Boku no tsuma wa kanjou ga nai (My wife has no emotion) is an interesting anime from the summer 2024 season. The series is a mix of romance, comedy and science fiction, however, there are more disturbing things than we would expect, and although it is fun and somewhat moving, I will tell you below some details that should definitely make us buzz.

Boku no tsuma wa kanjou ga nai (My wife has no emotion) is a manga written and illustrated by Jirō Sugiura. It is published under the Monthly Comic Flapper imprint, which belongs to Media Factory. Its first issue came out in August 2019, is still in publication and has compiled seven compilation volumes.

Its anime adaptation arrived in summer 2024 by Tezuka Productions.

Boku no tsuma wa kanjou ga nai (My wife has no emotion) introduces us to the story of Mina and Takuma Kosugi. And although it seems like a largely tender birth, you only need to look closer to realize that it goes beyond the limits of the supposed care and development of a romance, since There is a hierarchy among the characters that contributes to the immobile characteristics of the protagonist. Below I explain the details.

What is Boku no tsuma wa kanjou ga nai (My wife has no emotion) about?

Mina is an android who specializes in the home, especially in food preparation. The android belongs to the lower range of her line of robots. It all starts when she is acquired by a new owner.

Takuma, the protagonist, is a godin without a girlfriend who buys Mina from a second-hand store. He receives an android for a lower price and she helps him with household chores. Although at first he only appreciates the fact of having delicious, freshly prepared food when he gets home, little by little he begins to value other nuances of his purchase, as he feels accompanied and is filled with joy when greeted by the robot girl. Takuma fights against his loneliness, little by little he realizes that Mina has a pretty face and is kind.

One day, as a joke, he asks the android to marry him. It seems that, since he is a robot who must strictly obey the rules of “his master”, the girl agrees. At first, it is assumed that Mina does not have the notions of feelings that guide her in the decisions she makes after emulating situations, however, there are rules that she has established in her system - such as not hurting humans and obeying her master - that They allow you to accept and deny things, this guides your "conscience" when making decisions.

At first, it is unclear whether Mina actually agrees to “marry” Takuma by “her own” decision.However, as the anime progresses, it seems that the girl begins to adapt to her “partner” and to manage her feelings and ways of behaving. Although, at first, Mina only responds with a realistic and inflexible logic, little by little, it seems that she understands the world better, having more experience and carrying out research on her part.

However, Although the android's development of tenderness is defended, Takuma and his sister seem to be grotesquely fetishizing Mina.

Additionally, there is a disturbing image: Mina sits silently next to Takuma as he eats.. Even if it is because she cannot eat, doesn’t this remind us of a particular image of women and their hierarchy and functionality in the home? In “small” moments, Mina’s position becomes more complex, but not for the better.

The Beautiful and Disturbing Thing About Boku no tsuma wa kanjou ga nai (My Wife Has No Emotion)

In simple words, Mina is a purchased “woman” who has utilities, functionalities and strict rules of behavior.

“The beautiful thing” is that thanks to attention and care, a humanization of the machine begins to be generated from a beautiful structure of respect and clarity – and not a rebellious style of the machines, in the end, Mina is “appreciated” - in which the android understands the world in which she is immersed and humans give her a space to belong, forging a new bond. This is positive for the android who managed to find some comfort.

However, on several occasions, humans give us another idea. To begin with, Mina is an object, but she is also a woman. Takuma hesitated and was about to hide her in the closet or as they walked he left her a few steps behind out of embarrassment of people seeing that he was dating a robot. However, the boy always thinks before committing terrible acts that suggest that he only uses Mina for convenience and that in reality he only sees her as a robot.

On the other hand, the sister finds the situation quite strange and is particularly interested in seeing how Mina works: she exoticizes her and asks her intimate questions about the dynamics of the relationship she has with her brother. And then enters a chaos that definitely shouldn't be romanticized: Mina's body.

Takuma begins sleeping with Mina and on one occasion asks permission to dry her body, after which the girl tells him that "he is her master, so she belongs to him and he does not need to ask permission", after which Takuma leaves and says that he knows this, but that he prefers her permission because she is his wife, to which she responds that it does not bother her.

However, it should be clarified that The relationship between them is permeated by an undisturbed hierarchy and although from there “freedom” begins to be generated and the “feelings” of both parties are managed, how terrible this seems when it also proposes – irremediably – the fantasy of what women were or should be like?

Mina may present a supposed tenderness that “hides” complex and terrible problems: again the woman as belonging and after that the body as an object, we have already discussed this type of situation as in the article From hypersexualization to the erasure of the Valkyries' bodies in Record of Ragnarok.

Where can I watch Boku no tsuma wa kanjou ga nai (My Wife Has No Emotion)?

The anime is available on the Crunchyroll platform, you can watch it here. A new episode premieres every Sunday.

Remember that the content is there so that we can generate criticism about it, so if you are a fan of this anime title, I just invite you to see it in more detail, so that the complex nuances that it proposes, assimilated in a fiction, are not reproduced in the normalization or fantasies regarding the idea of women and their “possibilities” in the world.