Saber Marionette | |
![]() Collage of characters from the three Saber Marionette series.
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セイバーマリオネット (Seibā Marionetto) |
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Genre | Adventure, Comedy, Harem, Science Fiction |
Original video animation | |
Saber Marionette R | |
Directed by | Koji Masunari |
Produced by | Atsushi Sugita Mitsuteru Shibata |
Written by | Masaharu Amiya Sumio Uetake |
Music by | Toshiyuki Omori |
Studio | Zero-G Room |
Released | November 11, 1997 – June 25, 1998 |
Runtime | 30 minutes (each) |
Episodes | 3 |
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Saber Marionette (セイバーマリオネット Seibā Marionetto?) is a science fiction humor/adventure series featuring android girls. It has been produced in the form of anime, manga, and light novels. It was created by Satoru Akahori.
In January 1995 a twelve-episode audio drama series called SM Girls Saber Marionette R aired on the radio show Nowanchatte Say You. The audio drama concluded in April 1995 and the story was continued one month later with the release of the first episode of the Saber Marionette R OVA. Episode two was released in late July 1995, and in September 1995, the final episode was released.
From April, 1995 to December 1995, an incomplete seven-chapter manga titled SM Girls Gaiden Saber Marionette Z was published in the Gakken's magazine AnimeV, in its Vcomi section. It was illustrated by Megumu Okada and never published in a tankoubon format. The eighth chapter was released in a novel format. Later, Akahori and Katsumi Hasegawa attempted to re-compose the story as an Saber Marionette R 2 novel, but it was never realized and was released as another novel.
In October 1995 the SM Girls Saber Marionette J audio drama series premiered on Nowanchatte Say You and ran until January 1996. In October 1996 the Saber Marionette J anime series aired. The series ran through March 1997 with 25 episodes. Beginning with a short story published in the October 1994 issue of Gekkan Dragon Magazine, twelve volumes of serialized light novels were produced. A manga series illustrated by Yumisuke Kotoyoshi was adapted from an anime series serialized in the Gekkan Dragon Jr. and then in Gekkan Comic Dragon.