good budget of the show. The OP is very decent too.

I'd also like to separately note the ED is a big surprise with its use of MMD animation. They even have four versions of them. Though short, they are quite well done, one would have to give them that.

SOUND:

The music themes of the series are nice, but aside from them, there isn't much of a soundtrack to note or talk about. VA is nice too, while SFX are rather basic.

CHARACTER:

This section is pretty straightforward: The characters are fairly cardboard, the main trio being a little better that the rest in that matter, and it's not like the is much development for them or other characters. The weird thing is the 4th character, since she was uncalled for and her entire purpose isn't very clear.

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As for the points:

STORY: 5/10
Premise: 1/2 — Slightly interesting.
Pacing: 2/2 — Works well for its type of a show.
Complexity: 0/2 — None whatsoever.
Plausibility: 1/2 — It has comprehensive parodies and little aesopes about acceptance.
Conclusion: 1/2 — It's vague, but it's there.

ARTWORK: 6/10
General Artwork: 2/2 — Good production values.
Character Figures: 1/2 — Aside from main characters everyone is quite generic.
Backgrounds: 1/2 — Average.
Animation: 1/2— Nothing special about it.
VFX: 1/2 — Basic.

SOUND: 4/10
Voice Acting: 2/3 — Decently done.
Music Themes: 1/4 — Aside from nice main themes, there's isn't much of music.
SFX: 1/3 — They're there.

CHARACTER: 3/10
Presence: 1/2 — They play their roles, I guess.
Personality: 1/2 — Cardboard characters
Backdrop: 0/2 — A minimum of it.
Development: 0/2 — Almost none at all.
Catharsis: 1/2 — Extremely basic, but there is some.

VALUE: 2/10
Importance: 0/3 — No real point recommending it to anyone who's not genre fan.
Rewatch value: 0/3 — No real point in it.
Memorability: 2/4 — Good work for it's medium.

ENJOYMENT: 6/10
It was nice for a short time killer.

VERDICT: 4/10 (4.33)

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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