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English: Beatless

Japanese: BEATLESS

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Type: TV

Episodes: 20

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 13, 2018 to Jun 30, 2018

Premiered: Winter 2018

Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:55 (JST)

Producers: Kadokawa Shoten, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Sony Music Entertainment, Good Smile Company, Animatic

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Diomedéa

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.20¹ (scored by 39,217 users)

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Ranked: #7678²

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Popularity: #1172

Members: 152,737

Favorites: 416

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Synopsis

With great advancements in technology, mankind has created hIEs, human-like robots that act as public and personal servants for society. Unlike many others, the kind-hearted high school student Arato Endou treats hIEs as equals, but his financial situation keeps him from ever owning one.

However, his normal life is shattered when an ordinary run to the local grocery store goes horribly awry. Viciously assaulted by a hacked hIE, Arato is on the verge of death; but luckily, he is saved by an abnormal hIE carrying a weaponized coffin. Her name is Lacia, one of five highly advanced hIEs that recently escaped the clutches of the mysterious MemeFrame Corporation.

Faced with a hacked car threatening to run them over, Lacia offers Arato a deal: in exchange for saving his life, he must register as her new owner, thus taking full responsibility for her actions. With little choice, he decides to trust this artificial girl and allows her to live in his home. Though Lacia begins to adapt to her new, peaceful lifestyle, she warns the entranced Arato of one thing—she does not have a soul.

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Adaptation:	Beatless
Summary:	Beatless Intermission
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Characters & Voice Actors

Lacia

Main

Touyama, Nao
Japanese

Endou, Arato

Main

Yoshinaga, Takuto
Japanese

Kouka

Supporting

Tomioka, Misako
Japanese

Methode

Supporting

Amamiya, Sora
Japanese

Kaidai, Shiori

Supporting

Satake, Uki
Japanese

Endou, Yuka

Supporting

Ono, Saki
Japanese

Snowdrop

Supporting

Igarashi, Hiromi
Japanese

Watarai, Ginga

Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Saturnus

Supporting

Shimoji, Shino
Japanese

Tsutsumi, Mika

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

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Mizushima, Seiji

Director

Kikuta, Hiromi

Sound Director

Yamashita, Shingo

Episode Director

Yamamoto, Yoosuke

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

	1: "Error" by GARNiDELiA (eps 2-13)
	2: "Truth." by TrySail (eps 14-20)

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Ending Theme

	1: "PRIMALove" by ClariS (eps 1-13)
	2: "Shapeless" by Tokyo Performance Doll (eps 14-20)

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Jun 29, 2018

20 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

TakamakiJoker (All reviews)

70 people found this review helpful

What is a recap episode?

Recap episodes are the stuff that the creators put in because they either don’t have enough material to adapt further arcs of set anime or they want to have newcomers who are interested of watching set series to catch up. Unless you are a long-running anime that has 50+ episodes I find the recap episodes to be pointless and lazy because honestly why would you watch 20-minute clip show that summaries a couple of story arcs that very often leave out important stuff when you can easily go watch actual episodes themselves.

What does this have to do with Beatless?

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Jun 29, 2018

20 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Yas- (All reviews)

45 people found this review helpful

Back when I started the show as it aired on January 13 I liked Beatless. It had coloured me with joy and anticipation since it's first episode went so well. Compared to the other anime I started at the time, it felt like it could do a lot with it's premise. Tut Tut. It went out like a light for the whole first half and took a while to set itself on track, and unfortunately not the same track as I felt in episode 1, but hey, it had a direction, so that's already better than FranXX.

Having said that, Beatless is far from perfect, read more

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Sep 21, 2018

20 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Syureria (All reviews)

38 people found this review helpful

Beatless
"I belive in your smile,i don't care even though it's soulless"

This review is about robot-themed anime titled Beatless. Do you know robots? Yes, a robot is a machine that can move automatically or manually, essentially the robot is a machine. Ever thought or imagined that one day the world would be filled with robots that could help human work. Then what happens if the robot has its own feelings and thoughts so that he can make decisions like a human. Imagine the robot - the robot starts invading humans and takes over our lives, it is terrible not only hihih. Why am I talking about robots, because this anime review is about future robots.

First impression
"I believe in your smile, I don't care even though it's soulless." The sentence is the first sentence that appears on the monitor screen. I can predict that later this anime will have a deep story line and touch the heart, remembering that anime that begins with sweet words is usually like that hehe.

