Robotic;Notes (1st-9th Episodes)

I can’t clearly remember how the story went, but I’ll give it a try. No pic ‘coz I’m too lazy to upload the pic. :D

[WARNING: Broken English Alert!]

This story takes place in the Steins;Gate worldline --if you don’t know about Steins;Gate, the just google it and I won’t explain, since it’s a long story ^^;--, in the near future (2019). Somehow, you could feel the atmosphere… the characters are using tablets (PhoneDroid… LOL, Android Domination 2020? :D No offense, I’m android user, too._.v) instead of cellphones. The main heroine, Akiho a.k.a. Aki, is also obsessed with her goal to making a giant robot. Well, since she is just a high school girl, you’ll think that the setting is on advanced level compared to today’s technology.

Aki is a cheerful girl, lives together with his parents, and hasn’t been contacted by her sister for years. Apparently her sister is an important person in some organization (though I forgot what exactly her sister role is). It is a bit irony, since her goal to build the giant robot Gunvarell was originally her sister’s.

Aki often drags her childhood friend, Kaito a.k.a. Kai, to help her making the giant robot. Kai is an indifferent person who only cares about 2D robot in his game, but sometimes Aki successfully persuades him to help her. For example, Kai once entered the hobby-robot-fighting tournament to get the prize money for the project funding.

At the final match of the tournament, Kai encountered the defending champion, Subaru, whom is none other than their schoolmate. Despite their draw result (thus no prize money), Kai successfully tricked Subaru to join their club.

Later, the other character were introduced: Jun, Frau, Airi. Jun is a shy-karate girl; she is also the granddaughter of the shop owner which Aki often go (to buy robot part). Frau is a genius girl who also the programmer for the game that Kai often plays. Jun and Frau joined the club. Airi is an interface of the application, which takes form as a girl. Kai incidentally met Airi in the park that he often visits.

Aki asked help from the other members to search for the sponsor. However, Frau is a hikkikomori, while Kai and Subaru never came, so Jun was the only one who came. After took a liking to Jun’s karate, a relative of their teacher (who also owns a candy company) decided to sponsor them.

Kai and Subaru were practicing for the upcoming tournament, when suddenly Subaru’s father came and interrupted then. Apparently, Subaru’s father had not approve his hobby and told him to get rid of his robot and focus to his study. After Subaru disassembled his hobby-robot, his father gave him permission to come to the club, only because the place is quiet enough for study.

In the end of 7th episode, a woman named Tennouji Nae came and had them went to JAXA, an institutional research group. JAXA offered to help them with the funding and knowledge. Aki refused the offer after she learned that the JAXA wanted them to build a new giant robot and hold the Gunvarell Project.

I seriously forget the details, but in the previous episodes, it was stated that NASA runs some experiments. They are probably related to the solar storm, which in this series, occurred in 2012, 2015, 2019, and also predicted in 2020. Other mysterious aspect is the last episode of Gunvarell anime, which was never aired due to a murder case. In this murder case, Frau’s mother became the prime suspect.

Kai interacted again with Airi, and got a new clue about NASA through some reports (I forget the report’s name, though… but I remember that Kai had to do some challenges to get the reports).

At the 9th episode, they finished the giant robot. But, it could only walk at slow speed. The relationship between Aki and her sister hadn’t change either.