Ai to Yuuki no Pig Girl Tonde Boorin

Mangaka: Taeko Ikeda
Pub. Date: 1995
# of Vols.: ?

TV Series: 1994 (51 Episodes)

Kokubu Karin is late for school, but stops on the way to help a little pig she thinks is injured. Turns out he's just hungry. She gets to her classroom at Saint Apple Middle School but the little pig had taken a free ride in her pack and when he gets out, it causes all kinds of troubles for Karin. Later, after school, she catches up to the pig again. But he's not an ordinary pig, he can speak, disappear, and fly. He leaves a pink, piggy compact for her that says Buta on it, and when she opens it, a pig snout pops out of the mirror and chases her until it attaches to her nose. The pig appears again before her and explains his name is Tonrariaano and comes from another planet. He helps her transform into Justice Boorin, a pink piglet super heroine. If she can collect 108 pearls (she will be given one for her achievements as Boorin), she can then transform into any heroine she chooses.

This is one of those shows that seems to skirt the border between being a serious magical girl show and being a parody like Pretty Sammy. The series is made up of puns and revelling in its own silly premise. For example, Boorin's tummy will flash when her snout needs to be recharged and she'll have to detransform and hand it over to Ton-chan to power up on his own nose. But though being a pig wouldn't have been Karin's first choice for an alter ego, she takes it all in stride. Her compact is called the Boorin Mirror and lets her see when someone is in trouble by showing them in the mirror, and it also works as a communicator with her boss back on the Boorin homeworld. The device used to keep the pearls she earns in is the Pearl Roulette.

An endnote on the name of Boorin and Karin's transformation phrase. This is taken from Blackdeath Studio's fansubber notes: BA BI BU BE BOorin is reference to syllabary of Japanese syllables. While we do our vowels A-E-I-O-U, Japanese arrange them as A-I-U-E-O. They then tack on a consonant in front of a vowel, and voila! a syllable. Hence with the consonant B, we get BA-BI-BU-BE-BO.

Magical Companion
Ton-chan-pig from another planet

Magical Phrase
BA BI BU BE BOorin

Magical Items
Boorin Mirror-her compact
Pearl Roulette