Plastic Memories - Isla

Plastic Memories (in Japanese, プラスティック・メモリーズ), also known as Pla-Memo (in Japanese, プラメモ), is a short Romance-Sci-Fi-Drama anime series with 13 episodes, produced by Doga Kobo. The story is set by Naotaka Hayashi, who in turn also wrote the script with original character design by Okiura. The series was originally broadcast in Japan between April 5th and June 28th 2015.

"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 SAI Corp. produce Giftia, a type of android that has the emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have limited service years, and once they pass that, they will deteriorate and turn into wanderers. Wanderers have no control over their functions and could endanger the public if not collected on time. For this reason, SAI Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named "Tsukasa Mizugaki" forms a team with a Giftia named "Isla" to retrieve the other androids, but..."

So, Isla is one of the main characters of Plastic Memories. Isla is a Giftia who was said to be the top Giftia marksman of the Terminal Service 1. She was previously partnered with a woman called Kazuki Kuwanomi. After her partnership with Kazuki was dissolved, she became the partner of the young man Tsukasa Mizugaki.

Personality-wise, Isla was introduced as showing almost no emotion, but has since developed more. She is very innocent, and often has difficulty understanding how social situations should work. When it comes to Tsukasa, Isla becomes jealous easily and is eager to be impressive and useful to him. Isla also cares deeply about the feelings of others. Appearance-wise, Isla is usually seen having long, silver pigtails. She has red eyes and usually wears a white uniform that lays above her knees. She is one of the shortest characters in the series. Isla wears white boots that matches her uniform. Her height is 160 cm and her weight is 48 kg.

I simply love her personality, appearance, and mostly, her character development throughout the 13 episodes. So much happens to Isla and her life completely takes a turn when this Tsukasa comes in at the company, for the positive and for the worse, you could say. I loved the tragic love story, I always found it beautiful how a human can truly fall inlove with something non-human, both in fiction and in real life. So I shed a lot of tears while watching the anime, haha, but I enjoyed those tears. It certainly is an anime worth crying for and I would love to rewatch it, just for the sake of more tears (what can I say, I love crying)!