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Meet Miss Monochrome. An android living in a posh castle with her assistant Mana, and vacuum/RobotBuddy Ru.

Monochrome wants to find a mysterious girl who she repeatedly dreams about. To do that, she decides to become an Idol. Making Mana her manager, she gives her 19.3 Billion Yen to make her an Idol.

[[UngratefulBitch And Mana instantly vanishes with the money.]] Monochrome loses her castle, and meets a convenience store manager named Maneo on the streets. Well, a manager is a manager. So Monochrome makes Maneo her idol manager, and gets a job at the store while trying to achieve famed idol status.

Miss Monochrome is the invention of VA Creator/YuiHorie, designed as a virtual character to sing at her concerts. After becoming a popular merchandising mascot, she received a [[ThirteenEpisodeAnime 13 episode]], 4 minute episode anime in Fall 2013. A second season, with the episode length increased to 9 minutes, was released in Summer 2015.

The first season has been dubbed into English (which is rare for an anime short series, especially one that hasn't been licensed for home video release) by Bang Zoom! Entertainment. Both dubbed and subtitled versions of the series are available on [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/miss-monochrome-the-animation Crunchyroll]].

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!!''Miss Monochrome'' provides examples of:

* AchievementsInIgnorance: While trying to make a Nendoroid of herself in episode 4, Monochrome somehow makes a functioning Segway out of a block of obsidian.
* AlienInvasion: Attempted in episode 3 and stopped just as quick by Monochrome (Juiced up on a fancy battery and combining with Ru) blowing them to bits. [[spoiler:It turns out those aliens were successful a few million years ago.]]
* AutoTune: Monochrome speaks with this type of filter.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Monochrome wanted her Nendoroid to be popular and popular it became. It's just that ''she'' didn't get any more popular herself.
* TheCameo:
** Fellow Sanzigen star [[Anime/WoosersHandToMouthLife Wooser]] makes frequent background cameos. Peeking out from behind a sign in episode four, as a {{Cosplay}} thought bubble in episode 5, getting run over by Monochrome in episode 8 and as the goalie in the "Supporter" OVA.
** Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/MikeTyson and Wrestling/HulkHogan in episode 10.
** Miss Monochrome herself makes a brief walk-through cameo in episode 11 of ''Anime/GoldenTime''. Horie voices the show's lead character.
* TheComicallySerious: Monochrome.
* CuteMachines: Monochrome just exudes adorable. With her cute auto-tune voice and general cluelessness about society.
* DontTryThisAtHome: Monochrome gives this warning before inserting a battery [[ReversePolarity the wrong way around]], then comments that being told not to do something just makes people want to do it more.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Season 2 introduces Yayoi, [[TheKlutz a klutzy location booker]] that just so happens to become this behind the wheel. This is {{Lampshaded}} in episode 3.
* ExactWords: Monochrome mentions in episode 5 that she wants to be "An idol people scream for." Thanks to it being Halloween, they scream all right but it's in fear of her in a giant Oni mask.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Despite succeeding in things others can only dream of, such as climbing the highest mountain on Mars, and becoming an Olympic gold medalist, Monochrome constantly fails in her goal of becoming a famous idol.
* TheFogOfAges: [[spoiler:Even Monochrome isn't immune to it. As her memories of the part human race have faded away over the millions of years she's existed.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Mana never faces any repercussions for running off with Monochrome's money.
* LiteralMinded: While trying to "achieve greater heights" in episode 8, Monochrome goes mountain climbing on ''Mars''.
* NiceGuy: Maneo. He never hesitates to go out of his way to make Monochrome more popular.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Mana looks and acts cute, but has red eyes, foreshadowing how she betrays Monochrome by stealing all her money.
* ReiAyanamiExpy: Monochrome is a white-haired, blue-eyed android. She's pretty emotionless and so socially inept that her servant easily tricks her into giving her all her fortune and she can't tell the difference between a store manager and an idol manager.
* ShoutOut:
** While trying to find a good prop for Monochrome in episode 7, Maneo mentions a [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} famous idol]] who held a leek.
** In season 2, an entire episode parodies ''Manga/InitialD''[[note]]This makes the producers, Sanzigen and Liden Films, two of the few studios (alongside Creator/StudioComet and Creator/{{ACGT}}) to do both [[Manga/SchoolRumble a]] [[VisualNovel/TheyAreMyNobleMasters parody]] and an actual ''Initial D'' series, as they also animate the ''Final Stage'' films[[/note]]. With Monochrome's car being that of the [=AE86=] and with the appearance of an [=RX7=] (albeit in purple) to boot.
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Monochrome is several ''million'' years old; existing since the previous human race was wiped out by aliens.]]
* UngratefulBitch: Mana vanishes with 19.3 Billion Yen after Monochrome rescued her from under a bridge.
* SerialEscalation: In episode 10, Monochrome wants to have a hand shaking event. This leads her from shaking hands with customers, to a champion arm wrestler, champion boxer, champion pro wrestler, and ''gold medal Olympian''.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 9. [[spoiler:Monochrome is several million years old, this is the ''second'' human race, and Kikuko is the reincarnation of her previous idol rival.]]
* WistfulAmnesia: [[spoiler:Monochrome promised several million years ago to compete with her idol rival when she was reincarnated. Over the eons, her memory faded but her desire to be an idol remained.]]
* WritingAroundTrademarks: Ru is obviously a Roomba, but it's censored when mentioned.
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