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 who suddenly begin intruding the school, and has to battle against the demons with her 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.

Main
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 and how they keep coming back. 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.

Orientation Week arc
One day, 11-year old orphaned girl Hatsumi Ayukawa, wakes up one morning finding her hand randomly morphing, discovering herself to be a shapeshifter. Since the orphanage she lives in does not accept orphaned shapeshifters, she is banished from the orphanage and is immediately enrolled into the Transformation Academy. There, she shares a room with Eiji Fukisawa, a 12-year old kadsresatsu and wolf-loving student whose been at the academy for 6 months, whom she immediately befriends as the inhabitants of the orphanage she was in, even her counselor, were always mean to her. She later befriends a genderless shapeshifter named Jun Korowa, who has the uncanny ability to use magic, and often appears in a cat girl form.

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 EKI executives liked the show and pitched it to become a full anime series.