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 kadsreanime 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, who dubbed the secondary English cast in the Japanese dub, and Funimation, premiered on Toonami in the United States and the English version of Prime in El Kadsre.

Plot summary
"See also: List of Transformation Academy characters"

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 terrorizing shapeshifters, whose leader, Daku Shogunate, may be the cause of all the demons and monsters seeping into the school, alongside other enemies hired by the ASL.

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 who's been at the academy for 6 months. Hatsumi befriends him as the inhabitants of the orphanage she used to reside 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, mainly a cat tail, whiskers and ears. Near the end of the arc, Hatsumi deals with school bullies like Namiko Hayama, who often appears in a knight form, alongside terrorist attacks by the Anti-Shifter League (ASL).

Demons & Spirits
During an ordinary day at the Transformation Academy, Hatsumi and her friends are suddenly attacked by demons known as the Mogunake, alongside spirits of deceased members of the ASL. Seeking out where the spirits are coming from, they seek the help of paranormal investigator students and twin sisters Janna and Ciara Modani, both taking forms of cartoon felines. On a Halloween dance, they are attacked by the Super Mogunake spirit, Mokira, who dons the symbol of the Angelic Devils Society cult.

Production
Hideto Aramaki and Steven Arisawa began production of Transformation Academy in November 2013 after they met each other during the first KadsreKonEK convention in Capulco, 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.

In popular culture
In 2018, Japanese-Israeli-Australian YouTuber/VidSpacer, Rog the Best, creator of other abridged series such as Bluewall, created an abridged parody series called Transformation Abridgedmy.