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{{quote|''Metamorforce!''}}
In the middle of the 21st Century, gadgeteer Hiroshi Ozora has created the crowning achievement of his brief career: the Mol Unit
Hiroshi intends to show off the Mol Unit to his old mentor Professor Amagi, with whom he shares both a friendly rivalry as a technologist and a love of old 20th-century devices. But before he gets a chance, agents of a mysterious new supervillain calling himself "Professor Machinegal" strike the social event they are both attending. Piloting insectoid mecha, they attempt to steal its centerpiece
Afterwards, Hiroshi's ditzy younger sister Mirai becomes suspicious and investigates, eventually finding his development notes and system. Intrigued and excited, she modifies the Mol Unit so that it has a second "look"
As Mirai gradually assumes the mantle of Moldiver from Hiroshi, matters swirl around them and seem to converge: Machinegal's continuing depredations, an accelerating deep space exploration program, the unexpected discovery of a maximum number of uses in the Mol Unit, the arrival of a mysterious ''third'' Moldiver, and even a family friend on whom Mirai has a crush. Everything is resolved in a romantic and optimistic climax that is conclusive but still holds out the possibility of more adventures.
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''[[Moldiver]]'' is a six-episode [[OVA]] miniseries produced in 1993. Traditionally animated, it generally has good to excellent production values. [[Geneon|Pioneer Entertainment]] brought it to the United States as part of its very first salvo of anime imports in the early 1990s, and as was usual for Pioneer at that time, the dubbing cast is one of the best.
The story is clearly having fun playing with both the superhero and [[Magical Girl]] cliches in a setting that would seem to be inhospitable to both, and it's not afraid to turn other cliches on their ears, as well
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* [[Attention Whore]]: Mao, oh so very much.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: WcDonalds, ZIC (a reference to the show producers, AIC)
* [[By the Power of
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Nozomu turns out to be just as technically adept as his older siblings.
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Amagi/Machinegal; all he did was change his clothes and put on some goggles.
* [[Clothing Damage]]: Activating the Mol Unit thoroughly shreds anything the user might be wearing.
* [[The Ditz]]: Mirai.
** [[Genius Ditz]]: Mirai again: within a couple hours of discovering her brother's work, she is able to re-engineer it to her own specifications. Despite having no technical training.▼
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: ''Why'' 666?
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Hiroshi.
▲* [[Genius Ditz]]: Mirai again: within a couple hours of discovering her brother's work, she is able to re-engineer it to her own specifications. Despite having no technical training.
* [[Hachiko]]: Hachiko's statue is one of places Mirai attempts to meet up with a male friend in one episode.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The first letter of episode one to five's [[wikipedia:Moldiver|titles]] + the first three letters of episode six's = MOLDIVER.
* [[Idol Singer]]: Amy Lean
* [[Magical Girl]]: Sort of, in a [[Magic From Technology]] way.
* [[Magic Pants]]: Parodied oh so much. Both Moldiver uniforms fit both Hiroshi and Mirai.
* [[Mission Control]]: Hiroshi becomes this after Mirai tampered with his costume.
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Nozomu
* [[The Professor]]: Lightly subverted.
* [[The Rival]]:
* [[Robot Girl]]: Machinegal's Dolls; subverted in that they aren't at all robotic in appearance or behavior, and some viewers may not realize their nature until the [[Nightmare Fuel]] moment described on that page.
* [[Sentai]]/[[Superhero]]: Deliberately invokes the Superhero genre of the early-1990s, using Sentai tropes.
* [[Team Shot]]: See the page image. Played with in that both Moldivers ''and'' their civilian identities appear side-by-side.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Mirai seems to be no older than 19 or so.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Parodied with its clothing-destroying effect.
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Not literally, but this is the apparent effect when the Moldiver appearance that activates doesn't match who's wearing it. Hearing Mirai's voice coming out of the blue-suited Superman-clone causes ''wonderful'' cognitive dissonance.
* [[Who Needs Their Whole Body?]] See the [[Nightmare Fuel]] page.
▲* [[You Fail Physics Forever]]: The entire outer space battle in episode 2.
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