Dr. Sudou treats humanoids like they're already human, and the show never explains whether he's right or insane. Each episode reframes what you thought you understood about consciousness, suffering, and who deserves a cure. The ending refuses to resolve anything because that's the point: coexistence with artificial minds doesn't have an answer, only the weight of choosing anyway.
In the near future, roughly one in ten people is a humanoid: a robotic, human-like being with artificial intelligence and a personality of its own, recognizable by sideways pupils. Society takes them for granted, but they have illnesses all their own. Dr. Hikaru Sudou treats them at his clinic during the day. At night, under the name Moggadeet, he carries out illegal procedures and looks for information about his missing mother. His patients bring problems unique to this world: a humanoid unsure whether she is the same person as the source of her backup data, a teenage humanoid who cannot get better at sports, and a robot teddy bear holding memories of several owners. As strange new diseases arise from this coexistence and technology keeps advancing, the ethical lines grow hazy, and the boundary between human and humanoid becomes harder to define. The result is a reflective, episodic science fiction drama with a psychological edge.
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