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僕とロボコ [Boku to Roboco] #1
僕とロボコ 1 [Boku to Roboco 1]
美少女メイドロボ「OM」が、一家に一台普及する時代。平凡な小学生、平凡人は念願の美少女メイドロボに心躍らせていた。しかし、家に来たのは想定外に規格外なOMで!? 僕とロボコの愉快な誤奉仕メイド物語、開幕!!
184 pages, Paperback
First published November 4, 2020
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October 28, 2021
3.5/5 WTF did I just read. I picked up Me & Roboco as my 2nd week of checking out a new release weekly. Seriously questioning whether or not I’ll be able to keep this up. Me & Roboco is a parody and gag manga. It’s about a boy named Bondo who wants a robot maid like all his friends have, cute little robot maid girls. Instead he receives a robot girl who looks like Nappa from Dragon Ball Z. She is a beast. No good at housework and obviously has some secret history as a weapon of some sort.
I wasn’t immediately into it. Admittedly I probably won’t continue the series either but I have to admit there were several moments during volume 1 where I actually laughed out loud while reading at work and hand to stop reading for a bit to stifle myself.
If you’re into comedy or gag manga you’ll probably get a kick out of Me & Roboco.
The cast on the cover of volume 1 in an homage to Doraemon.
Read 10/28/21
I wasn’t immediately into it. Admittedly I probably won’t continue the series either but I have to admit there were several moments during volume 1 where I actually laughed out loud while reading at work and hand to stop reading for a bit to stifle myself.
If you’re into comedy or gag manga you’ll probably get a kick out of Me & Roboco.
The cast on the cover of volume 1 in an homage to Doraemon.
Read 10/28/21
August 2, 2020
Note: This review was made with four chapters out.
Me and Roboco has to be a bizarre experiment by the creator to see just how long a terrible manga can last. There's no other way I can explain it. The art style is outdated. While I understand humor is subjective, Me and Roboco is almost objectively bad in that realm, with outdated and uncreative references and just general bizarreness. It's clearly trying to do some sort of Doraemon thing with a super powerful being and the only other characters being little children. As an American I've never seen Doraemon, but I know in my heart it's better than this.
Me and Roboco has to be a bizarre experiment by the creator to see just how long a terrible manga can last. There's no other way I can explain it. The art style is outdated. While I understand humor is subjective, Me and Roboco is almost objectively bad in that realm, with outdated and uncreative references and just general bizarreness. It's clearly trying to do some sort of Doraemon thing with a super powerful being and the only other characters being little children. As an American I've never seen Doraemon, but I know in my heart it's better than this.
February 25, 2023
This is a purely gag manga, and I usually prefer my gags mixed in with character development so we’ll see how this series goes for me. It’s ok and gave me a chuckle.
October 4, 2022
When you think of Shōnen Jump, you naturally think of titles such as Dragon Ball, Bleach, Naruto (and Boruto), Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and One Piece. But there is one title that brings that some well-deserved humor and that is Shuhei Miyazaki’s Me & Roboco.
The year is 20XX, and there are Ultra-Capable AI-Powered Robotic Maids called “OrderMaids” available to buy, their tremendous versability and being cute made them a worldwide hit. Ten-Year-Old Bondo wants to have his own OrderMaid just like the other kids, so he begs his mom to order one for the house. The day finally arrives when he opens the door and meets his new OrderMaid, but there is something different about her, wait, she has knees like that Sayian, Nappa?! Chaos ensues as Bondo’s world is about to be turned upside down as this clumsy maid brings in humor, surprise quizzes, and crazy antics with her! The First Volume contains Chapters 1 through 9 but the one negative factor in this was that it’s a Digital Only title.
