The Fan Fic "Marmaladeatron was written after seeing a very amusing article in a fan magazine gifted to us...see the article below. (^_-)

MB "ANIMAZING!" Article

Volume 1, Issue 1

The March "96" issue of The Triangle Area Anime Society
out of the humorous mind of Phil. Printed by permission
of James Holman, club president...and my dear friend. It's called...

A TAAS VIEWER'S GUIDE TO MARMALADE BOY

The Players

James Holman, current president of the Triangle Area Anime Society.
Jeremy Pace, our club's biggest mech fan.

The Conversation

As usual, Jeremy Pace and James Holman were arguing. For some odd reason, Holman had allowed himself to be dragged to the Waffle House after the meeting, where he and Pace were bickering over the schedule.

"There aren't enough mech shows."

James glared at Pace for a moment. "Look, we try to show good mech shows?
There's only so much we can put out there. We showed Gatchaman last week!

"It wasn't subtitled."

"Look, the guys with wings are the good guys. The giant robot turtle is the enemy. How much more do you need to know."

Pace glared back at Holman. "It just isn't the same. Why don't we show something like G-Gundam?"

Holman choked on his hashbrowns and spent a few minutes having coughing fits. "Don't mention G-Gundam to me ever again."

"Well, show something else! Do something besides show Marmalade Boy all the time."

"Hey, Marmalade Boy is a mech show."

Pace snorted. "That little robot doesn't count. And I just don't understand the plot. It's yet another whiney love-triangle. It's almost as bad as the KOR show you like so much. Anyway, I can't really keep up with everything."

Holman repressed the urge to throttle Pace for insulting The One True Show, then pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen. "It's really not that hard to understand."
Holman began sketching out complex diagrams on the paper. Pace groaned. "Okay, it's pretty simple actually. At first, Miki can't decide if she likes Yuu or Ginta."

"I don't like Miki. She whines too much. And that's just another love triangle."

Holman continued to sketch out diagrams. "Well, that's just the start. Then there's Arimi, the blue haired one. She likes Yuu, who doesn't like her. Then, Ginta and Arimi pretend to date to make Miki jealous, which eventually turn into true love."

"Now it's starting to look like a love polygon."

"Shut up, Pace. Now, Meiko and Na-chan (her teacher) are in love, but everyone finds out and Na-chan has to leave. Miwa is in love with Meiko also, while Meiko just isn't interested. Also, Meiko and Miki are convinced that Miwa and Yuu are dating."

"This is a sick show, James. Na-chan's a pedophile.

"I said, shut up. Now Tsutomu is Ginta's annoying cousin who has been in love with Arimi for years. She hates him, and he manages to piss of everyone else in the show also. Now, Miki finally confesses her love to Yuu. Ginta spend some time trying to deal with it, then decided he's in love with Arimi, who also spends time trying to deal with things before accepting Ginta's love."

"So everything's okay, right?"

"No, we're only 1/3 through the series. Now, Miki has to worry about Suzu..."

"Bitch."

"Yes, she's a bitch. As I was saying, Miki has to worry about Suzu's being in love with Yuu, even though he doesn't really like her. Suzu is Miwa's cousin by the way. Also, a co-worker of Miki, Kei, is in love with Miki, who is starting to get confused all over again." James finishes outlining the character relations with a flourish. "That should bring you up to date with the last few episode we showed. Understand?

"Maybe we should just call it a love tumbleweed and leave it at that. I guess I can follow things, but I'd rather watch Transformers. Oh, what about the episode Conrad keeps talking about?"

"Which one?"

"The one where Arimi gets the shotgun and goes around killing everyone."

"Shut up, Pace."

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(KD: Poor Pace. James, how could you! Something's got to be done for him! Marmaladetron! (^_^) Here PACE. At least *I* feel sorry for you.

MARMALADETRON by Karen Duffy

Miki, in her well armored battle suit goes out to meet the foe. But unfortunately, she likes everybody and forgives them for anything they do to her and she gets creamed.

Yuu didn't help her, even though his equipment is more powerful, because he'd rather build the armor suits and went away to school to learn to do that.

Well that's not all. A green haired young man, Kei, who is in love with Miki, mans a mech with an awesome sound system. But Miki, is determined to stay by the armored suit builder, Yuu, even though he’s nowhere around. That is, until the blond operator of a mega-foreign-built robot, Top Heavy, throttles her nearly enough to kill her. Miki begs, nearly in a coma, for Yuu to help her.....but he was taking exams and didn't hear her. Besides, what's more important than learning the latest and greatest of power systems for well crafted-robots.
He was sure nothing was.

Miki knows, after her near fatality, that she can’t survive the relationship, and tells her armor suit builder it was her…or the school. So.... that ends the relationship. After all, his dreams are a stake.

Life began anew…
Miki began to build a new robot. It had a new look and she was nervous about the new system. Kei tried to help her with it...and he made sure to keep the music revved on his mech because she found it particularly comforting.

Meanwhile back at the Super School Of Robot Knowledge, Yuu regrets the loss of his love, Miki...even though being a master armor suit builder is much more important. After all, he really does love her. So Yuu stews.

One day, Yuu is pouring through manuals on the Point Location Sites for Dexterity During Quantum Battles but he's having trouble keeping his mind on it. Miki and her beautiful well-armored battle suit never leave his mind. The way she always considered everyone her friend, even the female battle suit operators, who pulverized her, she was kind to. Her expressive voice and glowing eyes, the way she used to react when he teased her. A sudden warmth filled him, and then left him cold as soon as he realized it was gone and gone forever. Empty.

Yuu, suddenly looked at his stacks of mech books and manuals. They seemed just as cold as he felt. He knew now that once his schooling was through and he was licensed to be a builder, there would only be a socket here and a chip there. No silly girl to run through the house to throw her arms around him in the sheer delight of seeing him.

Now Miki, had gone into battle once again. She ended up in enemy territory. This time it was three mega super robots against one. She was in trouble. These mechs were far bigger and nastier. She couldn't stand to throw a punch and hurt anyone anyway. So she knew she was a dead duck. But she could run! She ran! But not fast enough. The mecha trio were about to give her the last rites, when the newly developed Golden Boy Bot showed up. It was fast and beautiful and not at all gay, and wiped the enemies away.

The voice of the operator had a sultry male voice that could make any girl swoon, it was Yuu. He decided that his lost love, Miki, was the most important thing in his life....for that day. After all, he loves her.

The End
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