Alrighty, you've got a pretty traditional and uhhh.. standard love story on the surface level that is anyways. You know how borked things get when Kuniko Takahashi is your writer. This isn't your typical story since almost everything that happens including most of the characters are on a computer.

So, the introduction is very similar to the others, the whole "In a world where swords and magic is real" but styled in a completely different manner for this entry's introduction. We even get a different voice for the narration whenever it talks about anything related to the computer and stuff.

We're introduced to the two most important characters for the narrative, A:Drive and C:Drive, two computer parts living inside of... a Microsoft Windows XP living inside of My Computer. They are on a computer and it makes sense to name both the characters and the location of this entry's setting after computer-related and technical terms. The two of them are living yet another peaceful day but things take a pretty wholesome turn.

They confess their feelings to each other much faster than any romance story of the time - and far faster than Twilight. But before they can upgrade their relationship even further like a Dating Sim. A:Drive suddenly gets removed from My Computer and Jerkass D:Drive appears in their place.

D:Drive slams C:Drive with both Fridge Logic and Fridge Brillance the moment they demand answers. As all of you know, the computer you buy has hardware that generally gets outpaced and outmatched by superior computer parts. The computer you use gets rendered obsolete within a six year or longer timeframe, this is what exactly happens to A:Drive. You have to remember that this was released in the 2010s with a computer released in the 2000s, no one will know what kind of part A:Drive is.

They are in fact a Floppy Disk and they were meant to be phased out. Of course, due to having a confession given to them by A:Drive, C:Drive clearly wasn't entertained by the extreme logic that D:Drive displayed. They duke it out inside a folder and... damn.. it goes super laggy waggy that even C:Drive's hardware specs can beat.

As soon as the dust settles, a familiar set of lips enters the story. It's Bichman, one of the main antagonists of The Great Bosom Plot and they've logged in to see what's up. C:Drive is obviously pissed at Bichman for removing their beloved A:Drive, and the latter does what D:Drive did and layout why A:Drive was removed.

Bichman brokers a deal and asks C:Drive to complete Strip Commander; come on.. another Title Drop here?

Strip Commander plays out like your typical RPG, except there is one problem. C:Drive is driven by their love for A:Drive and decides that speedrunning is the best course of action. They decide to attack Big Good king to prematurely end the game. This after listening to the king about all the problems being pinned onto him just because, the both of them duke it out like men. But this was actually all part of the plan to force the Big Good king to stop Holding Back The Phlebotinum. Throughout the fight, Big Good king shouts like as if he's in some sort of anime and amps up his power level and fires out the Signature Move, Ngoeyyo Shot. The Big Good king realizes that he is Willfully Weak and is convinced to fix his world's problems himself. I mean, you filled up the screen and nearly fried the PC, yo.

With the game cleared and completed, C:Drive is given his reward - the return of A:Drive on My Computer. But something is wrong with them and they start acting a little out of character for how little they were on screen. In fact, A:Drive transforms into a monster - revealing that.. Bichman forced them to go through a Came Back Strong and Came Back Wrong type deal. Instead of seeking affection, A:Drive wants to eat the living flesh out of C:Drive which is not romantic. Just visualize that one episode from Supernatural or more specifically Season 5 - Episode 14, "My Bloody Valentine" where the opening introduction has two characters lovingly eat each other alive.

The both of them duke it out and C:Drive is unwilling to commit Kill The Ones You Love on A:Drive. It takes a little bit of convincing and A:Drive attempting to pull Dying Declaration Of Love and Dying As Yourself for C:Drive to finally commit. With a single bullet fired like one of those slow-motion shots you'd get in the Sniper Elite series, A:Drive dies as happy and painless as possible to the grief of C:Drive.

With My God What Have I Done and Heroic BSOD settling, C:Drive is motivated to tear Bichman into pieces unlike Richard who goes on to pull Replacement Goldfish three different ways till Sunday. Of course, this declaration does not phase Bichman one bit as they proceed to do what D:Drive did and throw some Fridge Logic and Fridge Brilliance. This time, at the fact that C:Drive is a computer part and that Bichman can easily turn off the computer they're on.

A voice rings within the depths of My Computer, and Big Good King steps out of the Strip Commander icon and gives C:Drive a good olde Rousing Speech. Despite the protests of ending the entire kingdom, Big Good King tells C:Drive to spin the Strip Commander disk as fast as they can and eject right at Bichman's face, thus turning the disk into a Improbable Use Of A Weapon.

Bichman is turned into confetti before they could turn off the computer. With that, we get our dosage of Aesop and Broken Aesop about Do Androids Dream and Japan's society and stuff.

Wait a minute, I thought this was a love story!

The cast of characters is relatively small with a self-contained story. Everyone got their fair share of screentime outside of C:Drive and Bichman. I'll start off with the characters stuck on Bichman's computer with Bichman themselves coming in last.

C:Drive or Flash SSD, 32GB is our main protagonist of the story and thus the one that gets a huge portion of screentime. They are a computer part living inside of a Microsoft Windows XP, living happily with A:Drive. But those days were soon to be utterly dashed beyond repair as their love confession doesn't save A:Drive from being replaced by the User. They steel themselves to save their beloved A:Drive from the clutches of the User.

They are your stereotypical romantic protagonist who must overcome a horrible ordeal to save the ones they love. Going through hell and back to prove to Bichman that A:Drive means alot to them - which of course bites them back in the butt hard.

They display several heroic traits throughout the story, despite being a jerk to Big Good King; they proven themselves to Warrior Therapist and inspiring others to rise up to the challenge. They also go through a character arc that revolves around A:Drive as their love for them is strong enough to keep them going.

A:Drive is your stereotypical love interest and the main objective of C:Drive who only has like.... four minutes of screentime. They are the fellow computer part of the same computer that C:Drive is on and living happily with them. That is until they were removed from My Computer and replaced with the much stronger and faster D:Drive.

Outside their role as a love interest, they serve as a very interesting usage of Fridge Logic and Fridge Brillance and the catalyst for C:Drive's character arc. They also are a Deconstruction of Living Program or Mechanical Lifeforms - being a computer part that is outdated and phased out due to being a Floppy Disk.

You have D:Drive or3.5-inch, 7200 RPM, 2TB SATA who serves as the story's Starter Villain and resident Jerkass. They come in to basically start the entire conflict between C:Drive and Bichman, becoming the main reason why the story even happened at all. Their role is to explain the machine part of Fridge Logic and Fridge Brillance behind A:Drive's removal from My Computer.

Then you have Big Good king of Strip Commander, a king who seems to have trouble quelling the masses and dealing with the Dark Lord. He is forced to fight C:Drive and confront his weakness and flaws, reigniting what he once had and resolves himself to facing the Dark Lord himself.

His role is instrumental for the final parts of the story, coming in to inspire C:Drive to rise up to bring an end to Bichman. He seems to also be a Deconstruction of Orcus On His Throne of the heroic variety.

Then you have the only human in the entire story, Bichman. They are the Big Bad and both the owner and User of the computer that much of the entire cast lives on. They come into the story once D:Drive bites the dust, seeing what has happened to the upgrade they bought for their computer. They broker a deal with C:Drive instead of doing the most sensible thing like turning off the computer.

Despite being a Recurring Character this time around and different from their The Great Bosom Plot iteration, they do have character traits that seem to veer into Smug Snake with bits of Exact Words, and they are Affably Evil. Ironically, despite being human, they are the most monstrous character in the story while C:Drive is the most human.

A relatively tame entry of the series with a very traditional story of love and romance in regards of A:Drive and C:Drive until Bichman decided to become a Knight Of Cerebus and cuck the latter by replacing the former with D:Drive. Turning the story into some level of a Shakespearean tragedy as C:Drive is forced to kill his beloved A:Drive.

If this is your first time watching the series, I would suggest watching this as it is relatively tame and has every element that would be seen in later entries. You've got the tragic love story, the man versus machine/nature elements, and the easy-to-understand characters to boot. Then you have a sprinkle of the Mad Genius of Kawagoe in it.

Personally, I think it's fine enough regardless if you're new to the series or not.