In an observation that not only that the gags can be wholesome but it is mainly focused on Roboco’s shortcomings but it also has an abundance of making witty references to Shonen Jump Titles like Jujutsu Kaisen, Bakuman, Dragon Ball Z, and Doraemon. If you’re not familiar with Doraemon, which is surprising that this series isn’t as popular in the US as it is in Japan, India, and Spain. If anything, this is a not-so-subtle parody of Doraemon for example:
Doraemon is a robot from the future, befriending a boy who is struggling with getting good grades and has Two Bullies at School. Me & Roboco has Rondo two Passively and Aggressive Friends, Roboco’s compliment of weird gadgets and abilities, and other goofs.
But if the reader is not familiar with that sort of comedy, then it will fall flat and feel more random than being clever. Like the mention of Roboco having “Nappa Knees”, if someone never read the Dragon Ball Series that joke would be worthless, but since the U.S. readers are more familiar with the Dragon Ball Series than Doraemon. Another thing that works well for this Gag Manga is that it has a good balance of characters that make it worth reading like Gachi Gorilla and Motsuo Kaneo, Bondo’s Mom. Each one has their random gags or moments that keeps the humor going and the reader entertained.
To be honest, this is one of the best gag titles I have read in quite a while. It has a great balance of parody comedy, slapstick, random Shonen Jump References, and good punchlines even if some do fall flat at times. Shuhei Miyazaki has a good formula going on with Me & Roboco and speaking as a current reader of this series it is on par with another well-known comedy/gag title, Hideaki Sorachi’s Gin Tama. You can catch Me & Roboco on Viz Media or Shueisha’s Manga Plus.
The year is 20XX, and there are Ultra-Capable AI-Powered Robotic Maids called “OrderMaids” available to buy, their tremendous versability and being cute made them a worldwide hit. Ten-Year-Old Bondo wants to have his own OrderMaid just like the other kids, so he begs his mom to order one for the house. The day finally arrives when he opens the door and meets his new OrderMaid, but there is something different about her, wait, she has knees like that Sayian, Nappa?! Chaos ensues as Bondo’s world is about to be turned upside down as this clumsy maid brings in humor, surprise quizzes, and crazy antics with her! The First Volume contains Chapters 1 through 9 but the one negative factor in this was that it’s a Digital Only title.
In an observation that not only that the gags can be wholesome but it is mainly focused on Roboco’s shortcomings but it also has an abundance of making witty references to Shonen Jump Titles like Jujutsu Kaisen, Bakuman, Dragon Ball Z, and Doraemon. If you’re not familiar with Doraemon, which is surprising that this series isn’t as popular in the US as it is in Japan, India, and Spain. If anything, this is a not-so-subtle parody of Doraemon for example:
Doraemon is a robot from the future, befriending a boy who is struggling with getting good grades and has Two Bullies at School. Me & Roboco has Rondo two Passively and Aggressive Friends, Roboco’s compliment of weird gadgets and abilities, and other goofs.
But if the reader is not familiar with that sort of comedy, then it will fall flat and feel more random than being clever. Like the mention of Roboco having “Nappa Knees”, if someone never read the Dragon Ball Series that joke would be worthless, but since the U.S. readers are more familiar with the Dragon Ball Series than Doraemon. Another thing that works well for this Gag Manga is that it has a good balance of characters that make it worth reading like Gachi Gorilla and Motsuo Kaneo, Bondo’s Mom. Each one has their random gags or moments that keeps the humor going and the reader entertained.
To be honest, this is one of the best gag titles I have read in quite a while. It has a great balance of parody comedy, slapstick, random Shonen Jump References, and good punchlines even if some do fall flat at times. Shuhei Miyazaki has a good formula going on with Me & Roboco and speaking as a current reader of this series it is on par with another well-known comedy/gag title, Hideaki Sorachi’s Gin Tama. You can catch Me & Roboco on Viz Media or Shueisha’s Manga Plus.
August 1, 2025
I do not like this series. The actual laughs are too few and far-between. However. There are three things.
The gag that the protagonist's mother is ALWAYS holding a knife is hilarious.
Secondly, this:
And lastly... the parody covers for the volumes are incredibly well done. For these things alone, I can appreciate Roboco's existence, at least a little.
The gag that the protagonist's mother is ALWAYS holding a knife is hilarious.
