Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai

Alma, an autonomous self-learning robot with advanced combat capabilities, was created by two genius scientists, Enji Kamisato and Suzume Yobane, who developed Alma's artificial intelligence and robotics, respectively. After being mocked by their former acquaintances, the duo have worked together in order to show the world their true talents. But even though they cooperate in their work, the two scientists cannot seem to get along in their personal lives.

However, despite their constant bickering, Enji and Suzume develop a glint of mutual affection—feelings that do not go unnoticed by their adorable robotic creation. Now curious, Alma starts to question the true nature of her creators' relationship. As she learns more about humanity from those around her, Alma's bonds with Enji and Suzume only grow stronger.

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Alma Main

Tsukishiro, Hika Japanese

Yobane, Suzume Main

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Kamisato, Enji Main

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Omoikane, Tokoyo Supporting

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Fukushima, Jun Japanese

Pink Supporting

Nanase, Ayaka Japanese

School Security Guard Supporting

Sunaga, Rikuto Japanese

Secretary Supporting

Satou, Akinari Japanese

Black Supporting

Matsuda, Satsumi Japanese

Homeroom Teacher Supporting

Natsuyoshi, Yuuko Japanese

Motonaga, Satoshi Producer

Matsui, Yuuko Producer

Kawamura, Yuuta Producer

Sonoda, Maki Producer

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Dec 14, 2025

BrotherCoa

Recommended

This is best slice of life anime this season beside little miss vampire. Its a very short one as well, with only 11 episodes it does not overstay it's welcome. It's nice anime to watch for a weekend to just enjoy something wholesome for a change.

Animation and music: it's pretty standard. Animation is overall good, I didn't noticed any badly animated scenes or copy pasted environments. The music is solid, but no noteworthy tracks.

Overall: industry standard, nothing too good and nothing too bad.

Characters: Main character is Alma, she is highly sophisticated robot built by two genius scientists. Being a robot her personality is quite bland ... at the start, but as episodes go on she develops more and more. Following her is her father Enji and her mother Suzume, both of them genius scientist in their own way. But as one would expect, they are very bad with social interactions. These trio makes the main cast of this show, it is trough their development that this show truly shines. Other cast includes Mahima-chan, Alma's little sister. Then we have Tokoyo, Neon, Toki and Hana to name a few. Each of them fit certain trope and holding to it (little sister, big sister, school friend, jealous former colleague, rich friend etc...) but I didn't mind that one bit even if by the end none of them except Machina change a bit.

Overall: Three core characters are what show is about, the rest are just there to serve as extras for the story. Still enjoyable but it sure leaves empty place around main trio.

Story: story is rather simple - Alma wants to act like she is a real child and her creators decide to indulge in her wish. And that's it, what follows afterwards is numerous situations in which Alma does something and then slowly learns what that something means. In some she herself starts off something and that slowly grows into a situation. Overall, this is slice of life story trough and trough. There are no epic fights, ancient mysteries, deep romance or amazing character developments. And this show knows it, never doing something that is too much over the top. Ok, there are a few scenes but nothing on the level of other shows.

Overall: story is quite basic, if you go into this show with moderate expectations judging on the premise you are good to enjoy it.

Overall grade: 8. I personally gave this show a 10 as that is how much I enjoy it. But realistically, this show deserves a hard 8. In terms of slice of life shows it perfectly catches that spirit. But it does it way too safe, there is not a single crisis or emergency or sudden development. It is just a nice and calm show to enjoy for the weekend.

It is an easy recommendation from me. If you want to watch something that will make you feel relaxed and happy than this show is for you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 14, 2025

KANLen09

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Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! - Hey, it's RikeKoi all over again...plus an autonomous android for a kid figure?

Even as adults, I can't help but feel like there is the kid figure within us trying to concoct something that reminds us of our childhood days, and for one of those "make-believe" dreams that "the future belongs to the past," reality is ever not so keen on reminding us that it takes pangs of torture to create things that are wholly our own. In an alternate world, that's certainly the fantasy of mangaka Nanateru and his/her rather short series of Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai ... a.k.a. Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family!, a sci-fi rom-com about an eccentric pair of scientists developing quite the AI robot of their own, unbeknownst to how the robot would treat them as its parents.

The power to make anything one desires—that's the life of a long-lasting scientist to grow both brains and brawn. This is the story of the genius scientists Enji Kamisato and Suzume Yobane creating their autonomous android named Alma, who resembles the look of an elementary school girl with Amazon Alexa Echo Dots for ears (since she's built to be an AI learning machine). And almost overnight, from their "rise to fame" from being "professionally" mocked by their peers to downright making their AI project work despite their being at loggerheads with each other, one android's learning curve to put both Enji and Suzume together as her "parents," seemingly so to bond all 3 entities together as a pseudo-family, truly is a heartwarming feature.

