Transformation Academy

Transformation Academy (Japanese: トランスフォメーションアカデミー) is a Japanese-El Kadsreian anime series created by Hideto Aramaki and Steven Arisawa.

The anime takes place in a world where shapeshifting is a recessive human trait, humans that are born shapeshifters are trained at the Transformation Academy, and is based around the adventures of recently-enrolled student, Hatsumi Ayukawa, an 11-year old orphan student who discovers her ability and is enrolled in the school. While she tries to blend in with her new peers and control her new shapeshifting abilities, she winds up having to face against evil demons from another dimension who attack the school frequently, and has to figure out where all the monsters are coming from with the help of her new friends, Eiji Fukisawa and genderless magician, Jun Korowa.

An English dub of the anime, a joint production between Power Network and Funimation, premiered on Toonami in the United States and the English version of Prime in El Kadsre.

Premise
In a world where shapeshifting is a recessive genetic trait in humans, and humans with the shapeshifting trait are taught how to use their abilities at the Transformation Academy. Hatsumi Ayukawa, an 11-year old orphan girl who woke up one morning discovering her ability, is enrolled into the school to learn her abilities. There, she meets and becomes roommates with 12-year old 6-month student, Eiji Fukisawa, and they both try to blend into the school together. However, they and gender-neutral shapeshifting magician, Jun Korowa, apparently discover that demons have been attacking the school and possessing its inhabitants, and they set out to find where the demons are coming from. They also deal with protestual attacks from the Anti-Shifter League, a terrorist group bent on killing shapeshifters, whose leader, Daku Shogunate, may be the cause of all the demons and monsters seeping into the school.

Production
Hideto Aramaki and Steven Arisawa began production of Transformation Academy in November 2013 after they met each other during KadsreKon, a convention celebrating El Kadsreian pop culture and history. According to an interview, Hideto and Steven were inspired to make Transformation Academy after watching the El Kadsreian print of. They were also inspired to base the show around shapeshifters after watching reruns of Manimal on BTV's Throwback Thursdays block. After pitching a 2-minute short film, which would later be used as the show's first episode's intro to Toei EKI, Toei's El Kadsreian division, Toei executives liked the show and pitched it to become a full anime series.