R.O.D the TV

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Nenene, a famous female writer, hires the Paper Sisters, so named due to their ability to manipulate and control paper, as bodyguards.Nenene, a famous female writer, hires the Paper Sisters, so named due to their ability to manipulate and control paper, as bodyguards.Nenene, a famous female writer, hires the Paper Sisters, so named due to their ability to manipulate and control paper, as bodyguards.

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Joe 'Joker' Carpenter…

Siobhan Flynn

Wendy Earhart

Rachel Hirschfeld

Anita King

Samantha Tabak

Nenene Sumiregawa

Hunter Mackenzie Austin

Michelle Chan

Sara Lahti

Maggie Mui

Vesper Burnett

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Chiwa Saitô

Anita King

Shoko Kikuchi

Michelle Cheung

Erica Shaffer

Cabin Attendant…

Hiromi Hirata

Maggie Mui

Satsuki Yukino

Nenene Sumiregawa

Jessica D. Stone

Junior…

Mitsuki Saiga

Junior

Hozumi Gôda

'Joker' Joe Carpenter

Mika Sakenobe

Wendy Earhart

Hellena Taylor

Yomiko Readman…

Rieko Miura

Yomika 'The Paper' Readman

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Trivia
The names of the "Paper Sisters" are loosely inspired by three famous Hong Kong actresses: Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh (who has also been credited as "Michelle Khan") and the late Anita Mui. Alternatively, a possible reference (pertaining to Anita's surname) is Hong Kong actress Michelle Reis, whose surname means "king" in Portuguese (her father being Portuguese).

Goofs
One weakness of Paper Masters (revealed when the Three Sisters are in the Gifu prefecture hot springs) is that water can dampen their ability to control paper. Yomiko Readman and Sunny Wong have some way of overcoming this, but the Three Sisters do not (Joker later uses this weakness against the girls when he confronts them in the National Diet Library). However, as seen at the end of Twilight of the Papers, Anita forms and holds an underwater bubble to help her and Nenene escape from Dokusensha as the building sinks into the ocean (due to a bomb that Joker had planted).

Connections
Featured in Anime Unleashed: R.O.D. The TV Commercial (2003)

Soundtracks
R.O.D
Opening Theme (Episodes 2-25)
Performed by YKZ

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Not what I was expecting.

After viewing the original Read or Die, I was expecting some of the same incredible action with all the paper and unique powers of all the characters of the first.

It delivers some incredible eye candy in the first episode, but from then on it focuses mostly on little tasks the three girls must accomplish. Ten episodes felt like one very, very long one. I have to say overall it was pretty disappointing. It has its good parts, but mostly it's a waste of time. If you liked the first Read or Die, you won't like this one. They're two totally different perspectives on an original idea, but Read Or Die: The TV a step in the wrong direction.