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Beryl and Sapphire (simplified Chinese: 小绿和小蓝; traditional Chinese: 小綠和小藍; pinyin: xiǎolǜ hé xiǎolán) is a Chinese comic series created by Ocarina. It is a collection of medium-length comic chapters, with Beryl and Sapphire as central characters. There are different background settings of different volumes, including not only daily humorous little stories, but also complicated stories with the theme of science fiction and magic. In order to match different background information settings, the settings of characters vary. In the original chapters, the characters are depicted as stick figures, but there are also some illustrations that describe the characters in fully proportional model. So far it has serialized 298 chapters.

Main Series
These series are stories that have relatively coherent contents.

Robot Series
This series begins at Chapter 94 "Robot Series 01: Creation". It is based on a world where robots are commonly used in people's daily life. But these robots can only obey simple orders. Sapphire decides to buy a robot and transform it into a smart robot that is capable to learn and think by itself. He sets the appearance and voice of this robot according to Beryl, and names it as "Robot-Beryl".

Actor Series
This series begins at Chapter 123 "Memories: Sidelights". In this series, all the main characters are professional actors. They gather together and make films based on the scripts that the author Ocarina creates as independent stories.

Evil Lord Series
This series begins at Chapter 160 "Evil Lord Series 01: For Justice". This series is based on an imaginary online game that mankind and evil-kind fight against each other to obtain the dominance of the world. All the main characters are NPC s in this online game.

Magical Girls Series
This series begins at Chapter 167 "Magical Girls 01: Bisco". The leading roles in this series are Flax and Weiss. Flax meets Ocarina Meow by accident, and signs a contract to become a magical girl. Using her magical power, she defeats many monsters.

Underworld Series
This series begins at Chapter 221 "Underworld Series: Daily Story". The leading roles in this series are Raven and Joseph. It tells stories between Raven and Joseph after Joseph joined Raven's underworld organization.

Independent Srories
They are stories that have less length than series above. Each independent story has its own settings about the world and the characters. Usually each independent story contains 1 to 3 little stories.

Beryl
Name: Beryl.

Gender: male.

Height: 185cm.

Blood type: A.

Birthday: April 1st (April Fool's Day).

Constellation: Aries.

Brief introduction: in Robot Series, Beryl is an interpreter working in the Commerce Department of Brunnhilde Technology Company. He was hired five years after Sapphire was recruited by this company. In Actor Series, Beryl is a professional actor. In Evil Lord Series, Beryl is the Evil Lord, the leader of evil-kind. He is always alone in Evil Lord Castle, and he is very happy to have Sapphire as his companion.

Sapphire
Name: Sapphire.

Gender: male.

Height: 178cm.

Blood type: AB.

Birthday: June 23th (birthday of Alan Turing).

Constellation: Cancer.

Brief introduction: in Robot Series, Sapphire is the leader of artificial intelligence group of the Seventh Development Department of Brunnhilde Technology Company. He falls in love with programming after the first time he comes into contact with it in the fourth grade of primary school. Because of his talent in programming, he is recruited by Brunnhilde Technology Company when he graduates from university. He is so genius that he is able to development artificial intelligence by himself. In Actor Series, Sapphire is a professional actor. In Evil Lord Series, Sapphire is the leader of the Seventh Brunnhilde Knights, but he is expelled because he can no longer slay a evil-kind after he knows what the world looks like in evil-kind's eyes.

Robot-Beryl
Name: Robot-Beryl.

Gender: male.

Height: 160cm.

Birthday: December 8th (the day when Robot Series first published).

Constellation: Sagittarius.

Brief introduction: robot-Beryl is a robot in Robot Series. Originally he is a housekeeping robot. He is transformed and created as an artificial intelligence robot by Sapphire.

Flax
Name: Flax.

Gender: female.

Height: 165cm.

Birthday: March 9th (there are 39 measures in Debussy's "the Girl with the Flaxen Hair").

Constellation: Pisces.

Brief introduction: in Robot Series, Flax is the neighbor of Sapphire. In Actor Series, Flax is a popular star. In Magical Girls Series, Flax is an ordinary clerk of a company, but she contracts with a mysterious cat and becomes a magical girl.

Weiss
Name: Weiss.

Gender: female.

Height: 170cm.

Birthday: September 7th (Bailu, one of the 24 solar terms).

Constellation: Virgo.

Brief introduction: in Magical Girls Series, Weiss is another magical girl that contracts with a mysterious cat. In Actor Series, Weiss is a popular star.

Raven
Name: Raven.

Gender: male.

Height: 180cm.

Birthday: October 31th (Halloween).

Constellation: Scorpius.

Brief introduction: in Robot Series, Raven is a clone man. He is the secret test body of the Third Development Department of Brunnhilde Technology Company. His consciousness is his original one, but his body is clone. In Actor Series, he is a professional actor. In Evil Lord Series, he is the imperial bodyguard of the Evil Lord, Beryl. He can transform into a peregrine falcon.

Joseph
Name: Joseph.

Gender: male.

Height: 182cm.

Birthday: August 12th (Geneva Conventions).

Constellation: Leo.

Brief introduction: in Robot Series, he is the leader of biomaterial group of the Third Development Department of Brunnhilde Technology Company. In Actor Series, he is a profession actor. In Evil Lord Series, he is the advisor of Evil Lord, Beryl. He can transform into a snowy owl.

Ace
Name: Ace.

Gender: male.

Height: 165cm.

Birthday: January 11th.

Constellation: Capricornus.

Brief introduction: in Robot Series, Ace is also a programmer. Although he is not as talented as Sapphire in programming, he tries hard to be a genius programmer just like Sapphire. He hacks Sapphire's computer, and uses the personality simulation data stored in it to create an artificial intelligence by the name of Border. But due to the main program of Border, he does not obey Ace's order, which means that Ace do not have administrator privileges. In Evil Lord Series, Ace is the player of this imaginary online game that all main characters belong to, and he modifies the programs of this online game to test how big the difference he can make. But he can not predict how this online game will change due to his modifications. In this online game, he, as a player, is a brave man selected by seven kingdoms of mankind to fight against Evil Lord.

Border
Name: Border.

Gender: male.

Height: more than 190cm.

Brief introduction: in Robot Series, he is a robot transformed by Ace, but Ace do not have administrator privileges against him. Therefore, he can be regarded as the first artificial intelligence that has self conscious in the world of Robot Series.

Charon
Name: Charon.

Gender: male.

Brief introduction: Charon is the product design director of the Third Development Department of Brunnhilde Technology Company in the independent story "Shortcut".

Solar
Name: Solar.

Gender: male.

Brief introduction: Solar is the leading character in the independent story "Shortcut", as one of the assistants of Charon.

Animation
On August 27th, 2018, online animation Beryl and Sapphire produced by Tencent Animation was officially launched. More than 10 online video platforms have the access to it. According to the official announcement, Beryl and Sapphire will update every Monday to Saturday, which is a “daily update” mode that is hardly used in Chinese animation. It is about five minutes during Monday to Friday, and the story content of each day will be different. There will be a 23-minute update with brand new contents on Saturday.

In order to express the stories better, this animation has redesigned the characters, changing the original “matchstick men” into fully proportional model. According to the producer Askask, it is easier to use full-scale model to show the physical and mental movements of each character, which helps the audience to understand the characters and story contents.

In July 2018, before the animation was officially launched, Beryl and Sapphire has landed on Line 10 of Beijing Metro. Refreshing background colors and images of Beryl and Sapphire has brought a sense of coolness to the passengers against hot summer.