Tonde Burin
| Tonde Burin | |
Cover of the first volume featuring Tonde Burin and Karin Kokubu.
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とんでぶーりん (Tonde Būrin) |
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| Genre | Magical girl |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Taeko Ikeda |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Imprint | Flower Comics |
| Magazine | Ciao |
| Original run | August 1994 – September 1995 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takayoshi Suzuki |
| Music by | Goro Omi |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Original network | MBS |
| English network | |
| Original run | September 3, 1994 – August 26, 1995 |
| Episodes | 51 |
Tonde Burin (とんでぶーりん Tonde Būrin?) is a magical girl manga series by Taeko Ikeda which originally ran in the manga magazine Ciao. An anime series based on the manga was created by Nippon Animation and broadcast on MBS stations in Japan from September 3, 1994 through August 26, 1995.
An English language-version titled Super Pig was produced by Saban Entertainment in 1997. This dub aired in New Zealand on TV2. The Saban dub aired in South America with an Spanish voice-over provided independently by each of the various networks that broadcast it. From 1998 to 1999 the Saban dub aired in the Netherlands on Fox Kids with Dutch subtitles, from 2003 to 2004 a Dutch dub based on the Saban dub aired also on Fox Kids. Another English dub aired only in the Philippines under the title Super Boink; this dub kept all the original music.
Karin Kokubu (Kassie Carlen) is late for school one day when she comes across an apparently injured yellow pig. It turns out the pig wasn't injured but just hungry, and he gets back his health when he eats Karin's apple. When Karin gets to her school called Sei Ringo Gakuen (St. Ringo School), she discovers that the pig has stowed away in her backpack which causes her more trouble.
Later, she meets the pig again and finds out he can talk and fly. The pig gives her a "Dream Tonpact" which she opens and a pig snout appears from it and attaches itself to her nose! She finds the pig again who explains that he is actually Prince Tonrariano the 3rd (Iggy Pig) of the apple-shaped planet Buringo (Oinko). He tells her how she can transform: by saying "Ba Bi Bu Be Burin!" she transforms into a superpowered pink piglet called Tonde Burin (Super Pig). This is not something Karin is happy about at all as she'd rather transform into a magical girl heroine like her idol the tokusatsu character "Cutey Chao" (who is possibly a reference to Cutie Honey). Tonrariāno (who she calls Ton-chan) tells her if she can collect 108 pearls by doing good deeds as Burin, she can do so. The pearl collection operates on karma meaning if Burin abuses her powers, she will lose pearls.
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