Episode 1

* Episode
* Title Card
* End Card

## Episode Guide

**"The Shadow and Her Doll"** (シャドーと生 (い) き人 (にん) 形 (ぎょう) , *Shadō to Ikiningyō*?) is the first episode of the *Shadows House* anime series. It aired on April 11, 2021.

## Summary

"Shadows House"—where many "Shadows" and their caretakers, the "Living Dolls" live there.

A "Living Doll" comes to Kate, a girl from the "Shadow" family.

The two are awkward at first, but as they spend time together, they grow closer. Kate names the living doll "Emilico".

## Plot

In the mansion called Shadows House. there lived the shadow families. Shadows adults prepare children who came to the mansion to become a living doll. They were given coffee and told of their duty as a living doll.

There was a sleeping living doll (probably she is the one of the children earlier) in the box and she woke up. She gets up and she prepares herself. While she was preparing, she got hungry and another unknown living doll gave her bread. Before the girl left her place, she ate the bread and looked at the picture of a shadow who would be her master. She turned to her master's place and she opened the window to brighten the room. The living doll introduces herself that she will be the servant of the shadow named Kate. Kate asked the name of the living doll but the living doll said nothing. Kate said her servant should be named. Kate thought of a good name but she couldn't think of anything so she said she would say it later.

While cleaning the living doll looked at her master. The master said that her servant should stop looking at her. As she said this, soot came out of her head. Kate told the girl that she doesn’t like people looking at her in the eye. The living doll said that if Kate looks at her servant's forehead, she looks like she's making eye contact too. Kate tried to look at her servant and her servant said Kate looked at her. Her servant just says it and no one really sees the face of a shadow,

According to Kate, she also said about the soot that comes out when angered or when the shadow has negative emotions. The living doll asked if Kate was angry but Kate said she was just anxious. As the living doll sweeps the floor, she swept away a lot of soot. Kate said soots were accumulating on the sides of the room. Suddenly, a soot moved and Kate stepped on it. The living doll looks at her master again and Kate said that the living doll does it again because she will be anxious again and the living doll apologizes. While the living doll is in her room she is sad because her master is anxious and she also becomes anxious. She wonders how she will serve her master.

When the living doll was cleaning, she accidentally broke the statue of Kate and she asked forgiveness from her. Kate said to dispose of that statue. While Kate was taking bath, the living doll peeked at her body because she thought maybe she was lacking somewhere but she fell and she accidentally broke Kate's pot. The living doll thinks that if she breaks, she would be thrown away too. But it was okay she said, and she jumped for joy but she broke Kate's other pot again and hurt herself. Kate finished taking a bath so she went to her servant and saw her servant wiping the floor with her servant’s clothes. Kate reprimanded her servant for not using the clothes to wipe. The living doll said that she needed a big cloth and she doesn't mind looking like that.

But Kate explained that living dolls were not made just to be servants. Living dolls serves as shadow's faces too and she will be bothered if her servant does not take care of her face. The living doll apologized. "There's still plenty of things you don't know, Right? It's fine if you learn bit by bit" Kate said to her servant. The living doll asked why they were made to look like humans, Kate explained that they were allowed to move, to work and to serve as faces of the shadows. Kate’s servant asked if Kate was a human but she said the living doll had a lot of questions. All of a sudden, the living doll's body fell on the floor and couldn't move her body so Kate told her that she must eat.

Kate gave her bread to her servant. The living doll said that the bread was different from the bread she usually ate because it was white and smooth, but she refuses to eat it. She said that she did not want to accept Kate's food just because she is hungry and that it is an act of a gluttonous living doll and she doesn't like that. Kate told her that she wants to watch her eat something delicious because she is her face. The living doll became happy and took a bite, then freezes. Kate asked what's wrong and she happily said that the bread was delicious. Kate giggled so the living doll asks what's wrong, Kate said that it was quite amusing to see someone so delighted over some bread but she couldn't continue her sentence when the living doll once again said that the bread tastes delicious. She can't help but roll on the floor. Kate told her to not roll while eating and Kate's soot came out. Kate commented that her servant is such a positive person. Kate was about to go to sleep so she thanked her servant for cleaning all day, but her servant said she didn't help much and she thanked Kate for giving her the bread. She had a good night with Kate and she kissed her master before they went to sleep.

In the morning, the living doll carried the heel full of soots, and she placed it on the side. She found Kate drowsy as she finished reading . Kate took the soot that her servant had collected to make a sootman.  Kate noticed that the living doll was watching her doing her activities. She praised what Kate did and she told her that she could just go back to her room if she wasn't doing anything, But her servant says it was fun to watch her master. Kate asked if they could play cards and her servant agreed. While they were playing, Kate's servant couldn't read what was written on the cards so Kate said to just pair the cards but her master wanted to read.

Kate picked up her book and taught her how to read. The living doll was so happy that her master taught her to read. Kate said she would teach her again if she wakes up early and clean up, she then said good night to her servant. The living doll studied what Kate taught her until she fell asleep. When she woke up, she hurried to get herself ready and went straight to Kate's room. She saw Kate's soot coming out and her master's room was full of soot. Kate asks her servant to clean her room while she was taking a bath. When Kate finished taking a bath, her servant also finished cleaning. Kate said her servant had improved on the cleaning. The living doll saw Kate's face tilted and she asks her to smile. Kate smiled but her servant told her to make her smile even bigger. And suddenly the living doll laughed out loud.

When the living doll finished cleaning, she cleaned herself up. After that she prepared the tea. Kate noticed that her servant had just cleaned her face because that was all she could see in the mirror. Kate cleaned her servant's back. The living doll asked if all the shadow family had a living doll like her. Kate explained that it depends on the time. They all get a living doll as recognition of the coming of age. She wonders if she is defective because she was not like Kate who was wonderful and neat.

The living doll asked if she could ever be beautiful so Kate made her beautiful with make up. The living doll rubbed the powder on Kate because she might see her face. Kate yelled and her servant apologized for what she had done. Kate puts her dress on her servant, When the living doll puts on Kate's dress, Kate found out that the reason was clear now. It is because living dolls looks like perfect human beings. The living doll says it’s not true because she doesn’t notice that she is dirty and her behavior is uncouth.

Kate made her look like this so she said she was Kate’s mirror. She wondered if Kate was smiling as she saw no soot coming out of Kate because she thought her master wasn't angry and her master said she was right. The living doll saw her master laugh. Kate has already said what her servant’s name should be and it must be Emily who was a heroine in the book Kate was reading. Because she was positive and cheerful like the living doll but because the living doll was strange and funny, she named her servant Emilico and the living doll was happy and she thanked Kate. She also said that she would do everything to serve her master.

While Emilico was cleaning the window, Kate saw the dirt sticking to the window glass. She thought the dirt might be in outside. Emilico opened the window and she wonders if there were other Shadows family out there. She saw and waved to another living doll like her and another shadow like Kate. The living doll looked wicked.

## Characters

1. Anna *(No Lines)*
2. Oliver *(No Lines)*
3. Jeremiah *(No Lines)*
4. Lydia *(No Lines)*
5. Susanna *(No Lines)*
6. Barbara *(No Lines)*
7. Gerald *(No Lines)*
8. Edward *(No Lines)*
9. Aileen *(No Lines)*
10. Ryan *(No Lines)*
11. Joseph *(No Lines)*
12. Sophie *(No Lines)*
13. Dorothy *(No Lines)*
14. Shaun
15. Lou
16. Ricky
17. Rum
18. Emilico
19. Kate
20. Barbie *(No Lines)*
21. Barbara *(No Lines)*