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Sunny Recap: Bot of La Mancha
Sunny’s life flashes before her eyes in the form of a hallucinatory game show.
The occupant of the next box is Takumi — the “dildo dealer,” Sunny calls him accurately — who has been made to suffer at the hands of the yakuza for helping Suzie and Mixxy score some black-market bot code. Here, the show revisits the visual language of 20th-century film stock to represent a memory, as Sunny plays back a flickering recollection of Suzie inviting — ordering, actually — the homebot to lie beside her in bed. A Japanese-language version of “Dulcinea” begins, and it hasn’t been included merely for its haunting chorus: In the 1965 musical Man of La Mancha, the ballad expresses Don Quixote’s eternal devotion to a woman he believes to be a queen, though she is in truth a waitress and a sex worker.
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