Hand Maid May - Volume 3: Memory Failure (2001)
Genre Anime
Studio Pioneer
Series Hand Maid May
Movie Release Date 2001
Country USA
Language English
Running Time 100 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
IMDb Rating 6.1
Cast
Kyôko Hikami
Omi Minami
Lia Sargent
Steve Staley
Yûji Ueda
Maria Yamamoto
Takayuki Yamaguchi
Mikako Takahashi
Rie Kugimiya
Miwa Yasuda
Crew
Director Shinichiro Kimura
Plot
Kazuya Saotome is a nerdy second-year engineering student at Ochanomizu Industrial University (???????? Ochanomizu Kogyo Daigaku?). His lifelong dream is to build a Doraemon (robot), and is trying to develop an artificial intelligence robot that happens to look like a toy squid. The story begins when Kazuya's wealthy rival, Kotaro Nanbara, gives him a computer program that supposedly will provide valuable information to help with Kazuya’s research and development. Actually, the program is a virus that Nanbara created in order to infect Kazuya’s computer and destroy his work. While attempting to fix his infected computer, Kazuya accidentally orders a "Cyberdoll" from the Cyberdyne Corporation website. A woman appears at Kazuya's door with a small package containing a cyberdoll named Hand Maid May. May is a palm-sized robotic doll who is very sensitive and sympathetic to Kazuya's feelings, likes, and needs. The early part of the storyline focuses on Nanbara trying to get May taken away from Kazuya due to his inability to pay for her. Nanbara enlists the help of several other cyberdolls to attempt to take May away from Kazuya, but all of them end up falling for Kazuya and failing to retrieve May.
Episodes
1 There's So Much I Want!
Everyone works to protect the ladder between Kazuya's apartment and Kasumi's room from a typhoon. We also discover more of Kasumi and Kazuya, and their relationship...
2 Besides That...I Believe You
Commando Z, the "wandering president of Cyberdyne," appears, and has come to discover why a potentially fatal "virus" is afflicting all of the Cyberdolls, except for May...
3 My Best
It is discovered that the deadly Cyberdoll virus was created within May when she was converted from 1/6 scale to full size. "Commando Z" reveals himself to be a time-traveler from the future to discover the virus' origins and stop it before it destroys all the Cyberdolls. Since May is immune to the virus, she volunteers herself to be infected with it to allow further study on the virus and a possible cure. But everyone is worried that May may not make it out alive...
4 Never Give Up
At Kazuya's apartment, a package from Cyberdoll Mami filled with five "Chibi-Cyberdoll Mays" arrives. Later, an accident causes May's personality to go into the five mini-May's, each one receiving a distinct aspect of her personality. Elsewhere, Rena finds a lost child and brings it home. [This episode was included with the DVD set, and never aired]
Personal Details
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Edition Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1; Region 4
Release Country USA
TV System NTSC
No. of Disks/Tapes 1
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Stereo
Layers Single Side, Single Layer