History Anime / KeyTheMetalIdol

* BadAss: D and Wakagi.

* IdolSinger: Deconstructed; the weirdness surrounding Miho Utsuse's career strongly resembles the darker side of normal show business, with her being made into a manufactured product, drained of all life, and replaced by someone else considered to be indistinguishable from her.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Inverted. [[spoiler:Key's behavior is very robotic, but she's human.]]
* RobotGirl: Subverted, since [[spoiler:Key only thinks she is a robot, due to a failed experiment by her grandfather that sapped Key of much of her emotions and memory]].

* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Tsurugi was Miho's mentor until she left and joined Production Minos (Ajo). It becomes clear that there were hurt feelings on both sides of the relationship when they meet again in the fourteenth episode. It also becomes clear that he's started to view Key as [[MyGreatestSecondChance his GreatestSecondChance]].]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: Key combines this with SpockSpeak and CreepyMonotone. [[spoiler: She still speaks in the third person after "becoming human", making the transition all the more disheartening.]]

* UnroboticReveal: [[spoiler:Key is actually a human, but her emotions were removed during a failed experiment done by her grandfather, hence why we're led to believe she's a robot.]]

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* RobotGirl: Heavily subverted, since [[spoiler:Key only thinks she is a robot, due to a failed experiment by her grandfather that sapped Key of much of her emotions and memory]].

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim: Ajo.]]

Tokiko Mima, nicknamed "Key," is a robot who has been raised as a human girl by her inventor/grandfather [[spoiler:, or is it the other way around?]] in a small, idyllic village in Japan. As her grandfather is dying, he tells her that she can [[BecomeARealBoy become a human]], [[LoveImbuesLife provided she can make 30,000 friends before her battery runs out]]. With this, Key moves away from her idyllic village and heads for Tokyo.

* ShoutOut: Videos of ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' and ''[[TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe Fire Walk With Me]]'' appear in the video store scene in episode 2.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Jinsaku Ajo's voice in the ([[SuperlativeDubbing largely well-done]]) English dub is also the actor who played the Wishmaster in that franchise's later films.

* WouldHitAGirl[=/=]NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[LittleMissSnarker Beniko]] casually makes an offhand remark that prompts Ajo to punch her out of her seat. When she calls him out on it, he proceeds to beat her 'til she's bruised and bloodied, while pointedly telling her how little he regards her gender, her looks, her singing voice, or the fact that she's [[IdolSinger an idol.]]

* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel: Happens to the very naive title character. Fortunately, the scumbags ordered delivery, and her friend Tomoko who brought the food figured out what was going on, and saved her.

* ShoutOut: ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' is one of the movies being taken out of the video store in episode 2.

* ShoutOut: {{Eraserhead}} is one of the movies being taken out of the video store in episode 2.

* BadassNickname: ''D''. Yes, it's his code name, but A, B and C just don't sound as cool. And they aren't.

* InfoDump: Episode 19 spends the bulk of its 90 minutes on exposition for what's been going on the entire time.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Holy '''''God''''', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive A]][[BigBad jo]].

[[quoteright:257:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/key_2019.jpg]]Tokiko Mima, nicknamed "Key," is a robot who has been raised as a human girl by her inventor/grandfather [[spoiler:, or is it the other way around?]]. As her grandfather is dying, he tells her that she can [[BecomeARealBoy become a human]], [[LoveImbuesLife provided she can make 30,000 friends before her battery runs out]]. With this, Key moves away from her idyllic village and heads for Tokyo.

Here she finds her best friend from Middle School, Sakura Kuriyagawa, working three different jobs to keep afloat. With her help as well as the help of Sakura's friend Shuichi Tataki (neither of which are convinced by Key's story), they plan to make Key into a Idol singer - someone they reason could easily gain the friendship of 30,000 people.

Tokiko Mima, nicknamed "Key," is a robot who has been raised as a human girl by her inventor/grandfather [[spoiler:, or is it the other way around?]]. As her grandfather is dying, he tells her that she can [[BecomeARealBoy become a human]], [[LoveImbuesLife provided she can make 30,000 friends before her battery runs out]]. With this, Key moves away from her idyllic village and heads for Tokyo.

* DeconstructorFleet: Covers Pinocchio/ BecomeARealBoy, LoveImbuesLife, MiniMecha, Real Mecha, Super Mecha, EccentricMentor, IdolSinger, and MagicalGirl to name a few. Additionally, it [[spoiler: subverts and deconstructs EmotionlessGirl and RobotGirl, as Key is revealed to be neither]].

* IdolSinger: Deconstructed

* InelegantBlubbering: [[spoiler:Key's first response to becoming human and the emotions that come with it.]]

* ScamReligion: Prince Snake-Eye's "Church of the Golden Snake Savior. Although he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold ultimately means well]], he begins trying to recruit Key in order to heal a sick child who'd gone too long without conventional treatment (because of his parents' faith in him). [[spoiler:After Key heals the child, he enlists his remaining cultists to sabotage Sakura's attempts to get Key into show business so he can win her back.]]

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Hikaru Tsurugi, the mercurial genius who choreographs Miho's performances and decides to take Key on as a special project.

* PinocchioSyndrome

* FourEyesNoSoul: Hikaru Tsurugi, the mercurial genius who choreographs Miho's performances and decides to take Key on as a special project.

Tokiko Mima, nicknamed "Key," is a robot who has been raised as a human girl by her inventor/grandfather [[spoiler:, or is it the other way around?]]. As her grandfather is dying, he tells her that she can [[BecomeARealBoy become a human]], provided she can make 30,000 friends before her battery runs out. With this, Key moves away from her idyllic village and heads for Tokyo.

And if you think from the description that this is a cutesy kid's tale about [[TrueCompanions making friends]] and [[PinnochioSyndrome becoming a real girl]]... [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids you're going to be in for a rough ride]].

* DeconstructorFleet: Covers Pinocchio/ BecomeARealBoy, MiniMecha, Real Mecha, Super Mecha, EccentricMentor, IdolSinger, and MagicalGirl to name a few. Additionally, it [[spoiler: subverts and deconstructs EmotionlessGirl and RobotGirl, as Key is revealed to be neither]].

* NotSoStoic: Key