Line #20 Anime/HenkeiShoujo


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3	Describe ''Henkei Shoujo'' here.
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5	Well...the title of this series translates to ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Transforming Girls]]'', and oh boy does it ever deliver on that premise.
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7	''Henkei Shoujo'' is a series of five anime shorts, all lasting a minute each, produced by [=DreamLink=] Entertainment and broadcast from March 26 to October 24, 2017. The basic plot of each episode goes as follows: our lead character Hiromi is stuck in a sticky situation. Cue another girl coming in who comes in to help her, and doing so by out of nowhere transforming into a vehicle of some kind.
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9	Yeah, it's that kind of show. It's something that really has to be seen to be believed, so [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLmXnpdINkA here is all five episodes]] for the morbidly curious.
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11	!!This series features examples of:
12	* AntiClimax: Nana leaps out of a plane to rescue Hiromi from a leaky raft, transforms into a battleship, and makes a giant splash in the water. It is then revealed that Nana's battleship form is somehow ''smaller'' than her human one, and tinier than Hiromi's raft to boot.
13	* BritishBrevity: The series consists of five episodes, all just a minute long, making the entire show a mere 5-minute sit.
14	* ButtMonkey: The majority of Hiromi's encounters with the transforming girls don't do anything to improve the situation she's in. Haru transforms into a jet to retrieve her hat when it blows away in the wind, but doesn't actually return it. Rin drinks out of the gas nozzle she was using to fill her car, and essentially cheats her out of some money. Nana transforms into a battleship when Hiromi's inflatable raft loses air out at sea, but she's too small to climb onto. Arisa is the only girl who actually helps Hiromi, as Itsuki only transforms to pose for her.
15	* DramaticDrop: Hiromi drops her car keys upon seeing Rin ''drinking gas directly from the pump'' (which was adding gas to Hiromi's car, to boot).
16	%%* {{Fanservice}}: Even ''after'' the girls have transformed, no less.
17	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Rin's short breaks from the usual "girls transform to rescue Hiromi" plot and is mostly about Hiromi watching the spectacle unfolding in front of her.
18	* OnlySaneMan: Hiromi, the protagonist of the shorts, seems to be the only person in the shorts' universe who reacts in any way to the titular transforming girls.
19	* PantyShot: Every episode has at least one, plus camera shots that linger on cleavage, whether due to {{Stripperiffic}} transformation sequences or unrelated parts of the episode.
20	* TransformationSequence: Every episode has a scene where one of the girls transforms into a vehicle or robot. Given that each episode is roughly a minute long, said scene takes up a sizable portion of the episode's runtime.
21	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The {{Transformation Sequence}}s are animated with 3D models that look drastically different from the rest of the show's visuals.
22	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody else besides Hiromi reacts (or even seem to notice) the titular girls, even when they start transforming into various vehicles.

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