Character Relationship Map: Robo-G

Characters

• Shigemitsu Suzuki (played by Mickey Curtis) — protagonist

  An elderly retiree disguised inside the New Shiokaze robot shell to save three employees from termination. He becomes a national hero, demands luxurious perks for performances, and fakes a fatal fall...

• Kobayashi Hiroki (played by Gaku Hamada) — protagonist

  A Kimura Electric employee who orchestrates the human-robot disguise plan after a prototype malfunction. Overcome with guilt and inspired by university students, he secretly collaborates to build a re...

• Nagai Shinya (played by Jyunya Kawashima) — supporting

  A Kimura Electric employee driven to despair after the initial robot failure. He attempts suicide disguised as a car accident but is stopped. He later teams up with his colleagues to seriously researc...

• Sasaki Yoko (played by Yuriko Yoshitaka) — supporting

  A robotics college student saved by the fake robot who becomes an obsessed fan. After initially seeking to expose the human inside, she discovers the employees' genuine efforts to rebuild the robot an...

• Suzuki's Son-in-Law (played by Seiichi Tanabe) — supporting
• Itami Yayoi (played by Tomoko Tabata) — supporting

  A local cable TV reporter investigating the robot's secret. She confronts Suzuki with evidence of a human pilot and attempts to forcibly photograph the robot's interior at a press conference to expose...

• Robotics Club Member (played by Haruna Takahashi) — minor
• Kimura Sosuke (played by Takehiko Ono) — supporting

  The president of Kimura Electric Company who commissions the robot project. He organizes a press conference to refute claims that the robot is fake, driving the climax of the company's public relation...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Suzuki's Son-in-Law → Shigemitsu Suzuki (son)
• Shigemitsu Suzuki → Kimura Sosuke (Professional Corporate Asset) — Suzuki becomes an unofficial company asset whose actions affect Kimura Electric's reputation.

  Suzuki performs as New Shiokaze at events that generate requests from across Japan for Kimura Electric, while the company relies on the performance to...

• Kimura Sosuke → Nagai Shinya (Power President And Employee) — The president's demand contributes to the pressure surrounding Nagai's work and despair.

  The company president orders the development team to complete New Shiokaze for promotional presentation at the Robot Expo.

• Kimura Sosuke → Kobayashi Hiroki (Power President And Employee) — Kimura's deadline and corporate authority place Kobayashi under intense professional pressure.

  Kimura Sosuke, the president of Kimura Electric, orders the Robot Development Division employees to develop New Shiokaze within three months.

• Kobayashi Hiroki → Shigemitsu Suzuki (Professional Deceptive Employer) — Kobayashi recruits Suzuki for the disguise plan and later seeks his continued cooperation.

  Kobayashi and his colleagues recruit Suzuki through a fake audition and place him inside the New Shiokaze exterior without initially telling him that...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Sasaki Yoko → Robotics Club Member (Alliance Academic Associate) — The club provides Yoko with an academic context and helps deliver Kobayashi's message.

  Yoko is connected to the university robotics research club, and a male student from that club receives the blueprint Kobayashi entrusted for Yoko.

• Kobayashi Hiroki → Itami Yayoi (Conflict Secret Opponents) — Kobayashi protects the team's developing work against Itami's public investigation.

  Kobayashi entrusts the New Shiokaze blueprint to a robotics club student so Yoko can learn that the team is genuinely rebuilding the robot, while Itam...

• Itami Yayoi → Kimura Sosuke (Conflict Press Opponent) — Itami's investigation intensifies the president's public-relations crisis.

  Kimura Sosuke organizes a press conference to answer claims that New Shiokaze is fake, while Itami approaches the event with evidence intended to expo...

• Itami Yayoi → Shigemitsu Suzuki (Conflict Investigative Adversary) — Itami threatens Suzuki's disguise and attempts to expose the deception publicly.

  Itami presents Suzuki with evidence that a person is inside New Shiokaze and asks him to reveal his identity at the press conference. She later tries...

• Sasaki Yoko → Itami Yayoi (Conflict Competing Investigators) — Their shared investigation turns into opposing responses to the team's developing robot.

  Yoko cooperates with Itami in trying to expose the person inside New Shiokaze, but later rushes to the press conference to stop Itami's accusation.

• Sasaki Yoko → Kobayashi Hiroki (Alliance Skeptical Collaborator) — Yoko moves from suspicion to support after recognizing Kobayashi's genuine work.

  Yoko initially investigates whether a person is inside New Shiokaze, but later receives Kobayashi's blueprint and realizes that the team is seriously...

• Shigemitsu Suzuki → Sasaki Yoko (Narrative Rescuer And Admirer) — Suzuki's staged identity becomes heroic to Yoko after he saves her life.

  New Shiokaze, with Suzuki inside, saves Yoko when she is nearly crushed by a falling pillar at the Robot Expo. Yoko then becomes an intense fan who fo...

• Nagai Shinya → Shigemitsu Suzuki (Alliance Dependent Partner) — Nagai becomes dependent on Suzuki's cooperation to preserve the team's jobs and secret.

  After Nagai reaches despair over the robot failure, Suzuki sympathizes with the three employees and accepts their request to continue performing as Ne...

• Kobayashi Hiroki → Nagai Shinya (Alliance Teammate) — They are colleagues whose shared deception and later robot research drive the main plot.

  Kobayashi, Nagai, and their colleague work together in Kimura Electric's Robot Development Division. After the prototype is destroyed, they jointly cr...

Story Analysis

An improvised human disguise gradually inspires a frightened development team to pursue genuine robotics and renewed cooperation.

Plot Progression

1. A Robot on Borrowed Time — Kimura Sosuke gives the development team a three-month deadline. When the prototype falls from a window and is destroyed, Kobayashi and Nagai invent a plan to place a person inside the surviving exter...
2. The Human Behind the Hero — Suzuki is recruited through a fake audition and performs as New Shiokaze at the Robot Expo. After saving Yoko, the disguised robot becomes a national sensation, forcing the employees to reveal the tru...
3. The Cost of Pretending — Suzuki rejects the employees before agreeing to continue after seeing their despair. His luxury demands and unexpected absence exhaust the team, while Yoko's university lecture begins to redirect thei...
4. Truth Under Investigation — Inspired by the robotics students, the employees begin rebuilding a real New Shiokaze. Yoko is rejected when she seeks a job, then investigates the human pilot with Itami as the company prepares a def...
5. The Dummy's Final Fall — Kobayashi's blueprint convinces Yoko that the team is sincerely developing a robot, so she races to the press conference. Suzuki defeats the attempted exposure by throwing out a dummy and escaping, wh...