Sunny

Sunny follows Suzie Sakamoto, an American woman living in near-future Kyoto. Her husband, Masa, and young son, Zen, vanish after a plane crash, so the company gives her a cheerful home robot named Sunny. Suzie thought Masa only made refrigerators, but she learns that he built advanced robots and hid a dangerous past. Suzie, Sunny, and bartender Mixxy follow clues through hackers, a Japanese crime group, family secrets, and a hidden robot code. The tone mixes grief, dry comedy, crime mystery, and strange science fiction.

The show puts a woman, a lesbian bartender, and a robot treated as female at the center of its main friendships and danger. Mixxy's former girlfriend is mentioned, but her sexuality is not the season's main subject. Suzie and Mixxy repeatedly help each other, while Hime and Noriko make major moves in the crime plot. The season mostly focuses on loneliness, grief, human connection, and the dangers of artificial intelligence. Its identity-focused elements are visible, but they usually sit beside the mystery instead of driving a political message.