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The premise of the show is a lot like Doraemon... In fact basically every show made by the creators of Doraemon (like this one) are just the exact same premise. They found a formula that works and I kind of commend them for that lol. In Doraemon, it's about the titular Doraemon being a robot cat from the future whose job it is to help weak lazy pathetic Nobita have a better life through the use of various future gadgets. In Kiteretsu, it's like they swapped the roles- the kid is Kiteretsu and he is the one building the various gadgets (through the use of books full of blueprints left by his ancestor) and the robot, Korosuke, is the pathetic kid. But if I'll be honest, I actually really like the take Kiteretsu (the show) takes on the dynamics, they flip them around and expand upon them in interesting ways I think

Also Korosuke is a much better version of the Nobita character type by virtue of him being a literal baby. He's like 2 years old and doesn't know anything so when he screams and cries over stupid stuff it's oddly more tolerable. His design is really goofy looking but I feel very fondly of him and if anything bad happens to him I will kill everyone. This show is like osomatsu kun where it's kind of mean spirited towards the younger characters... Ok kiteretsu is not nearly as bad as kun but you get the point. One of the episodes I was watching last night was one of the kids pranking Korosuke into making him think he pretty much committed credit card fraud and that the police were after him and he was crying about the thought of going to jail. Literally what the hell is your problem.

My favorite episode is one from towards the end of the show- the main kids are discussing what they want their futures to be like and it occurs to Korosuke that oh yeah, he's a robot, he's not gonna grow up like the others. He begins to worry that once they become adults with busy lives and all that, he's just gonna get in the way and no one will care about him anymore. Kiteretsu tries to assure him, but Korosuke can't really shake the feeling. He's oddly contemplative about the thought in the episode and it feels just a little sad to me. The kids decide to try to stage a fake future to be like hey look! You DO become an adult too and you have a wife and a nice house and a good life so everything will be okay :) but it ends up going wrong and Korosuke thinks his future wife snaps his neck in a part that admittedly made me laugh out loud. Anyways Korosuke figures out it was all a ploy and doesn't trust any of them anymore, and in his frustration he tries to use the time machine (the time machine has been a staple thing since the beginning of the series so that's just normal here) and in the end it shows in a subtle way that no, Korosuke won't grow up with the others, but he's still just as close to kiteretsu and all of them as ever and it's really sweet...

Anyways this is one of those shows that was subbed so it could be more accessible to others... Its just simple and cute and I kind of find it to be a comfort show. The more I think about it, I'm pretty sure kiteretsu and Korosuke were the blueprints for Morgan and Doris lmao rewatching this is making me want to pick up that project again. Anyways look at this cute gif