Should you watch Roujin Z?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Roujin Z
Anime · 1991
Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is chosen by the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare to test the Z-001, a computerized hospital bed with robotic features that allegedly displays more efficiency and skills than any human nurse, but Haruko mistrusts a machine unable to consider human feelings.
The sides of Roujin Z
- An old man strapped into a robot hospital bed
- A nursing student who doesn't trust the machine
- A bed that breaks loose through Tokyo
Roujin Z is good for you if…
- you like Haruko teaming up with a gang of elderly hackers to help her patient.
- you like a hospital bed turning into a giant robot.
- you like a satire of ministries and companies deciding what old people need.
Roujin Z is bad for you if…
- you don't watch anime.
- you find early nineties hand-drawn anime dated.
About: old age · care · technology
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