Makina-san's a Love Bot?! (かくして! マキナさん!!, Kakushite! Makina-san!!; lit. 'Hide! Makina-san!!') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshimi Sato. It began serialization on Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Action in October 2022. After the magazine's disbandment in February 2024, it was transferred to the Web Comic Action website in April of the same year, and ended in December 2025. An anime television series adaptation produced by BloomZ aired from April to June 2025.
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Plot
Eita Akutsu is a shy robot enthusiast who pines for his popular classmate Makina Agatsuma. One day, Makina is caught in an apartment bombing. She reveals to Eita that she is an advanced lifelike android and instructs him on how to repair her. She starts living with him and constantly tries to seduce him.
Characters
Makina Agatsuma (我妻 マキナ, Agatsuma Makina)
Voiced by: Tomoyo Takayanagi (Japanese); Chloe Eves (English)
Eita Akutsu (阿久津 栄太, Akutsu Eita)
Voiced by: Yō Taichi (Japanese); P.M. Seymour (English)
Mimika Imose (妹兄 ミミカ, Imose Mimika)
Voiced by: Yūki Kuwahara (Japanese); Mana T. Johnson (English)
Mamimi (まみみ)
Voiced by: Hina Natsume (Japanese); Hayley Nelson (English)
Alma Sakimori (防人 アルマ, Sakimori Aruma)
Voiced by: Eriko Matsui (Japanese); Elsie Lovelock (English)
Landlady (大家さん, Ōya-san)
Voiced by: Ryōko Shintani (Japanese); Jennifer Silverman (English)
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Yoshimi Sato, Makina-san's a Love Bot?! began serialization in Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Action on October 25, 2022. After the final issue of the Monthly Action magazine was published on February 24, 2024, the series was transferred to the Web Comic Action website on April 2 the same year. The series ended on December 2, 2025. The series' chapters were collected into six tankōbon volumes released from April 12, 2023, to January 15, 2026.
In March 2025, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the series for English publication.
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on May 10, 2024. The series was produced by BloomZ in cooperation with Wolfsbane and directed by Masayoshi Nishida, with Yōhei Kashii handling series composition, Yusaku Nakamura designing the characters, Kentaro Iino serving as assistant director, and Kyohei Matsuno composing the music. It aired from April 7 to June 23, 2025, on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji. The opening theme song, "Ie de Yeah! tte Age Tiger" (家でYeah!ってアゲタイガー; "At Home, Yeah! Age Tiger"), was performed by Serena Kōzuki, while the ending theme song, "Android ni Kubittake" (アンドロイドにくびったけ; "Crazy About an Android"), was performed by Brave Mental Orchestra. WWWave Corporation licensed the series for streaming on OceanVeil.