Plastic Memories

Giftias — android companions with a hard nine-year memory limit.

Tsukasa failed his exams and took a job at SAI Corporation's Terminal Service. The work is knocking on doors to retrieve companions whose time is up, persuading the families to let go, and doing the same thing next week with a partner whose own expiry is scheduled.

Care work persists — The tasks that survive are the ones that cannot be hurried.

A workplace drama disguised as a romance, and the third work in this pattern. The job that survives automation turns out to be managing the emotional consequences of automation.