Housekeeper

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The lack of reviews on Housekeeper does the manga an absolute shame as it's an amazing story. The world has become populated by AI robots with the purpose of helping humans in a master-servant relationship. A virus breaks out that turn people across the globe into zombie-like creatures. The main character Navil is a young boy who's been affected by this disease. Despite this, Navil has maintained a small fraction of his intelligence. Hasty, Navil's housekeeper AI, looks for the cure to this epidemic, all while being on the run from the government which is heartlessly eliminating the infected, deeming them to be inhuman.

The artwork ... is good with both flashy and simple moments, the action is quite plentiful (they are part of a revolution after all), and the story has so many layers and plot twists that it'll make your head spin. However, the best aspect is how likable all the characters are, the various dynamics between them being precious.

If you're still hesitant, give it at least 10 chapters. I guarantee you'll be interested, even if just a little.

Housekeeper is mixing multiple themes that could work if they were grounded with a certain logic. But it threw all it through the window to create a mixed genre that has a confusing identity.

Navil being a human and Hasty being the housekeeper android must protect him from the government evil plot of eradicating all "zombies".
For that, we are mixing medical, politics and technology concepts. It could work greatly, the first dozen of chapters are an introduction to the universe and the world logic on what can they do or not. But later on it will be discarded and go full fantasy non-sense.
Where the robots suffer ... from the main hero syndrome of not wanting to remove a problem by using violence as it is above them. Yet will suffer from those constant nonsensical choices at the cost of many.
The train dilemma of choosing who to save. Yet they want to save all to end with all dead as a bad joke.

Without spoiling anything, we have reached chinese level of wuxia/xianxia storytelling quality. Which means power levels and scaling makes no sense anymore and all goes at this point since the science makes no sense.
If only it had a bit of logic like Mahouka, Toaru Majutsu or many other works.

I can only rate it as an average work with great idea and concept initially but fell off as the author got very ambitious and lost track of the story.
At this point I am just confused with where does he even intend to go with that new arc as nothing makes sense.