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:''"Read or Dream" redirects here. However, that is a separate work that deserves its own page.''
''[[R.O.D
The rather strange title of the show refers to its fusion of the ''Read or Die'' [[OVA]] and the cast from ''Read or Dream'', a manga centered around three sisters with powers similar to Yomiko's. Adding to the confusion were both animated adaptations being [[Alternate Continuity|somewhat different in tone from their respective manga]]. Regardless its proved to be an interesting blend of both series that worked out particularly well.
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The ''Read or Dream'' manga (which the Paper Sisters come from) is available in the States for the curious.
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* [[108]]: Room 108 in the Dokusensha base, where they conduct their brainwashing experiments.▼
* [[Action Girl]]: Yomiko; the Paper Sisters
* [[Adult Child]]: Michelle and Yomiko. Nancy too, though this has less to do about her personality quirks and more to do with brain damage and amnesia.▼
* [[Affably Evil]]: {{spoiler|Joker}} is the personification of an [[Affably Evil]] foe
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Alice Alice Arquet
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* [[Artificial Human]]: Nancy, {{spoiler|Anita King}}
** In fact it's heavily implied that {{spoiler|all the Paper Sisters and indeed most papermasters are constructs of Dokusensha}}
* [[
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Definitely Yomiko, and each of the Paper Sisters could probably count in their own ways as well.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Pretty much all the protagonists except for Drake. Even Anita has a weird sort of [[Tsundere]] relationship with books.
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* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Michelle is drawn to Anita's friends Hisami and Junior.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Anita
▲* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Junior.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The series is notably darker than both the over the top superheroics of the ''Read or Die'' manga, and the whimsical friendly nature of the ''Read or Dream'' manga. On the other hand, it's not half as bloody as the OVA, though it does do away with most of the 1960s spy gadgetry.
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: Wendy
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'''Junior''': "I'm... a boy..." }}
* [[Egopolis]]: Britain (or at least the British Library) really thinks too highly of themselves in this universe. So much so that they revert everything back to a 19-century version of the world they ruled, when the British Empire was at its peak of power.
* [[Eucatastrophe]]: Seriously.{{context}}▼
* [[Evil Brit]]: Several, most notably {{spoiler|Joker}}, {{spoiler|Wendy}} and [[Elite Mook]] Mirrorman.
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: Yomiko, the Paper Sisters
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Lee
* [[Expy]]: Alice Alice Arquet bears more than a passing resemblance to ''[[Tomb Raider
* [[Fan Service]]▼
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Dokusensha operatives wears something that resembles [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] outfits, while British Library agents wears hats and sunglasses to cover their faces.
▲* [[Fan Service]]
* [[
* [[Flashback Echo]]: Anita's memories of burning books.
* [[Flipping the Bird]]: Nenene does this to a literary terrorist in the first episode, and Anita does it to ''her'' in the next one.
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* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: Michelle to Junior. See the entry for [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]] above.
* [[Intangible Man]]: Nancy has the ability to phase her body through just about anything: walls, doors, machinery -- even flesh and blood. Junior also possesses this power {{spoiler|until he phases through his own body to remove a homing device implanted in his chest cavity}}.
▲* [[Instrumentality]]: {{spoiler|The British Library's ultimate plan is to transmit the power of their god, the Gentleman, and rewrite the minds of everyone on Earth.}}
* [[Invisibility]] / [[Master of Illusion]]: Mirrorman.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Okahara towards Hisami, after she tells him that she likes Anita.
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Awww, Anita is having her first day at school, and she is really popular, and now she is hanging out with Hisami, her new best friend and [[Moe|cutest character in the whole school]], and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Anita is getting that little bit of childhood that she never had before]], and '''''holy @#%& that dude got shot!'''''
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Alice Arquet is a clear [[Lara Croft]] [[Expy]] and has [[No Nudity Taboo]]. She even tells Drake to "grow up" when he gets embarrassed by her stripping in front of him. {{spoiler|Turns into Ms. [[Fan Disservice]] when she is [[Mood Whiplash|suddenly and brutally killed]] partway through putting her clothes back on.}}
* [[
▲* [[Eucatastrophe]]: Seriously.
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: And so is Yomiko. Michelle, Maggie and Nenene surely qualify too. ROD loves its nerds.
* [[No Koreans in Japan]]: "Mr. Kim" is a Korean name, but he looks and acts more stereotypically Chinese than Korean. It may well be a pseudonym {{spoiler|especially since he seems to be involved on the shifty side of two very shifty organizations}}.
* [[Odango Hair]]: When the girls change clothing, Anita has a Chinese-styled top plus this, despite having the shortest hair. [[Word of God]] is that those 'odango' are actually empty.
