manga: Karakuri Odette
This series is by Suzuki Julietta, the mangaka of Kamisama Kiss, but the two series don't have much in common.
Karakuri Odette is about Odette, a robot who looks like a teenaged girl. Whether by accident or design (it isn't clear which) Odette is an extremely curious robot, and decides she wants to go to high school to learn what "real girls" are like (as compared to girls in TV dramas, not as compared to Odette herself). Her creator, professor Yoshizawa, agrees, and then spends the rest of the series clearly wondering if it's actually harder to be the parent of robotic teenagers than human teenagers, especially once Odette becomes obsessed with "cute" things.
Odette quickly makes friends at school, who find her quirky instead of outright weird. (Note: Odette is outright weird by human teen terms. In a very endearing way.) The majority of the plotlines involve Odette wondering at various human antics and trying to figure out why people do things and how those things apply to her. She's soon joined by Chris, an android created to be a suicide bomb sent after Yoshizawa, but he finds himself unable to explode because he wants to play with Odette. FOREVER. It's possible he has an android crush on Odette, given his reactions to other guys hanging around Odette (He hates them. Hates. FOREVER.) but it can also be easily interpreted as brotherly dependence. Odette herself appears to have a crush on the school delinquent (who in turn has a crush on one of Odette's friends, Youko) but is oblivious to it. Despite the fact that there are a number of unrequited crushes and possible crushes running around (There's also a younger delinquent running around who has a crush on Odette and then boy Youko likes and...well, they're teenagers. Normal hormonal teenagers.) this is actually a very low-drama series, both for relationships and otherwise.
The science is virtually nonexistent, the only information into how Odette and Chris actually work or what went into making them being that they regularly have to recharge their batteries. Sometimes Yoshizawa has to do repairs on them, but we're not told what he actually does. Instead it's all about Odette learning about humans and her friendships and her maybe having feelings but not knowing what they are. Which may not be the most original plot ever, but it's done in a very endearing way that makes me generally want to squish Odette with whatever other character she happens to be in a scene with.
Karakuri Odette is about Odette, a robot who looks like a teenaged girl. Whether by accident or design (it isn't clear which) Odette is an extremely curious robot, and decides she wants to go to high school to learn what "real girls" are like (as compared to girls in TV dramas, not as compared to Odette herself). Her creator, professor Yoshizawa, agrees, and then spends the rest of the series clearly wondering if it's actually harder to be the parent of robotic teenagers than human teenagers, especially once Odette becomes obsessed with "cute" things.
Odette quickly makes friends at school, who find her quirky instead of outright weird. (Note: Odette is outright weird by human teen terms. In a very endearing way.) The majority of the plotlines involve Odette wondering at various human antics and trying to figure out why people do things and how those things apply to her. She's soon joined by Chris, an android created to be a suicide bomb sent after Yoshizawa, but he finds himself unable to explode because he wants to play with Odette. FOREVER. It's possible he has an android crush on Odette, given his reactions to other guys hanging around Odette (He hates them. Hates. FOREVER.) but it can also be easily interpreted as brotherly dependence. Odette herself appears to have a crush on the school delinquent (who in turn has a crush on one of Odette's friends, Youko) but is oblivious to it. Despite the fact that there are a number of unrequited crushes and possible crushes running around (There's also a younger delinquent running around who has a crush on Odette and then boy Youko likes and...well, they're teenagers. Normal hormonal teenagers.) this is actually a very low-drama series, both for relationships and otherwise.
The science is virtually nonexistent, the only information into how Odette and Chris actually work or what went into making them being that they regularly have to recharge their batteries. Sometimes Yoshizawa has to do repairs on them, but we're not told what he actually does. Instead it's all about Odette learning about humans and her friendships and her maybe having feelings but not knowing what they are. Which may not be the most original plot ever, but it's done in a very endearing way that makes me generally want to squish Odette with whatever other character she happens to be in a scene with.