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This single volume mostly just tells stories in the universe where this humanoid robot and teenage boy live. The earliest stories involve them. But some of the others are used to expand the universe and introduce other characters.

Apparently this served as a kind of prequel to a current ongoing manga of the same name.

It's an intriguing world setting, but the stories are largely about folks looking for work in a post-apocalyptic world. Been there and, for me, there's not enough of a hook to get me interested in checking out the sequel series.

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New Read - Mechanical Buddy Universe (Single Volume)

Mechanical Buddy Universe is a manga volume that is really a series of vignettes.

This entire volume sets up a world setting in a post-war world where androids exist and fought in numerous combat roles. The story follows a feminine presenting android who raised a human infant they found abandoned. However, most of the stories are set AFTER the baby is an adult, not really showing the "robot raising a human" story I was expecting.

I was expecting something like Somali and the Forest Spirit. What I got was...not that.

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#MangaMonday 94 “Mechanical Buddy Universe” & “Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0” by Takuji Kato

A mercenary boy raised by a battlefield droid. A vigilante girl whose gun is in love with her. A combat maid devoted to her mistress. An aging captain of an all-female squadron. A gender-queer ex-soldier. A world recovering from war but plagued by self-replicating weapons.

This #manga started as a series of vignettes—uploaded to social media while Kato worked on another project—that were turned into the book #MechanicalBuddyUniverse. “Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0” is a soft reboot, mostly taking place after MBU but revisiting events when they are important for the characters. There’s plenty of action, but the heart of the story is the interactions between characters.

MBU and the first volume of 1.0 are available in English (Square Enix) while up to date chapters are online at Manga Up!. Oddly, they appear to be using different translations (most noticeable in No Face’s speech.)