Plastic Memories Episode 1 Discussion

bloodiemonster said:
almost feels like they are trying to hard to make a feels anime

snakeman said:
@John_h

Not really that hard to believe. Human memories would require an enormous amount of storage so I can imagine in this anime universe they invented a type of super high capacity but volatile memory that degrades after a specific run time (like early SSD's before proper wear leveling). This memory might be integrated into the andriod in such a way that prevents copying without disconnecting power.

Honestly though it is an anime and shouldn't use real world as a comparison. Most animes have magic in it :P.

John_h said:
Well, again, I won't question this any further at this point, as I think there are several possible explanations as to why it is the way they've explained in the first episode. I was merely saying that from a purely technological standpoint, nothing should prevent you from transferring the memory and personality data on over to new hardware. Let's see, maybe they'll address the issue soon enough.

velkro16 said:
One thing I am kind of curious about is when their software goes bad can the Giftia be reused? I think I heard MC say that they could put a new OS on Nina but she just wouldn't have her memories. I definitely would like go see either one of two things happen.

LuckyCyborg said:


Interesting question. Giftias being androids, and the principal endurance limitation being the life-time of correct functioning brain, and this probably being a hardware show-stepper, I suppose that they could replace the "brain-chip" and keep and/or do some maintenance to the rest of body, i.e. replacing the battery and do some repairs.

Also is do not need to have a huge business knowledge to understand that right this the Company do with the fresh retired units, before to re-sell them, as reconditioned and, for sure, cheapo androids.

LuckyCyborg said:
A wonderful Anime, and I look forward for its development.

Some notes:

It's very clear that the Giftia's life-span of around 9 years, is something like "the guaranteed life-time, until the Giftia's AI starts malfunctioning" from one reason or another.

Is meaningful to note that even in the latest "safe day", a Gifitia behave and works normally.

What happen after the named Giftia pass beyond "its guaranteed life-time"? Well, I believe that it do not go right into madness like Cortana, but yet there is a huge possibility to malfunction. And those malfunctions can be (or became) very dangerous situations for the Giftia's owner(s).

In other hand, I suspect that an very example of Giftia behavior, beyond its safety life-time, is right our favorite robo-girl, Isla. In only one single Episode, she make several malfunctions, most notable and dangerous (for its human partner) being the pre-pee situation (generated by a cup of tea!), while driving in highway.

Looks like Isla passed loooooong time ago its safety life-time, and she is very probably to be, literally, 15-16 years old. Probably, out of attachment, the Terminal Service team "forgot" in act and papers, to decommission Isla at its end of safety life-time, and they preferred to keep her to do some simple tasks, like serving tea, to justify her still usefulness in the eyes of the Company superiors. Also, they being over-protective with Isla, can be very easy explained, everyone from the team knowing (or thinking) that Isla, even she is beloved, she "is not safe" to do meaningful tasks. Then, the team leader was forced to make an uneasy decision to pair Isla with Tsukasa Mizugaki, but requesting a new android will have to make the superiors to ask the usefulness of Isla, and even they to discover her situation.

The bright side, I believe to be that Isla most likely reached something like a stable state of her mind, and there will not be further damages of her behavior.

Finally, the sadness of Isla can be easy explained by its situation. She is a Company owned bot, and do not have the luxury to have a owner to eventually refuse its decommissioning, and that she'll be permitted to live along she is useful and do a meaningful work. In other hand, she known well that she passed long time ago its safety life-time and that she is malfunctioning. And she expect any time to be decommissioned, even if one of the Company clients observe that she is "expired". It is something similar with living in fear, into Death Row, with a work permission.

Most probably, her story-arc will be that the already-in-love Tsukasa Mizugaki will manage to demonstrate her that she can be "useful" just as his companion and offering her a "safe harbor", managing to buy her from the Company, maybe as a cheapo used item, with the huge bless of the co-workers.

RAWRfizzz said:


I know, right? I'm definitely the most retarded of them all. Now please bring up some anime in my list that you don't like and say "I can't take you seriously because you like X, Y and Z shows, obvious troll post with shit taste" to properly put me in my place. That'll show me what happens to dummies who dare to have unpopular opinions on MAL.

Michael5191 said:
...or maybe because the fact that I lack Sympathy and Empathy.

Halicone said:
I liked how everyone encountered so far displayed different emotions when they were forced to part with their Giftias, some accepted it solemnly while some opposed to it with all their might like the old lady.

OtakuSaif said:
i still don't get it why do they have to take peoples memories and for what

Barion-Zara said:
The concept of this series is really quite messed up though O_o! Why would u make living beings that have such a short life span?? I need more backstory and world building!!!

ex_necross said:


It's like when an SSD is overused and the files become unrecoverable, I'd imagine. http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

Also, it's likely a binary hardware failure due to their "life span" of 81920 hours = 10*2^13, so their technology hasn't gone too far past ours.

After a certain amount of memory (in this case, probably literal memories) is collected, the machine can't store any more data and starts to wipe. It's curious why it's measured in hours though, because logically that makes no sense unless it's just an average. If it's not an average then they'd have programmed a kill switch to activate after that exact number of hours passed, but that'd be extremely lazy programming.

You can't just transfer the files, if the file is corrupt then it will transfer corrupt. The body stays clean though, as was shown when MC offered to insert a new "soul" in the girl after her current one had expired.

As for why they don't just transfer the data to another drive before the crash, I'm not sure. We have ways to check for errors in order to keep operating, and ways to recover files before it's too late. I'm guessing it's just capitalism, example being the Sony Timer fiasco. Or it's a bug that nobody has caught. Or the data just degrades naturally and there's no way to keep it from naturally degrading for whatever reason.

The better question is why the need for a recovery team. There has to be a very specific reason why they cannot just shut them down remotely, and it's likely some weak bullshit answer just to cover up plot holes.

mangamuscle said:


You are assuming that they can be shut down. There are machines that can't be shutdown once they powerup (the most common example, the human body, which IS a machine). So if they can't stop writing information to their hard drive, you cannot make an exact copy, specially if they also have a delete opiton for memories like humans do.

ex_necross said:
We know they can be shut down.

Vooo said:
This anime is beyond stupid. Androids that cry and need to use the bathroom but can't have software beyond 9 years? Why is the contract not signed beforehand? I mean this is full of so much fail.

Vooo said:
This anime is beyond stupid. Androids that cry and need to use the bathroom but can't have software beyond 9 years? Why is the contract not signed beforehand? I mean this is full of so much fail.