Beatless
Beatless
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Beatless

5.6 / 10
2018
1 season
24 episodes
AnimationDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

Most of the world's needs are fulfilled by humanoid robots called hIE's. One day, 17-year-old Arato Endo meets the android Lacia and becomes her owner. She is one of five androids with advanced AI. Each of the five units have their own motivations, and fight to gain each other's abilities. What will the relationship between man and machine be moving forward? That is something Arato must find.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Contract

    1.Contract

    9.0
    13-01-201825m

    April. A second year high school student, Arato had a normal life he spent with his friends Ryo and Kengo. Until that night. On his way home from shopping, Arato is attacked by a c...

  • Analog Hacking

    2.Analog Hacking

    10.0
    20-01-201825m

    After binding an owner contract with Arato, Lacia has come to live with the Endo's. Arato's sister Yuka has completely accepted Lacia, and even enters her into an hIE modeling audi...

  • You'll Be Mine

    3.You'll Be Mine

    10.0
    27-01-201825m

    Despite his awareness of analog hacking, Arato can't help himself from being drawn to Lacia. Amid all of this, Lacia is "kidnapped" right in front of Yuka. Arato is upset with the...

  • Automatic World

    4.Automatic World

    9.0
    03-02-201825m

    Kouka, the violent hIE who calls herself Lacia's first sister. With her control over the antibody network, she is planning to carry out a horrifying act of terrorism. When Arato le...

  • Tools for Outsourcers

    5.Tools for Outsourcers

    8.0
    10-02-201825m

    Arato arrives at the industrial promotion center which is the target for the antibody network's terrorist attack. He heads up the stairs and sees the android politician Mikoto his...

  • Higgins Village

    6.Higgins Village

    10.0
    24-02-201825m

    Arato manages to rescue Kengo from the calamity at the industrial promotion center. However, even after returning to normal life, he finds himself consumed by the ever deepening my...

  • Boy meets Pornography

    7.Boy meets Pornography

    10.0
    03-03-201825m

    Lacia has a new modeling gig. It is an image commercial to promote a new type of relationship between hIE's and human beings, one in which people view hIE's of the opposite sex as...

  • Awakening of Sleeping Beauty

    8.Awakening of Sleeping Beauty

    10.0
    10-03-201825m

    Having made a contract with Shiori, Methode suddenly attacks Lacia while she is filming a commercial. As the circumstances surrounding Arato and Lacia are about to shift again dram...

  • My Whereabouts

    9.My Whereabouts

    17-03-201825m

    Shiori puts her plan into motion. At this rate, Arato will lose ownership of Lacia. "Mr. Arato, please allow me to be with you." This unexpected plea from Lacia moves Arato, and he...

  • Dwellings and Surroundings

    10.Dwellings and Surroundings

    31-03-201825m

    Arato is given two weeks of suspension after the fight between Methode and Lacia leaves him with paying 4.5 million yen worth of damages they caused. In order to apologize to his f...

  • Dystopia Game

    11.Dystopia Game

    07-04-201825m

    Methode abducts Yuka right in front of Lacia. Arato and Ryo head to rescue her, but standing in their way are all of the hIE's in the experimental city who have been infected by Gi...

  • Slumber of Human

    12.Slumber of Human

    14-04-201825m

    Ginga Watarai's death puts an end to the incident at the experimental city. During all of the chaos, Arato had revealed his feelings to Lacia which she accepted. Yuka has mixed fee...

  • The Prayer Within

    13.The Prayer Within

    28-04-201825m

    After being summoned by Erika to the Burrows estate, the Lacia-class hIE's fight entered the next phase. As each of them contemplated their next move, Kouka felt her possibility fo...

  • An Answer to Survive

    14.An Answer to Survive

    05-05-201825m

    Kouka carries out an antibody network terrorist attack against the Next-Gen Society Research Center on her own. Kouka's overwhelming destructive power is streamed around the globe,...

  • Edge Line

    15.Edge Line

    19-05-201825m

    Kengo is arrested by the security police in connection to Kouka's terrorist activities. Arato decides to save Kengo and gives Lacia the order. Following the plan she has devised, A...

  • Plus One

    16.Plus One

    26-05-201825m

    Affected by Kouka's destruction, Snowdrop moved up her own plans, taking over the Mitaka transformer substation to secure a steady energy supply and bringing disaster to the surrou...

  • A Reason of Our Own

    17.A Reason of Our Own

    09-06-201825m

    Lacia's secret is revealed. Arato is unable to handle it and steps away from Lacia. Defenseless on his own, he's captured by Ryo and Methode where he could do nothing but watch the...

  • Protocol of Love

    18.Protocol of Love

    16-06-201825m

    Pushed by Shiori and Yuka, Arato decided to face Lacia once again. If his last order was still in place, Lacia should be trying to stop Snowdrop. With this thought, Arato heads tow...

  • Paper Tiger

    19.Paper Tiger

    23-06-201825m

    It has been two months since the tragic events in Mitaka. The world returned to some semblance of normalcy, and Arato and Lacia lay low as they prepare for whatever may come next....

  • Our Error World

    20.Our Error World

    30-06-201825m

    Super intelligent AI have spurred society to change. As the fight surrounding Arato and Lacia escalates, the leaders of the old guard discuss how they could maximize their own prof...

  • Higgins' Silo

    21.Higgins' Silo

    26-09-201825m

    The super intelligent AI Higgins. The core of Memeframe, one of the keys to humanity's future, and the creator of Lacia. Arato and Lacia traverse through a giant underground facili...

  • Pygmalion

    22.Pygmalion

    27-09-201825m

    Once again, Methode appears to stand in the way of Arato and Lacia down in the underground facility containing Higgins. They must also be wary of Snowdrop who had been sent there b...

  • Beatless

    23.Beatless

    28-09-201825m

    Snowdrop appears in the underground facility as some sort of hybrid between bird and person, a strange new creature created by a super intelligent AI which no longer needed humanit...

  • Boy Meets Girl

    24.Boy Meets Girl

    28-09-201825m

    Arato and Lacia walk towards the heart of the Higgins storage facility in order to choose a future. The two act like one as they help and support each other. However, damaged from...

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