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Plastic Memories Anime's 1st Promo Hints at Bittersweet Romance

The official website for the Plastic Memories anime project began streaming the first promotional video for the series on Thursday.

Text: Tearing apart memories. That's our job.
Text: A love story born from digital memories.
Red text: She is frightened. She hopes that these memories of love are fake.
Blue text: He wishes. He hopes that these memories of love are real.

The website also unveiled the first key visual:

The website lists the story:

This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they... Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but...

The characters include:

Yoshiyuki Fujiwara (GJ Club, Engaged to the Unidentified) will direct the project at Dogakobo (Yuruyuri - Happy Go Lily, Laughing Under the Clouds). Chiaki Nakajima (Yuruyuri - Happy Go Lily, Love Lab) will adapt original character designs by okiura (Infinite Stratos). Naotaka Hayashi (Robotics;Notes, Steins;Gate, Chaos;HEAd) is credited as the project's original creator and he will pen the scripts for the "story of meetings and partings."

Thanks to Kagayaki for the embedded video.

Update: Naotaka Hayashi's credits corrected. Thanks, Chipp12