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The most interesting thing about Animal Detective Kiruminzoo

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is the show's unique take on the structure of the magical girl team

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as well as it's use of multiphasic transformations

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In typical magical girl fashion

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the series starts with two young girls

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twin sisters in this case

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discovering a pair of adorable plastic toys which allow them to transform into costumed heroes

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in this case named after animals, a rabbit and a cat

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and granting them some of those animal's properties

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what first sets these transformations apart though

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is that where as most magical girls will grow taller, sometimes even becoming adults

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or take on battle armor and long shining hair when they transform

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the girls in Kiruminzoo actually shrink

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and are outfitted in adorable oversized kigurumi

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which make them look more like stuffed animals than heroes

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this isn't even their final form, however

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as the girls can also fully transform into animals

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if they experience something similar enough to the emotions that those real animals feel

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this grants them the full ability set of those animals

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going so far as to leave them unable to speak

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and if they stay in these forms for more than 99 minutes

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then they become the animal permanently

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it isn't just our magical girls who can transform this way, however

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their powers are actually based on scientifically recreating the abilities

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of an alternate species of humans called Animalians

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who are able to freely able to transform between animal and human forms

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though they don't have the middle stage transformations that the main girls do

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this in itself is pretty different from most magical girl transformations

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in that it arguably isn't even magic at all

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there powers are based in science

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and aren't even completely unique to themselves

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where Kiruminzoo really mixes things up though

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is in the structure of it's team

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joining the twins in episode 2 is their older sister

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who transforms into a dog

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I'm not sure that I know of another magical girl show

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which involves this big of an age gap between members of it's magical team

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but it doesn't stop there

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as later one of the boys in the girls' class also gains the power

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and transforms into a mouse

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this guy also has as much presence in the team as any of the other main characters

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but even could be said to be the main protagonist much of the time

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given that his passion for detective work is what drives most of the episodic stories

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really it's his doing that the magical girls end up becoming animal detectives at all

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which isn't even really a thing in the early episodes

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until he leads them to form a detective club

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all these elements are what allow Kiruminzoo to stand out as a unique magical girl series

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even though it's structure, episodic stories, and overal tone are about as standard as the genre conventions get

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just having an older girl and a guy character around

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adds a lot of variety to the ways that characters can interact with situations

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and that's not even to mention the greater presence of parental figures, police, and a really bizarre team of antagonists

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as compared to most magical girl shows

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Kiruminzoo may not be a ground breaking series by any stretch of the imagination

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but as a magical girl fan it can be interesting to see how the formula can be shaken a bit

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just by adding a few things to the core structure of it

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