Voice 06

Episode 06 Z I
Sexy Voice and Robo episode
Writer	Kizara Izumi
Original air date	May 15, 2007 (2007-05-15)
Viewership	7.8%
Episode chronology
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Sexy Voice and Robo
< Voice 05	Z I	Voice 07 >

Plot

Niko & Robo must find a female assassin named Z I, but both are distracted by family matters. Robo's mother has come to visit and Niko's parents are on the verge of divorce.

Guests

Main Guests

Z I

Z I / Kyouko - Ryou → Z I / 享子 - りょう

Robo's mom - Shiraishi Kayoko → ロボの母 - 白石加代子

Recurring Characters

Muu-chan - Kajiwara Hikari → むーちゃん - 梶原ひかり

Minor Characters

Z I's husband - Ogi Shigemitsu → Z Iの夫 - 小木茂光

Koutarou - ??? → 小太郎 - 平澤彗洸

Maki's client - Tsuruta Sayaka → 依頼人 - 鶴田さやか

Milk cap collector - Ban Daisuke → - 伴大介

Robo's mom's friend #1 - Aoki Kazuyo → ロボ母の友人 #1 - 青木和代

Robo's mom's friend #2 - Kamimura Yoriko → ロボ母の友人 #2 - 上村依子

Robo's mom's friend #3 - Kudou Tokiko → ロボ母の友人 #3 - 工藤時子

Robo's mom's friend #4 - Matsuyama Hisako → ロボ母の友人 #4 - 松山尚子

Robo's mom's friend #5 - Konno Hiromi → ロボ母の友人 #5 - 今野ひろみ

Trivia

Winter Sonatine vs. Winter Sonata

The badges Robo made for the fake police raid.

• Maki summons Niko with her hand down, which is the gesture used to summon dogs. For humans, the palm is facing up.
• Robo calls his mother Kaachan and his father Touchan.
• Robo's mother is obsessed with the show, Winter Sonatine, which is a parody of the South Korean drama Winter Sonata. It was an extremely popular series that helped start the international Korean wave.
• Z I can be heard singing the Max Robo theme song while preparing dinner.
• Z I is pronounced zetto ai.
• Yocchan used to be nicknamed the Disorganized Monk. This episode he mixed up his weapons case with his other case. In Voice 02, he kept mixing up the backpacks.
• Maki asks Niko's mom if she threw away the paper milk lids or the gold ones. This is a reference to a Japanese fable where a spring fairy would tempt people in a similar way.

Episode motifs:

• Family
  • The episode explores the idea of what family is, how it comes together, and its inevitable separation.
    • Niko's family - a family in danger of separating
    • Robo's family - a family that's already separated and is currently back together
    • ZI's family - a family that will separate
    • Maki's family - currently together through work

Continuity

• Niko picks up a milk cap and it's for Happiness Milk, a brand that she bought in episode one.
• Niko says the universe line again.
• In the ending, Niko's dad comments that her birthday is next week. And Voice 7 is an episode that deals with Niko's birthday.

Mecha References

• The robot that Koutarou carries around is Ganbaruger, the main robot in the anime Genki Bakuhatsu Ganbaruger [1]

Niko's Powers

• In the DVD version, she imitates Robo's mother when Robo is distracted by Kazumi.
• Niko imitates the voice of Z I's husband to lure the assassins away.

Notable Quotes

• Z I "I don't want to lose all that! It's not for myself. I have ended up living for someone else."
• Z I "We just really got into it, didn't we? We became enthralled in the thing called family."
• Robo's mum "But it's hard to live in reality. Isn't it the same for you? That's why you still play with those toys, right? You want to be left alone too, right? You want a world of you own, right? I understand now."
• Z I "Totally separate people can meet by chance and become a family, right?"

Maki "Aren't all families like that? Strangers happening to meet and becoming family."

Z I "I see. That's true."

Maki "A chance meeting, after some time, once again it comes apart and they separate. All meetings are like that, right?"

• Neko "If time eventually causes things to come apart, I will properly evperience this family till it comes apart."

Robo's Max phrases

• "Itadakimax!"
• "Switch on!"
• "Max da-daaa!"