TV series / 2008

Fireball

Episode directors Wataru Arakawa

AnimationComedySci-fi & fantasy

★ 6.6/10Audience rating

The story

Fireball is a series of CGI anime shorts created by Jinni's Animation Studios in conjunction with Disney. The designer is Hitoshi Fukuchi. It is animated entirely in 3D with no cel-shading of any sort, as would be typical for the medium.

The show takes place in the distant future of the 49th millennium, and revolves around the happenings inside a giant manor inhabited by two robots; the gynoid duchess Drossel von Flügel and her massive cyclopian arachnoid servant, Gedächtnis. The episodes are usually nonsensical in nature, normally showing the two characters making idle conversation in the midst of a war with humanity. A third character, a monkey-robot named "Schadenfreude", joins them later.

The seasons

Season 1 Fireball 2008 · 13 episodes Season details

April 7, 2008

Drossel, an heiress from a long aristocratic line of the House of Flügel, resides in a castle called the Tower of Tempest. She lives there with her large robotic butler Gedächtnis, who has been serving the family for generations. He reveres Drossel’s late father and diligently serves as her caretaker. Drossel also cares for Gedächtnis with whom she has grown up. They pass the time with supposedly intellectually stimulating conversations, only to be interrupted by unexpected, wacky events at times.

Season 2 Fireball Charming 2011 · 13 episodes Season details

April 4, 2011

Drossel confesses she has had a “dream” about a human. When she insists that the first step toward achieving peace with him is to find common ground through words, Gedächtnis lectures her about the characteristically human phenomenon of “evolving language.”

Season 3 Fireball Humorous 2017 · 3 episodes Season details

Oct. 6, 2017

On an ordinary planet in the distant future. Humans have long been at war with the mechanical aristocrats called "Hyperion." This is the story of Drossel, a Hyperion and the daughter of the Duke von Flügel, and her butler Gedächtnis in the Tower of Tempest, isolated from the outside world. Their daily tasks revolve around managing problems that occur in their high-rising castle-tower while awaiting the day the stars realign themselves.