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“Robot Suzu and memory-losing girl Hotori form friendship while grappling with artificial and fading memories.”
Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope
ほとり～たださいわいを希う
6.86
5,463 rank · 7,046 viewers · 7 favorites
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Synopsis
Robot Suzu and memory-losing girl Hotori form friendship while grappling with artificial and fading memories.
At the Personality Plant, robots are being built and slowly outfitted with the artificial memories of real people. Suzu is one such robot, being made to replace the young boy a family has lost. By chance, he meets Hotori, a young girl suffering from progressive memory loss. The two children become friends and attempt to define themselves in the light of their changing memories. (Source: ANN)
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Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
7.2
/10
What 5 viewers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.60
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.60 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 4.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.80
Running avg · Nov 2009 → Jun 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “This was a surprisingly powerful TV special despite its rather short length. Hotori explores the interactions between a human girl with a terminal illness (Hotori) and an android in the form of a...”
- 8 ““What exactly makes us people?” is a question that fiction, especially in the last ten years or so, seems to enjoy tackling, and with varying degrees of success. We seem to have an obsession with...”
- 8 “Over the decades anime has produced some of the most compelling works of visual fiction on the planet. Since the turn of the millenium though, it seems as though the medium has gradually matured in...”
Verbosity
Short · 20%
Medium · 20%
Long · 60%
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A Tv special Production
Sunrise.- Format 1 × 40′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 40m all episodes
- Aired Aug 2005 – ongoing
- Source Tv special media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0447 catalog
Licensed by
- AnimEigo Licensor