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Hal

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A humanoid robot is asked to replace Hal, who was killed in a terrible accident, in order help Hal's girlfriend move on in life, but struggles to understand the real Hal's past and the meaning of being alive.

Year

2013

Duration

1h

IMDb

6.6

Trailer

Cast

RM

Ryôtarô Makihara

Director

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Hal

YH

Yôko Hikasa

Kurumi

Mamoru Miyano

Ryuu

Tamio Ôki

Tokio

Shinpachi Tsuji

Aranami

Rin Mizuhara

Tsukiko

HY

Hikari Yono

Rumiko

UT

Uko Tachibana

Erika

ST

Shôko Tsuda

Mami

I

Ikki

Nepali

KS

Kanami Satô

Megane

HG

Hiroki Gotô

Maru

AN

Arisa Nishiguchi

Hat

RK

Ryô Kuratomi

Ryuu's Friend

Felecia Angelle

Additional Voices

BA

Bryn Apprill

Kurumi

Tia Lynn Ballard

Additional Voices

CB

Chris Burnett

Hal

IK

Izumi Kizara

Writer

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Comments

10 comments

Mubuhh..Oct 4, 2025

truly a Masterpiece. Didn't expect the ending thou 😭 my Honest opinion : 9/10

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Queen GMay 29, 2023

source: Hal

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George TitusMay 12, 2023

The show starts out rather strange with a plain suddenly exploding over a quiet little town. Then they suddenly talk about a boy named Hal who had passed away and a girl who seemed to be his girlfriend is taking it pretty hard. To me, this beginning just feels like it was a promo for the show instead of the actual show because we don't really get any information at all. We can speculate what's going on, but that's all. We don't get a full picture of what is actually happening. And then we have a robot that becomes human in order to help the young girl. I'm actually not sure if we could really call him human right away though as he doesn't seem to know how to actually act human or feel human. I know this is going to into philosophy but this really does ask the question, what does it take to be human? Throughout the whole show, we learn a lot about Hal. I mean the real Hal in fact, not the robot one. I like how we learn through Robotic Hal's way of learning then just being told straight out. It gives us a mystery to solve then just a romance. In the end, there is a point when Hal's past seems to haunt the two. And then in the end, it really changes around, making things a bit more confusing but making it really fun all the same. It's not like any other love story between a robot and human. It's hard to explain because of it being such a big spoiler that it would mess with you. You really should watch it if you are interested in knowing what the hell I am talking about with switch. And even at the end, there are one or two things that don't seem to not be closed up, things that should but don't take away from the story. The artwork is amazing, and the sort of playful toy aspect to this is rather cute. All the vibrant colors and amazing little adornments all over the place. I didn't really see any problems with the animation being poor, though I didn't like some of the design aspects they did for a couple background characters. It doesn't mess with the story but it makes me frown slightly at that. Still, the design of the rest was wonderful and made me happy to even watch the show. The English dub was so good; I couldn't believe how wonderful the voice acting was. Of course funimation did give it the dub so I shouldn't have expected anything less and yet I have seen some that felt like they needed a bit more. Each person sounded like what I thought they should sound like, even the ladies at the adult day care sounded good and those are normally the ones that would of sounded bad if there was a bad voice. The strange thing is that there were not that many names that stood out to me in the cast. I mean, there were people like Todd Haberkorn and Chris Burnett but the rest seemed like they did mostly background characters before this. They may still do background characters in this one too but the characters give a better connection with the world and emotions. This is one that I definitely think you should watch even if you're not into sci-fi or romance. It's not one or the other and it sort of opens up the idea of just what a Robot could be as well as just what a human could be.

realhimeshMay 12, 2023

I've seen the poster of this film being recommended to me many times on here as well as MyAnimeList and anime Facebook groups but never actually looked into it - until last night. I gotta say this anime was good to watch since it does only last a decent one hour. I found that the beginning made much more sense then the middle part because ok we know the real Hal died and resurrected from the Andriod but it seems Kurumi died too? There was a lot of thinking involved in this lemme tell ya lol! Seriously though, this film does give you a mixture of emotions that you honestly don't know what the hell is going on. I really wish this film was able to give us a proper ending instead of a rather abrupt one which is the reason why I'm giving this anime a 7/10. However I thought the English Dub cast especially Chris Burnett, Bryn Apprill, Bill Flynn and Todd Haberkorn (who sounded like Greg Ayres on this) were pretty great on their roles. Yeah if you feel like you want reality stuff even with a sprinkle of sci-fi and good animation, this one is definitely for you to check out!