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In this story, it's revealed that all of the wars fought over the past 30 years were part of a Masquerade to keep the public in the dark about an Alien Invasion. The nations of the world are fighting the enormous alien monsters with a number of superpowered creatures called Category D's. One of these is Mana Eimiya, a 49.46-metre-tall girl whose job is to periodically come out of hiding and beat up incoming aliens, apparently with just her bare hands.

Problem is, she's fallen head over heels for a guy 40 times shorter than her - a boy named Makoto Tobita with spiky hair and an obsession with chivalry and being overprotective of girls. Can this unlikely relationship work?

Super Dreadnought Girl 4946 (Chou Dokyuu Shoujo 4946) is a different kind of Boy Meets Girl story from Takeshi Azuma, a.k.a. Studio Kimigabuchi (the studio behind Neon Genesis Evangelion RE-TAKE). The manga was serialized in Shonen Sunday Super from 2009 to 2011.


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  • Hour of Power: Subverted. Mana is told that she has three minutes to spit up Makoto after eating him, but that was a complete lie. In reality Makoto should have died the instant Mana swallowed him. No one knows how he survived for any length of time, so for all we know he could stay in for a lot longer that three minutes.
  • Huge School Girl: At 49.46M, Eimiya is easily the hugest.
  • Insistent Terminology: Mana hates it when people round up her height to 50M instead of 49.46 because, according to her, short girls are cuter.
  • Interspecies Romance: Mana has the body of a yokai, though her mind and soul are those of a human girl; and she's in love with Makoto.
  • Late for School: Issac Montana does this intentionally to try to get Makoto's attention, due to learning this from Animes.
  • Magical Girlfriend: Mana is something of an example.
  • Magnetic Girlfriend: Par for the course, Makoto starts attracting love interests almost immediately after officially becoming Mana's boyfriend. It's both lampshaded, by Jinguuji lamenting it, and Played With as it's Makoto defending Mana and declaring her to be his girlfriend that makes Akemi realize Makoto's true nature.
  • New Transfer Student: Mana, Kuumi, and Isaac all transfer into Makoto's school.
  • Not Quite Human:
    • Mana is an enormously obvious example, being merged with a giant youkai.
    • It's also hinted that Makoto isn't entirely normal either, both when he survives having Mana absorb energy from his soul and when his demon-hunting sister says that she loves his screams of pain the most. He also had black hair as a child, with his white hair being unexplained.
  • Not What It Looks Like: After apparently being replaced by Senri, Makoto is approached by a normal girl he'd saved in the past, who offered to cook for him (something Mana obviously couldn't ever do.) While at her place, not only does Mana see them by looking in the window, but runs off crying about how Makoto "likes little girls". Though in the way she says it, sounds like he is a paedophile.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Isaac Montana's American Genki Girl Otaku personality masks the fact that she's The Mole for the US Army, though Jinguuji is smart enough to see through it.
  • Odd Friendship: Jinguuji and Makoto. Maybe because unlike others, Jinguuji can really see Makoto for what he is.
    • It got better; It's revealed in chapter 38 that Makoto is the first guy who befriend Jinguuji, and he dyed his hair for him.
  • Oh, Crap!: End of chapter 20. "This is The International Space Station. We... we can hear someone. We discovered an immense number of space life-form armies, exceeding the level of Kirin. Their expected destination is... EARTH.
  • Otaku: Jinguuji, of all people, later joined by Isaac.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Makoto Tobita, taking out people bigger than himself since elementary.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jinguuji delivers one to Inochi, telling her bluntly that her actions contradict Shingon true dreams. She doesn't take it well.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Show Within a Show: Isaac's favorite anime, Beat the Little Mice.
  • Skewed Priorities: Mana is more concerned about the supposed idea that shorter girls are cuter than convenience with her insistence on exactly specifying her height (49.46 meters) instead of rounding it up to 50 meters.
  • Smug Snake: Senri, who lords it over Makoto how much better suited he is for Mana.
  • Sociopathic Hero: Kuumi does a lot to protect the people of Japan from youkai... but let's just say it's not for the purest of reasons.
  • Soul Eating: After becoming a "Category D", Mana no longer subsists on regular food, but rather requires human souls; a parallel is specifically drawn to youkai from Japanese folklore, who often eat humans. Understandably, Mana, who was originally human, is horrified by this to the point of refusing to engage in a practice.
  • Square-Cube Law: Used to explain why Mana fights with her bare hands rather than the government making her a giant sword, as a sword her size would easily break due to it's weight.
  • Swallowed Whole: Mana eating Makoto for Cannibalism Superpower purposes.
  • Thinking Up Portals: In the final chapter, Mana, as part of her newly gained power-up, can now punch enemies on the other side of Earth through what appear to be spontaneously generated portals, meaning that pretty much nothing is beyond her reach.
  • Tiny Guy, HUGE Girl: The Series
  • Tokyo Tower: Knocked to the moon along with a monster.
  • Tyke Bomb: Montana and Mana.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Inochi. since she's personification of the sun, her breakdown is not pretty.
  • Youkai: The series' antagonists — and even the main character — are yokai, though they're referred to as Category D by the Japanese government.
  • A Wizard Did It: Category D creatures are stated to be supernatural in origin, hence why they can defy the laws of physics.


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