Line #9 Manga/SuperPig


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3	''Super Pig'' (''Ai to Yuuki no Pig Girl Tonde Buurin'' or Boorin depending on how you romanize it) is a MagicalGirlWarrior[=/=]MagicalGirl series, or rather a parody of one.
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5	Karin Kokobu (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, Kouichi Mizuno. 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.
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7	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 [[Main/Mystical108 108]] pearls for her good deeds. She agrees but if anyone finds out about her SecretIdentity she'll be stuck as Buurin for life!
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9	Has several other language dubs, including two English dubs (''Super Pig'' [[note]] ''Super Boink'' in the Philippines [[/note]]) 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.
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12	!!Contains examples of
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14	%% * AffectionateParody: Of the MagicalGirl[=/=]MagicalGirlWarrior genre.
15	* AlienAnimals: Ton-chan as well as his father are apparently a race of alien pigs from another planet that's shaped and colored like a red apple.
16	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Local Rich Boy Takuma has a crush on Karin. The AlphaBitch Kyoko crushes on Takuma. Karin crushes on Mizuno. Mizuno crushes on... [[LovesMyAlterEgo Buurin]].
17	* AlphaBitch: Kyoko Kuroha, the class president (though more just rich and powerful than popular)
18	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Saban dub (and any other version based on it) uses a different [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtXdABfGj0 theme song]].
19	%% * AnimalSuperheroes: well, her civilian form is human but...
20	%% * {{Animorphism}}
21	%% * BalloonBelly: Karin in Episode 4.
22	* 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 [[StockSuperPowersIndex superpowers]] aside from flight, making it pretty much useless as a super form.
23	** [[spoiler: Same thing happens in the [[GrandFinale final story arc]]. 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.]]
24	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "BA BI BU BE [=BOorin=]!": It's a nonsense spell, based on Japanese vowel order [=AIUEO=] rather than the Latin [=AEIOU=].
25	* ChromaticArrangement: The Kobuta, a trio consisting of a red pig, a blue pig and a green pig, who occasionally pop up to emphasize a joke.
26	%% * TheFool: Karin.
27	* GratuitousEnglish: Keiko often says singular words in English, with a bit too much emphasis on pronouncing them, which makes her sound like she has an accent.
28	* InterspeciesRomance: Kouichi Mizuno, who Karin has a crush on, has a crush on Buurin, despite her being a sentient pig in that form. Ton-chan develops a brief crush on Karin's best friend Masami at one point too.
29	%% * LateForSchool
30	* LovesMyAlterEgo: As mentioned above. Despite that alter ego being a pig. [[spoiler:When Kouichi finds out that Karin is Buurin, he is upset at this first, but accepts the fact]].
31	%% * OpaqueNerdGlasses: Worn by nerdy classmate Jimmy Matsumoto.
32	%% * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Middle school, close enough.
33	* SecretIdentity: If anyone figures it out, she's stuck as a pig for life! [[spoiler:Which definitely happens in the end after her classmates find out]].
34	* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Kouichi, Masami, Kashiwagi, Kaoru, Jimmy, Kyoko, and Takuma ended up finding out that Karin is Buurin in the second to the last episode]].
35	* ShapeshifterModeLock: Karin will be stuck as a pig for life if anyone finds out that she is Buurin which [[spoiler:inevitably happens in the last episode when her classmates find out her SecretIdentity in the second-to-last episode]].
36	%% * ShrinkingViolet: Sweet pink-haired Kaoru.
37	%% * StealthPun: The pig superhero is collecting pearls...''pearls before swine.''
38	%% * {{Superhero}}: Buurin is part Franchise/{{Superman}} pastiche as well as MagicalGirlWarrior pastiche
39	%% * TalkingAnimal: Ton-chan, Buurin herself.
40	%% * TransformationSequence: One of the oddest in anime.
41	* TransformationTrinket: The pink compact that carries the pig's snout and communicates to Ton-Chan's father, the King.
42	%% * UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Buurin after transforming back as Karin with the 108 pearls]].
43	%% * WordSaladTitle
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