History Anime / SecretOfCeruleanSand

** In fact, this trope was averted so hard Duncan (chief mecanician) and Willy (chief cook) were asking Barsac to switch Jane and her butler.

* AssholeVictims: [[spoiler:It's difficult to feel sorry for the denizens of Neo-City blown by William knowing that they remorselessly benefited from the enslavement and plunder of the neighbouring communities]].

The mother of Georges and Jane Buxton died [[DeathByChildbirth while giving birth to them]], and her father was remarried three years later to Margaret, who already had a son named William, then 11-years-old, who come to the Glenar Castle, where the family now lives; he then proceed to have it in for everywhere in Glenar, apart from Jane.

It takes inspirations from the novels ''Face au drapeau'' ("Facing the Flag") and ''L'Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac'' ("City in the Sahara"), both written by Creator/JulesVerne.

The mother of Georges and Jane Buxton died [[DeathByChildbirth while giving birth to her]], and her father remarried three years later with Margaret, who had already a son, William, then 11-years-old, who come to the Glenar Castle, where lives the family; he then proceed to have in it for everywhere in Glenar, apart from Jane.

One day, Georges hears about azurium - a mysterious cerulean sand, that is capable to enable things to fly. He goes to the University to discuss about it to several scientists, but no one believes him, with the exception of Christopher Barsac.

In a separate event, Lord Buxton learn William embezzled some money from the bank, and Georges is invited participare to an expedition led by the Pr. Barsac to the countries from where come the azurium.

Several weeks after, a letter come to Glenar telling Georges was shot for treason.

Bad things then begin to happen: the Buxton Bank is robbed; stricken by this long suite of misfortunes, Lord Buxton is bedridden.

One day, Jane reveives a letter containing this mysterious sand and decides to mount an expedition to rescue her brother, whom she now believes to be still alive...

''Patapata Hikōsen no Bōken'', or ''Secret of Cerulean Sand'', is a 2002 Japanese / Korean co-productionan and lasts 26 episodes.

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: William]] spent much of his life feeling inferior to his stepbrother, because of his accomplishments and their father's praise. Which caused him to resent both of them, though he pretended otherwise. Jane was the only one he felt any connection with.

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: William always felt despised by his step-brother and step-father and only loved by Jane]].

* PrivateTutor: The butler Chambellan is shown teaching Miss Buxton about AlexanderTheGreat's conquests.

* LadyOfAdventure: Jane isn't about to let a few thousand square kilometers of sand stand in the way of finding her brother. So she sets off on a grand adventure across the globe, at 14 years old.
* LayeredMetropolis: [[spoiler:Neo-City]].

* MadeASlave: [[spoiler:What happens to the villagers living near [=NeoCity=]]].

* HappilyEverAfter: Near the end of the final episode, [[spoiler: Marsenay]] is shown to have resigned from his post to take up residence in the desert and marries [[spoiler: Camille]].

* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:After meeting the remains of the members of a previous expedition, the soldiers proceed to dig graves for the bodies]].
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Neo-City, which appears, at first glance, as a shining exemple of progress, was founded on the [[MadeASlave enslavement]] and the robbing of the neighbouring communities]].

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:A tombstone wearing Georges Buxton's name is found in the carnage site but is revealed to contain only a miniature flying machine]].

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:William always felt despised by his step-brother and step-father and only loved by Jane]].

* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Marsenay and Camille het married]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:William and Georges]].
* ReluctantMadScientist: [[spoiler:Georges, working on the properties of the azurium after being submitted to the emotional blackmail of his half-brother William, who makes him believe he caused the death of these soldiers died in the explosion William caused]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After being captured, Jane reveals to not be named Smith but Buxton, and Barsac says he also wants to find Georges]].

* SaharanShipwreck: Sort of: [[spoiler:a shipwreck named ''Raijin'' - the Japanese god of the lightning - is found with her hold full of azurium, ans was late revealed to be a flying machine]].

* TheSpymaster: To sy he's so ObviouslyEvil, no one suspects [[spoiler: Morillre]] of being a villain until after he's sabotaged Barsac and his men several times. And still manages to successfully pull off a double-cross after being exposed and captured by them.