Secondly, this:
And lastly... the parody covers for the volumes are incredibly well done. For these things alone, I can appreciate Roboco's existence, at least a little.
February 20, 2022
At times, it brilliantly parodies the misogynistic "my hot robot chick maid is in love with me" genre of shounen manga. At other times it plays it disgustingly straight. It got a few laughs out of me but I can't really praise the overall plot which is slow in coming if it even exists.
April 20, 2022
comedy gold. too bad the western/intl community doesn't appreciate it bc majority of yall only care about action battle shonen series, female character fanservice series or boring gag series like gintama and jjba
February 9, 2023
This is so good
February 18, 2022
The benefit of Shueisha's MangaPlus app is that Americans have the opportunity to read all of Weekly Shounen Jump each week, but unfortunately this is kind of wasted on our shit taste. I'm late getting into Me & Roboco myself, as I didn't begin using MangaPlus until some months after the manga began, having decided the app might be "faster" to read new chapters of Ayakashi Triangle than waiting for someone to dump the pages on /a/. By the time I'd started using the app, it was a bit too late to go back and hunt Roboco elsewhere online, as the good folks at VIZ love money and hate freedom so they try to crack down on any other site that might host scans of manga for which they own the license. Anyway, to celebrate its third year anniversary, MangaPlus is allow free access to all chapters of currently-running series, providing me the chance to check out this gag manga.
Shit's hilarious, simple as. Though, as of this volume, I'm finding Bondo's friends a bit funnier than Roboco herself. I've seen people shitpost over the manga's reliance on references to other manga, but I feel like they're mostly tasteful, especially compared to e.g. Mamore! Shugomaru just copy-pasting real Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. I like Bondo's mom's references to Yabuki's manga. The semi-frequent Kimetsu no Yaiba jokes are alright, too, as I'd coincidentally just finished reading that series.
I sometimes take issue with gag series for reasons of "indigestibility," by which I mean it sometimes gets annoying to read/watch too much gag manga/anime in a row. I might consider Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei one of my favorite series, but I could never watch more than two episodes in a sitting. I enjoy Lucky Star, but I have to stretch out reading a single volume over several sittings of taking a dump because I cannot bear to read too many 4-koma comics at once. But I was able to read this first volume of Roboco with ease, ending each chapter with a desire to read the next, and being excited at a glimpse of the table of contents showing nine chapters instead of the seven I expect from modern Jump Volume 1s, meaning I got to read a couple more chapters before having to disrupt myself to write a shitty Goodreads review...! That said, I'm not quite sure I really want to just binge this manga to catch up with the weekly release, but that's more because I'm not looking forward to having to wait seven days for more wacky Roboco hijinks.
Shit's hilarious, simple as. Though, as of this volume, I'm finding Bondo's friends a bit funnier than Roboco herself. I've seen people shitpost over the manga's reliance on references to other manga, but I feel like they're mostly tasteful, especially compared to e.g. Mamore! Shugomaru just copy-pasting real Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. I like Bondo's mom's references to Yabuki's manga. The semi-frequent Kimetsu no Yaiba jokes are alright, too, as I'd coincidentally just finished reading that series.
I sometimes take issue with gag series for reasons of "indigestibility," by which I mean it sometimes gets annoying to read/watch too much gag manga/anime in a row. I might consider Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei one of my favorite series, but I could never watch more than two episodes in a sitting. I enjoy Lucky Star, but I have to stretch out reading a single volume over several sittings of taking a dump because I cannot bear to read too many 4-koma comics at once. But I was able to read this first volume of Roboco with ease, ending each chapter with a desire to read the next, and being excited at a glimpse of the table of contents showing nine chapters instead of the seven I expect from modern Jump Volume 1s, meaning I got to read a couple more chapters before having to disrupt myself to write a shitty Goodreads review...! That said, I'm not quite sure I really want to just binge this manga to catch up with the weekly release, but that's more because I'm not looking forward to having to wait seven days for more wacky Roboco hijinks.
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