The animation moves like watercolor poured across glass, each frame deliberate and weightless in a way nothing else from that decade achieves. Antoinette learns what she is by watching the man she loves disappear, and the show burns that specific cruelty into every metal gesture she makes. Forty-five minutes is enough time for the story to fracture and reform into something you'll never quite understand, but you'll remember exactly how it looked when it broke.
Dr. Watson dreams of a robot that can think and feel, and his creation is Antoinette, a lovely woman built of metal with the innocence of a child. She holds the secret to a vanished civilization whose ruins could rescue the world or ruin it, and the planet's governor wants that power for himself. When a mad tyrant abducts the man Antoinette loves, she at last finds the courage and fighting skill that prove to be her real purpose. A one-episode sci-fi mecha drama from 1986.