* SecretIdentity:
** Jane presented herself as Jane Stuart the first time she meets Barsac in a train.
** The Pr. Kamale is [[spoiler:Georges Buxton]].
** Harry Killer is [[spoiler:William Buxton, though Jane believed him to be Georges at first glance]].

* TheSpymaster: To sy he's so ObviouslyEvil, no one suspects [[spoiler: Morillre]] of being a villain until after he's sabotaged Barsac and his men several times. And still manages to successfully pull off a double-cross after being exposed and captured by them.
* {{Steampunk}}: ''Secret of Cerulean Sand'' adheres to a 'Golden Age' aesthetic, set in 1800's London. Journeys across the desert are treated like oceanic voyages aboard steam-powered sand trawlers and, later, there are [[spoiler: cerulean sand powered flying machines]].

* {{Steampunk}}: Landboats in the desert [[spoiler:and later azurium-powered flying machines]].

* TheSpymaster: [[spoiler:Morilire]].

* {{Tomboy}}: Jane.

* WrenchWench: Jane Buxton, who follow her brother's track by attempting to create flying machines, all named "Albatross" and numered, [[spoiler:apart for the last, named "Silver Wings"]] and helps the other engineers in the landboat of the Barsac expedition.

* ForegoneConclusion: You'll already know who Henry Killer is the moment you lay eyes on him, since [[{{Foreshadowing}} the first two episodes]] [[ObviouslyEvil practically beats you over the head with it.]]

* RichBitch: One passenger of the boat Jane board in fit this trope to a T:
** Accusing her and the seaman Banchee of stealing her jewelry [[spoiler:before her own dog retrieves the piece of jewelry]].
** Being generally disagreeable.
*** At the end, her HempeckedHusband slaps her, and she proceed then to apandon her dog Wolfgang.

* ForgoneConclusion: You'll already know who Henry Killer is the moment you lay eyes on him, since [[{{Foreshadowing}} the first two episodes]] [[ObviouslyEvil practically beats you over the head with it.]]

'''''Patapata Hikōsen no Bōken''''', or '''Secret of Cerulean Sand''', is a 2002 Japanese / Korean co-productionan and lasts 26 episodes.

! ''Secret of Cerulean Sand'' contains examples of:

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After being capturated, Jane reveals to not be named Smith but Buxton, and Barsac says he also wants to find Georges]].

* TheReveal: [[Spoiler:After being capturated, Jane reveals to not be named Smith but Buxton, and Barsac says he also wants to find Georges]].

** Later, Margaret, William's mother, met the same fate.

[[IThoughtItMeant This is]] '''not''' ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', even if the two works share common features and themes.

It is inspired from ''Face au drapeau'' ("Facing the Flag") and ''L'Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac'' ("City in the Sahara"), both written by Creator/JulesVerne.

One day, Georges hears about a mysterious cerulean sand able to enable thingsto fly and go to the University to speak about it to several scientists, who don't believe him, apart from Christopher Barsac.

* AssholeVictims: [[spoiler:It is difficult to feel pity for the denizens of Neo-City blown by William when the watcher know they knowingly benefited of th enslavement and the plunder of the neighbourhing communities]].

* BankRobbery: The series open on the Buxton Bank Robbery, from which Mr. Buxton is accused of [[spoiler:even though it's his stepson William's employees who did the deed]].

* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler:Althrough Jane found her brother Georges wasn't dead and cleared his name, Georges died with William]].

** Later, Margaret, William's one died while giving birth to another child.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:After being attacked by a flying bomber, Jane realize flying machines can also be instruments of death]].

* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:After meeting the remains of members of a previous expedition, the soldiers proceed to dig graves for the bodies]].

* FeminineWomenCanCook: {{Averted|Trope}}: Jane is whown, in an episode aboard the ''Armadillo'', unabe to cook whereas her PrivateTutor-BattleButler Chambellan is shown as in his element in a kitchen; the reverse is true for tending to machines.

* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Marsenay maries with Camille]].
* HenpeckedHusband: At first glance, one of the pasengers of the boar Jane is aboard appears as this until he slaps her after one week of her being generally unbearable and capricious.\\
She then abandon her dog Wolfgang, who is taken by Jane and renamed Comet.

