Makina-san's a Love Bot?!
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Makina-san's a Love Bot?! (かくして！ マキナさん!!, Kakushite! Makina-san!!, lit. 'Hide! Makina-san!!') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshimi Sato. It began serialization on Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Action in October 2022. After the magazine's disbandment in February 2024, it was transferred to the Web Comic Action website in April the same year. An anime television series adaptation produced by BloomZ premiered in April 2025.
| Makina-san's a Love Bot?! | |
 First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Makina Agatsuma | |
| かくして！ マキナさん!! (Kakushite! Makina-san!!) | |
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| Written by | Yoshimi Sato |
| Published by | Futabasha |
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| Imprint | Action Comics |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | October 25, 2022 – present |
| Volumes | 4 |
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| Written by | Yōhei Kashii |
| Music by | Kyohei Matsuno |
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| Licensed by | OceanVeil |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, BS Fuji (censored) |
| Original run | April 7, 2025 – present |
| Episodes | 7 |
Plot
Eita Akutsu is a shy robot enthusiast who pines for his popular classmate Makina Agatsuma. One day, Makina is caught in an apartment bombing. She reveals to Eita that she is actually an advanced lifelike android and instructs him on how to repair her. She starts living with him and constantly tries to seduce him.
Characters
- Makina Agatsuma (我妻 マキナ, Agatsuma Makina)
- Voiced by: Tomoyo Takayanagi[3] (Japanese); Chloe Eves[4] (English)
- Eita Akutsu (阿久津 栄太, Akutsu Eita)
- Voiced by: Yō Taichi[3] (Japanese); P.M. Seymour[4] (English)
- Mimika Imose (妹兄 ミミカ, Imose Mimika)
- Voiced by: Yūki Kuwahara[3] (Japanese); Hayley Nelson[4] (English)
- Mamimi (まみみ)
- Voiced by: Hina Natsume[3] (Japanese); Mana T. Johnson[4] (English)
- Alma Sakimori (防人 アルマ, Sakimori Aruma)
- Voiced by: Eriko Matsui[3] (Japanese); Elsie Lovelock[4] (English)
- Landlady (大家さん, Ōya-san)
- Voiced by: Ryōko Shintani[3] (Japanese); Jennifer Silverman[4] (English)
Media
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Manga
Written and illustrated by Yoshimi Sato, Makina-san's a Love Bot?! began serialization in Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Action on October 25, 2022.[1] After the final issue of the Monthly Action magazine was published on February 24, 2024, the series was transferred to the Web Comic Action website on April 2 the same year.[5] The series' chapters have been collected into four tankōbon volumes as of December 2024.[6]
In March 2025, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the series for English publication, with the first volume set to release in September 2025.[7]
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | April 12, 2023[8] | 978-4-575-85830-3 | September 30, 2025[9] | 979-8-89561-086-2 |
| 2 | November 9, 2023[10] | 978-4-575-85906-5 | — | — |
| 3 | May 10, 2024[11] | 978-4-575-85963-8 | — | — |
| 4 | December 12, 2024[6] | 978-4-575-86033-7 | — | — |
| 5 | June 12, 2025[12] | 978-4-575-86102-0 | — | — |
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on May 10, 2024. The series is produced by BloomZ in cooperation with Wolfsbane and directed by Masayoshi Nishida, with Yōhei Kashii handling series composition, Yusaku Nakamura designing the characters, Kentaro Iino serving as assistant director, and Kyohei Matsuno composing the music.[3] It premiered on April 7, 2025 on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji.[2] The opening theme song, "Ie de Yeah! tte Age Tiger" (家でYeah!ってアゲタイガー, "At Home, Yeah! Age Tiger"), was performed by Serena Kōzuki, while the ending theme song, "Android ni Kibuttake" (アンドロイドにくびったけ, "Crazy About an Android"), was performed by Brave Mental Orchestra.[13] WWWave Corporation's new anime streaming platform OceanVeil is streaming the series.[14]
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Storyboarded by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Makina is Discovered as a Robot" Transliteration: "Makina ga Robottoda to Hanmei" (Japanese: マキナがロボットだと判明) | Masayoshi Nishida | Masayoshi Nishida | April 7, 2025 | |
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Popular high school student Makina Agatsuma is intrigued by her classmate Eita Akutsu saving a small robot from falling down the stairs and checks on him. He has a crush on her, but is too shy and devotes himself to making robots. Elsewhere, a female scientist overlooks realistic androids in pods. Eita later goes to his apartment and finds Makina wearing only a blanket. She reveals she is an android and is damaged, then hands him her manual and asks him to repair her. Despite her parts being radically advanced, he repairs her and triggers a self-regenerating feature for her skin. She explains that she was designed for infiltration and seduction, but someone put a bomb in her apartment and she went to him for his compassion for machines. She then shocks him by asking to have sex. | |||||
| 2 | "Makina is In My Room" Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa Heya ni Iru" (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは部屋にいる) | Kentaro Iino | Masayoshi Nishida | April 14, 2025 | |
