Roger: You once asked: "Had you and I met under different circumstances, and you were human, would we have fallen in love?" At the time, I wasn't sure how to respond.
Discussed and lampshaded by Roger and R.letting Arato rest his head on her lap), and even stating (without further elaboration) that certain functions are only available to owners who are 18 or older. Beatless suggests a human-android romantic relationship in various ways, including pointing out Lacia's obvious attractiveness, casting her in various romance trope situations (e.g.Worth noting that the entire purpose of Third stage robots was to create an artificial lifeform capable of mating with humans and producing viable offspring, because Mars literally needs women to bolster their low birth rates, and not enough were immigrating. Armitage was the only Third whose human spouse knew what she was. Armitage III has multiple people in relationships with the Thirds, though Thirds are so close to being human, most people can't tell they are actually robots.But then, Masamune Shirow's robots and cyborgs usually seem to be human enough anyway. Deunan in Appleseed isn't particularly bothered that her man Briareos has a robot-body.
Night is actually a sexbot, programmed to fire up as much as " fifty rounds a night" (so says his promoter), but Riiko is already overwhelmed enough that she merely wants him to become her boyfriend.
This forms the central plot of Absolute Boyfriend, where the female human lead, Riiko Izawa, forms a romantic relationship with a male robot, Night Tenjou.Turns out there was a brief market for Ridiculously Human Sexbots until Uncanny Valley kicked in, so now the sex organs from these robots are being illegally recycled in maidbots and waitress bots that weren't designed for them, causing some of them to go insane. One of the AD Police Files involves a sex boomer who's gone berserk.Phoenix: Resurrection - one of the main plot lines.And in the very ending, she is reborn as human, and as his MOTHER. They do eventually find themselves together, happily embraced - except Olga may not just be Olga.