Henkei Shoujo

This is what happens when you let Micheal Bay direct anime. Straight to the point, just robots and hot girls, just like the entire Transformers movie series.

Story (10/10) - The lack of a story makes this anime a true masterpiece.

Art (10/10) - The CGI reminds me of Transformers, which reminds me of Micheal Bay, which means it's good.

Sound (1/10) - The music was recycled and soulless. Totally unlike Transformers.

Character (10/10) - The characters have no personality, just like Transformers characters.

... Enjoyment (10/10) - Transformers.

Overall (10/10) - Some discredit this anime for having no story, just like how they discredit the masterpiece that is Transformers: No Plot Just Robots. This 5 episode anime series whose total runtime is less than 10 minutes truly is a masterpiece. We have shed the bounds of storytelling and plot for true entertainment.

Uhh. Hm. Alright, uh, let's just get right into it. Henkei Shoujo is one of the strangest anime I've ever seen, and centers itself around teen girls that transform into vehicles and mechs. These transformations are also meant to be erotic, but outside of a very concerning cohort of individuals, this ambition falls flat. When you get a pantyshot of a girl that's turned into a car, or titties that have transformed into naval cannons, the thing that should be grabbing your attention as the viewer is the grotesque, insanely detailed cg transformation sequences that seem to be the whole point of a given episode. ... To use a point of comparison, it feels like deviantart fetish stuff that was given a suspiciously high budget. That pretty much covers the story, which is essentially nothing more than its premise.

The art is pretty unremarkable, outside of the insane detail applied to the transformation sequences, which seem to have a level of genuine engineering prowess backing up their schematics.

The sound is generally unremarkable, and the last thing you'll notice watching this title.

The characters are very weird, and only exist to transform on-screen. Of them, my favorite is Rin, as her episode has the funniest lead-up, but my real overall favorite is the girl who doesn't transform at all- Hiromi. She is simply subjected to the insane antics of these mechanical beings, and she is highly relatable given that her dumbfounded expression matched mine throughout this anime's brief runtime. Overall, Henkei Shoujo is a weird show, and it's hard to recommend at all due to the fact that the only two ways it can be enjoyed are as spectacle or as fetish material. Even so, it is so short, and so strange, that at the very least you'll have something you can laugh about and subject your friends to without warning, and in that capacity there are few better shows for such a purpose.

This review is actually quite hard to write; quite strange for a five-episode show that total under ten minutes.
How do you judge something that doesn't aim high? When your anime is one big shitpost, how do you judge it?








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Well, I lied.
It's actually quite simple, actually. It's one big shitpost, and it doesn't aim to be anything but that. And it's a good stinkin' time.

Story:
There is no story.

Art:
The artwork is quite good flat animation paired with passable CGI. They fit the aesthetic well, and the lacking parts of the CGI are actually used to the advantage of the comedy.

Sound:
The sound's passable. Not much to say. The use of the main theme would get old after a while if this wasn't so short.

Character:
The designs are cool, in a "what the hell, man" kind of way.

Enjoyment & overall score:
Yes, this anime gets a 10 for enjoyment. Everything in this anime is stupid, and intentionally. The concept is stupid, and the producers know it. The transformation sequences are laughably bad. The transformations are abrupt as hell. This gag would get old fast -- But this entire anime is less than ten minutes. So cut down and distilled, this is a fun collection of bad jokes. It's that friend who cracks stupid puns constantly. The joke's stupid but you laugh at it, with him and at him simultaneously.
But in the end, it's just a stupid joke. It's fun as hell, and you have to admire how well it's done, but...
It aims to be a stupid little joke. And that's all it is. Is it a fun hell of a time? You bet. But is it anything higher than the low bar it aims at? Not really.

Decent is the right word here.