History Manga / SuperPig

A pink pig's snout flies out and attaches itself to her face. This freaks Karin out, but she's also taken by surprise when she finds the piglet (Tonrariaano) [[TalkingAnimal can talk]], and is an alien from the planet Ringo (that's Japanese for apple, nothing to do with Music/TheBeatles). He tells her to say, "[[ByThePowerOfGreyskull BA BI BU BE BOorin!]]" She does, thinking this will remove the snout, but instead she transforms (via TransformationSequence) completely into a caped pig! This form is called Justice Buurin (more often just Buurin). Suffice to say, poor Karin is not happy about this, on the upside though she now has an arsenal of [[StockSuperPowersIndex superpowers]] which she ''does'' find pretty cool. After saving a young boy from a house fire she returns home and Tonrariaano (or Ton-chan) tells her how to turn back, she is told she can become any heroine she wants if she collects 108 pearls for her good deeds. She agrees but if anyone finds out about her SecretIdentity she'll be stuck as Buurin for life!

** [[spoiler: Same thing happens in the [[GrandFinale final story arc]], but UpToEleven. The aesop here would be that Karin could be a great heroine, even without powers. Problem is, while a normal person can do a lot of good and heroic deeds, it pales in comparison to the good a person could do with those powers; especially considering the kind of crisis that Buurin has to face through the series.]]

* AffectionateParody: Of the MagicalGirl[=/=]MagicalGirlWarrior genre.

* AnimalSuperheroes: well, her civilian form is human but...
* {{Animorphism}}
* BalloonBelly: Karin in Episode 4.

* TheFool: Karin.

* LateForSchool

* {{Meganekko}}: Masami, Karin's best friend.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Worn by nerdy classmate Jimmy Matsumoto.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Middle school, close enough.

* ShrinkingViolet: Sweet pink-haired Kaoru.
* StealthPun: The pig superhero is collecting pearls...''pearls before swine.''
* {{Superhero}}: Buurin is part Franchise/{{Superman}} pastiche as well as MagicalGirlWarrior pastiche
* TalkingAnimal: Ton-chan, Buurin herself.
* TransformationSequence: One of the oddest in anime.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Buurin after transforming back as Karin with the 108 pearls]].
* WordSaladTitle

A pink pig's snout flies out and attaches itself to her face. This freaks Karin out, but she's also taken by surprise when she finds the piglet (Tonrariaano) [[TalkingAnimal can talk]], and is an alien from the planet Ringo (that's Japanese for apple, nothing to do with Music/TheBeatles). He tells her to say, "[[ByThePowerOfGreyskull BA BI BU BE BOorin!]]" She does, thinking this will remove the snout, but instead she transforms (via TransformationSequence) completely into a caped pig! This form is called Justice Buurin (more often just Buurin). Suffice to say, poor Karin is not happy about this, on the upside though she now has an arsenal of StockSuperPowers which she ''does'' find pretty cool. After saving a young boy from a house fire she returns home and Tonrariaano (or Ton-chan) tells her how to turn back, she is told she can become any heroine she wants if she collects 108 pearls for her good deeds. She agrees but if anyone finds out about her SecretIdentity she'll be stuck as Buurin for life!

* BrokenAesop: In one episode, Karin once got a demo of the MagicalGirl form she wished for to try for one day, however she failed solving a dangerous situation making her deliberately become Buurin again to do that. While this was probably meant as a ''"maybe what you already have is better than you think"'' but is broken since her demo did not possess any [[StockSuperPowers super powers]] aside from flight, making it pretty much useless as a super form.

* StockSuperPowers: SuperStrength, flight, some other more specific but not especially magical girly powers

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Kokubu Karin (Kassie Carlen in the Saban dub [[note]] and Colleen Adams in the Philippines English dub [[/note]]) is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary middle school student]], much in the mold of your standard MagicalGirl heroine, she is constantly LateForSchool and has a crush on the school soccer captain, Mizuno Kouichi. On her way to school one day, Karin finds an [[WeaselMascot injured yellow piglet]] which turns out to not actually be injured, merely hungry, and he steals her apple. He stows away in her school bag, and causes havoc for her throughout the day until she finds a compact on her way home.

* ChromaticArrangment: The Kobuta, a trio consisting of a red pig, a blue pig and a green pig, who occasionally pop up to emphasize a joke.

* BrokenAesop: In one episode, Karin once got a demo of the MagicalGirl form she wished for to try for one day, however she failed solving a dangerous situation making her deliberately become Buurin again to do that. While this was probably meant as a ''"maybe what you already have is better than you think"'' but is broken since her demo did not possess any [[StockSuperPowers super powers]] aside flight making it pretty much useless as a super form.

A pink pig's snout flies out and attaches itself to her face. This freaks Karin out, but she's also taken by surprise when she finds the piglet (Tonrariaano) [[TalkingAnimal can talk]], and is an alien from the planet Ringo (that's Japanese for apple, nothing to do with Music/TheBeatles). He tells her to say, "[[ByThePowerOfGreyskull BA BI BU BE BOorin!]]" She does, thinking this will remove the snout, but instead she transforms (via TransformationSequence) completely into a caped pig! This form is called Justice Buurin (more often just Buurin). Suffice to say, poor Karin is not happy about this, on the upside though she now has an arsenal of StockSuperPowers which she ''does'' find pretty cool. After saving a young boy from a house fire she returns home and Tonrariaano (or Ton-chan) tells her how to turn back, she is told she can become any heroine she wants if she collects OneHundredAndEight pearls for her good deeds. She agrees but if anyone finds out about her SecretIdentity she'll be stuck as Buurin for life!

* OneHundredAndEight: The number of pearls Karin needs to get a better superhero identity.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Buurin after transforming back as Karin with the OneHundredAndEight pearls]].

Kokubu Karin (Kassie Carlen in Saban dub [[note]] and Colleen Adams in the Philippines dub [[/note]]) is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary middle school student]], much in the mold of your standard MagicalGirl heroine, she is constantly LateForSchool and has a crush on the school soccer captain, Mizuno Kouichi. On her way to school one day, Karin finds an [[WeaselMascot injured yellow piglet]] which turns out to not actually be injured, merely hungry, and he steals her apple. He stows away in her school bag, and causes havoc for her throughout the day until she finds a compact on her way home.

Kokubu Karin (Kassie Carlen in English dub) is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary middle school student]], much in the mold of your standard MagicalGirl heroine, she is constantly LateForSchool and has a crush on the school soccer captain, Mizuno Kouichi. On her way to school one day, Karin finds an [[WeaselMascot injured yellow piglet]] which turns out to not actually be injured, merely hungry, and he steals her apple. He stows away in her school bag, and causes havoc for her throughout the day until she finds a compact on her way home.

Has several other language dubs, including an English one (''Super Pig'') which aired redubbed to Spanish in Latin America (''Super Cerdita'', [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff where it was a huge hit]]), and a couple of episodes of which aired on Creator/FoxKids UK's anime weekend ''way back'' in the early 2000s.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The English version (and any other version based on it) uses a different [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtXdABfGj0 theme song]].