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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fom6S9VjavQ Rouge]] by YU-KA.
2	* AbandonShipping: Given the very premise of the series - that of two young women gradually bonding as they accomplish a herculean task together - and the chemistry Naomi and Rouge have with each other, not to mention the lengths Naomi goes to in her effort to rescue Rouge in Episode 5, many people were hoping for there to be some romance between the two characters, not unlike the general fandom perception for Chisato and Takina in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''. Some people dropped the ship however when a character profile revealed that chronologically, Rouge is a ''ten-year old minor'' while Naomi is twenty-three (with it later revealed that [[OlderThanTheyLook she's actually 40]]). However, others have pointed out that Rouge is a literal robot, and how long she's existed doesn't translate to her being a literal 10 year old. Specially when she looks, acts and is treated (by both the narrative and characters) as an adult.
3	* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Jill/Silvia’s death in the final episode by the hands of Cyan (possessed by Roy’s consciousness) may be brutal and unsettling when Jill/Silvia gets both her arms cut off and [[AndShowItToYou her ID ripped out of and crushed from her chest,]] though blood was not shown.]]
4	* SpiritualSuccessor: To quite a few series and franchises.
5	** Parallels to the Franchise/BladeRunner franchise come up a lot. Similar to the first film, the protagonist is tasked with hunting down rogue androids roaming around their respective settings. And like the second film, said protagonist is also a HunterOfHerOwnKind. Both stories are also dealing with themes of discrimination against androids ([[FantasticRacism racism]] in Blade Runner's case, indifference and subversion of AndroidsArePeopleToo in Metallic Rouge's). That's not even getting into the setting where the opening establishing shots of Rouge's first episode clearly takes inspiration from the downpour atmosphere of the Blade Runner franchise (just with less flying cars, holographic billboards, and neon lights). And while we never see it in person, Blade Runner 2049 alludes to Mars as an off-world colony; while Rouge setting takes place in a far-future terraformed Mars.
6	** It is ''not'' difficult to see Rouge as an {{Expy}} of ''Videogame/MegaManZero''-era Zero, if the term 'nean' was replaced with 'reploid.' Like the Immortal Reploid, Rouge is a rather muted but determined crimson robot with a green energy sword and a friendlier handler who exists in a setting where 'reploids' are second-class citizens dealing with a troublesome civic crisis regarding their purpose and liberty. Borrowing a bit from ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' is that the neans Rouge is fighting are mavericks whose programming and capacity for free thought renders their Asimov Code moot, making them a danger to humans and other neans alike. Going even further, Rouge and the Immortal Nine fight like they're in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'', having super-powerful transformations that give them their gimmicks. If Viola was counted as a WarmUpBoss like the ''Zero'' and ''ZX'' series occasionally had, (such as [[VideoGame/MegaManZero1 Aztec Falcon]] or [[VideoGame/MegaManZX Giro]]) the show would even have the typical ''Mega Man'' structure of having eight boss mavericks across multiple stages to defeat.

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