And two more "unusual" marionettes, Cherry and Bloodberry, soon end up in his possession. Otaru soon finds himself the center of a great deal of attention, including (to his shock) that of the shogun. In the wake of a mishap during one such job, Otaru finds and awakens Lime - a marionette who acts more like a real person than an automaton, loaded with emotions, curiosity, and an unfortunate tendency to attract trouble. Too poor to afford a marionette of his own, he runs back and forth through the city trying to scrape up enough cash to live on with a series of odd jobs. In the city-state of Japoness, which is modeled after Edo-era Japan, industrious orphan Otaru struggles to make ends meet. Women have not been forgotten among the men of Terra II, though - simple-minded automatons called "marionettes" are built in exclusively female form, and act as servants, entertainers, concubines - and in some cases, infantry troops. Its human population is entirely male, born from recombinant DNA and cloning technology, and its hostile surface is home to six widely-separated city-states, each mimicking an earthly culture ranging from medieval Japan to 20th-Century America. Several centuries after an almost-failed colony attempt, the planet Terra II is a strange place.
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