Hmmm...
I mostly didn't like this one. It had a solid writing style and I can see what Anarkey says about conveying mood, but in a newer style. But mood has to go with some actual plot movement for me to generally be happy. Maybe it's just because I like Poe's now antiquated style, but I'm rarely dissatisfied by a Poe story.
Ode to Katan Amano--not a great title. I doubt I'm alone in having no idea who this guy is until hearing the outro. The best titles give me some expectation, whether that expectation is filled or not, and give some foreshadowing. But since the name is unfamiliar, it was just a non-entity.
I also thought the "you" was male, shame on me I suppose. But did it ever actually say that it was a female? I know there was a strap-on dildo, but I'm not sure that rules out a male, particularly if he's more interested in dominance than sexual pleasure, which was not out of the question considering the "you"'s treatment of the narrator. Maybe he's hypocrtically disgusted by actually touching the doll with his member, and so uses a strap-on as a form of disdain. Unless I missed other clues, the sex of the "you" character is still undefined to me.
This is a rare case where 2nd person narration didn't bother me. The one's that really bother me are the ones that just simply replace 1st or 3rd with 2nd without any reason for it, and it just comes off as someone trying to tell me what I've done and should already remember. Maybe you could call this the "generic" you where it's not supposed to be talking about any entity in particular, and that entity should already know the story.
In this case, the "you" was targeted at a specific person, the owner of the doll. And there was a reason for telling the story to you. The doll will likely never get a chance to tell her owner any of this, but she is composing in her head like it's a journal entry aimed at this other person, maybe even an internal logbook. The other person seems to be unaware of this doll's point of view, so it's told as though explaining that point of view so another could understand it.
But, the reason it all fell flat is that it all just felt emotionally manipulative. I mean, the stories I like best are the ones that make me feel some kind of emotion, and I realize that the artist wrote the story to have this effect, so in some ways the writer is like a puppeteer, tugging on the emotional centers of my brain. But sometimes, the curtain falls away and I can see the strings being pulled and it just ruins the magic. Instead of feeling anger, I note "The author wants me to be angry now," and that doesn't work for me.
For me it's the difference between the Resnick stories that I love (Barnaby in Exile) and the Resnick stories that I don't (Robots Don't Cry). It's the difference between feeling an emotion and knowing that I'm supposed to feel an emotion.