History Anime / Fireball

** The mansion in the first season resembles the Tower of Babel seen in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', but the more detailed version of the mansion in ''Charming'' looks more like Genom Tower from ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis''.

* GenreSavvy: At one point Drossel remembers having seen an anime. Gedächtnis also references anime in another episode. Though in this case, they were probably talking about Western cartoons.

* NotSoStoic[=/=]OhCrap: Gedächtnis actually ''screams aloud'' when Drossel shows him that the human vehicle has [[spoiler:"Warning" written on it]].

* GratuitousGerman

The series was produced in 2008 by Creator/ToeiAnimation in cooperation with Creator/{{Disney}} Studios [[AllCGICartoon and is notable for the usage of pure 3D imagery]], a phenomenon that's rare among {{anime}}.

* Hammerspace: Gedächtnis has an internal cargo space that he retrieves various items and visual gags from.

* AfterTheEnd: The series takes place during the last decades of a war between humans and robots. The robots started the war 40,000 years ago, defeated humanity, and created a golden age for machines. After a millennia of conflict, humans have turned the tide and now poised to defeat the machines.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The robots apparently started the war, but it was so long ago no one remembers why. If Drossel's and Gedächtnis' actions and conversations are any indication, intelligent machines have become insane over the eons.

* {{Dystopia}}: The imagery of the town gives that feel. The robots are also fighting a losing war against humanity, and according to the prequel series, their only hope of success is for humanity to evolve into a peaceful species before being wiped out.

* TheFaceless: After Drossel has her Juno-XIII face taken off (to be refitted with the Juno-XIV), whatever was beneath is conspicuously not shown.

* ForeverWar: The series takes place during the end of one. The robots don't know why the war began or how to communicate they want peace with humanity.

* HurricaneOfPuns

* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: The series ''is'' a comedy, but CrypticBackgroundReference paints the world in a somber scenario. The robots are losing a war against humanity, and centuries of distrust and miscommunication prevent a peaceful resolution. While it's never revealed why the humans haven't tried negotiating, the robots are shown to simply not understand ''how'' to hold a meaningful conversation with mankind. They don't understand humans at all.

* AfterTheEnd: The series takes place during the last decades of a war between humans and robots. The robots started the war centuries ago, defeated humanity, and created a golden age for machines. Humans ultimately turned the tide and are now poised to defeat the machines.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The robots apparently started the war, but it was so long ago no one remembers why.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The robots apparently started the war.

* AfterTheEnd: Or is it before?

* {{Dystopia}}: The imagery of the town gives that feel.

* ExpressiveHair: In ''Charming'', Drossel's "pigtails" have been replaced with a single articulated ponytail-like... thing.

** Every episode, Drossel summons Gedächtnis using the wrong name. Gedächtnis reminds her of his correct name only for her to tell him to not interrupt her and then use the same or a new wrong name.

** The human-puppet throwing the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan Salute]] ("live long and prosper") in the Charming finale. Maybe the Charming Mankind did show up for the Ball.
** Drossel starts humming [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Daisy Bell]] as she is being prepared for stasis at the end of ''Charming''.

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[[caption-width-right:360:Gedächtnis & Drossel]]

Don't confuse with {{Fireballs}}. Or [[Creator/KatsuhiroOtomo Fire Ball]].

* NotSoStoic: Gedächtnis actually ''screams aloud'' when Drossel shows him that the human vehicle has [[spoiler:"Warning" written on it]].

** The training program in ''Charming'' episode 2 is a reference to the one Paul Atreides undergoes in {{Dune}}.

Don't confuse with {{Fireballs}}. Or [[KatsuhiroOtomo Fire Ball]].

** The mansion in the first season resembles the Tower of Babel seen in ''Film/Metropolis'', but the more detailed version of the mansion in ''Charming'' looks more like Genom Tower from ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis''.

The series was produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation in cooperation with Creator/{{Disney}} Studios [[AllCGICartoon and is notable for the usage of pure 3D imagery]], a phenomenon that's rare among {{anime}}.

* HartmanHips: ''Charming'' Drossel (AKA Juno-XIII) design sports these.

* OverlyLongName: The 19th Lord of Uranos' Kingdom's Tempest Domain, Drossel Juno Vierzehntes Heizregister Fürstin von Flügel.

* RapidFireComedy

** The human-puppet throwing the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan Salute]] ("peace and prosperity") in the Charming finale. Maybe the Charming Mankind did show up for the Ball.

''Fireball'' is a series of anime shorts depicting the antics of {{robot girl}} Drossel and her gigantic, one-eyed robotic servant Gedächtnis, who dwell in a mansion in the center of a huge robot city, somewhere in the 486th century. Later the duo is accompanied by Schadenfreude, a robotic monkey of sorts.

** Also, Drossel referring to her obvious capoeira movements as "karate".

->'''Gedächtnis:''' ''Did you learn {{capoeira}}?''\\

* GenreSavvy: At one point Drossel remembers having seen an anime. Gedächtnis also references anime in another episode.

** On meeting a human in ''Charming'' ep 1, Drossel holds out her hand as if for a handshake, then uses the Curwen hand gestures from the movie CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind.