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In episode 5 of _planetarian_ , after

> the crab mech blows the lower half of her body off,

Yumemi tells the Junker (or "kuzuya" / 屑屋; I don't know what the usual
translation is) that the reason she believed she was slightly "malfunctioning"
is that she kept coming to the conclusion that no people would ever come to
see her again. So the Junker's arrival did indeed prove her conclusion to be
"faulty".

But the Junker _isn't_ the first person since the war to see her, is he?
There's a flashback in episode 1 where we see some old guy telling the Junker
about how met "a robot" who I think it is safe to say was Yumemi. Judging from
his irritation, Yumemi must've been awake (not asleep/charging), so I would
think that Yumemi would remember the old guy.

Is this a plot hole? Or, perhaps, a defect of the anime adaptation?

( _planetarian_ being a small and mostly self-contained work, I think it
should be possible to identify whether or not this is a plot hole with a good
degree of certainty.)


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Why was it the Junker that proved to Yumemi that she was "malfunctioning"?


> Is this a plot hole? Or, perhaps, a defect of the anime adaptation?

Both. Adaptation-induced plot hole.

The flashback with the old guy is anime-only. No such scene is in the VN and
Junker never heard about robot like Yumemi.


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