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''Earth Maiden Arjuna'' (''Earth Girl Arjuna'') is an [[Anime]] written and directed by Shoji Kawamori and produced by Satelight and Bandai Visual. With a total of [[Twelve
▲''Earth Maiden Arjuna'' (''Earth Girl Arjuna'') is an [[Anime]] written and directed by Shoji Kawamori and produced by Satelight and Bandai Visual. With a total of [[Twelve Episode Anime|twelve episodes]] with an original run between January 9, 2001 ? March 27, 2001 on TV Tokyo. One additional episode was included on the DVD but was included in subsequent reruns.
The story follows Juna Ariyoshi, a Japanese high school girl chosen to be the ''Avatar of Time'' and entrusted with saving the dying Earth. Opening with her trip to the beach where an accident results in her death. As Juna's spirit leaves her body, Juna sees the dying Earth, [[Green Aesop|the planet's suffering is visualized by worm-like creatures]], the Raaja. A young boy named Chris appears before Juna and offers to save her life if she will help the planet, she agrees and is resurrected. The series chronicles Juna's attempts to save the planet with help from international organization SEED.
Think ''[[Captain Planet and
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* [[Author Filibuster]]: Chris has a checklist on [[
* [[Author Tract]]: [[Word of God]] that this series expresses his ideas on several subjects, like, for example, natural farming and ecology.
* [[Berserk Button]]: it might be a good idea to not be in the vicinity when you're telling the girl with excessively powerful psychic powers {{spoiler|that you're going to leave her country to die.}} Or at least, find a way not to be in the building when she levels it.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: ''Don't'' mess with Chris.
* [[Bratty Half
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Cindy towards Chris.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: most of the series is an existential discourse on nature and humanity. What do ''you'' think?
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* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: Chris
* [[Deconstruction]]: It looks like an average [[Magical Girl Warrior]] show... for an episode.
* [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!]]: Don't experiment with the incredibly dangerous substances, please? You might bring about the ''[[Apocalypse How|end of the freaking world!]]''
* [[Effortless Amazonian Lift]]: Arjuna can hold Tokio in her arms without even noticing the strain.
* [[Facial Markings]]: Arjuna's bindi
* [[
* [[
* [[Hollywood Global Warming]]
* [[Green Aesop]]
* [[Harmony Versus Discipline]]: Actively changing Nature to solve problems with Science only causes bigger and bigger problems.
* [[Humans Are
** Befitting the [[Green Aesop]], there are scenes where humanity at large is portrayed as either assholes or destructive ignoramuses.
** Mostly [[
** Towards the latter parts of the show, {{spoiler|where Raaja-infested Japan is quarantined,}} it's hinted that the outside world eventually abandoned both the victims and the remnant government as a means for a cover-up. Of course, Arjuna isn't pleased at the slightest.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Earth Guardian Ashra, near the end of the series it ends up moving somewhere faster than 16,000 miles an hour.
* [[In Harmony
* [[Jerk
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: SEED thought Juna was an incompetent high school girl who could be easily managed. [[Horrible Judge of Character|And then they made her mad.]]
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: {{spoiler|Tokio}}
* [[Magical Girl Warrior]]
* [[Mama Bear]]: ''don't'' threaten Juna's friends, family, or country. If you are alive after having completed the actual threat, you will [[Unstoppable Rage|live to regret it.]]
* [[Meganekko]]: Sayuri
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Chris, then {{spoiler|Juna}}
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* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: Chris is rather tight-lipped on the subject of exactly what Juna's supposed to be doing or how she should accomplish it. He usually just chucks her into the action and tells her to figure it out herself, because that's [[The Only Way They Will Learn|the only way she will learn]].
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: If you screw up the environment, then giant worms will rise up from the ocean, rampage across the Earth, and... {{spoiler|provide the starving people with an alternate food source.}}
* [[
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich]]: SO MANY TIMES! I'll have her Meriken burger, damnit!
* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]
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