This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp.
✦A workplace romance centers on a department that retrieves lifelike androids at the end of their fixed service span, making emotional attachment part of an ordinary corporate procedure.
Synopsis
The Anime Lad
Tsukasa begins work at Terminal Service, a department responsible for retrieving Giftia androids as their fixed operating lives expire. His field partner Isla is herself a Giftia and considerably more experienced with the work. Each assignment requires tact with owners who formed real bonds. The company has provided procedures. Feelings remain out of scope.
Super Eyepatch Fox
Giftia androids look and feel human but operate for a limited span. New employee Tsukasa joins the team that retrieves them from owners before time runs out. Paired with reserved Giftia Isla, he learns that a routine service call can carry years of accumulated attachment.
Gigguku
Plastic Memories takes an impossible goodbye and puts it on the office calendar. Tsukasa joins a retrieval department where every client knows their beloved android has a deadline. Then he gets paired with Isla, whose quiet professionalism makes the whole arrangement hurt before the romance even starts. The little workplace details make the science fiction feel alarmingly ordinary!
Father's Basement
The series tells you exactly which emotional button it plans to press, then keeps its hand hovering over it. The setup works because Terminal Service treats grief as fieldwork. Tsukasa is inexperienced while Isla is guarded. Their first retrieval puts policy beside attachment. The office comedy strains the mood, but the fixed service life gives ordinary interaction weight.