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A classmate named Mamimi enjoys drawing and discussing yaoi with Makina. Eita later refuses Makina's advances, lecturing her that sex should only be with someone you love. This confuses Makina, who confesses she is a virgin and her only point of reference for sex is yaoi. She complements Eita's mechanical skill and declares him her owner as she will live with him. He asks her to put on clothes, but she instead demonstrates her camouflage feature that creates an illusion of clothes. She lounges on his bed reading a manga as he comments her sexiness is bad for his heart. | |||||
| 3 | "Makina Bathes with a Guy" Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa Kon'yoku Suru." (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは混浴する。) | Masayoshi Nishida | Masayoshi Nishida | April 21, 2025 | |
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Eita learns Makina has no need for food. She soon joins him in the bath and tries to bathe him, but accidentally crushes his genitals. As he tries to escape, her head and leg fall off from stress, so he repairs her again. She values her friendships at school so she wants the repairs done as soon as possible. When he finishes and needs to sleep, they share the bed and she hugs him before going into Sleep Mode, and he is unable to break her grip. | |||||
| 4 | "Makina Gets a Uniform" Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa Seifuku o Eru" (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは制服を得る) | Kentaro Iino | Masayoshi Nishida | April 28, 2025 | |
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Eita has an erotic dream about Makina. As she makes a big deal about his erection, his landlady confronts him about the noise, but assumes he was masturbating. Since her apartment was blown up, Makina calls Mamimi for a new school uniform and they go to meet her at the park with Eita hiding. As they wait, Makina stretches but her leg falls off from stress, so Eita drags her to the men's restroom to repair her. Mamimi arrives to see this, assumes from the noises that Makina is being assaulted, and bursts in to see Makina intact, but does not see Eita because he is crushed against the door. Makina makes her think it was a prank. Back in Eita's apartment, Makina changes into the uniform and tries to seduce him, but he refuses. His landlady confronts him about the noise again. | |||||
| 5 | "Thus, Makina Can No Longer Hide" Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa Kakushi Kirenai." (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは隠しきれない。) | Masayoshi Nishida | Masayoshi Nishida | May 4, 2025 | |
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Eita has another erotic dream about Makina. At school, she slips on a banana peel and her leg comes off, so they hide in a locker as he repairs her. Mamimi sees him watching over her and assumes he is a stalker. When Makina's leg comes loose again, she hides in the locker and calls Eita to get her, but Mamimi intercepts and threatens him with a stun gun until a teacher apprehends her. As school ends, Makina assumes she was abandoned. When Eita finally arrives, an upset Makina demands to have sex, but he refuses. In their struggle, her head falls off, so he carries her home, not noticing a young girl spotted them and is intrigued. | |||||
| 6 | "Thus, Makina is Taken" Transliteration: "Kōshite Makina-san wa Tsuresara Reru" (Japanese: こうしてマキナは連れ去られる) | Kentaro Iino | Masayoshi Nishida | May 11, 2025 | |
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Eita repairs Makina while she talks to Mamimi on the phone, but his actions make her orgasm, confusing Mamimi until Makina hangs up. Eita says her hip joint must be replaced so that her leg will stop falling off, but they do not know where to find replacements. Outside, Eita finds the girl who spotted them, who apparently wet herself. He brings her inside so she can shower, then leaves. When Makina attempts to help her shower, the girl uses a banana peel to make her slip, then closes a door on her neck to trap her, gags her with her panties, then draws a knife. Hearing a commotion, Eita returns to find Makina's head and the girl's headless body. Makina reveals the girl is also a robot, and she attached her head to Makina's body before escaping. | |||||
| 7 | "Thus, the Sisters Trade Places" Transliteration: "Kōshite, Shimai wa Tachiba o Kōkan Suru" (Japanese: こうして、姉妹は立場を交換する) | Yasuhiro Tomita | Masayoshi Nishida | May 18, 2025 | |
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A shocked Eita faints and has an erotic dream of Makina seducing him in a swimming pool before waking up. Makina reveals the girl is Mimika Imose, a sister unit who was the one who blew up her apartment and was jealous of Makina for having an adult body while she had the body of a child. He attaches Makina's head to Mimika's body, then considers leaving her like that before she insists on finding her body. Mimika revels in her new adult body, but her leg falls off. Eita realizes Mimika did not leave through the door or window, so she must still be there. It is soon revealed that she was hiding in the dropped ceiling as she dives down and takes Eita hostage with a knife to his throat. | |||||
| 8 | Transliteration: "Kakushite, Makina-san wa Kaidan to Naru." (Japanese: かくして、マキナさんは怪談となる。) | TBA | TBA | May 25, 2025 | |
See also
- Crossing Time, another manga series by Yoshimi Sato
References
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