In the first episode, there is a child who looks like the main character is watching a robot explode when the manufacturing process is in progress. The storyline that is very possible is that the robot and this child will meet again later in my mind. And it turned out that it was true that I thought, the story would dwell on the child and the robot.

There are robot fighting scenes against humans, and for the plot itself it can be predicted that in the final episodes the opponent that will be faced is a robot - this robot ... finished hehe. If I am the script writer, maybe one episode will go straight out, anime doesn't have to wait for one huahahah season.

What is clear for the first impression I immediately assume that later this anime will have a lot of moral values contained in it. Hehe, we'll see it until the end of the season.

Synopsis and Storyline
The background of this anime is the modern world of the 22nd century, where human life has relied heavily on robots called hIE in carrying out their daily work. Humans more often interact and coexist with hIE than with other humans. Although these hIEs are very similar to humans, the world thinks that robots are just a tool. But there is a boy named Endou Arato who thinks that the soulless machine is the same as those who have feelings. His meeting with the female hIE named Lacia was the beginning of this story. The threat from the robot who wants to take over the human world continues to haunt. Under these circumstances, what decision would Arato take?

Graphics and Characters
For the graphics themselves, I can say that I can really describe the state of the modern world, even though there are still many other anime whose portrayals are better but it doesn't matter, but the story also seems pretty good. The character for the hIE itself is pretty good, but the expression and inspiration is still not visible, well maybe it's still the initial episode so it can't be seen in its entirety.

Uniqueness in Anime
Usually we can see the storyline clearly from the first episode, but in the first episode of the anime the storyline is still not clearly visible, still vague. Who exactly is Lacia and what is the real purpose. Indeed, this might be a special attraction for an anime to maintain the curiosity of the audience so they can continue to watch every episode

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Jun 29, 2018

20 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

LegendAqua (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

To be perfectly honest LA was drawn to Beatless because of Nao Touyama...

In a more serious note Beatless along with Toji no Miko had some of the shakiest pacing in animes from 2018, but Beatless didn't suffer from pacing issues...Beatless suffered from constant delays.

The thing is Beatless had ALOT of potential to be a good sci-fi anime though with it's very typical "meet cute" premise at the start with it's main character of Arato Endou voiced by Takuto Yoshinaga meeting the hIE Lacia voiced by the aforementioned Nao Touyama, Beatless was MUCH more than that and really disguising that starting premise into an introspective look at technology, AI, human fears of technology and societal pressures to conformity because of it in some sense as well. But these interesting elements takes some time for it to be established but the build up and tension is apt for Beatless to do, so really LA doesn't mind the pacing in this anime, it's the outside forces focuses on Beatless' pacing is something else but that a bit later.

Beatless in many ways takes Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" and both experiments with it's concepts as well as utter breaks it's rules concerning robotics. This considering Beatless' futuristic world where hIE's are mass produced working as either helpers or military might and Arato's world is one of those outlier people thinking that robots are more than just "objects or machines" for people to just use and through Arato's perspective we see Beatless' introspective look at robots are more than humans or not. So LA talked about what Beatless does with it's Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics", but breaking it's rules?...well the rules of Isaac Asimov did entail that the robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, that a robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law and finally a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law and those rule breakers comes from in the form of the special rogue hIE's trying to find masters for their sole purpose of disrupting the social order of robots and humans in the process in which Lacia, Methode, Snowdrop, Saturnus and Kouka are all set out to do, but Lacia, our main heroine has other motives and with the help of Arato tries to achieve this, this is what makes it a VERY interesting anime.

As much as LA said there isn't pacing issues with Beatless, Beatless "seems" like it dwindles screentime on mundane things from time to time and MANY people might seem so maybe just to have some random exposition of the hIE's and how they program like "analog hacking" and the sorts but as much as exposition in this anime is VERY HEAVY and subtle to say the least (it makes sense as this was adapted from a novel thus the heavy exposition), Beatless KNOWS it's world building as it's consistently slow paced nature and exposition heavy it is, Beatless' execution is thorough and self-introspective of Beatess own world. Because of this along with the simple but greatly built up premise Beatless had going for it, all things considered, Beatless' complicated plot DOES make a lot of sense in the grand scheme of things that again Beatless had lots of potential it had going for.

