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Time of Eve: Another Act
I found an unusual entry in my homebot Sammy's activity log, and followed the data to see what Sammy had been up to. I arrived at a mysterious cafe called Time of Eve, where robots and humans are treated the same. Everyone knows that homebots are nothing but appliances: useful for helping humans, but incapable of feeling genuine emotions. Why would Sammy come to a place like this?
This novel tells the story from the anime series and movie from the perspective of Rikuo Sakisaka, a high-school kid who confronts the emotional and moral implications of life with androids who look exactly like humans. This story reveals new insights into the characters, and introduces a new character and alternative ending. Features original full-color and black-and-white illustrations by Time of EVE's character designer Ryusuke Chayama.
This novel tells the story from the anime series and movie from the perspective of Rikuo Sakisaka, a high-school kid who confronts the emotional and moral implications of life with androids who look exactly like humans. This story reveals new insights into the characters, and introduces a new character and alternative ending. Features original full-color and black-and-white illustrations by Time of EVE's character designer Ryusuke Chayama.
192 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 2010
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September 24, 2018
This has some different "chapters" than what happens in the anime so it's good for a read. Most of the other parts follow the anime pretty dead on however.
This is a slice of life "androids becoming sentient" story, so there are no uprisings or anything violent like that. Which is some fresh air after all the stories of androgynoids rising up to fight against humans. Or the misogynistic crap that The Stories of Ibis is.
HOWEVER this has it's own take on that. The androids here are all not good looking where as the gynoids are all good looking. It's the double standard that the men don't have to appeal to anyone, but every woman has to appeal to men. It ruins the characters in the story. Only one fits the "young and not bad looking" android category. It's a big reason I like Phantasy Star 3 and 4 and Universe. Androids that can look hawt, and because these are Japanese properties, they can look like "those hawt dude from Final Fantasy"
If anyone has some "hawt androids" fiction I'm here for it.
This is a slice of life "androids becoming sentient" story, so there are no uprisings or anything violent like that. Which is some fresh air after all the stories of androgynoids rising up to fight against humans. Or the misogynistic crap that The Stories of Ibis is.
HOWEVER this has it's own take on that. The androids here are all not good looking where as the gynoids are all good looking. It's the double standard that the men don't have to appeal to anyone, but every woman has to appeal to men. It ruins the characters in the story. Only one fits the "young and not bad looking" android category. It's a big reason I like Phantasy Star 3 and 4 and Universe. Androids that can look hawt, and because these are Japanese properties, they can look like "those hawt dude from Final Fantasy"
If anyone has some "hawt androids" fiction I'm here for it.
August 27, 2016
I never heard of this book or the anime before my bookclub decided to read the book. It sounded like something I'd enjoy and oh man was I right.
This light novel is deep on so many levels. The story telling is amazing and is well written. This was obviously written by a master story teller. It was also well translated. The man who translated it had 25 years (at the time the book was printed) of experience under his belt.
The story is about a cafe where there is no discrimination between robots and people. If only we could make real cafes like that for different people. But in this cafe the robots even acted more human and it was hard to tell which was which.
It's really good and I don't want to spoil too much by divulging the story a lot. But whether or not you watched the anime or not I really highly recommend picking this up if you can. It's really moving. I'll definitely be picking up the anime in the near future.
This light novel is deep on so many levels. The story telling is amazing and is well written. This was obviously written by a master story teller. It was also well translated. The man who translated it had 25 years (at the time the book was printed) of experience under his belt.
The story is about a cafe where there is no discrimination between robots and people. If only we could make real cafes like that for different people. But in this cafe the robots even acted more human and it was hard to tell which was which.
It's really good and I don't want to spoil too much by divulging the story a lot. But whether or not you watched the anime or not I really highly recommend picking this up if you can. It's really moving. I'll definitely be picking up the anime in the near future.
June 8, 2015
Excellent novelization of the excellent animated sci-fi series about a hidden cafe where humans and androids come together to socialise on equal terms. The story has been tweaked slightly, dropping some side plots and revising the end game to focus more on the main character (Rikuo Sakisaka) and his journey to rediscover his love of playing the piano. Well worth reading for any fan of the series, and might even tempt someone who's never seen Time of Eve to pick up the original source material.
September 4, 2016
Upon first picking up this book, I recognized that it was mostly following the plot of the anime series. I wasn't sure if I would like it. The more I read it, the more I found that the book really adds to the anime series. It adds so much to the story of the anime series that I just had to give it five stars. It made me think about my own life and attitudes toward others. The main character of the story is a boy who is a piano player. Since I am a musician, I really related to him and how he felt.
February 18, 2021
Really good novelization of the show.
August 31, 2016
Wonderful tie in to a phenomenal anime.
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