This review includes major spoilers. I watched this movie in theaters in Tokyo the week it aired. It has been a few months and my memory isnt the best so... here goes nothing. The synopsis on Anilist is very short its just The story is centered around the main character Akira and his scientifically created girlfriend No. 0. So if this picked up your interest youre maybe like me maybe from the poster you imagined the girl would be a mechanical robot and imagined it would be a story about the ethics of creating life and entering a romantic relationship with an artificial life that owes you its existence cant defy you or has trouble understanding human emotions or maybe from the discarded piles of robots youd think the girl is the latest model after a long struggle an allegory for the creator himself being broken... Classic Pygmalion and Galatea conundrum. If thats exactly the kind of things you like and makes you tick then I absolutely recommend you to skip this unless you like disappointment. If you somehow manage to imagine some completely other situation from that single poster and short synopsis then maybe it is for you? But Im curious how else youd interpret it. Well thats almost not the theme of the movie at all. In the setting those white robots are just subservient nonsentient beings that are used in every aspect of daily life they are barely relevant except as convenient plot devices. The one lacking human emotions here is the Main Character a Genius HighSchooler who inherited some of the work of his mom who died when he was very young and only has a couple vague memories of her said mom is also a genius who created the other robots. She left him with plans to construct a girl. He never did because he didnt see the point in creating a girl in the first place. Then he hit a deadend with his research and couldnt progress. Then his HS friend got a girlfriend and told him You gotta try having a GF man itll give you a boost. So he literally just first try Make A Girl from his moms plans. Grew her in a vat. Told her ur my gf now gives her the cringe name 0 as if shes just an experiment. Then became upset because he didnt instantly resolved his issues with his research. Thats all no one bats an eye that the dude just created a slave human being in his basement and he brings her to school just like that. Highschool friends think its because she lacks human emotions so they make her wageslave at a restaurant and within 20 minutes in the movie is a perfectly normal girl. But its the guy who just cant feel attachment. Ill spare you the rest of the plot but basically he ends up considering that girl the family he never had: it wasnt ever about romance. The dude just had mommy issues. Also his mom didnt give birth to him she grew him in a vat too so I guess that lines up with the family theme theyre basically siblings at that point? Sure the movie had its moments the CG is tolerable but the overall message didnt resonate with me aka: i dont know what the fuck did I just watch what point was the writer trying to make?. Too many themes typically associated with this genre were addressed only superficially it felt like they didnt support/were unrelated to the main message and were just noise and distractions. 3/10