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"Café "Kuronekotei" boasts an unusual roster of employees. A group of automata, or autonomous mechanical dolls, serve their patrons with a smile, but they weren't always so suited to domestic life. Just a few years prior, automata served as weapons in the great war, fulfilling the bloody purpose for which they were created. Now that the war has ended, these machines with human hearts search for their place in an unfamiliar, peaceful world — and their search begins at the Kuronekotei café.

Source: Sentai Filmworks

Note: The show premiered on Abema starting from July 3, ahead of the regular TV broadcast on July 9."

Genre(s): Drama, Slice of life, Sci-fi, Supernatural

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It has been discussed already in the impressions thread, so here's the dedicated one. I liked it. The heartstring tug teetered over the edge into tryhard territory, but the story was still tender and set the tone quite well. Usually these Key series spend half of their runtime setting up the rug-pulling tragedy and then summons the ensemble to clean up the mess for the last arc, but maybe they are gearing up for episodic cry-bait instead? We shall see... Cute character designs and good animation. The war dolls thing is played out but isn't (yet) any more out of place than in any other series where military might is or was established by the historically unstoppable force of lolis.