Season 1 • Episode 51
LatestApparently there need to be 7 Buurins to use the 7 talismans... but there's just one. Karin needs the strength of all of her friends to save the world.
One fateful day, Karin, a junior-high student, found what she thought was an injured piglet. However, the piglet was just exhausted from hunger. After the piglet regained his health by eating Karin's apple, he revealed that he is a prince, Tonrariano III, from a planet called Booringo. Tonrariano wanted to reward Karin for helping him and so he transformed her into a pig with superpowers. Karin was not at all pleased with the gift because she wanted to become a pretty superheroine like "Cutey Chao" (a parody of Cutey Honey), not Super Pig. Reluctantly, she became more interested in her role as Super Pig when she found out that she can turn into someone like "Cutey Chao" if she can collect 108 pearls through doing good deeds for other people.
Writing
Ruthlessly mocks Cutey Honey while lovingly ripping it off
Acting
Yuri Shiratori's perpetual exasperation as Karin
Practical Effects
Transformation sequences that aged like weird fine wine
Creator
Taeko Ikeda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Direct parody of Go Nagai's Cutey Honey, which was notoriously provocative for 1973—this flips the male gaze into teenage girl complaint.
Taeko Ikeda was one of few female directors in 90s anime; she allegedly pitched this as 'what if magical girls actually hated their outfits.'
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