Hakase

The Professor is the protagonist of the story although his name is never revealed and he rarely speaks his creation Robo his only companion rephrasing his answers to the reader instead. A few years after the mysterious disease wiped out humanity he and Robo spend their days looking for other people that may have survived. He was friends with a female classmate whom he unknowingly inspired to become a robotic engineer. In his diary the Professor describes a lonely childhood marked by bullying eventually leading to the nickname Professor for his reclusive personality.