R.O.D the TV/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Complete Monster: Joker, who regularly and casually kicks the dog and has no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. He even admits it. His reasoning is if his plan succeeds, his existence as Joker will be gone, completely rewritten by the Gentleman along with everyone else.
    • He's a rather interesting mix of Complete Monster with Affably Evil and Knight Templar. Though he does horrible things, he still believes that everything he does is for the good of mankind, and his underlings are almost all written as hard working professionals who also believe they are doing good.
    • Wendy also enters into this territory after Operation Fahrenheit 451, and the final revelation that she has no feelings for Junior other than as a tool, and never did
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The story of how the Paper Sisters met. Averted when we learn the whole story is a lie; Reconstructed when the ending shows that their meeting did happen; it was what was before that that was constructed.
  • Les Yay: The subtext implied between Yomiko and Nenene pops up quite a few times, and an old friend of Nenene once assumed Yomiko was her girlfriend; even Anita is a bit suspicious of the situation. Anita and her classmate Hisami are also very close. Hisami even tells a boy interested in her that she cannot date him because she is seeing Anita. And the "Carry me or I'll be forced to kiss you!" scene with Nenene and Maggie. Yomiko's bond with Nancy, which was quite intense in the original series, is further developed here, coming across as something deeply romantic. When Nenene finally catches up with the two of them, the situation could easily be interpreted as a love triangle, with Nenene victorious in the end.
  • Moe Moe: Yomiko-chan. Maggie is an interesting example, her personality is quite moe, and clashes with her distinctly un-moe appearance to make her so adorably awkward.
  • Moral Event Horizon: It was never shown what exactly Joker did to Donny, but if it could drive Yomiko into a homicidal rage...
  • Tear Jerker: Quite a few, including Anita and Yomiko getting separated from the rest of the group, with Anita thinking that they are all dead. And later Maggie being forced to turn in Nenene to the British Library to protect Michelle and Anita, and then finding out her memories of them were fabricated by Dokusensha.
  • Toy Ship: Anita/Hisami and Anita/Junior. Also Anita/Okahara when Natsume pointed what looks like their Slap Slap Kiss moments.
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