Saber Marionette

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Saber Marionette
Collage of characters from the three Saber Marionette series.
セイバーマリオネット (Seibā Marionetto)
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 Animate Film
Released	May 25, 1995 – September 25, 1995
Runtime	30 minutes
Episodes	3
Anime
Saber Marionette J (1996–97 television series) Saber Marionette J Again (1997–98 OVA series) Saber Marionette J to X (1998–99 television series)
Other media
Saber Marionette R (1995 audio dramas) Saber Marionette i − Neo Gene (2008 manga) Saber Marionette Z (1995 manga)

Saber Marionette (セイバーマリオネット, Seibā Marionetto) is a Japanese series created by Satoru Akahori featuring android girls. It has been produced in the form of anime, manga, and light novels.

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.^[1]

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 tankōbon format. The eighth chapter was released in a novel format. Later, Akahori and Katsumi Hasegawa attempted to re-compose the story as a 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.

In October 1997, a sequel arrived on video, the Saber Marionette J Again OVA. In June 1998, the sixth and final episodes of the OVA were released. In October 1998, the Saber Marionette J to X TV series was first broadcast. The series ran for 26 episodes, concluding in March 1999.

A manga titled Saber Marionette 2: Shiritsu Oedo Gakuen Koubouki started serializing in Fujimi Shobo's Gekkan Dragon Magazine in October 2000, but it was soon canceled.

A manga titled Saber Marionette i − Neo Gene illustrated by Megane Ōtomo started its serialization in July 2008 in Fujimi Shobo's Gekkan Dragon Age and was finally compiled in one tankōbon.

In July 2015, the group then known as Animation Innovation Content (AIC) Project (currently: Saber Project) announced that it had licensed the rights to the franchise, and simultaneously announced the launch of the Saber "re:anime project".^[2][3]