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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.
''[[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]]:
* [[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]]:
* [[Clothing Damage]]: Activating the Mol Unit thoroughly shreds anything the user might be wearing.
* [[
** [[Genius Ditz]]:
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: ''Why'' 666?
* [[Hachiko]] (Hachiko's statue is one of places Mirai attempts to meet up with a male friend in one episode.)▼
* [[
▲* [[Hachiko]]:
* [[Humongous Mecha]]
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]:
* [[Idol Singer]]: Amy Lean
* [[Magical Girl]]:
* [[Magic Pants]]:
* [[Mission Control]]: Hiroshi becomes this after Mirai tampered with his costume.
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Nozomu
* [[The Professor]]:
* [[The Rival]]:
* [[Robot Girl]]:
* [[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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