Sounashi no Ningyou

For starters, there's never an explanation of what makes doll doctors so special. They're lauded as the rarest and most impressive occupation around... But what makes a doctor different from a maker? If I create a robot, I will know how it operates and what to do to maintain it. I don't need a "robot doctor". You might think it has something to do with the manipulation of mana, as that is something that is different from our world, however the times when we see her doctor it is purely physical actions like surgery, suturing, and cleaning. Additionally Gregory, who theoretically needs the doctor, seems to know more about both doll operation and mana than her. Why isn't he a doctor? What makes a doctor?

The laws are also... Weird and pointless. Supposedly having a doll that is modified in a way that is not approved is illegal. Yet we see dolls of pretty much every shape and size doing all sorts of tasks and are never given an example of what makes a doll illegal, heck supposedly most doll makers keep their dolls even if they are failures according to Gregory.

Additionally, dolls aren't able to hurt humans. Gregory's twins are an exception to the rule because of Nimo's legacy, and yet... outside of the chapter where they mention this, no one is surprised when his dolls harm people. We also see a Sandslash-looking doll hurt someone early on. No one ever reacts when the twins hurt people, either. It seems to just be a tacked on rule. It's later changed to "a doll can't hurt their owner" as a retcon because I guess they just didn't like the plot implications of having war dolls that can't actually do anything.

They also tack on a law that combat type dolls are illegal if not made as escort-types. How do you know this at a glance, considering the majority of dolls are custom-made? How would such a law be interpreted and enforced? Why is something like this not common knowledge, that it has to be explained to an adult villager? Why does he say humanoid-types are cheaper than combat ones, considering the last combat type we saw was humanoid? Surely the types are not mutually exclusive? The story never goes into it though, it's just another piece of arbitrary world building tacked on that doesn't really make sense.

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