| abstract | - Lingerie Soldier Papillon Rose is an Ecchi parody of the Magical Girl genre, particularly of Sailor Moon whose plot it borrows from heavily. Papillon Rose started out as a web original, getting a brief OVA in 2003 and a 6-episode broadcast sequel called Papillon Rose: New Season in 2006.
* Aloof Ally: Papillon V, Adonis, and Lupinus.
* Apocalypse Maiden: Cosmos
* Back From the Dead: Usually a season finale occurrence, just as in Sailor Moon.
* Bleached Underpants: A mild example: the OVA was a lot more explicit than the relatively tame TV series.
* Brainwashed and Crazy: Margarette, Lily, and Dahlia, in Season G of the ONA.
* By the Power of Greyskull: "Rose Orgasm Power Erection!" which was changed to "Rose Papillon Power Erection!" in "New Season."
* Calling Your Attacks: "Rose Pinkish Dynamic!" Among many others.
* Casanova: Anne is a love-em-and-leave-em kind of girl.
* Cool Big Sis: Anne has this personality.
* Covert Pervert: Shizuku
* Crash Into Hello: How Tsubomi and Hikaru meet.
* Dark Skinned White-Haired Pretty Girl: Cosmos
* Ecchi: It's not quite Hentai because there's no explicit sex.
* Expy: The Papillons to a good portion of the Sailor Moon cast.
* Frilly Upgrade: Rose gets one when she upgrades to Papillon Flora. In keeping with the spirit of the series, it has her wearing even less clothing than before. It also makes her hair grow.
* Gainaxing: Even though the girls' uniform clearly features a bra, they still manage quite a lot of bouncing.
* Girlish Pigtails: Tsubomi, since she's a parody of Usagi. Also Petite Rose.
* Heel Face Turn: Dahlia started out as a minion of the villains, before being revealed as a Papillon Fighter.
* Hot Chick with a Sword: Rose in New Season.
* Hotter and Sexier: To Sailor Moon.
* I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight: Rose tries this with Dahlia, to break the villains' mind control over her. It works, but not before Dahlia stabs Rose through the torso.
* Improbable Weapon User: In the OVA, Rose's main weapon is a vibrator.
* In the Name of the Moon: "Clad in sensual lingerie, I am the crimson butterfly of the night!"
* Interspecies Romance: The OVA has a scene where Rama, a cat, gives oral sex to Hikaru, a human. Ouch.
* Intimate Healing: Dahlia heals Rose by lending her some of her power. For some reason, this requires Dahlia to take her top off.
* Torakage also heals Rose by doing something sexy and offscreen to her. Unfortunately, this uses up all his power and kills him.
* Laser-Guided Amnesia: At the beginning of "New Season," the girls have been made to forget their identities as Papillons.
* Magical Girl Warrior: A parody.
* Meaningful Name:
* "Tsubomi" means "flower bud."
* Also, Petite Rose's main attack is "Pinkish Paipan!" "Paipan" means a person who lacks pubic hair, either because of shaving or youth.
* Meganekko: Shizuku
* Meido: In "New Season," the girls work at a Maid Cafe in Akihabara.
* Mentor Mascot: Rama, the perverted talking cat. Instead of having a crescent moon on her forehead, she has a butterfly, and in the OVA, she has a condom on her tail.
* Monster of the Week: Of the typical Magical Girl variety where a mundane object is transformed into a monster.
* Mysterious Protector: Dandy Lion in the ONA/OVA, and Torakage in "New Season." Dandy Lion is a specific parody of Tuxedo Mask, except instead of throwing roses, he throws semen.
* Mysterious Waif: Rubi/Cosmos
* Name's the Same: A Magical Girl protagonist who wears pink and is named Tsubomi. Are we talking about Papillon Rose or Cure Blossom?
* Non-Indicative Name: "New Season" is the first and only season of the TV series.
* Opera Gloves: A standard part of the Papillons' wardrobe.
* Otaku: The girls spend most of their time fighting in Akihabara, so they have a bevy of fanboys who follow them around, observe and comment on the fight scenes, and sometimes help the girls out.
* Pantyshot First Impression: When Hikaru and Tsubomi first meet, she crashes into him, falls over, and consequently flashes her panties at him.
* Psycho Lesbian: Sister Beene from the OVA.
* Rose-Haired Girl: Tsubomi
* Sixth Ranger: Dahlia in the New Season; Adonis, Lupinus, and Petite Rose in Season R of the ONA.
* Stripperiffic: It's right there in the show's title — they fight in lingerie.
* Taking the Bullet: Dahlia for Rose, in the backstory of "New Season."
* Theme Naming: Each girl is named after a flower.
* Think of the Censors: In the first episode of "New Season," Papillon Rose is about to do her "Pinky Vibrator" attack from the more hentai-themed OVA, but Rama stops her before she can say the full name, claiming that the censors won't allow them to do that anymore.
* Token Mini-Moe: Petite Rose
* Transformation Sequence
* White-Haired Pretty Boy: Hikaru/Dandy Lion.
* You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Dahlia's is green.
* Zettai Ryouiki: Another standard part of the Papillons' wardrobe.
- Lingerie Soldier Papillon Rose(パピヨンローゼPapiyon Rōze) is an anime which parodies the magical girl genre, particularly Sailor Moon and Cutie Honey. Created by dojinshi group ECHIGOYA, Papillon Rose started out as a metafiction joke on a website, and the official website only had a few pictures of characters (which were usually copied from scenes in Sailor Moon, with the artwork changed) and a few lyrics to opening and ending theme songs. Demand grew due to people finding the page and assuming it was for an actual series, and in 2003, the series was picked up by the animation studio Pink, and an OVA was produced (Lingerie Soldier Papillon Rose: Tsubomi no Yume wa Yoru Hiraku). An episode guide for the (non-existent) first series and manga was also made available, as well as a set of CD-ROMs containing a 2-minute animated promotional clip, eight songs (6 BGM and 2 vocal songs), system voice clips for computers, a Papillon Rose mahjong game, and two screen savers. The CDs were only made available for Comiket, and were not distributed outside of Japan. Later an episode guide for the second ('R') season was made as well. The homepage was redesigned and updated with fake manga covers and notes from the fictional author. Amateur voice actors and singers were also contacted to provide sample character voice clips for a handful of the villains and heroines. An English version was initially intended for release on the Internet, but plans failed to materialize. In March 2010, Section 23 films announced plans to distribute the 6 episode series and OVA on DVD for North America on behalf of Maiden Japan. The DVD set is planned to be released on June 8, 2010. Maiden Japan is a division of "J-Horror" and "Pink Cinema" licensor Switchblade Pictures. Papillon Rose will be their first release. From 2003 until early 2005, no new news was made available about the series, save for profiles of new characters and various fictional incarnations of the series:
* Papillon R which parodies the 2nd season of Sailor Moon;
* Papillon G which parodies the 3rd season (S). In early 2005, however, the site went blank, with nothing other than a graphic that stated the website would return in the new future. As of October 2005, this page is still in existence at the prior location. [1] On October 8, 2005 Anime News Network reported that the site was relocated to a new official website [2], with information on the development of a Papillon Rose television series. The TV series was called 'Papillon Rose New Season' and was six episodes long, covering what happened to the girls a year after the ending of the OVA and introducing new characters. The DVD release of the TV series was halted after the third DVD was released, a while after a soundtrack for the series was put on sale and a box set containing all six episodes was released in October 2007, although various changes (such as music) had to be made due to copyright limitations. Despite the seemingly hentai overtones, the series has yet to feature sex, or extremely graphic nudity.
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