* TheReveal: [[Spoiler:After being capturated, Jane reveals to not be named Smith but Buxton, and Barsac says he wanted also to retrieve Georges]].

** Accusing her and the seaman Banchee of steling her jewelry [[spoiler:before her own dog retrieve the ^piece of jewelry]].

* SendInTheSearchTeam: Barsac mounted an expedition to srarch for azurium, investigate about the fate of villagers diseappeared near Hamman [[spoiler:and find about Georges Buxton's fate and will find the answers to both questions in Neo-City]].

** What the letter said is happened to Georges for treason.
** [[spoiler:What Barsac wanted to do to a soldier who deserted after viewing the carngae in the desert, before being interrupted by a bombing]].

* WrenchWench: Jane Buxton, who follow her brother's track by attempting to create flying machines, all named "Albatross" and numeroted, [[spoiler:apart for the last, named "Silver Wings"]] and helps the other engineers in the landboat of the Barsac expedition.

** UnfortunateImplications created by the fact it could show DomesticAbuse is justified if the wife is perceived as enough unbearable and unnerving.

[[IThoughtItMeant This is]] '''not''' ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', even if the two works share common features and themas.

The mother of Georges and Jane Buxton died [[DeathByChildbirth while giving birth to her]], and her father remarried with Maria, who had already a son, William.

One day, Georges hears about a mysterious cerulean sand able to enable machines to fly and mount an expedition in the Middle East, where this sand come from. During this expedition, Georges is shot for treason.

** Later, Maria, William's one died while giving birth to another child.

* FeminineWomenCanCook: {{Averted|Trope}}: Jane is whown, in an episode aboard the landboat, unabe to cook whereas her PrivateTutor-BattleButler Chambellan is shown as in his element in a kitchen; the reverse is true for tending to machines.

* MadeASlave: [[spoiler:Whar happens to the villagers living near [=NeoCity=]]].

** Harry Killer is [[spoiler:William Buxton]].
* SendInTheSearchTeam: Barzac mounted an expedition to both serarch Georges Buxton and investigate about the fate of villagers diseappeared [[spoiler:and will find the answers to both questions in Neo-City]].

* StreetUrchin: Sabri and his band of kids, before meeting Jane.

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Morilire, hired by the Barzac Expedition as guide, is later shown as a traitor after he made the troops turn in circle in the desert]].

[[caption-width-right:307:Jane, holding her dog Comet and some Azurium]]

The mother of Georges and the heroine, Jane Buxton, , died [[DeathByChildbirth while giving birth to her]], and her father remarried and had another son, William.

One day, Georges hears about a mysterious cerulean sand able to enable machines to fly and mount an expedition in the Middle East, where this sand come from. During this expedition, Georges is executed for treason.

One day, Jane reveives a letter containing this mysterious sand and decides to mount an expedition to rescue her brother, whom she believes to be still alive...

* BankRobbery: The series open on the Buxton Bank Robbery, from which Mr. Buxton is accused of.
* BattleButler: Chambellan [[spoiler:inNeo-City]].

* Unobtainium: The titular 'cerulean sand', or azurium, [[spoiler:can be used to make flying machines]].
* WrenchWench: Jane Buxton, who follow her brother's track by attempting to create a flying machine.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:William, who felt alienated in his new family, projected to destroy the world before Jane spoke him out of it]].

[[caption-width-right:307:Jane, holding her dog Comet]]

[[IThoughtItMeant This is]] '''not''' ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', even if the wo works share common features and themas.

** Later, William's one died while giving birth to another child.

* FeminineWomenCanCook: {{Averted|Trope}}: Jane is whown, in an episode aboard the landboat, unabe to cook whereas her PrivateTutor-BattleButler Chambellan is shown as a fish in water in a kitchen; the reverse is true for tending to machines.

* HenpeckedHusband: At first glance, one of the pasengers of the boar Jane is aboard appears as this until he slaps her after one week of her being generally unbearable and capricious.
** UnfortunateImplications created by the fact it could show DomesticAbuse is justified if the wife is enough unbearable.

* ReluctantMadScientist: [[spoiler:Georges, working on the properties of the azurium after being submitted to the emotional blackmail of his half-brother William]].

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:William so loved Jane he named an female orphan Jeanne]].

* {Tomboy}}: Jane.