mechanical buddy universe
Post-apocalyptic science fiction setting by Kato Takuji (AKA Ishiyumi). Most stories in the setting generally involve a human paired off with a sapient robot character as their primary protagonists. The main story arcs are:
- The Story of a Droid
- Hawkeye in Love
- The Banshee Cometh
- Maid Would Want to Protect Her Lady
- The Story of an Manga Artist
- Apparition (originally unrelated horror characters who eventually became the main antagonists of MBU)
Currently serialized by Square Enix as Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0.
Characters
- The Story of a Droid
- Blau
- Rainy, Blau's adopted son
- Victoria Venera
- John
- Darryl
- Hawkeye in Love
- Hawk
- Riika Rikkinen
- Hawkeyes (the team of Hawk and Riika together)
- Parts Shop Geezer, Riika's grandfather
- Tonfa Guy
- Cyborg Git
- Punk Git
- The Banshee Cometh
- Maid Would Want to Protect Her Lady
- Cordelia Herschel, an android based on...
- Cordelia Herschel (young), deceased
- Shu, her maid
- Ophelia Herschel, Cordelia's sister who has sworn to destroy her android duplicate
- The Story of a Manga Artist
- Airget B Lamh
- Clara, his assistant
