Quite an interesting short story, I like how this initially suggests that Yumemi is indeed a little broken, but then reveals that she has acted in an entirely logical way given how her circuits were configured to obey commands. It also starts to address a couple of questions I raised in the General Discussion topic, that concern the backstory of the pre-war world. In particular that Yumemi (or that model) was the first to conform to the Three Laws of Robotics, and also the reaction from the populace or at least some sections of it. Starts…but only goes a little way.
I think it also shows how difficult it is to make an AI fully understand the full complexity of human behaviour and emotions - especially when the two seem to contradict each other!
As far as it goes, A Snow Globe is good enough for me to give 4/5 but the brevity (bearing in mind some content already seen in Chiisana Hoshi no Yume) means it offers only limited insight.
