chitose morishige is a 12-year-old seventh-grader with no friend in the world. her father, professor morishige, builds a robot companion for his daughter to ease her loneliness. the only problem is that ichika robata, the android, is built much too lifelike that chitose believes she’s a normal human girl who either ran away or was kidnapped by her father. ichika attempts repeatedly to prove that she’s a real robot, with hilariously disastrous results.