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[[File:TsubasaHikaru.jpg|frame|Tsubasa, Hikaru, and Hokkaido]]
{{quote|''"Do you like yourself right now?"''}}▼
'''''Figure17: Tsubasa & Hikaru''''', is about a shy, introverted little girl named Tsubasa, taken out to the Hokkaido countryside by her father as he pursues his dream of becoming a baker. When, one night, she stumbles upon a crashed spacecraft - and then the pilot in a losing fight against its monstrous cargo - she herself is very nearly killed, saved only by a random accident involving the ship's emergency 'Figure', a kind of biomechanical battle suit. Due to said accident, however, when the suit separates from her again it cannot return to storage, and instead copies Tsubasa's form. Tsubasa suddenly finds herself with a twin sister.▼
▲''"Do you like yourself right now?"''
▲''Figure17: Tsubasa & Hikaru'', is about a shy, introverted little girl named Tsubasa, taken out to the Hokkaido countryside by her father as he pursues his dream of becoming a baker. When, one night, she stumbles upon a crashed spacecraft - and then the pilot in a losing fight against its monstrous cargo - she herself is very nearly killed, saved only by a random accident involving the ship's emergency 'Figure', a kind of biomechanical battle suit. Due to said accident, however, when the suit separates from her again it cannot return to storage, and instead copies Tsubasa's form. Tsubasa suddenly finds herself with a twin sister.
''Figure17'' is an unusual anime, not least in that it seems impossible to fit into a genre. It combines elements of [[Slice of Life]], with [[Magical Girl]], [[Sci Fi|Sci-Fi]], Drama... Also, the creators chose to use thirteen 45-minutes episodes, originally aired once a month, rather than the more standard twenty-six 25-minute episodes once a week. This leads to much gentler pacing, the anime taking time to ''very'' deliberately explore its characters, not to mention animation quality one would normally expect to find only in an [[OVA]].
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* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Sort of. Tsubasa and Hikaru love each other to bits; in their minds, Hikaru's especially, they're the best thing that ever happened to each other. Neither even seems bothered by their ability to become Figure17 - but both of them, especially Tsubasa, just want the whole god-awful job of hunting down Maguar to be over with, {{spoiler|and are hit increasingly hard by each abortive declaration that it's over.}}
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: A reporter stumbles across a meadow killed by a Maguar's poison, and investigates further, taking a sample left in the monster's wake to a scientist friend for analysis and generally chasing the story throughout the plot.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: DD and Oldina have the ability to wipe out everybody's memories of certain events.
* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Figures seem almost to be made of this, somehow.
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* [[Stealth in Space]]: Oldina's ship remains undetected in Earth orbit, despite at one point firing a gigantic laser cannon at a Maguar ( see below ).
** Very likely it was using the same technologies as DD used to render his smaller starship undetectable in the first episode, and surround it with a 'you don't want to look here' field. So also DD's ship, too.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]: One of the unusual things about ''Figure17'' was the decision by the creators to create thirteen, 45 minute long episodes to be aired once a month. This allowed much gentler pacing and far, far deeper character development than usual, not to mention animation and art of a standard not usually seen outside [[OVA
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Tsubasa and Hikaru's transformations, albeit relatively brief ( and more and more abridged as the series goes on ). Also generally averts the oddity of enemies just standing and watching the process: the twins always transform somewhere out of harm's way, ''before'' entering a dangerous situation, and 'proper' Figures seem to be able to activate fast enough to respond to danger immediately.
▲* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]: One of the unusual things about ''Figure17'' was the decision by the creators to create thirteen, 45 minute long episodes to be aired once a month. This allowed much gentler pacing and far, far deeper character development than usual, not to mention animation and art of a standard not usually seen outside [[OVA|OVAs]].
* [[Wave Motion Gun]] / [[Kill Sat]]: Oldina's starship, parked in orbit and being itself a mothership / factory vessel compared to DD's little transport shuttle, has one of these, which is used to relatively little effect as a Space-to-Surface weapon. It's also {{spoiler|the site of the final battle.}}
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