Henshins

HENSHINS ( TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCES )

**Henshin**

Before the Ordinary High-School Student, or a Good Citizen (or sometimes a Bad Guy) can access their secret powers, there must be a power-up and a change of costume. This usually involves a change of form or at least of costume, although the precise mechanisms usually vary by type and purpose. In Japanese television, seen in anime, and drawn in manga, this is called a *Henshin* (lit. Transformation Sequence). By genre, this usually goes as follows:

**Maho Shoujo Girl (born female):** Our heroine usually utters a key phrase, accompanied by certain gestures and/or using some sort of access device, and then hovers said device into the air over a colorful, sparkly, power infused background. Then as her ordinary clothes disappear, the sparkly power waves cover her, and her unique and elaborate costume comes and glows into existence over her, piece by piece, until all her ribbons, jewels, feathers and assorted frilly items have formed and placed over her seemingly naked body.

    This sequence continues until all of her costume is fully deployed, and she is fully dressed. She then will take a brief final pose, so that the details of her outfit, as well as the fashion style, as well as any tools that she uses, can be seen and enjoyed, by friends and enemies alike. For many Maho Shoujo girls, the basic final costume almost always consists of a highly customized, fancy, ornate dress, or of a shirt or blouse, and some sort of mini-skirt, also very customized. Some costumes look like and resemble swimsuits.

**Maho Shonun Boy (born male)**

Despite being strongly associated with Maho Shoujo Girls, there are several "Magical Boys" (born male) who can access a Henshin, power up, and go through comparable transformation sequences as do the girls, with the same general order of events. However, the unclothed beginning is generally, thought not always, averted. The resulting male costumes are usually more like uniforms, outback clothing, or armor. Yet surprisingly, many male costumes are notably very feminine in looks and fashion style, with a few special, remarkable boys wearing costumes incorporating dresses or mini-skirts.

**Maho Shoujo Girl from a Perceived Male:** There is another type of Henshin that only a very few of a select number of those perceived as male at birth can do. But it is extremely rare, and only a very small minority of ones can do it. *These are 'boys' that are perceived as male at birth, however, they were born with a female Gender Identity or a Bigender Identity.* Such ones, when they go through a Henshin, have an extra step in the Transformation Sequence. That is, like the girls, they begin with the same colorful, sparkly, power infused background removing their male clothing. The extra step is that the power surrounds them, then changes their physical appearance from that perceived as the traditional male sex, to that of an atomically correct female, also unclothed. Then the power continues to clothe the person with their appropriate Battle Maiden outfit, usually piece by piece, as it does for all other Maho Shoujo girls. At the conclusion of the Henshin, the male to female subject will take a final pose, again, just like the girls. From start to finish, their female Gender Identity does not change, only their sexual appearance changes. Only genuine male-to-female transgender persons, who qualify and are given the ability to access a Henshin, can experience this very special kind of Henshin.

Once in a while, when the male to female transgender person wants to transform, not to their Battle Maiden costume, but to an ordinary girl, their Henshin can many times accomplish that. The Henshin will transform the 'boy' to that of the female Battle Maiden, then afterward, they will remove their battle costume, and dress in the appropriate girl's street clothes. Or the Henshin will either transform directly to an unclothed ordinary girl, and the girl will have to dress herself, or more rarely, the Henshin will transform directly to a fully clothed girl in her choice of everyday fashion.

---Taken from TV Tropes ( additional resource material added, edited for clarity )

## SELECT HENSHINS (TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCES) DONE BY MALE TO FEMALE TRANSFORMATIVE PERSONS

Shown below is a partial list of various male to female persons who can access a Henshin. Click on the name of the person to be taken to that person's Character Profile page. There you will find a description of who they are, and the anime or manga where their story can be found. Click on the link marked "Henshin", or the video screen, to be taken to a manga sequence or a video clip of that character's actual Henshin.

>>>SHO KAZAANA, from the dojinshi fannon manga *Miracle Girl Kakeru*

Sho Kazaana's Henshin

>>>SOJI MITSUKA, from the anime and manga *Gonna be the Twin Tail*

Soji Mitsuka's Henshin (Click on the video below)

>>>SENO NATSURU, from the anime and manga *Kampfer*

Seno Natsuru's Henshin (Click on the video below)

## TYPICAL CIS-MALE HENSHINS

Many of these young men / boy's battle costumes are quite feminine in appearance and fashion style !

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(More Henshins will be shown when they become available)