| Mardock Scramble | |
 Region 1 DVD cover of the first film released by Sentai Filmworks | |
| マルドゥック・スクランブル (Marudoukku sukuranburu) | |
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| Genre | |
| Serial novel | |
| Written by | Tow Ubukata |
| Illustrated by | Katsuya Terada |
| Published by | Hayakawa |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Hayakawa Bunko JA |
| Magazine | Hayakawa's SF Magazine |
| Original run | May 2003 – July 2003 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Serial novel | |
| Mardock Velocity | |
| Written by | Tow Ubukata |
| Illustrated by | Katsuya Terada |
| Published by | Hayakawa |
| Imprint | Hayakawa Bunko JA |
| Magazine | Hayakawa's SF Magazine |
| Original run | November 8, 2006 – November 25, 2006 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshitoki Ōima |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | October 9, 2009 – May 9, 2012 |
| Volumes | 7 |
| Anime film series | |
| Directed by | Susumu Kudō |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Tow Ubukata |
| Music by | Conisch |
| Studio | GoHands |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | November 6, 2010 – September 29, 2012 |
| Runtime | 70 minutes (each) |
| Films | 3 |
| Novel | |
| Mardock Fragments | |
| Written by | Tow Ubukata |
| Illustrated by | Katsuya Terada |
| Published by | Hayakawa |
| Published | May 10, 2011 |
| Novel | |
| Mardock Anonymous | |
| Written by | Tow Ubukata |
| Illustrated by | Katsuya Terada |
| Published by | Hayakawa |
| Published | March 24, 2016 |
| Manga | |
| Mardock Demons | |
| Written by | Minamoto Katasuke |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Nemesis |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | December 2016 – June 2018 |
| Volumes | 2 |
Mardock Scramble (マルドゥック・スクランブル, Marudukku Sukuranburu) is a Japanese novel series written by Tow Ubukata. The first novel was published in Japan in May 2003, with the final novel published in July 2003. They were later adapted into a manga series and an anime film trilogy. In North America, Viz Media licensed the novels and published all three in one volume. Kodansha USA published the manga series in English, and Sentai Filmworks released anime films on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
The story is about a girl named Rune Balot who was taken in by a man named Shell who later tried to kill her and left her for dead. She is saved and turned into a cyborg. It is up to her to stop Shell and his evil gang.
In 2003, Mardock Scramble won the Grand Prize of the 24th Nihon SF Taisho Award.
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