History Anime / ArmitageIII

* FetishFuelStationAttendant

* ThePowerOfLove: According to Julian, it takes more than the right "plumbing" for androids to be able to bear children, they have to be capable of motherly love to do so.

* ConspicuousCG: In ''Dual-Matrix''.

* RollerbladeGood

* BattleCouple

* BrokenBird

* CuteBruiser

* {{Fanservice}}

* HugeGuyTinyGirl

* DeadlyUpgrade[=/=]SuperMode: In ''Dual Matrix''. "Heaven's Door."

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the interview with the conCeption CEO Allen, Ross expressed his amazement at how human-like the robots are by saying, that they can do all that humans can except reproduce. [[spoiler: It is revealed later, that the Third can do even that.]]

An four-episode {{OVA}} miniseries written by ChiakiKonaka, ''ArmitageIII'' is tightly plotted and action-packed, yet does not stint on philosophical questions and quandaries. It is old enough to have been created entirely with traditional hand-drawn animation; quality control is high, though, and there is no sign of "rushed" or careless work. Both characters and backgrounds are crisp and detailed -- the Martian cityscapes are a joy to behold at times, as are the main players in the drama, particularly Armitage herself.

* {{Stripperiffic}}

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Especially the Thirds, which are human enough to [[spoiler: [[BeyondTheImpossible get pregnant]].]]

In North America, ''Armitage'' was one of Pioneer[=/=]{{Geneon}}'s first wave of imports in the early 1990s. Unlike most of the other shows in that noteworthy premiere, though, ''Armitage'' suffers from an uneven dub cast. In particular, Syllabus is quite wooden in English. To complicate matters, though, Pioneer [[CompilationMovie edited together the four OVA episodes into a feature-length "motion picture"]] called ''Armitage III: Polymatrix'' and then dubbed it a ''second'' time with "name" actors -- Keifer Sutherland as Syllabus and Elizabeth Berkeley as Armitage. Pioneer has also brought the sequel movie to North America, with yet a ''third'' dub cast, this one featuring JulietteLewis as Armitage.

An four-episode {{OVA}} miniseries written by ChiakiKonaka, ''ArmitageIII'' is tightly plotted and action-packed, yet does not stint on philosophical questions and quandaries. It is old enough to have been created entirely with traditional hand-drawn animation; quality control is high, though, and there is no sign of "rushed" or careless work. Both characters and backgrounds are crisp and detailed -- the Martian cityscapes are a joy to behold at times, as are the main players in the drama, particularly Armitage herself.

* RoboticSpouse

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Armitage III'' clearly takes inspiration from IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''. Though [[spoiler:Naomi Armitage]] is most probably cuter than R. Daneel Olivaw.

In North America, ''Armitage'' was one of Pioneer[=/=]{{Geneon}}'s first wave of imports in the early 1990s. Unlike most of the other shows in that noteworthy premiere, though, ''Armitage'' suffers from an uneven dub cast. In particular, Syllabus is quite wooden in English. To complicate matters, though, Pioneer edited together the four OVA episodes into a feature-length "motion picture" called ''Armitage III: Polymatrix'' and then dubbed it a ''second'' time with "name" actors -- Keifer Sutherland as Syllabus and Elizabeth Berkeley as Armitage. Pioneer has also brought the sequel movie to North America, with yet a ''third'' dub cast, this one featuring JulietteLewis as Armitage.

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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Especially the Thirds, which are human enough to [[spoiler: get pregnant.]]

* [[spoiler: LadyLand: On earth, the average human female is super-privelliged, and this is the reason female androids are targeted for assassination; it's because they're not "real" women.]]

''ArmitageIII'', as brief as it is, spawned a sequel movie called ''Dual Matrix''. It is somewhat less compelling, plotwise, than the original series, and a switch from traditional animation to computer-assisted methods resulted in some unappealing changes in character designs -- Armitage, for example, went from looking cute-sexy in a leather-Loli way to looking like a psychotic housewife.