And if your thinking that the entire "meet cute" scenario of Lacia and Arato goes into a serious romantic subplot, well it does, but it really doesn't become the center focus of the anime at all, but more like it grows Lacia and Arato's relationship through all the trials and tribulations they go through to achieve their goal for the good of society. There are lots of shipping moments but their relationship feels strictly in the background unless needed with it's more serious major plotline that both are tied into.

So what made Beatless suffer soo much for Beatless to be a shaky anime and lose it's potential?...the recaps, and fine one recap episode is nothing to get annoyed by, but FOUR delays all spread throughout the early beginnings and halfway through the anime. Beatless was just plagued with delays as these four delays isn't enough, the "final arc" of Beatless has been delayed til September!. LA merely says this as Beatless had ALOT of plot twists and the such and for soo many delays and recaps leads to loss in traction and intensity of the plot it had ramped up, only for recaps to stop us in it's tracks and having to wait 2 weeks and the biggest one being that the final 4 episodes isn't coming out til after another season has passed in the time of writing this review...by then it's momentum died down. Sure maybe Beatless staff wanted to make it's finale perfect and for diomedea to keep it's consistent animation stable because of this and sure you can binge watch it again, but as a person who already knows what was going on, for it to stop when it was getting to great heights then kill off it's momentum is a major buzzkill to say the least. LA WILL watch the final 4 episodes as LA really liked where it was going but in terms of Beatless track record of delays this was something unprecedented in anime for LA that LA NEEDED to talk about.

Does this mean Beatless is unsalvageable because of it's constant delays?, no, as it's concept, strong world building and toying with Isaac Asimov's laws was greatly implemented in the form of anime along with interesting characters and plot doesn't discredit Beatless at all.

So into the element of Beatless itself...

The animation done by diomedea was actually pretty decent, from it's exotic character designs, futuristic yet urban city settings down pat along with HEY Beatless CAN do action scenes....well. LA will give diomedea props that it's animation was decently impressive to say the least with some less janky or derpy battles and though it's battles are mainly laserbeams or explosions, the action at the very least was fluid in some sense that it makes the battles decent animated as a result, but diomedea's strengths would definitely go to it's character designs. Overall Beatless' animation was decent at best and it's battles are a standard "slightly" above diomedea's norm though that isn't saying much.

Voice acting, well if you read LA's first statement of this review and Nao Touyama is in this and though she's mainly monotoned with some spurts of deadpan serious vocals injected into her role as Lacia. LA found Nao Touyama's performance.....ok. Beatless has alot of great voice actors under it's belt, with Sora Amamiya doing a brash vocally-type character as Methode, Kana Hanazawa as the genki type character, Misako Tomoka as Kouka as the rebel, no shit taking hIE and Hiromi Igarashi doing her typical loli-type character with an air of childish malice to her. Takuto Yoshinaga was voiced the main protagonist Arato did fine but really Beatless' voice cast was great all round with some playing against the type while some only going greater as their preferred strong character role. By default though Nao Touyama gets LA's MVP...LA's bias LA knows but....LA doesn't care!

Beatless maybe have been plagued with delays, it's heavy exposition got people out of it and away from the anime but for what Beatless had going for it, from Beatless' interesting concept of robots and AI and the talk of sentience with all this to it's interesting characters, decent animation from diomedea and a rather impressive voice cast, LA thinks Beatless DID deserve some backlash it got especially with it's delays but saying that Beatless is a terrible anime just because of that does not for LA, it's merely something of an excuse to make the anime look worse than it truly is and Beatless is much more than you realize in the long run. Beatless is introspective, it's detailed, it's many plot twists keeps you interested, it's character motivations and plans are interesting, it's world that Beatless built is interesting and it's basic premise turns that on it's head into something revolutionary for Beatless in terms of plot and it's characters.

Look as much as LA points out the faults in Beatless and trust LA, LA got angry at Beatless from time to time too, but Beatless is still a good anime about robots and what it entails of sentience and humans fit into all this, it's just plagued with it's delays and being exposition heavy.

LA will be waiting to see if the final arc of Beatless, Beatless: Final Stage and hope for a climactic finale with Lacia and Arato trying to reach their goal, but until then...LA will give Beatless a battered but hard earned "decent anime" status.

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