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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' had Sayla Mass, Frau Bow, and Mirai Yashima (who actually was the pilot of the ship, making her TheLancer to TheCaptain Bright Noa), in addition to two male Bunnies named Marker and Oscar whose posts are over everyone else's heads. Sayla eventually gets promoted from Bridge Bunny to fighter pilot. Averted in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', where the bridge bunnies that helped Captain [[GentleGiant Henken Beckner]] and later Captain Bright are ''male''.
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' had the [[AvertedTrope unusually competent]] Sayla Mass, Frau Bow, and Mirai Yashima (who actually was the pilot of the ship, making her TheLancer to TheCaptain Bright Noa), in addition to two male Bunnies named Marker and Oscar whose posts are over everyone else's heads. Sayla eventually gets promoted from Bridge Bunny to fighter pilot. Averted in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', where the bridge bunnies that helped Captain [[GentleGiant Henken Beckner]] and later Captain Bright are ''male''.
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' had Sayla Mass, Frau Bow, and Mirai Yashima (who actually was the pilot of the ship, making her TheLancer to TheCaptain Bright Noa), in addition to two male Bunnies named Marker and Oscar whose posts are over everyone else's heads. Sayla eventually gets promoted from Bridge Bunny to fighter pilot. Subverted Averted in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', where the bridge bunnies that helped Captain [[GentleGiant Henken Beckner]] and later Captain Bright are ''male''.
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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has Maya Ibuki, Makoto Hyuga, and Shigeru Aoba. There are a bunch of others as well, but none are given names, distinctive character designs, or personalities. Technically a subversion--Maya is the lone female bridge bunny of note, and the remainder are evenly distributed between the sexes.
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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has Maya Ibuki, Makoto Hyuga, and Shigeru Aoba. There are a bunch of others as well, but none are given names, distinctive character designs, or personalities. Technically In a subversion--Maya break from the normal pattern, Maya is the lone female bridge bunny of note, and the remainder are evenly distributed between the sexes.
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* Belvedere Coco, Celtic Midori, and Amarone Slantheav from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. Subverted to a certain extent, because the only male on the bridge is the ship's navigator. In a further subversion, most of the female bridge crew are wearing relatively conservative outfits (one is pregnant, one dresses in a full-body bear outfit, and the captain is an old woman), whilst the ''guy'' is obliged to be naked in quite a number of scenes. Finally, [[spoiler:the most scantily-clad woman on the bridge is later revealed to be a man in drag.]]
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* Belvedere Coco, Celtic Midori, and Amarone Slantheav from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. Subverted Averted to a certain extent, because the only male on the bridge is the ship's navigator. In a further subversion, navigator, and most of the female bridge crew are wearing relatively conservative outfits (one is pregnant, one dresses in a full-body bear outfit, and the captain is an old woman), whilst the ''guy'' is obliged to be naked in quite a number of scenes. Finally, [[spoiler:the most scantily-clad woman on the bridge is later revealed to be a man in drag.]]
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* ''Anime/AgentAika'' has a spaceship filled with (almost) nothing but women in striperific clothes. They also all have the personality of a piece of toast, though they are obviously very capable in fighting and flying a gigantic spaceship.
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* ''LightNovel/StarshipOperators'': Naturally, most of the cast are female. This is justified by the fact that they're essentially a renegade ship funded and filmed by a television company that demanded that they switch the crews of the three bridges to all-female except the Captain (eyecandy for the viewer, both in real life and in-universe).
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* ''LightNovel/StarshipOperators'': ''Literature/StarshipOperators'': Naturally, most of the cast are female. This is justified by the fact that they're essentially a renegade ship funded and filmed by a television company that demanded that they switch the crews of the three bridges to all-female except the Captain (eyecandy (eye candy for the viewer, both in real life and in-universe).
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* Played for laughs in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. The immensely popular episode "Day of Sagittarius" has our FiveManBand thrust into the roles of space battlefleet commanders, and their ships are all staffed with Bridge Bunnies of their own imagining.
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* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' references the trope: Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa, captain of the Tuatha de Danaan, is young and attractive. When Kaname first meets Tessa, she assumes she is a Bridge Bunny, and Tessa plays along for a while.
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** The survival rate is [[spoiler:equal for Bridge Bunnies of both genders: 50%. Lichty and Christina [[TogetherInDeath die together]] and very tragically, Lasse and Feldt make it and return for Season 2, and are soon joined by another female bunny, GenkiGirl Mileina Vashti, and much later by Mileina's mom [[HotScientist Linda]].]].
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* Most of Kaiba's monitoring staff during the Battle City tournament and Kaiba Corp Grand Prix arcs (and they ''all'' look the same except for their HairColors). Hilariously lampshaded in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
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* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
** Kim, Shammy, and Vanessa (along with Misa and Claudia) from ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' are the {{Trope Namer}}s.
*** The ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' novels by Jack [=McKinney=] have Kim, Shammy, and Vanessa [[AscendedMeme affectionately referred to as]] "the Bridge Bunnies" by the rest of the crew. The snarkier ones who dared used the nickname "Gloval's Harem" learned very quickly from Claudia to ''never'' say that to their faces.
** ''Anime/MacrossII'', a sequel to ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' made without the original creators, included three young female mecha pilots (Natasha, Saori, and Amy) who fulfilled a similar function.
** Sally and Miho from ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}''.
** ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' has a team of bunnies on the job on the Quarter, as well as Bobby, the male helmsman who is [[CampGay camp]] enough to count.
** Another set of three bunnies is present in ''Anime/MacrossDelta''.
** The American-created sequel film to ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', ''The Sentinels'', genderflips this trope by having the Commanding officer of the SDF-3 (and former Bridge Bunny), Admiral Lisa Hayes-Hunter, select a trio of handsome ''men'' to fill the same roles on her bridge.
* ''Anime/AgentAika'' has a spaceship filled with (almost) nothing but women in striperific clothes. They also all have the personality of a piece of toast, though they are obviously very capable in fighting and flying a gigantic spaceship.
* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'''s bridge crew were competent ship-runners supporting their GeniusDitz commander. Ruri and Megumi, particularly, had several focus episodes.
* All series of the Mazinger trilogy (''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'') featured Bridge Bunnies. They used to be a male trio, though, and wore white uniforms. They performed the ordinary functions of MissionControl, collecting and interpreting data and reading it to TheProfessor or the pilots of the HumongousMecha, as well as sending them orders or receiving their messages. The trio of ''Grendizer'' Bridge Bunnies were called Hayashi, Yamada, and Aoi.
* On ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'', the ''Arcus Prima'' had them, but the ''Messis'' didn't. Of course, given the ''Simoun'' universe, it's possible that some or all of the Bridge Bunnies could have been young men who hadn't lost their female secondary sex characteristics yet.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': the lone female bridge bunny (Miriallia Haw aka Milly who was also one in the previous series) plays a relatively large role in the story. In the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', after going from RichBitch to FallenPrincess, Fllay Alster becomes a bridge bunny under Natarle Badgiruel's orders in the ''Dominion''. The Archangel, meanwhile, has the female (acting) captain Murrue, Milly herself, and a group of male bridge bunnies leaded (sorta) by Sai Argyle. [[spoiler: All of the Dominion bunnies, along with Natarle and including Fllay, get killed in the final battle when Le-Creuset blows up their escape pod for the kicks. The Archangel ones survive.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' had Sayla Mass, Frau Bow, and Mirai Yashima (who actually was the pilot of the ship, making her TheLancer to TheCaptain Bright Noa), in addition to two male Bunnies named Marker and Oscar whose posts are over everyone else's heads. Sayla eventually gets promoted from Bridge Bunny to fighter pilot. Subverted in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', where the bridge bunnies that helped Captain [[GentleGiant Henken Beckner]] and later Captain Bright are ''male''.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Amy Limietta together with ThoseTwoGuys Allex and Landy for the Arthra in the first two seasons. The third season has Shario Finieno, Alto Krauette, and Lucino Lilie for [[MissionControl Long Arch]]. In both cases, the commanding officer is also female, along with [[ImprobablyFemaleCast almost everyone else in the show]].
** This is later subverted in the third season, after the destruction of [[spoiler:Long Arch]], Alto becomes the new helicopter pilot [[spoiler:who replaces Vice]], and Lucino becomes the helmswoman of the Arthra [[spoiler:which replaces Long Arch]], leaving Shario alone with Griffith.
* Most of Kaiba's monitoring staff during the Battle City tournament and Kaiba Corp Grand Prix arcs (and they ''all'' look the same except for their HairColors). Hilariously lampshaded in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
-->'''Mokuba''': You have a harem big bro?\\
'''Kaiba''': Yes. I created them to shun them with my cold indifference.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'': Yamada Seina's [[UnwantedHarem constantly-growing]] harem effectively serves as his bridge bunnies. Earlier, [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Guys]] filled the role before being PutOnABus.
* ''LightNovel/StarshipOperators'': Naturally, most of the cast are female. This is justified by the fact that they're essentially a renegade ship funded and filmed by a television company that demanded that they switch the crews of the three bridges to all-female except the Captain (eyecandy for the viewer, both in real life and in-universe).
* ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'': Naze, Sorewa, and Nareba.
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' surprisingly had this in TheMovie, with Peorth having three subordinates in overseeing the Yggdrasil system: Ere, Ex, and Chrono. It's worth noting that, excluding their unseen boss, ''all'' professional employees of Heaven's Headquarters [[ImprobablyFemaleCast are women]], excluding ceremonial (and menial) guards who're posted outdoors.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' features the Hypnos operators Riley/Reika and Tally/Megumi. Riley advances to AscendedExtra status (due to her [[SubordinateExcuse relationship with Yamaki]]), but Tally's role never expands beyond "We've got another Wild One; deploying tracer."
** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' brings us another set: Miki and Megumi. (Yes, another Megumi with short blonde hair and no, she doesn't get any more character development. Be sure to check them out when the episode is animated by the 'fanservice' team.)
** ''Savers'' subverts it occasionally, when they actually go out and assist in the battle. The two [=PawnChessmon=] seen doing menial chores around the base belong to them.
* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'':
** There is a line of mass-produced female Bridge Bunny androids. Different organisations use different models, but every bunny-bot in the organisation is identical - Section 9 have brunette androids in red blazers, and the army seem to use models with short black hair and glasses. Not only can they man the control centre, but they also come in handy when in one episode, two are used as [[DistractedByTheSexy sexy twins to distract the guards]].
** Besides serving coffee, Section 9's operators are also the sole pilots of the unit's tilt-rotor aircraft, and can even take care of children.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has Maya Ibuki, Makoto Hyuga, and Shigeru Aoba. There are a bunch of others as well, but none are given names, distinctive character designs, or personalities. Technically a subversion--Maya is the lone female bridge bunny of note, and the remainder are evenly distributed between the sexes.
** In the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies, Midori Kitakami, Hideki Tama, Kouji Takao and Sumire Nagara join the cast as the bridge bunnies of the ''[[CoolAirship Wunder]]'' alongside the original trio. While Hyuga and Aoba haven't changed much during the TimeSkip aside from picking up facial hair, Maya has turned into a [[DoesNotLikeMen misandric]] DrillSergeantNasty delivering orders to the junior bunnies at the top of her lungs.
* Played for laughs in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. The immensely popular episode "Day of Sagittarius" has our FiveManBand thrust into the roles of space battlefleet commanders, and their ships are all staffed with Bridge Bunnies of their own imagining.
** Haruhi's ship has assorted aliens.
** Itsuki's ship is staffed with ''{{henohenomoheji}}'', actually a simple drawing exercise using hiragana characters to make a face.
** Mikuru's ship is staffed by stuffed animals - [[ThrowItIn which really originated from doodles that Haruhi's voice actor Aya Hirano left on her scripts]].
** Yuki, the unimaginative one, has staffed her ship with nothing but clones of herself.
** Only Kyon's ship has the more traditional Bridge Bunnies if you ignore their uniforms.
* Belvedere Coco, Celtic Midori, and Amarone Slantheav from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. Subverted to a certain extent, because the only male on the bridge is the ship's navigator. In a further subversion, most of the female bridge crew are wearing relatively conservative outfits (one is pregnant, one dresses in a full-body bear outfit, and the captain is an old woman), whilst the ''guy'' is obliged to be naked in quite a number of scenes. Finally, [[spoiler:the most scantily-clad woman on the bridge is later revealed to be a man in drag.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'':
** Mary and Shelley are the Bridge Bunnies of the Durandal.
** The half dozen or so 100-Series Realians that were engineered to look exactly like Jr's (the captain) first romantic interest. Physically they are 12-year-old girls. The girls had added combat value against Gnosis, due to their ability to activate the Hilbert Effect.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' has both female (Christina and Feldt) and male (Lasse and Lichtendal) Bridge Bunnies, but the girls, along with BunnyEarsLawyer captain Sumeragi, get much, '''much''' more attention. Presumably, this is because they, like all but two [[GenkiGirl women]] in the series, have...er...rather prominent bosoms.
** The survival rate is [[spoiler:equal for Bridge Bunnies of both genders: 50%. Lichty and Christina [[TogetherInDeath die together]] and very tragically, Lasse and Feldt make it and return for Season 2, and are soon joined by another female bunny, GenkiGirl Mileina Vashti, and much later by Mileina's mom [[HotScientist Linda]].]].
** [[spoiler: Marie Parfacy]], [[spoiler: Saji Crossroad]] and Anew Returner join the crew as bridge bunnies. The first two mentioned only filled the roles temporarily, as they promoted themselves to {{Sixth Ranger}}s (complete with {{Combining Mecha}}s) by joining the Meisters in action ([[spoiler: Marie]] works with [[BattleCouple Allelujah]], [[spoiler: Saji]] works with [[BashBrothers Setsuna]]). Anew became the love interest to [[BackupTwin one of the Meisters]] [[spoiler: until it is revealed that she is a ManchurianAgent and her subsequent and tragic death.]]
* Ryouko, Saki and Megumi in ''Anime/DragonautTheResonance''. Besides the standard Bridge Bunny duties, they also handle the PostEpisodeTrailer.
* ''Anime/{{Geneshaft}}'' "justified" this with the explanation that, thanks to LegoGenetics, society now consists mostly of women, and only a controlled number of men (to cut down on violence). This is just the beginning of the utterly stupid science in the series.
* Ayame Futaba, Ichijiku Hinata, and Mutsuki Minase from ''Anime/CodeGeass R2''. One magazine lampshaded this by saying that the girls were carrying out "the long-standing robot anime tradition of the trio of operator girls".
* ''Anime/GallForce'' is what you get when you make a team of Bridge Bunnies into the protagonists.
* Tsubael from ''Manga/BlueDrop'' is perhaps more the competent MissionControl type, but her role in the series fits this trope rather well.
* ''Anime/RahXephon'' - In reference to an attractive female character, one male extra comments to another, "Whoa, check out the sweet new bridge bunny."
* ''Anime/{{Godannar}}'' had a couple, who apparently got promoted to [[spoiler: mecha pilots]] by the end of the series.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' references the trope: Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa, captain of the Tuatha de Danaan, is young and attractive. When Kaname first meets Tessa, she assumes she is a Bridge Bunny, and Tessa plays along for a while.
* Yuki(Nova) from ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''.
* ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'' has a set of bridge bunnies on Earth operating project Pheonix. They aren't given names, but one of them, without warning, [[spoiler: guns down power-mad General Togo]].
* Hosuke, an amoral mad scientist who wants to TakeOverTheWorld in ''Manga/CannonGodExaxxion'', has a great many of these to act as support crew for his mecha. Some of them are robots he's created, some of them are scientists he's brainwashed, and all of them have been programmed one way or another to love him and be absolutely loyal to him. (It's ''exactly'' as twisted and repulsive as it sounds.)
* ''Anime/CrossAnge'' has Pamela, Hikaru, and Olivier acting as the communications for the team of pilots who fight against [=DRAGONs=] at Arzenal. Later on, they transfer to the Aurora submarine where the three of them handle control, navigation, and communications respectively.
* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' relegates former ActionGirl Arcee to this role, pretty much becoming Fortress' secretary.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has the Teiwaz group - the Turbines - being an ''entire'' legion of these led by the only male leader Naze...[[ReallyGetsAround and they're all]] ''[[{{Polyamory}} his wives]]''. Note that they all wear visible bras under their otherwise normal uniforms and they like to put on makeup or fix their nails while on-duty.
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** Kim, Shammy, and Vanessa (along with Misa and Claudia) from ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' are the {{Trope Namer}}s.
*** The ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' novels by Jack [=McKinney=] have Kim, Shammy, and Vanessa [[AscendedMeme affectionately referred to as]] "the Bridge Bunnies" by the rest of the crew. The snarkier ones who dared used the nickname "Gloval's Harem" learned very quickly from Claudia to ''never'' say that to their faces.
** ''Anime/MacrossII'', a sequel to ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' made without the original creators, included three young female mecha pilots (Natasha, Saori, and Amy) who fulfilled a similar function.
** Sally and Miho from ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}''.
** ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' has a team of bunnies on the job on the Quarter, as well as Bobby, the male helmsman who is [[CampGay camp]] enough to count.
** Another set of three bunnies is present in ''Anime/MacrossDelta''.
** The American-created sequel film to ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', ''The Sentinels'', genderflips this trope by having the Commanding officer of the SDF-3 (and former Bridge Bunny), Admiral Lisa Hayes-Hunter, select a trio of handsome ''men'' to fill the same roles on her bridge.
* ''Anime/AgentAika'' has a spaceship filled with (almost) nothing but women in striperific clothes. They also all have the personality of a piece of toast, though they are obviously very capable in fighting and flying a gigantic spaceship.
* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'''s bridge crew were competent ship-runners supporting their GeniusDitz commander. Ruri and Megumi, particularly, had several focus episodes.
* All series of the Mazinger trilogy (''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'') featured Bridge Bunnies. They used to be a male trio, though, and wore white uniforms. They performed the ordinary functions of MissionControl, collecting and interpreting data and reading it to TheProfessor or the pilots of the HumongousMecha, as well as sending them orders or receiving their messages. The trio of ''Grendizer'' Bridge Bunnies were called Hayashi, Yamada, and Aoi.
* On ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'', the ''Arcus Prima'' had them, but the ''Messis'' didn't. Of course, given the ''Simoun'' universe, it's possible that some or all of the Bridge Bunnies could have been young men who hadn't lost their female secondary sex characteristics yet.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': the lone female bridge bunny (Miriallia Haw aka Milly who was also one in the previous series) plays a relatively large role in the story. In the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', after going from RichBitch to FallenPrincess, Fllay Alster becomes a bridge bunny under Natarle Badgiruel's orders in the ''Dominion''. The Archangel, meanwhile, has the female (acting) captain Murrue, Milly herself, and a group of male bridge bunnies leaded (sorta) by Sai Argyle. [[spoiler: All of the Dominion bunnies, along with Natarle and including Fllay, get killed in the final battle when Le-Creuset blows up their escape pod for the kicks. The Archangel ones survive.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' had Sayla Mass, Frau Bow, and Mirai Yashima (who actually was the pilot of the ship, making her TheLancer to TheCaptain Bright Noa), in addition to two male Bunnies named Marker and Oscar whose posts are over everyone else's heads. Sayla eventually gets promoted from Bridge Bunny to fighter pilot. Subverted in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', where the bridge bunnies that helped Captain [[GentleGiant Henken Beckner]] and later Captain Bright are ''male''.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Amy Limietta together with ThoseTwoGuys Allex and Landy for the Arthra in the first two seasons. The third season has Shario Finieno, Alto Krauette, and Lucino Lilie for [[MissionControl Long Arch]]. In both cases, the commanding officer is also female, along with [[ImprobablyFemaleCast almost everyone else in the show]].
** This is later subverted in the third season, after the destruction of [[spoiler:Long Arch]], Alto becomes the new helicopter pilot [[spoiler:who replaces Vice]], and Lucino becomes the helmswoman of the Arthra [[spoiler:which replaces Long Arch]], leaving Shario alone with Griffith.
* Most of Kaiba's monitoring staff during the Battle City tournament and Kaiba Corp Grand Prix arcs (and they ''all'' look the same except for their HairColors). Hilariously lampshaded in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
-->'''Mokuba''': You have a harem big bro?\\
'''Kaiba''': Yes. I created them to shun them with my cold indifference.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'': Yamada Seina's [[UnwantedHarem constantly-growing]] harem effectively serves as his bridge bunnies. Earlier, [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Guys]] filled the role before being PutOnABus.
* ''LightNovel/StarshipOperators'': Naturally, most of the cast are female. This is justified by the fact that they're essentially a renegade ship funded and filmed by a television company that demanded that they switch the crews of the three bridges to all-female except the Captain (eyecandy for the viewer, both in real life and in-universe).
* ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'': Naze, Sorewa, and Nareba.
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' surprisingly had this in TheMovie, with Peorth having three subordinates in overseeing the Yggdrasil system: Ere, Ex, and Chrono. It's worth noting that, excluding their unseen boss, ''all'' professional employees of Heaven's Headquarters [[ImprobablyFemaleCast are women]], excluding ceremonial (and menial) guards who're posted outdoors.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' features the Hypnos operators Riley/Reika and Tally/Megumi. Riley advances to AscendedExtra status (due to her [[SubordinateExcuse relationship with Yamaki]]), but Tally's role never expands beyond "We've got another Wild One; deploying tracer."
** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' brings us another set: Miki and Megumi. (Yes, another Megumi with short blonde hair and no, she doesn't get any more character development. Be sure to check them out when the episode is animated by the 'fanservice' team.)
** ''Savers'' subverts it occasionally, when they actually go out and assist in the battle. The two [=PawnChessmon=] seen doing menial chores around the base belong to them.
* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'':
** There is a line of mass-produced female Bridge Bunny androids. Different organisations use different models, but every bunny-bot in the organisation is identical - Section 9 have brunette androids in red blazers, and the army seem to use models with short black hair and glasses. Not only can they man the control centre, but they also come in handy when in one episode, two are used as [[DistractedByTheSexy sexy twins to distract the guards]].
** Besides serving coffee, Section 9's operators are also the sole pilots of the unit's tilt-rotor aircraft, and can even take care of children.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has Maya Ibuki, Makoto Hyuga, and Shigeru Aoba. There are a bunch of others as well, but none are given names, distinctive character designs, or personalities. Technically a subversion--Maya is the lone female bridge bunny of note, and the remainder are evenly distributed between the sexes.
** In the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies, Midori Kitakami, Hideki Tama, Kouji Takao and Sumire Nagara join the cast as the bridge bunnies of the ''[[CoolAirship Wunder]]'' alongside the original trio. While Hyuga and Aoba haven't changed much during the TimeSkip aside from picking up facial hair, Maya has turned into a [[DoesNotLikeMen misandric]] DrillSergeantNasty delivering orders to the junior bunnies at the top of her lungs.
* Played for laughs in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. The immensely popular episode "Day of Sagittarius" has our FiveManBand thrust into the roles of space battlefleet commanders, and their ships are all staffed with Bridge Bunnies of their own imagining.
** Haruhi's ship has assorted aliens.
** Itsuki's ship is staffed with ''{{henohenomoheji}}'', actually a simple drawing exercise using hiragana characters to make a face.
** Mikuru's ship is staffed by stuffed animals - [[ThrowItIn which really originated from doodles that Haruhi's voice actor Aya Hirano left on her scripts]].
** Yuki, the unimaginative one, has staffed her ship with nothing but clones of herself.
** Only Kyon's ship has the more traditional Bridge Bunnies if you ignore their uniforms.
* Belvedere Coco, Celtic Midori, and Amarone Slantheav from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. Subverted to a certain extent, because the only male on the bridge is the ship's navigator. In a further subversion, most of the female bridge crew are wearing relatively conservative outfits (one is pregnant, one dresses in a full-body bear outfit, and the captain is an old woman), whilst the ''guy'' is obliged to be naked in quite a number of scenes. Finally, [[spoiler:the most scantily-clad woman on the bridge is later revealed to be a man in drag.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'':
** Mary and Shelley are the Bridge Bunnies of the Durandal.
** The half dozen or so 100-Series Realians that were engineered to look exactly like Jr's (the captain) first romantic interest. Physically they are 12-year-old girls. The girls had added combat value against Gnosis, due to their ability to activate the Hilbert Effect.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' has both female (Christina and Feldt) and male (Lasse and Lichtendal) Bridge Bunnies, but the girls, along with BunnyEarsLawyer captain Sumeragi, get much, '''much''' more attention. Presumably, this is because they, like all but two [[GenkiGirl women]] in the series, have...er...rather prominent bosoms.
** The survival rate is [[spoiler:equal for Bridge Bunnies of both genders: 50%. Lichty and Christina [[TogetherInDeath die together]] and very tragically, Lasse and Feldt make it and return for Season 2, and are soon joined by another female bunny, GenkiGirl Mileina Vashti, and much later by Mileina's mom [[HotScientist Linda]].]].
** [[spoiler: Marie Parfacy]], [[spoiler: Saji Crossroad]] and Anew Returner join the crew as bridge bunnies. The first two mentioned only filled the roles temporarily, as they promoted themselves to {{Sixth Ranger}}s (complete with {{Combining Mecha}}s) by joining the Meisters in action ([[spoiler: Marie]] works with [[BattleCouple Allelujah]], [[spoiler: Saji]] works with [[BashBrothers Setsuna]]). Anew became the love interest to [[BackupTwin one of the Meisters]] [[spoiler: until it is revealed that she is a ManchurianAgent and her subsequent and tragic death.]]
* Ryouko, Saki and Megumi in ''Anime/DragonautTheResonance''. Besides the standard Bridge Bunny duties, they also handle the PostEpisodeTrailer.
* ''Anime/{{Geneshaft}}'' "justified" this with the explanation that, thanks to LegoGenetics, society now consists mostly of women, and only a controlled number of men (to cut down on violence). This is just the beginning of the utterly stupid science in the series.
* Ayame Futaba, Ichijiku Hinata, and Mutsuki Minase from ''Anime/CodeGeass R2''. One magazine lampshaded this by saying that the girls were carrying out "the long-standing robot anime tradition of the trio of operator girls".
* ''Anime/GallForce'' is what you get when you make a team of Bridge Bunnies into the protagonists.
* Tsubael from ''Manga/BlueDrop'' is perhaps more the competent MissionControl type, but her role in the series fits this trope rather well.
* ''Anime/RahXephon'' - In reference to an attractive female character, one male extra comments to another, "Whoa, check out the sweet new bridge bunny."
* ''Anime/{{Godannar}}'' had a couple, who apparently got promoted to [[spoiler: mecha pilots]] by the end of the series.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' references the trope: Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa, captain of the Tuatha de Danaan, is young and attractive. When Kaname first meets Tessa, she assumes she is a Bridge Bunny, and Tessa plays along for a while.
* Yuki(Nova) from ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''.
* ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'' has a set of bridge bunnies on Earth operating project Pheonix. They aren't given names, but one of them, without warning, [[spoiler: guns down power-mad General Togo]].
* Hosuke, an amoral mad scientist who wants to TakeOverTheWorld in ''Manga/CannonGodExaxxion'', has a great many of these to act as support crew for his mecha. Some of them are robots he's created, some of them are scientists he's brainwashed, and all of them have been programmed one way or another to love him and be absolutely loyal to him. (It's ''exactly'' as twisted and repulsive as it sounds.)
* ''Anime/CrossAnge'' has Pamela, Hikaru, and Olivier acting as the communications for the team of pilots who fight against [=DRAGONs=] at Arzenal. Later on, they transfer to the Aurora submarine where the three of them handle control, navigation, and communications respectively.
* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' relegates former ActionGirl Arcee to this role, pretty much becoming Fortress' secretary.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has the Teiwaz group - the Turbines - being an ''entire'' legion of these led by the only male leader Naze...[[ReallyGetsAround and they're all]] ''[[{{Polyamory}} his wives]]''. Note that they all wear visible bras under their otherwise normal uniforms and they like to put on makeup or fix their nails while on-duty.
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