Romance Doll

A life-size sex doll lives in a modest apartment in Tokyo, she can't speak nor move and she's the only companion of her master, a middle-aged man. He speaks to her, bathes and then make love every day when he returns from work.

The daily routine is broken when fantasy becomes reality. All of a sudden she comes to life and realizes she has a heart. She's unable to comprehend what is around her, however she knows there is a world waiting to be explored beyond the walls of the small floor and her selfish master. Eventually she dares to go outside world and meets people of all kinds, but no one is able to explain her what it means "to be alive".

Air Doll is based on the Japanese manga The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl and tells the story of a life-size inflatable doll used as a sex object for a lonely waiter who finds a heart and becomes a real person.

Eom Da Da is a special effects make-up artist who has been secretly dating Ma Wang Joon, an A-class actor, for 7 years. After a sequence of incidents that damaged Da Da's belief in her love, she decides to break up with Wang Joon. With a heart barely healed after the breakup, she ends up meeting Young Goo, a humanoid robot programmed to be a perfect boyfriend. Young Goo begins to develop human emotions and gets involved in a love triangle with Wang Joon and Da Da.

Sho Moteuchi is a high school student. After his parents divorced, he begins to live with his uncle. At school, he develops feelings for his classmate Nanami, but Nanami likes his friend Tomoaki. One day, he finds an old broken video cassette recorder at his uncle’s house. Sho repairs the video cassette recorder and suddenly a video of girl plays. The girl in the video introduces herself as Video Girl Ai. She then steps out of the video and lives with Sho for the next 3 months.

Based on the manga series "Denei Shojo: Ai-hen" by Masakazu Katsura. Story for drama series is set 25 years after the original manga. Main character in the drama series Sho Moteuchi is the nephew of manga series main character Yota Moteuchi.

SIMILARITIES:
Both are 2020 Japanese stories that explore marriage
Both examine romantic human relationships with non-humans

DIFFERENCES:
PAtKSH = artificial intelligence/robot RD = inanimate object that only receives
PAtKSH = focuses more on human-AI relationships RD = focuses more on human to human relationships
PAtKSH = examines others' relationships with AI RD = mostly focuses on ML and FL

Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops "Night Tenjo", the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Izawa Riiko to take part in a 5-day free trial. At first, Riiko only sees Night as a household appliance. But when she finds out how deep Night's devotion to herself is, Riiko finds herself falling in love with him. Joining the love triangle is Asamoto Soshi, a distinguished young executive at her company who has feelings for her.

Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops "Night Tenjo", the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Izawa Riiko to take part in a 5-day free trial. At first, Riiko only sees Night as a household appliance. But when she finds out how deep Night's devotion to herself is, Riiko finds herself falling in love with him. Joining the love triangle is Asamoto Soshi, a distinguished young executive at her company who has feelings for her.

Kanano Kento is a typical student at a private high school in Tokyo. He rents a room near his school and lives alone. One day, Kento discovers a videotape in the school's broadcast room. When he plays it back, a girl who calls herself Kamio Mai suddenly pops out of the screen. From there, Mai and Kento's strange life together begins. Mai faithfully follows orders to fulfill Kento's wish to go out with Asakawa Yuna, an active high school model. The more Kento wishes for, the more Mai does to realize his goals, by any means necessary. Kento gradually falls in love with Mai. But beyond Kento's wishes, a terrible fate awaits him...

One day, a beautiful cyborg girl appears in front of a dull university student. Even though the cyborg starts to like him, she can't truly feel emotions, so the boy has no choice but to say goodbye. Missing her, he continues his lonely existence. But a disastrous earthquake will change his life once again!

Guan Xiao Fei is a girl who is unlucky in love. One day, a strange-looking salesman gives her a business card for a website that sells "love figures" (androids designed for love-making). On the spur of the moment and without really understanding the implications, she orders her perfectly made man for a 3-day free trial, actually not realizing that after the trial, she either has to pay an awfully big amount of money or return the robot. It so happens that she actually starts liking the robot for real, naming him Wan Nai Te. She has a best friend who is secretly in love with her. So here it starts the strange adventures of these 2 people.

Set in the year 2200 A.D., the story unfolds in a future where human migration to space and advanced technology enable memory manipulation. Naoki and Mayumi, who live in a luxury floating residence in space, are the perfect couple that anyone would admire at first glance. Mayumi enjoys ceramics as a hobby, while Naoki is devoted to his own research. They are a peaceful, ideal couple who enjoy elegant music, cooking, and dining in the dining room. However, their true nature is the distorted love of the husband, Naoki, who seeks revenge from his wife who used to love him back in the days when he used to love her, and repeatedly turns her into an android to pursue and recreate his own ideal. This psychopathic suspense romance depicts a "form of love" that could happen anywhere in the near future.