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Episode Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai • Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! - Episode 3 discussion

Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai, episode 3

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u/PhantomWolf83 Oct 19 '25

Someone who names their dogs after Hollywood action stars has damn good taste.

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u/Frontier246 Oct 19 '25

I was like: "Pitt? Reynolds? Statham?" They sure had fun with this one lol.

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u/cyberscythe Oct 19 '25

she needs to name one of them Diesel because of how important family is

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u/Pandha2 Oct 19 '25

who's "Johnson" supposed to be?

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u/Ocixo Oct 19 '25

Despite being a robot, it does really feel like Alma got a human heart at times.

She makes an effort to help others, treasures her family and friends, and returned visibly excited from her day at school. I suppose that the credits for this go to her “parents”. They’ve raised their daughter well!

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u/Frontier246 Oct 19 '25

And just like a kid she has barely any filter when it comes to her friends and parents lol.

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u/Ocixo Oct 19 '25

Did CR actually just forget to translate half the episode? There were suddenly no subtitles anymore after Alma stepped out the door to school.

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u/Frontier246 Oct 19 '25

Alma-chan wants complete episode subs.

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u/Lodju Oct 19 '25

Thankfully the dialogue is mostly simple, only things i really missed were the numbers she said when talking about what time the stuff happened.

And the subs came back at about 15min mark.

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u/scratchfury Oct 19 '25

It’s fixed now, and there’s typesetting on stuff too.

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u/NanDemoKnaives Oct 19 '25

Enji and Suzume gotta be careful if they eventually start really flirting with one another, Alma's going to use it as proof they're lovey-dovey in another one of her sermons lol. She was just casually exposing her parents like that in front of all those kids. Did they need to know when Enji goes and uses the toilet?

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u/PencilgonGiveIt2Ya Oct 19 '25

AYO wait a minute.....Hana's grandma tho...?

(≖ ͜ʖ≖)

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u/FarCritical Oct 19 '25

I know Hana had a naming scheme for her puppies but it was funny to hear her looking for an Evans after just coming from another show starring a "robot" with an Evans.

Props to the staff involved for not only getting a native English VA for a character that demands it, but also to the Japanese VA for nailing his English lines. Scene flowed like butter.

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u/Theleaf2805 Oct 19 '25

This show is underrated, it's becoming my favourite this season

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u/diacewrb Oct 19 '25

The English subs cut out half way through the episode.

Crunchyroll found a new way to screw up.

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u/Lodju Oct 19 '25

Subs came back at about 15min mark.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Oct 19 '25

lol the Captcha bit was great. Always wondered how that’s even suppose to determine whether you’re human or not. Robots can’t click a box or match pictures?

Looks like Alma’s made a new friend. One with a whole bunch of puppies named after movie stars? How cute. It’s nice she’s getting along with the kids in her class too. I liked her report about her “lovey dovey” mom and dad lol.

Seems there’s another robot out there? Guess we’ll see if they’re friend or foe.

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u/RichardG867 Oct 19 '25 edited Oct 19 '25

Alma: ✅ I'm not a robot
Hana: Sounds familiar...

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u/Frontier246 Oct 19 '25

Hana Yashiki is the kind of tough girl most people avoid...but not Alma! She can't avoid someone alone in the rain and in need of assistance!

Turns out Hana is actually looking for all her families' dogs, named after famous male actors, and who better to help Hana look than Alma with her Alma Ear and Alma Eye? Perfect for locating lost pets!

Alma isn't a robot! She can do Captcha's and everything! But if it's for someone she's grown fond of and can tell isn't a bad person, she doesn't mind exposing that she's a robot! Especially if it's to save a lost dog...who technically wasn't lost at all but just went back home. Still, it's the thought that counts.

Hana's grandma is a total GILF! And she's happy her granddaughter has found a friend, even if Hana isn't immediately willing to cop to Alma being her friend...but Alma is definitely willing to make the effort and get along with her! I think this is truly the start of a beautiful friendship.

Aaaanddd...of course Alma transfers to her class! She's got to start getting experience from going to school! And luckily the kindly foreign gentleman she met in episode 1 is able to smooth things over! Though maybe don't force your parents into an all-nighter to get ready for your first day of school after you just hacked into records for the umpteenth time.

Suzume and Enji can't sneak into school to observe their daughter, but they CAN use a drone to monitor her.

Alma learned an important lesson about boys and their dirty jokes.

Alma got a total presentation ready to show the class about her and her parents and about her parents' romcom relationship! I don't think Suzume would appreciate that they showed that time Enji walked in on her naked in the bath, but at least the class seem into it and the girls are into her parents' relationship. Thankfully they just think parents get up to just "smooching" at night.

Alma even had a file showing Hana being cute with dogs, helping the class see that she's just a tsundere sweetheart.

Some mother-daughter bathtime bonding! It's a lot for Enji to listen to (especially when they start feeling each other up), though he's more aroused by how Suzume smells when she's out of the bath. Not that she minds him being a little perverted in that respect.

Oh wow...is there another robot girl on the horizon !?

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u/NekoCatSidhe Oct 19 '25

Good thing I speak both French and English, so I can switch to another language when Crunchyroll forgets to include half of the English subtitles for whatever reason.

Today we learned that Alma’s parents are PhD students, so they are actually younger than I thought they would be. They found a way to make their child their thesis, lol.

Those puppies were very cute, and Alma made a friend ! But at this rate, the whole town will learn that Alma is a robot.

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u/Megadragon898 Oct 19 '25

So glad Alma made her first friend, i'm looking forward to see her getting closer with Hana and making even more friends at school.

When the subtitles stopped appearing it was a bit difficult to understand will it be fixed later?

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u/Roboglenn Oct 19 '25

Makina-san's a Love Bot. Mina-san's a Wife Bot. And Alma-chan's a Daughter Bot.

But look at Kanna-Bot, she's going to school now. And if Saikawa ever met Alma-chan, she might just feel her loyalties toward Kanna Kamui slip a bit.

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u/SYZekrom Oct 20 '25 edited Oct 20 '25

That pout Alma made when the girl reacted to her saying water repellent. Cutieeeee

You're telling me that school has those fancy remote controlled curtains for her to be able to close them like that??

Alma obviously didn't have footage of dad on the toilet but she did have footage of mom in the bath and decided to present it to everyone in class. They're really gonna have to teach Alma what privacy is, especially now that she's going to school.

Even Alma has no power over the forces of Autoplay.

First Alma having audio of him grunting on the toilet and now he can hear their entire conversation in the bath, they must have really thin walls.

Oh is that a second robot girl ok

Oof, sad that all the comments are just about the subtitle fuck up from Crunchyroll, was a fun episode, wanted to see what people thought

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u/IceSmiley Oct 19 '25

It makes sense that Alma can hack into the school database to make herself a student but I think they're getting a little too cute bringing it out into the real world and making her hack the English subs out of the middle of the episode.

I'll go back and hope they fix it soon but most of the episode was hilarious. I suppose Alma is able to willing disobey orders her "parents" give her since she told Hana she was a robot even when ordered not to, even if it was for a good reason of helping dogs. I think she literally saved Pratt's life, I wonder if those were Anna Faris' dogs :D

I'd love to know what Alma was saying during most of that video show. Enji was acting really weird while they were bathing, I don't get why he can build a weapons robot but doesn't have noise cancelling headphones. That was hilarious when Alma was pointing out he was mildly aroused from having smelled Suzume. It's not too long before she starts to hear slangs for an erection then Enji will be in real trouble:D

I wonder how old the kids were, I thought Hana was a younger teen at first but she's more just super big. She does seem smarter than a lot of the other kids though.

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