This one sneaks up on you. You come in for a goofy 1994 kid-runs-a-business comedy and you leave weirdly protective of a crew of outdated machines. Chusuke Uta doesn't get funding, a mentor, or a shiny new model. He gets secondhand Workbots that other people already wrote off, and he builds a jack-of-all-trades outfit out of them: hauling furniture one week, standing between an idol and a crowd the next. Thirty-nine episodes of odd jobs sounds like filler until you notice the actual antagonist is progress itself, a society that keeps rolling out newer units and quietly deciding what counts as scrap. That's the ache underneath the gags, the fear of being replaced by something that does your job faster and smiles while doing it. For anyone who has ever kept a machine running past the point of sense because it earned that, this is your show.

In a space-age future where humans build androids called Workbots to help with everyday life, a kid named Chusuke Uta puts together a crew of old Workbots and launches his own do-anything service. Whether a client needs help moving house or protection for an idol, Chusuke and his robot coworkers take the job. They are not the newest or most advanced units around. The real challenge is not the work itself but a society hungry for progress, where newer Workbots keep pushing older models aside and stand in the way of Chusuke's little business. Expect an adventurous science fiction comedy about an underdog team of outdated machines trying to prove they still have a place.