The reason why I even mentioned that this sounds strikingly similar to Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita a.k.a. Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It, is more than just the explanation of the concept of love through scientific means; it's also because of its adult-casted rom-com themes in general. Scientists have too much time on their hands doing what they want to do, all except contemplate about love and romance, which is what Nanateru hopes to combine its sci-fi themes with a hinge of rom-com, which I feel is actually kind of simple but ingenious. Enji and Suzume being very similar to Shinya Yukimura and Ayame Himuro, respectively, they're go-getter scientists proud of their research and what they do, just only at an individual level and not exactly on a group consensus.

Alas, the two being bonded together thanks to Alma treating them both as her parent figures, the romantic "allegations" between Enji and Suzume are not likely to go away anytime soon, not with the other characters around them that are being influenced by them. One of them is Tokoyo Omoikane, one of Suzume's juniors being in the same autonomous research field as her, alongside yet another android of Makina that serves as one of the former's leftover projects that the junior contends with developing in her time. Even in school, as Alma's AI learning gets better over time, the loner student of Hana Yashiki, whom the android befriends after a chance encounter, finds it's better to have friends than to be alone, and the fact that the kids become friends instantly, too, is a relief for the better. Just about everything in the show is light-hearted and absolutely heartwarming to watch, which makes for good value.

The simple production is proven from the talents at the rather small Studio Flad, of which this is only the 4th show in close to 8 years since the studio's beginnings with Winter 2018's Dame x Prince Anime Caravan. I'm actually OK with a low-risk, decent-reward feature expected from the studio, even if the series adapted are either not high-profile or just discovering anime form for the very first time. A decent production on a low budget, that's for certain.

The OST is nothing to write home about, as it's composed on a relatively simple scale, just like the show itself. What surprises me is after much of the rock fest that ZAQ has delivered, having a rather decent cutesy OP that's composed together with Technoboys Pulcraft Green-Fund, this side of ZAQ is one I'm just beginning to know for the first time, and it's such a weird feeling that I just don't know how to put it into words. But while it's strange on one side, it's not for the other, as KAF songs tend to range from decent to good, with her ED here being serviceable and fine.

If you desire weird themes coming from a relatively sweet product that's easily enjoyable as it comes, Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai a.k.a. Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! is a solid choice that, while it will not win any awards, simplicity is best presented on a small scale that doesn't warrant it being bad, especially one that has both a childcare and a love status quotation theme to it in the first place. Give this one a try, it might surprise you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 16, 2025

Saww_Duss

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Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family is a wholesome comedy/romance anime about two scientists developing an AI powered robot with insane capabilities that takes the form of a young child. We follow Alma as she does normal kid stuff like go to school and make friends all the while being in the body of a robot. This naturally creates a divide between her and her school-mates as Alma doesn’t always understand them which paves way for some funny shenanigans to ensue. Additionally, Alma is designed and raised by her father Kamisato Enji and her mother Yobane Suzume to be helpful to society. It’s Alma’s altruism ... and good-nature that get her into funny situations that the humor builds itself around. Finally, interactions with side characters (who I’ll get into later) and her parents and their relationship is another key focus of the humor in the anime. If I compared it to another anime, I’d say that Alma’s family resembles Anya’s family in Spy x Family (hey they even have similar names). Both have cute daughter characters inside of a fake family that slowly takes shape into feeling natural (hell Suzume even looks like Yor if you squint hard enough). And like in Spy x Family, there’s a lot of humor surrounding a potential romance between the fake father and fake mother.

The characters are all basic and reused archetypes. For example Enji’s sister Toki is the caring sister, Makina is the competitive little sister, Tokoyo is the senpai obsessed kouhai, and there are many more. If you know me personally, you know I’m a big sucker for good character writing so usually these archetype characters would lower my score, however, I’m generally very permissive when it comes to character depth in a comedy since the focus is more so on the jokes and character interactions rather than actual depth of character. That’s why despite all the characters being basically rehashed characters from other anime I still hold high esteem for this anime. Alma and her parents hold slightly more depth with us actually knowing about their dreams to be accepted as scientists and because of the romantic tension going on between them. Now that I think about it, Makina does slightly change, maybe a tiny bit. I won’t spoil that though.

I’m not a huge connoisseur of either animation or music so my opinions on them might be skewed. First and foremost, the art style is very cute and fitting for a comedy anime. I don’t notice any animation errors in it either, so for me it checks all boxes. The music is pretty chill I guess. It’s somewhat forgettable since I’m squinting my brain and the only thing coming out is the OP and ED, which speaking of them, they were bangers. The ED gives me this feeling of belonging that warms my heart up.

Overall, I really liked the premise, I found it very interesting. The characters weren’t super fleshed out or really that unique but it worked for a comedy anime and I enjoyed them regardless of their lack of depth. The humor is pretty funny, Alma’s helpful nature gets her involved in a lot of situations and with a lot of people she otherwise wouldn’t interact with. This is a good thing because it broadens the world the anime is in and we aren’t confined to just Alma’s family which would get boring eventually. I really liked this one 10 Makina heads out of 10.

Welp, this is my first review I’m posting. I really hope I did it right and I hope you enjoyed reading it too. Thanks for stopping by :D

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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