Although its underlying attitudes about female sexuality might be problematic for female and feminist viewers, its suggestive subject matter (handled without offensive kinkiness) will set many an imaginative mind sprinting.

Yu Aoi and Issey Takahashi do not evade their responsibility and succeed in delivering one of the most moving relational metamorphoses of recent years.

Although [the film's climax] is presented as a grand romantic gesture, the reality is decidedly more creepy.

Here, the presence of a sex doll is oddly sex-less, instead a cautionary tale of artisanal obsession that damages human connection. The problem with this novel premise is that the film takes far too long to do anything truly interesting with it.