 Join me for some robotic hijinks in me and RoboCo. Hey everybody, welcome back to another exciting episode of A Week in Geekdom Geo here and today we're going to be taking a first impressions look, although it's been out for around 18 or so weeks so I'm a little bit late on that, I do apologize, but nonetheless we're here to talk about the latest gag comedy series in Shonen Jump or one of them actually because there are a few that are in publication as of this video is of course me and RoboCo. This is written and drawn by Shuhei Miyazaki and he's a newcomer to the whole scene. I only know him from a parody manga that he did on Promised Neverland so this is like the full first experience I guess with the mangaka. So what exactly is me and RoboCo? Well the official description tells us that in the year 20X a time where every household owns cute maid robots known as order maids. Average grade schooler Bondo dreams of having his very own robot but what he got was unable to compute. Life is going to get a whole lot weirder when RoboCo the most powerful clumsy maid ever created shows up at his door. So that in a nutshell is what me and RoboCo is all about but it's so much more it's a very charming funny wacky and utterly bizarre series you have the character Bondo and he's jealous that everybody has these order maids these cute maids that help all the different people around or in his circle friends all the elementary school kids and he's you know he's jealous and he wishes he wishes he could have that opportunity to have a maid cater to all his requests and needs I guess his family of course doesn't have the money for it but it isn't until Bondo sees an ad for a used maid that he's able to awkwardly convince his mom to order one and part of the charm in this series is how self-aware this title is it's it knows its premise is wacky and bizarre and it's just going to go with it and you see as soon as Bondo gets his wish the story really kicks off with the introduction of what he was not expecting at all RoboCo is unlike any maid every other maid that you see at the beginning of the manga is very stereotypical very boy based and sort of a caricature of what you would expect a anime cutesy servant would be like but RoboCo is uh thick she's so she's very expressive she's strong she's bizarre and she pulls out the most obscure humor and references to other pop culture stuff from Japan and the fact that it's a shonen jump title I love that the characters reference other jump titles and do references to other manga and anime which is always great to see and don't be put off by that sometimes you you might think oh I'm not going to get it because it's referencing stuff I don't know you you will still laugh and you will still enjoy me and RoboCo but if you happen to have uh know who Napa is from Dragon Ball Z or you know about uh Jujutsu Kaizen you you're gonna get the jokes and it's gonna make it that much better and funnier in my honest opinion the art in this is charming and it goes really wholesome and wacky the character designs are really um yeah they do exhibit some manga sensibilities and you know stereotypical art for what a chibi gag comedy is but I think it shares more of a mix with western sensibilities the way the characters are designed and their bodies and stuff the supporting cast in this is hilarious uh the the uh uh his Bondo's friend the uh gorilla is probably one of the funniest side characters that I've ever seen and there was this specific chapter in uh where they're fighting off a bear in the forest and RoboCo uh the kid decides to volunteer to be struck to strike the bear so that the the rest of them can escape Bondo and his friends and RoboCo so RoboCo takes the kid and just chucks him at the bear and she doesn't know her own strength she's super powerful and the thing about her is that uh she is so large as in life her humor her references her strength she's unlike anything else which is great it's a great message for kids as well to be your own person and not be like everybody else and all the other maids are very stereotypical they behave a certain way they follow a certain pattern but here you have RoboCo who's larger than life and she really enjoys what she's doing and she loves her new family even though she goes about it in terrible ways and that's sort of charming and really defines the series and makes it a standout in my opinion with all the current catalog of manga titles in Shonen Jump but yeah going back to my little uh joke here uh RoboCo chucks the kid at the bear but she completely misses and she just goes flying off into the distance and i just i'd laughed so much at that scene but this series being more episodic in nature yes there are a couple plot threats running throughout but it's very minimal it's most uh uh of a story of a week type of thing and you can enjoy it regardless uh part of the charm relies on two things one is the comedic timing of the mangaka and how he's able to pull off the jokes and for the most part they all land pretty solid and i think it's pretty funny for kids and adults there are a couple of lewdish uh jokes that kids probably aren't going to pick up but uh us older folk will appreciate and i thought they were pretty clever and pretty funny the comedic timing of all the characters and how they interact with each other is pretty uh fun and spot on and it's very enjoyable there's not a moment where it becomes too boring the story always keeps a an energetic pace you're not bored or lose interest as to what's happening most of these chapters the stories are very simple but very fun in its execution so all in all i'd love the progression of bondo of how you have this kid who was worried about being bullied for not fitting in to realizing that he doesn't have to be like everybody else and he can stand apart on his own whether that means having a robot companion to make that realization happen well that's that's that's life i guess but regardless his journey is pretty uh wholesome and his interactions and his family i i'd love the gab with his mom constantly holding a knife i thought that was pretty funny and overall it's just a treat and very uh nice it's a very nice funny manga that i think you'll enjoy so as a first impressions basis 18 chapters in i think it's a success and i cannot wait to continue reading and enjoying it's sort of a palette cleanser to all the craziness that's happening out there in the world so i look forward each week to a new chapter of me and roboco what about you guys did you like this manga have you been reading me and roboco let me know in the comment section down below what you thought of it and if not what are some of your favorite robots in manga or comics as well let me know in the comment section as well guys thank you so much i've got to go thank you for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of a week in geekdom again it really does mean a whole lot and if you're new here please consider subscribing i do content like this where i talk about anime manga comics and even the 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