Key the Metal Idol
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Key the Metal Idol

★ 5.4/10 TMDB Premiered 1994-12-16 1 season 15 eps

Tokiko Mima, nicknamed "Key," is a 17-year-old girl living in the Japanese countryside who, despite her human-like appearance, is a robot. When Key's grandfather Dr. Murao Mima passes away, he leaves her a dying message, telling her that she can become a real girl if she is able to make thirty thousand friends. Thus, Key moves from the quiet Mamio Valley to the busy streets of Tokyo, where she soon runs into her childhood friend Sakura Kuriyagawa. Key quickly becomes enamored with idol singer Miho Utsuse and wonders if becoming a singer will allow her to make the amount of friends needed for her to become human. But Miho carries a ominous secret: she is connected to Jinsaku Ajou, an old rival of Dr. Mima trying to make new a breakthrough in robotic weaponry. As Key works to become a real girl, Ajou sets a dangerous plan into action, and it turns out there's much more to Key than meets the eye.

Last Episode Aired 1997-06-18
S1E15 — Exit

Key's friends rally for the final battle, but if they go against Ajo will they all make it out alive? And will Key be a living human at the end, or will she make a different choice?

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Billed Cast
Junko Iwao
Junko Iwao
Tokiko "Key" Mima (voice)
Hiroshi Yanaka
Hiroshi Yanaka
Tomoyo Wakagi (voice)
Jurota Kosugi
Jurota Kosugi
Sergei / "D" (voice)
Miki Nagasawa
Miki Nagasawa
Sakura Kuriyagawa (voice)
Show Hayami
Show Hayami
Jinsaku Ajo (voice)
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Shuuichi Tataki (voice)
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