History Anime / SaberMarionetteJ

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: For the anime, [[spoiler: in J, the Marionettes fend off the Mesopotamia, which has kept Lorelei, the only surviving woman of the Terra II expedition to itself, and come back home with Lorelei. In J to X, the girls sacrifice themselves to stop Hess's RoaringRampageofRevenge on Earth, but are reincarnated as human babies, allowing Otaru to raise them as a family.]] In the light novels, [[spoiler: Lorelei guards the cloning machine that contains the female chromosome aboard the derelict Mesopotamia, and reveals to Otaru that the Saber Marionettes across Terra II are a part of her test to see if mankind is ready for the female gender. Lorelei also reveals her past with Faust, and that Terra II may be the last foothold of mankind, as Earth has plummeted back into organizing slave castes due to its overpopulation problems, and relays a last ditch broadcast message from 200 years ago that a cataclysm combined of pollution, war, and economic collapse has most likely wiped out civilization. Otaru not only mends her past with Faust, but proves to her that his love is pure, allowing mankind to thrive again. He later grows old with Lime to his last days.]]

* AdaptationAlternateEnding: For the anime, [[spoiler: in J, the Marionettes fend off the Mesopotamia, which has kept Lorelei, the only surviving woman of the Terra II expedition to itself, and come back home with Lorelei. In J to X, the girls sacrifice themselves to stop Hess's RoaringRampageofRevenge on Earth, but are reincarnated as human babies, allowing Otaru to raise them as a family.]] In the light novels, [[spoiler: Lorelei guards the cloning machine that contains the female chromosome aboard the derelict Mesopotamia, and reveals to Otaru that the Saber Marionettes across Terra II are a part of her test to see if mankind is ready for the female gender. Lorelei also reveals her past with Faust, and that Terra II may be the last foothold of mankind, as Earth has plummeted back into organizing slave castes due to its overpopulation problems, and relays a last ditch broadcast message from 200 years ago that a cataclysm combined of pollution, war, and economic collapse has most likely wiped out civilization. Otaru not only mends her past with Faust, but proves to her that his love is pure, allowing mankind to thrive again. He later grows old with Lime to his last days.]]

** OliveGarden: Romana

''Saber Marionette J'' is a series of light novels that are ''very obscure'', and would probably have remained so, had the creators not made a Radio drama taking place 500 years after in the future, ''Anime/SaberMarionetteR''. ''R'' follows Virrey Junior, prince of [[OliveGarden Romana]], and his Marionettes, named after the ones from ''J''. It was eventually adapted into an {{OVA}}, and most likely lead to the novels getting an AnimatedAdaptation. The anime starts off as a light comedy, but [[CerebusSyndrome slowly turns more dramatic as time goes on]]. It generally has a healthy mix of humor and suspense, and is a CultClassic to those who watched it, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff especially in Latin America.]]

* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "Otaru, I love you!" It's mostly said by Lime, in an informal and childish way. Cherry says it in a formal and respectful way while Bloodberry goes for the informal, slang way. In the preview of the episode when he understands his feelings, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Hanagata]] says it.

* DubInducedPlotHole: In episode 4 of the Latin American dub, Otaru states Cherry's food "tastes like how his mom used to prepare it". [[FridgeLogic Despite the fact is a plot-point that there are no women in the planet, meaning Otaru shouldn't have a mom.]]

* CovertPervert: Cherry may act a modest lady but she's frequently seen daydreaming of "the things Otaru-sama could do to her", most of which seems increasingly sexual.

* {{Bishoujo}}: The marionettes, with the Japoness ones having exaggerated Japanese beauty tropes. They're basically walking, talking Toys/{{Figma}} figures.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: It's left unsaid whether or not the marionettes remeber their previous lives.]] The last episode heavily implies that they don't, however.

* AffectionateParody: [[HaremAnime Planet full of men but not women]], good amount of {{Running Gag}}s, [[{{Yaoi}} Homosexuality is considered]] [[DoubleStandard the standard while liking female androids is out of the question]], and yet, it doesn't always remain a comedy. Parody of {{Shonen}}? You bet.

* DramaBomb: The infiltration into Gartland's episodes. After almost 10 episode of seeing Japoness, a peaceful and colorful city to then seeing [[{{Mordor}} Gartland]] and how bad it social situation is, it's quite shocking.

** In an episode of ''J'', the three marionettes fell "ill" (actually they bodies started to overload because they were absorbing a lot of energy from a huge underground plasma cloud, simulating a fever) and Otaru, before going to confront the plasma to protect them, while the three where sleeping, give to each one a "goodbye" kiss on the cheeks.
** Gender inverted in an episode of ''J to X''. While they were on a train, Otaru fell asleep and the girls take the moment to talk about how wonderful he is and give to him each one a "thanks for being wonderful" kiss.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:The ''Mesopotamia'' itself. After the three marionettes's HeroicSacrifice to stop the ship destroying Terra II, in a last act of good will the ''Mesopotamia'' let the three girls return to their beloved Otaru since the maiden circuits simulated Lorelei's personality and the ship does really love her and wants its new mechanical lovers to be happy.]]

** The Saber Dolls. Because of their love for Faust, they would do anything (kill, kidnap, help him take over the world) just to get a chance of a one nice word coming from him.

* MarryThemAll: At the end of ''J'', it seems this is the only solution to Otaru's [[UnwantedHarem romantic dilemma]], as he loves the three girls as much as they love him. In ''J to X'' this is subverted [[spoiler:when the marionettes's become {{Artificial Human}}s and Otaru takes them as his ''daughters''.]]

* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "Otaru, I love you!". It's mostly said by Lime, in a informal and childish way. Cherry says it in a formal and respetful way while Blodberry goes for the informal, slang way. In the preview of the episode when he understands his feelings, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Hanagata]] says it.
* OppositeSexClone: Aparently not an option.

''Saber Marionette J'' is a series of light novels that are ''very obscure'', and would probably have remained so, had the creators not made a Radio drama taking place 500 years after in the future, ''Saber Marionette R''. ''R'' follows Virrey Junior, prince of [[OliveGarden Romana]], and his Marionettes, named after the ones from ''J''. It was eventually adapted into an {{OVA}}, and most likely lead to the novels getting an AnimatedAdaptation. The anime starts off as a light comedy, but [[CerebusSyndrome slowly turns more dramatic as time goes on]]. It generally has a healthy mix of humor and suspense, and is a CultClassic to those who watched it, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff especially in Latin America.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The ''Saber Marionette R'' OVA.

** Cherry and Lime in the ''Saber Marionette R'' OVA.

* DieselPunk: The ''Saber Marionette R'' OVA.

* LetteredSequel: ''Saber Marionette J'' is followed up by ''Saber Marionette J Again'', ''Saber Marionette J to X'', ''Saber Marionette R'' and the manga-only ''Saber Marionette Z''. The letters are the initials of the places where the main characters are located: J stands for Japaness which is based on Japan, R is for Romana which is based on Romania, X means Xian which is based on China, and Z is the oddball as it's the initial of a new starring character, Zero. The first series is followed up directly by ''J Again'' and then ''J to X'', whereas ''R'' and ''Z'' are distant sequels.

* ThePsychoRangers: The Saber Dolls for the J series. The Sexa Dolls for the R OVA.

** As for the ''R'' OVA, [[spoiler:all Romana Viceroys are clones of the original Romana King, including Star Face -- except for Junior, who is an actual son of the previous viceroy and born to a human mother. It's enough to [[DrivenToSuicide drive Star Face into suicide]]. ]]

* SlasherSmile: Lime in the ''R'' OVA when she's in overdrive.

* TerribleTrio: The Saber Dolls in the original ''Saber Marionette J'', and the Sexadolls in the ''Saber Marionette R'' OVA.

* TooKinkyToTorture: The Sexadolls in the ''R'' OVA.

* InternalDeconstruction/GenreDeconstruction: the HaremGenre gets this treatment in ''J to X''. Shirase does not approve when he learns about the situation ''at all''. This causes Otaru to have an epiphany, which almost causes him to ''leave'' the Marionettes behind so he won't deny them their freedom. It gets better, but in the end [[spoiler: none of the marionettes end up with Otaru... at least, not ''[[FourLoves romantically]]''.]]

* {{InternalDeconstruction}}/GenreDeconstruction: the HaremGenre gets this treatment in ''J to X''. Shirase does not approve when he learns about the situation ''at all''. This causes Otaru to have an epiphany, which almost causes him to ''leave'' the Marionettes behind so he won't deny them their freedom. It gets better, but in the end [[spoiler: none of the marionettes end up with Otaru... at least, not ''[[FourLoves romantically]]''.]]

Has a [[Characters/SaberMarionetteJ character sheet]] for the four installments, in desperate need of some [[NeedsWikiMagicLove wiki magic love]].

!!Tropes:

* HotterAndSexier: The manga version, which brought up the [[HandWave question]] about why bother making them anatomically correct if you're going to make loving them socially taboo... (Bloodberry's pair of GagBoobs are but '''two''' of many unending examples... and Lime is [[NakedFirstImpression introduced]] ''[[NAkedFirstImpression naked]]''.) It makes sense, in a way, because Kotoyoshi Yumisuke is an avid hentai artist, maybe it was on his contract, or just plain AuthorAppeal.

* HotterAndSexier: The manga version, which brought up the [[HandWave question]] about why bother making them anatomically correct if you're going to make loving them socially taboo... (Bloodberry's pair of GagBoobs are but '''two''' of many unending examples... and Lime is introduced ''naked''.) It makes sense, in a way, because Kotoyoshi Yumisuke is an avid hentai artist, maybe it was on his contract, or just plain AuthorAppeal.

* {{Expy}}: The android assassin in ''J Again #4'' is a shapeshifting assassin made from silver liquid metal and is destroyed by extreme heat is of course modelled after the main antagonist from Terminator2JudgmentDay.

* OneGenderRace: The human population of Terra II -- and arguably, the Marionettes.

* [[ActionGirl Action Marionette]]: Several of them.

** ScienceMarchesOn: Actually, this is an error because cloning is based on the genetic information of the subject and its stem cells. A man's stem cells will always have XY chromosomes thus a woman cannot be produced out of a man's cells.
*** ScienceMarchesOn: You can always manipulate the genes, and THEN clone the organism. That's already what they do, just not for gender for some reason.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In episode 4 of ''Saber Marionette J Again'' Otaru says:

* CampGay: Hanagata highly qualifies as this, mainly because of his [[StalkerWithACrush obssession]] with Otaru, which naturally annoys both Otaru himself and the [[ActionGirl Marionettes]]. Obviously, he's also used as the series' PluckyComicRelief, among others. The following quote is one of the ''mildest'' of his rather loud declarations.

** Then there's him playing "He loves me, he loves me not" with a flower... and ''eating it''. '''Twice.'''

* {{Determinator}}: The Saberdolls, specially Tiger. [[spoiler: Too bad it ends with her being impaled, badly damaged, partially amnesiac and shell of herself for the rest of original ''J'' series. She gets better in ''J Again''.]]

** CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler:Episode 17: Tiger killing the shogun to then Faust send a giant plasma bomb over all Japoness.]] After that episode, things go FromBadToWorse.

* HotterAndSexier: The manga version, which brought up the [[HandWave question]] about why bother making them anatomically correct if you're going to make loving them socially taboo... (Bloodberry's pair of GagBoobs are but '''two''' of many unending examples...and Lime is introduced ''naked''.) It makes sense, in a way, because Kotoyoshi Yumisuke is an avid hentai artist, maybe it was on his contract, or just plain AuthorAppeal.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: Lorelei is the only female human in the entire series. [[spoiler: At least, until Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry turned human at the end of J to X.]]

** The rogue Gartland battle marionettes in ''J-X'' #4 had, according to Luchs' readout in bad German, wrist-mounted hydrogen bombs just like the Predator in the film Film/{{Predator}}.
* TheReveal (Several of them.)

** {{Kaiju}}: The Ponta-kun mother.

* RobotGirl: The Maiden Circuit marionettes.
** {{Fembot}}s: Every other marionette falls into this trope despite mostly appearing as human, because their behavior pushes them into the UncannyValley.

* RunningGag
* {{Samurai}}

* {{Shonen}}

* SmallGirlBigGun
* SqueakyEyes

** Apparently only a handful of people can recognise the main cast, [[spoiler:who save the entire planet and bring the only woman back to Terra II]].

* ShoutOut: In ''J-X'' #3, Hanagata has TheScream when he remembers, that his father is gonna pay him a visit.