Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow (Omnibus)

"Shimada's contemplative manga, his English-language debut, winds through a thoughtfully developed world where humanoid robots are commonplace... Shimada upends the notion that survival of androids over humanity must essentially be dystopian, depicting a future where human traits of love and care endure, even if humanity does not." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
"Robo Sapiens is powerful fiction. It conjures up some of the same feelings I felt as a little boy watching the sci-fi anthology Robot Carnival for the first time... For all its depiction of inhuman subjects, it is a strikingly relatable tale." --Grant Jones, Anime News Network
 
"Robo Sapiens stands out as different in terms of look and writing, and its themes will appeal to those interested in a more esoteric work. If you are looking for something beyond the mainstream isekai fantasies, then it will appeal to you." --Anime UK News
 
"Really good science fiction, I've always thought, ought to make us think seriously about both the past and the future. That's why Ray Bradbury's books are so successful--they make you think not only "we could end up there" but also "how did we get to this point?" Toranosuke Shimada's Robo Sapiens does much the same thing, albeit without the horror component of many of Bradbury's works; it takes us on a journey to a future that at times looks awfully like the past and makes us wonder if we're heading for that point as well... Even though it's about robots, at the end of the day I think Robo Sapiens is really about being human without an expiration date." --Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network
 
"A true masterpiece, one of the best manga releases of this year... Robo Sapiens is an intriguing entry into speculative fiction and sci-fi manga." --Adam Symchuk, Asian Movie Pulse
 
"...it opens with a chapter which feels like a stand-alone parable in an anthology, only to add more characters and corners to its universe and coalesce them together over a tremendous amount of in-series time. This is all to arrive at even broader existential questions: What does the integration of robots into humanity mean for the definitions of both those groups? How does existence itself look to beings who are effectively immortal? It makes the overall series feel genuinely 'speculative' in the spirit of classical science-fiction without getting too bogged down in explicit technological details." --Christopher Farris, Anime News Network
 
"There's a similarity to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince that comes out in the artwork and then proves itself with the tenderness and concern for life that permeates the book... Rather than drawing the line between what humanity is and isn't, Robo Sapiens examines the essence of what gives being human meaning." --Arpad Okay, Doom Rocket