Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?
Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yakinikuteishoku. It was serialized in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime from July 2021 to December 2025, and is licensed for an English-language release by Seven Seas Entertainment. A short-form anime television series adaptation produced by Nyan Pollution-ω- premiered in January 2026.
The story follows a 28-year-old Japanese office worker for a technology company who is secretly a lonely alcoholic slob. During one of her late-night drunken shopping sprees, she attempts to hire a maid online, which turns out to be a sex robot, and her life is turned upside down.
Synopsis
Akane Tsuda is a 28-year-old office worker in the planning department of a major electronics manufacturer. At her job, she is respected by her co-workers as being well organized and one of the most hard working in their department, but in her personal life, her room is a mess, she has a bad drinking habit, and she has never had a boyfriend. One day, in a fit of drunkenness and loneliness, she buys a sex robot named Nadeshiko. Mortified about her purchase upon sobering up the next day, Akane finds she cannot return Nadeshiko or tell her co-workers as it may cause her to lose her job. And so Akane and Nadeshiko begin an unusual cohabitation.Characters
;Akane Tsuda;Nadeshiko
;Itō-san
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Yakinikuteishoku, Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? was serialized in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime from July 16, 2021 to December 18, 2025. It was collected into seven volumes from February 17, 2022 to January 17, 2026.The series is licensed for an English release in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment.
Anime
A short-form anime television series adaptation produced under WWWave Corporation's Deregula anime label was announced on May 13, 2025. The series is animated by Nyan Pollution-ω- and directed and written by Neko B, with Mitsuru Tsukiumi designing the characters and ZincP composing the music. It premiered on January 10, 2026, on Tokyo MX and BS11, with the AnimeFesta service streaming the Deregula version with uncensored and extended scenes of the anime. The theme song is "Android de Shin Jidai" performed by Komaru Kurikoma. OceanVeil is streaming the series.Reception
Matt Marcus, a staff writer at Okazu, gave the series an overall 8 out of 10, noting that "The premise is so nakedly transparent in its aims that even when a gag is eye-rollingly contrived I find myself unable to find it distasteful." He further praised Casper Kazor's work on the localization, "there are a lot of really fun little turns of phrase that got me chortling."Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? was featured on BookWalker's top-selling manga for 2023 and 2024.