▲* [[
* [[One Last Smoke]]: {{spoiler|Lee Linho}}▼
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted with Maggie Mui and Drake's daughter Maggie. Drake of course has a double take when he hears Maggie Mui's name.▼
* [[The Other Darrin]]: The TV series has an entirely different English dub cast than the OAV (save for Wendy Tomson/Tricia Dickson, who goes from playing Wendy in the OAV to Nenene in the TV series), which was not too jarring for the most part, except that Yomiko went from having a ''very'' American accent to having a ''very'' English accent (according to the DVD commentary, this is because the Japanese creators specifically asked [[Geneon]] to give Yomiko an English accent since she is supposed to be half-British).
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Dr. Weber. Really, though he certainly has all the appearances of a vampire, he does not seem to possess any kind of extraordinary abilities.
▲* [[108]]: Room 108 in the Dokusensha base, where they conduct their brainwashing experiments.
▲* [[One Last Smoke]]: {{spoiler|Lee Linho}}
▲* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted with Maggie Mui and Drake's daughter Maggie. Drake of course has a double take when he hears Maggie Mui's name.
* [[Paper Master]]: The trope-namer.
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: Drake Anderson, fulfilling the common anime stereotype of Americans being pale-skinned, blond-haired, and blue-eyed.
* [[Portmanteau]]: Joker uses the name Joe Carpenter. Whether this is his real name or a pseudonym is unstated, but either way Joker is clearly a portmanteau of Joe Carpenter.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
* [[Power Trio]]: the Paper Sisters.▼
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Junior to Michelle; especially after the writers found that Junior and Anita had no chemistry.
* [[Pre-Explosion Glow]]
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Action cliffhangers with the girls in peril, leading into the rather chipper end theme.
* [[Steampunk]]: Much of the British Library. They appear to use 19th-century era ''cell phones''.
* [[The Stinger]]: At the very end of the series, we again see the statue of Mary and Jesus in the church where the sisters met. It has their initials carved into it: "MAM". Which means
* [[Storming the Castle]]: Twice.
* [[Superhero]] (sort of)
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|When Anita comes to rescue Nenene from the Dokusensha, the two of them spend some time talking. In the meanwhile, Lee takes the opportunity to pick up his gun and sneak up behind Anita. Fortunately, this is when he chooses to do a [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: In series -- all of them, even the most of antagonists. Not quite so in OVA.
* [[Third
* [[Throw the Book At Them]]: Anita likes to do this.
* [[Title Drop]]: Kindasorta. Wendy's speech to Anita {{spoiler|after the British Library brainwashes her school.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|"Follow the reality of the British Library or be destroyed. Dream... or Die."}}}}
* [[Trademark
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe]]: Watered down somewhat, as London and Hong Kong also have fairly major roles in the story.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Wendy again.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: [[Nightmare Fuel|"John Smith is in a grove...."]]
* [[Translation Convention]]: Michelle addressing people as "<name> dear" for "<name>-chan", as well as "John Woo...*peck*...sir" for John Woo-san. This is just in the dub.
* [[Tsundere]]: Okahara (towards Hisami) -- a rare male example. Arguably Nenene, especially in spiky [[Grumpy Bear]] mode.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Junior. He is {{spoiler|eventually [[Defusing the Tykebomb|defused]] by the protagonists (mostly Michelle). Ironically, being reunited with his mother Nancy does not aid in the defusing, but rather makes things worse.}}
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* [[Waif Fu]]: Anita is ''very'' strong, capable of stunning a "vampire" by throwing a book into his face and breaking his nose from 20 feet away ''without'' using her paper powers. She can knock out grown men three times her size; and her fighting style was developed by animators via "[[Le Parkour|observing monkeys]] and [[She Fu|the Chinese Royal Acrobats]]."
* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: When {{spoiler|Nenene asks Lee whether he really did want to read her new book. He says that it was a lie, but later admits that it was not.}}
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: One of the only specific weaknesses between true [[Paper Master
** It could be that they can make paper resistant to such if they create their constructs ''expecting'' them to be exposed to fire, sound or water. That would explain how the sisters could make a boat out of paper that doesn't immediately fall apart when in other situations their paper stops working when suddenly soaked.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episode 12, when {{spoiler|Nenene is kidnapped, and Lee is revealed to be a Dokusensha agent}}.
** Episode 9, where Alice gets [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]], qualifies.
▲* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: It is an action/espionage series about books.
▲* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The shot of a statue of the Virgin Mary during {{spoiler|the destruction of Hong Kong}}. Also, John Woo (the pigeon) shows up at the end of the episode in a manner evocative of the story of Noah's Ark.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Maggie, who mostly wears men's suits.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Junior, in a rare female parental figure example.
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: "Who the heck would come up with such a fiasco? It's no good! It's not realistic at all!"
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Junior. Chronologically, he is only 6 years old, but due to accelerated aging, he appears to be about 12. This is probably also technically true for {{spoiler|his I-Jin mother}} Nancy.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: The [[Wham! Episode]] (see
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