Makina-san's a Love Bot?!
| Makina-san's a Love Bot?! | |
 First tankōbon volume cover | |
| かくして！ マキナさん!! (Kakushite! Makina-san!!) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshimi Sato |
| Published by | Futabasha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Action Comics |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | October 25, 2022 – present |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
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| Written by | Yōhei Kashii |
| Music by | Kyohei Matsuno |
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| Licensed by | OceanVeil |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, BS Fuji (censored) |
| Original run | April 7, 2025 – present |
| Episodes | 3 |
Makina-san's a Love Bot?! (かくして！ マキナさん!!, Kakushite! Makina-san!!, lit. 'Hide! Makina-san!!') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshimi Sato. It began serialization on Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Action in October 2022. After the magazine's disbandment in February 2024, it was transferred to the Web Comic Action website in April the same year. An anime television series adaptation produced by BloomZ premiered in April 2025.
Plot
[edit]Eita Akutsu is a shy robot enthusiast who pines for his popular classmate Makina Agatsuma. One day Makina is caught in an apartment bombing. She reveals to Eita that she is actually an advanced lifelike android and instructs him on how to repair her. She starts living with him and constantly tries to seduce him.
Characters
[edit]- Makina Agatsuma (我妻 マキナ, Agatsuma Makina)
- Voiced by: Tomoyo Takayanagi[3] (Japanese); Chloe Eves[4] (English)
- Eita Akutsu (阿久津 栄太, Akutsu Eita)
- Voiced by: Yō Taichi[3] (Japanese); P.M. Seymour[4] (English)
- Mimika Imose (妹兄 ミミカ, Imose Mimika)
- Voiced by: Yūki Kuwahara[3] (Japanese); Hayley Nelson[4] (English)
- Mamimi (まみみ)
- Voiced by: Hina Natsume[3] (Japanese); Mana T. Johnson[4] (English)
- Alma Sakimori (防人 アルマ, Sakimori Aruma)
- Voiced by: Eriko Matsui[3] (Japanese); Elsie Lovelock[4] (English)
- Landlady (大家さん, Ōya-san)
- Voiced by: Ryōko Shintani[3] (Japanese); Jennifer Silverman[4] (English)
Media
[edit]Manga
[edit]Written and illustrated by Yoshimi Sato, Makina-san's a Love Bot?! began serialization in Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Action on October 25, 2022.[1] After the final issue of the Monthly Action magazine was published on February 24, 2024, the series was transferred to the Web Comic Action website on April 2 the same year.[5] The series' chapters have been collected into four tankōbon volumes as of December 2024.[6]
In March 2025, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the series for English publication, with the first volume set to release in September 2025.[7]
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 12, 2023[8] | 978-4-575-85830-3 | September 30, 2025[9] | 979-8-89561-086-2 |
| 2 | November 9, 2023[10] | 978-4-575-85906-5 | — | — |
| 3 | May 10, 2024[11] | 978-4-575-85963-8 | — | — |
| 4 | December 12, 2024[6] | 978-4-575-86033-7 | — | — |
Anime
[edit]An anime television series adaptation was announced on May 10, 2024. The series is produced by BloomZ in cooperation with Wolfsbane and directed by Masayoshi Nishida, with Yōhei Kashii handling series composition, Yusaku Nakamura designing the characters, Kentaro Iino serving as assistant director, and Kyohei Matsuno composing the music.[3] It premiered on April 7, 2025 on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji.[2] The opening theme song, "Ie de Yeah! tte Age Tiger", is performed by Serena Kōzuki, while the ending theme song, "Android ni Kibuttake" (Crazy About an Android), is performed by Brave Mental Orchestra.[12] WWWave Corporation's new anime streaming platform OceanVeil is streaming the series.[13]
Episodes
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Makina is Discovered as a Robot" Transliteration: "Makina ga Robottoda to Hanmei" (Japanese: マキナがロボットだと判明) | TBA | TBA | TBA | April 7, 2025 | |
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Popular high school student Makina Agatsuma is intrigued by her classmate Eita Akutsu saving a small robot from falling down the stairs and checks on him. He has a crush on her, but is too shy and devotes himself to making robots. A female scientist overlooks realistic androids in pods. Eita goes to his apartment and finds Makina wearing only a blanket. She reveals she is an android and is damaged, then hands him her manual and asks him to repair her. Despite her parts being radically advanced, he repairs her and triggers a self-regenerating feature for her skin. She explains that she was designed for infiltration and seduction, but someone put a bomb in her apartment and she went to him for his compassion for machines. She then shocks him by asking to have sex. | ||||||
| 2 | "Makina is In My Room" Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa heya ni iru" (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは部屋にいる) | TBA | TBA | TBA | April 14, 2025 | |
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The student Mamimi enjoyed drawing and discussing yaoi with Makina. Eita refuses Makina's advances, lecturing her that sex should only be with someone you love. This confuses Makina, who confesses she is a virgin and her only point of reference for sex is yaoi. She complements Eita's mechanical skill and declares him her owner as she will live with him. He asks her to put on clothes, but she instead demonstrates her camouflage feature that creates an illusion of clothes. She lounges on his bed reading a manga as he comments her sexiness is bad for his heart. | ||||||
| 3 | "Makina Bathes with a Guy" Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa kon'yoku suru." (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは混浴する。) | TBA | TBA | TBA | April 21, 2025 | |
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Eita learns Makina has no need for food. She joins him in the bath and tries to bathe him, but accidentally crushes his genitals. As he tries to escape, her head and leg fall off, so he repairs her again. She values her friendships at school so she wants the repairs done as soon as possible. When he finishes and needs to sleep, they share the bed and she hugs him before going into Sleep Mode, and he is unable to break her grip. | ||||||
| 4 | Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa seifuku o eru" (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは制服を得る) | TBA | TBA | TBA | April 28, 2025 | |
See also
[edit]- Crossing Time, another manga series by Yoshimi Sato
References
[edit]- ^ a b 元“メカバレ”厳禁！陰キャ男子とセクサロイドのコメディ新連載「かくして！ マキナさん!!」. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 25, 2022. Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ a b Pineda, Rafael Antonio (May 9, 2024). "Yoshimi Sato's Kakushite! Makina-san!! Risque Manga About Android Girl Gets 2025 TV Anime". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dempsey, Liam (December 12, 2024). "Kakushite! Makina-san!! Anime Reveals Key Visual, Main Cast and Staff". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on March 21, 2025. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Hazra, Adriana (April 21, 2025). "Makina-san's a Love Bot?! AnimeFesta Anime Gets English Dub on April 30". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 21, 2025. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
- ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (February 23, 2024). "Monthly Action's Final Issue Reveals Fates of Remaining Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 16, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ a b かくして!マキナさん!! 4 (in Japanese). Futabasha. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
- ^ Tai, Anita (March 19, 2025). "Seven Seas Licenses Makina-san's a Love Bot?!, I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!, 8 More Titles". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 21, 2025. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ かくして!マキナさん!! 1 (in Japanese). Futabasha. Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ "Makina-san's a Love Bot?! Vol. 1". Seven Seas Entertainment. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
- ^ かくして!マキナさん!! 2 (in Japanese). Futabasha. Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ かくして!マキナさん!! 3 (in Japanese). Futabasha. Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ Cayanan, Joanna (March 9, 2025). "Kakushite! Makina-san!! Anime Announces Ending Song Artists, April 6 Debut". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 9, 2025. Retrieved March 9, 2025.
- ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (March 25, 2025). "OceanVeil Streams Makina-san's a Love Bot?! AnimeFesta Anime". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 25, 2025. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Official manga website at Web Comic Action (in Japanese)
- Official anime website (in Japanese)
- Makina-san's a Love Bot?! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia