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''Kenran Butōsai Za Māzu Deibureiku'', or ''Mars Daybreak'', is a HumongousMecha anime aired in 2004 by Creator/TVTokyo and licensed by Creator/BandaiEntertainment in the US.

The story takes place on a colonized Mars, where nearly the entire planet (save for the peak of Olympus Mons) is covered by a massive ocean (the initial colonization apparently having GoneHorriblyWrong). The people live on floating city-ships, with the planet's abundant water being their primary export. Somehow, the end of the "Pan-Galactic War" has left the planet in the midst of a severe economic depression. Of course, Economic troubles mean crime. And with a planet that's nearly all ocean, that can mean only one thing: {{Pirate}}s! With the surface under heavy satellite surveillance, the pirates have been forced underground. Or rather, under''water''. Instead of sailing over the waves, they lurk ''under'' them in submarines. And the baddest pirates around are the crew of the sub ''Ship of Aurora''.

Which brings us to our hero, Gram River: A young man living on the city-ship Adena. While trying to help a friend get out of a bad situation, he ends up in the middle of a raid by the ''Ship of Aurora'', and thrown overboard when the port is rammed and breached. Fortunately, a HumongousMecha comes out of nowhere and rescues him. Unfortunately, this mech is assumed to be part of the pirates' forces, and is promptly attacked by the local [[TheFederation Earth Forces]] mechs. He is eventually hired on by the crew to pilot the mech.

Naturally, nothing goes that easy, or there wouldn't be much of a series. The first major complication is the fact that Vess, one of Gram's dearest childhood friends, has just been stationed to Mars as part of the Earth Forces, and she isn't happy at ''all'' to discover that he's become a Pirate. The other is the initially-unrelated kidnapping of the Granddaughter of the Earth's President, that they get blamed for when they just happen to go after the real kidnappers for their own reasons, and wind up catching them just as they're trying to ransom her, and further complicated when they end up inadvertently recruiting her.

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!!Tropes:

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The ''Ship of Aurora'' is rendered through CelShaded CG in an otherwise hand-drawn series. Also applies to several of the other underwater ships.
%% * ActionGirl: Vess.
%% * AllThatGlitters: The Treasure of the Aboriginal Martians.
%% * BackToBackBadasses: [[spoiler: Grahms and Vess]].
* BadassCrew: The entire crew of the Ship of Aurora.
%% * BashBrothers: Grahms and Yagami.
%% * BigBad: Niell Poe.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several of them but Poipoider somehow makes quite an astonishing amount.
** He saved Grahms and Enora from falling down.
** And to the crew when they were under fire in a cave.
*** Vess saved Grahms from the Earth Forces.
** [[spoiler: That's when things became grim Grahms came in with a [[LargeHam hammy speech]] and then came Yagami.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Grahms and Vess, oh so much.
%% * ButtMonkey: Anna Grace.
%% * TheCaptain: Elizabeth
%% * ChildhoodFriendRomance: Victorious Vess.
%% * ClingyJealousGirl: Enora Taft.
%% * CombatTentacles: The main weapon of Kubernes' [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Mermaid]].
%% * CoolBoat: The ''Ship of Aurora''.
%% * DarkAndTroubledPast: Yagami.
%% * {{Determinator}}: Grahms.
%% * DieHardOnAnX: Die Hard on a Pirate Submarine
%% * FallingIntoTheCockpit: Well, ''floating'', anyway...
* FaceHeelTurn: Yagami, Poipoider, Aki and Junior. [[spoiler: Subverted. It was just a prank for the birthday of Ester.]]
%% * FreakOut: When Rich found out that Vess is still alive.
%% * GenkiGirl: Enora Taft.
%% * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Anna Grace and Kubernes.]]
* HiddenBuxom: Ester, to [[ACupAngst Enora's]] surprise commenting how it's not noticeable while she's in uniform.
%% * HopelessSuitor: Enora to Grahm.
* HostageMacGuffin: Kenran Butohsai has this, very literally. ''Enora Taft'' is the daughter of the President of the Earth who plays a [[spoiler:more than willing hostage and friend to the crew of Yoake-no Fune (Ship of Aurora)]].
* HotBlooded: Grahms and Vess.
%% * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Enora to Grahm.
%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Grahms.
%% * {{Keet}}: Junior.
%% * LadyOfWar: Ester.
* MacGuffin: Grahms' pendant and the Box of Guidance.
%% * MacrossMissileMassacre
%% * ManipulativeBastard: Kubernes.
* MechaMooks: Earth Force [=RBs=] are remote controlled.
* AMechByAnyOtherName: Round Bucklers, usually shortened to RB's.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Subverted with two of the strongest [=RBs=] in the series, named Mermaid and Squirt.
** Not as much of a surprise given that the other two are named "Vector of Hope" and "Wing of Samurai".
** Of course Yagami holds this title pretty well, given that his nickname is "Yagami the Shinigami". He backs it up VERY well too given his track record of being able to dismantle multiple enemy round bucklers in a single swoop. He pretty much is pretty much the more experienced version of Graham who is already noted to being capable of taking on multiple round bucklers in his own right.
%% * ObfuscatingStupidity: Captain Doolittle to a T.
%% * OneManArmy: Grahms.
%% * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Pirates!
%% * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Vess towards Grahms.
%% * OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Kubernos' RB and it is so freakin' ugly.
%% * PapaWolf: Milch towards Megumi.
%% * RealRobot
* RedOniBlueOni: Vess' Red to Grahms' Blue and Grahms Red to Yagami's Blue.
%% * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Ester]]
* RedBaron: Yagami is known as "TheGrimReaper"
%% * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Clara.
* RuleOfCool: Among the Pirates are a talking Cat and a small whale wearing PoweredArmor. No explanation is given for their existence.
* SapientCetaceans: Poipoider, a dolphin who spends much of his time in a suit of power armor wielding heavy weapons.
%% * SayMyName: KUBERNES!!!!
%% * ScoobyStack: Ep 13. NUFF' SAID!
%% * ShrinkingViolet: Megumi.
%% * SmugSnake: Anna Grace and Niell Poe.
%% * SubmarinePirates
%% * TalkingAnimal: Clara and Poipoider.
%% * TooDumbToLive: Those kidnappers that kidnapped Enora Taft.
%% * TookALevelInBadass: Junior, just Junior.
%% * {{Tsundere}}: Vess and Enora.
%% * UpliftedAnimal: Cats and Porpoises, apparently
* UsedFuture: Very much! We see several ships being dented or what have you buildings. Heck, even a university is abandoned.
* {{Zeerust}}: Okay, this was supposedly set somewhere in the future where there are HumongousMecha are all over the waters yet there are still cars that look like 90's and early of the 2000's and even some like what we have now. Even more that they have the Martian Aborigines that had stuffs that are present in the present.
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