AI ga Tomaranai!
A.I. Love you

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I own this series physically. I had gotten it on accident, and it was an absolute gem in the rough. I started reading it in 2019, and later happened to get the other 7 volumes. This is one of my favorite mangas and influenced my art style and taste in waifus greatly. Often while reading this series, I would forget it came out in the 90's because it holds up to this day so well.

Story: The story was pretty straight-forward; Hitoshi is average at everything but coding; He went home to his coded A.I. waifu; She came to life in an accident. This series ... is a harem, so other A.I. creations of Hitoshi come to life throughout the series as well. This was also the predecessor to Love Hina, so it's insane how similar they are. But the story often had some parts that dragged, and left open a lot of holes, that even Akamatsu-san recognized and acknowledged! Overall though, the story is 8/10 Floppy disks.

Art: I particularly love the art style of this manga. While reading through the manga, you don't really notice the change and development in the art style until you look back to the first page. The story developed with the art, making it even more charming. Unfortunately, some of the characters started to get same-face syndrome throughout the later parts of the series. Overall the art is 9/10 Tubes of paint. Very pleasing.

Characters: The characters were very enjoyable. Saati was very ditzy and sweet, Toni was hot and all for it, and Forty was innocent with a temper; A lot of variety. However, sometimes these characters felt out of place in the situations they were placed in. Overall 9/10 Coding strings.

Personal Enjoyment: I love this series with the whole of my heart. This was the first series that I had ever gotten to completion. I liked the comedy and it was my first introduction to harem series. One bit I will never forget is that the A.I.s run on floppy disks. I said before that this story still holds up to today, and it does! It's just so funny to think that in the 90s this was pretty much impossible, contrary to now! Overall my enjoyment is 10/10 'I love yous' and forever will be.

When you average my scores it comes out to an even 9! I will always love this series and I hope it will get more recognition one day.

-K. Debt

Kobe Hitoshi, a young guy who sucks at sport and school, basically a loser in life who's bad luck never seem to end. But he has one amazing talent, computer programming, mainly A.I.s He created so many programs, but his most pride and joy would be Program 30, Nambe Saati, who he actually likes. Then one day, Saati comes to life as in moving from 2D to 3D, and becomes his girlfriend. Now the madness can begin hahaha

Story: The plot is again not so complex as it is a romantic comedy and somewhat of a harem series. Though in it simplicity, it was a pretty ... touching and funny short read about an A.I. trying to learn how to be human.

Art: The artwork is pretty simple. Not too complex and decent. The scenes are somewhat nice. I especially love how the author makes the cyber world looks like an ocean, that part was pretty cool. However there is the exaggeration of those ecchi scenes. I just feel like every chapter Hitoshi has to somehow accidentally grab one of the girls boobs or flip their skirts etc. But overall it had some good artwork.

Character: For those of you who have read Love Hina, there is a great resemblance between Saati and Naru, like they look so alike. Well for character development, there was some to an extent. Good enough in my opinion for a somewhat short series. The character development for Saati and Hitoshi was quite a lot for such a short series as both become more mature, and Saati starts to become more human, while Hitoshi starts to become more independent and have more confidence in himself.

Enjoyment: This was a pretty good short series. Though sadly I felt that it could have been longer, especially near the end, it was a real rush as the author had to hurry and end it. Personally I really liked this short and sweet series and really wished that it could have been longer. Well hope that this review was helpful. If it wasn't please comment on why it wasn't and if it was please comment too so I can improve my reviewing skills!

The series takes the all-you-can-eat buffet approach to storytelling. Rather than refining what it already has, it chooses to add yet more to keep your attention. What starts off as a main couple, with a cast of side characters popping in to spur change, turns into an ensemble cast who's been made quirky for quirky's sake (According to the author). In particular, Forty was supposed to be a little sister character, but the author thought that was too dull, so he made her also turn into a boy sometimes, but that was also too dull for the author's tastes, so he ALSO gave the boy ... a stern, conscientious personality (Which was meant for a girl. It'll make sense if you read it), and then the flirty party boy personality to the girl (Again, makes sense in context). The issue? The author apparently didn't have as much fun writing the boy, so he almost entirely dropped the bit. To add to that, the character suffers two full retcons, wherein the transformations between boy and girl are literally explosive, and then the girl's personality changes to "Kawaii imouto", like the creator originally intended.

You'll basically get one of two storylines:

1) The AI is bad at simple Human tasks, and we need to cope with whatever the Human problem of the day is.

2) A woman shows up and is an absolute nuisance. The most horrid examples are:

2.1) "Cindy", a rich, famous celebrity that shows up and makes an absolutely brain dead with with Saatii that whoever MC picks in a play (Playing the part of the prince) keeps him, and the other disappears. Cue three solid chapters of her being a slimy bitch, and then realizing she did wrong after Saatii tries to kill herself because MC, entirely unaware of the retarded bet they made, chose Cindy to keep the end of the play consistent with the source material, and keep her around (Because she threatened to leave if he didn't, to boot).

2.2) MC's sister shows up, blabs about the AI to the world the moment she finds out, then, to boot, tries to wake a fourth one, and manages to install literal malware into it in the process. Cue immediate disaster as it then infects everything, possibly kills countless people, and triggers a rushed, confusing ending to the story. All the sister had to do was stop touching things!