“I’m Not a Robotic” launched in 2017-2018, has 32 episodes, and is at the moment streaming on Viki. This Korean drama collection will be categorized as Rom-Com (Romantic-Comedy), Sci-Fi (Science Fiction), with parts of Crime and Thriller.
AI has change into a well-liked theme and “I Am Not a Robotic” was launched forward of this pattern. Should you preferred “My Holo Love” you’ll most likely take pleasure in watching this collection much more. This Ok-drama collection is a few human who is distributed as an alternative choice to an AI humanoid robotic to be examined by its proprietor. Issues get sophisticated when the proprietor turns into emotionally confused as a result of he thinks he’s in love with a robotic.
♦ I Am Not a Robotic, Only a Substitute
Kim Min-Kyu is a reclusive millionaire. He has to reside by himself and when he does come out in public he covers himself together with sporting gloves and carrying a baton. The baton is to make it possible for individuals preserve their distance and don’t contact him. It’s not that he’s delinquent. It’s simply that he’s allergic to people. If a human touches him he has an excessive allergic response and it may even lead to dying.
Hong Baek-Gyun has constructed an AI robotic utilizing his ex-girlfriend, Jo Ji-A, as his mannequin. That’s proper. The AI humanoid robotic referred to as AG-3 appears precisely like Jo Ji-A.
Jo Ji-A is a younger entrepreneur, bursting with concepts for merchandise that she is definite individuals will love. The issue is that she will be able to by no means get them to market as a result of she lacks funding funds. She is so brief on cash that she lives along with her brother who insists that she quit her fanciful goals and get an actual job.
Hong Baek-Gyun wants funding to proceed his analysis and to good the AI humanoid robotic he constructed. Kim Min-Kyu already owns the corporate that’s answerable for the analysis challenge and tells Baek-Gyun that he’ll proceed investing if he can check the robotic himself. If the robotic passes all of his exams, he’ll present the funds wanted to proceed the analysis challenge.
Nevertheless, the robotic breaks on the day Baek-Gyun is meant to ship her over for testing. In desperation, he hires his ex-girlfriend, Ji-A, to faux to be AG-3. Ji-A can lastly inform her brother she has “an actual job”; although it’s non permanent and part-time. Nevertheless, neither Baek-Gyun nor Ji-A know that Min-Kyu is allergic to people. They don’t discover out about his ailment till a lot later. However by that point, Min-Kyu had change into hooked up to AG-3. He even tells his physician, who has been treating him for 15 years, that the robotic has cured him of his allergy. He doesn’t notice that he has been interacting with and touching a human.
♦ It Was Speculated to Be a Short-term Repair
Baek-Gyu didn’t set out with ailing intentions to intentionally deceive Min-Kyu. He simply wanted time to get the elements obligatory to repair his robotic. It was only a non permanent repair. No person knew the AI robotic would break and wish elements that needed to be shipped all the way in which from Africa! YIKES!
No worries. Simply keep cool and calm. So long as Ji-A performed her half as a robotic convincingly sufficient, when the actual robotic was repaired, the analysis staff would merely change them out. Who would know that that they had ever been substituted?
Excellent plans at all times look like they may work completely nice till THEY DON’T!! A few main issues happen that trigger the plan to begin falling aside.
- Complication #1): There are some shady dealings happening inside Kim Min-Kyu’s firm. There may be white-collar crime, i.e. individuals attempt to steal the robotic AG-3 and attempt to hack the analysis staff’s laptop system to steal all of their work. If that isn’t sinister sufficient, a homicide occurred. Min-Kyu’s enemies wish to cowl up the homicide, steal the analysis work, destroy his repute, and kick him out of his personal firm.
- Complication #2): Each Ji-A and Min-Kyu begin creating emotions for one another. However what is going to occur if Min-Kyu realizes that Ji-A has been deceiving him all alongside by pretending to be a robotic? Moreover, how will he react when he realizes that the whole analysis staff knew all concerning the substitution/deception?
Most important Characters:
- Kim Min-Kyu (performed by Yoo Seung-Ho, “The Deal”)
- AG-3 / Jo Ji-A (performed by Chae Soo-Bin)
- Hong Baek-Gyun (performed by Uhm Ki-Joon, “The Escape f the Seven”)
Viewership and Score:
My private ranking is identical because the Viki viewing viewers. Initially, as a result of there have been 32 episodes, I believed it’d change into lengthy and boring. However not so! Every episode was fascinating and saved you questioning about what would occur subsequent.
At first (again in 2018), there was low viewership ranking. However it’s December 2023 and this collection is included in IMDb’s itemizing of Highest-Rated Korean Dramas. “I Am Not a Robotic” was considered one of my most fulfilling Ok-drama binge-watching experiences.
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TRAILERS/TEASERS:
MAC Drama World. “I Am Not a Robotic Trailer [Eng Sub] Official 2018 || Yoo Seung-Ho & Chae Soo-Bin || HD.” YouTube Video. YouTube, February 13, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36QRCy9JCo.
