Kampfer

Summary:
Once you are chosen by the Moderators, you must become a 'Kampfer" or elite fighter. All Kampfer must be female, so if you're a guy say goodbye to your testosterone. At least though you get a warning, because the bracelet permanently attached to the wrist of Kampfers glows before you transform. Natsuru Seno is the guy with the pretty bracelet that gets to turn in to a girl at awkward times. Poor guy never really knows what's going on, and keeps getting chased by a redhead with a gun. Also, his friend Sakura never questions why shoolgirls are jumping on top of traffic lights and pointing guns at her. The "entrail animal series" of plushie seems to be the personal guide for Kampfers. When you just become a Kampfer your transformations are random but once you mature other Kampfers and the will to fight will set it off. Not only does this guy go through the embarrassment of suddenly being a girl, his crush decides she wants to hook up with his Kampfer form. That sucks.

Fine Points/Thoughts:

• The opening scene is so action packed! Cute girls in school uniforms shooting guns at each other = hooray!
  
• The OP is bright and sugary, but the giant stuffed animals destroying buildings makes me smile.
  
• With these transformation scenes, I'm having flashbacks to Sailor Moon Stars.
  
• Yes, I understand Natsuru is a boy. I understand that it is funny when he transforms in to a girl and suddenly has boobs. I do not understand why this is a constant gag.
  
• I could have lived without Akane Mishima being a shy librarian girl that doesn't talks to guys much and therefore stutters while talking to them. She should be in her Kampfer form at all times.
  
• All of the words for the fighters and their techniques are German, yay German! Why the characters need German-Japanese dictionaries to know what their powers are I don't know.
  
• This anime places a lot of importance on gender. You have to be female in your Kampfer form, and the high school has separate male and female wings.
  
• The ED is very jpop, but the main characters are dancing so fast that it hurts my soul and shoves a big serving of "fuck you!" in to the face of physics.
  

End Result?
You'd have to have some kind of special interest to keep watching this. It's not really generic, but it does nothing to keep you coming. Semi-original, which I like. I might watch the second episode just to see Akane's Kampfer form. Maybe.

Click here to watch episode 1 of Kampfer on Anilinkz.com!