YMMV / Time of Eve

• Awesome Music: ''I have a dream'', the ending song of the movie.
• Fridge Brilliance: Rikuo and Masaki are continuously subverting the cafe's main rule. Then again, that's what pretty much all of Asimov's robot stories were about as well.
• Fridge Horror: There are a few offhand remarks made relating to the disposal of robots that have served their purpose. Unless something happens to change the world, this is the ultimate fate of most of the cafe's regulars!
• Fridge Logic
  • Chie does not recognize Rikuo's glasses as being glasses. Yet her guardian wears a pair.
  • Conversations in normal tones somehow don't carry past the intended recipient, even in a small space without any apparent soundproofing.
  • If androids really are intended to be just appliances, it would make little sense to equip them to eat, drink, blush and cry. The former two might be acceptable, if their services include cooking, but the latter are exclusively emotional expressions. It’s possible that robots were given the ability to emote to at least sympathize with their masters and downplay the effects of the Unintentional Uncanny Valley, much like how their tone of voices can change during discussions with them. That, or they could just be imagining themselves emoting.
  • It is implied that no two robots look alike, which would be useful for quick recognition by their owners, but inefficient for mass production.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Katoran's condition with him clearly malfunctioning and eventually shutting down in Nagi's arms was sad enough, but it's even more tragic to watch after Unshō Ishizuka's passing in 2018.
• Moe: Sammy, very much so. Rikuo might also qualify, due to his woobie status. And let’s not forget the adorable little Chie who might as well be a cat like she always says she is.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel
• Tear Jerker: Katoran's story and the last episode are the most significant ones. The movie implies that Nagi's backstory might be the worst of all.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Akiko, the sweet and friendly girl Rikuo and Masaki befriend when they first visit the cafe and is an android. It's even shown she belongs to one of their classmates. Instead of focusing on her life outside the cafe or how they feel about her mistreatment from someone they may or may not know, she's a supporting character as the movie focuses on them and the other patrons. There's even a moment where she tries to get involved when the two get to know two other patrons but is stopped.
• The Woobie:
  • Rikuo witnessed a robot playing the piano and was moved by it. He subsequently fell into a depression, because he was beginning to feel like his efforts were worthless.
  • Sammy spends a lot of her time a Shrinking Violet due to hiding her actual self from Rikuo, who she appears to have feelings for, and is constantly in fear or his disapproval despite evidence to the contrary.
  • Masaki also counts as a Jerkass Woobie type. His father ordered his robot THX to stop speaking to him. THX was Masaki's closest friend, and the poor guy cried right in front of it for years, never getting any kind of response. He's very rude and bitter towards androids in the present, but it's not hard to see why.
• Woobie Species: Robots. The ones seen so far have been, if anything, more likeable than the humans (to be fair, only a small portion of the cast is indisputably human). And yet they're completely unable to express themselves, for fear of being hated and abandoned by their masters.

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