What is Henshin manga?

Japanese for "transformation" (metamorphosis or disguise).A "henshin anime" is any anime, where the characters or their costumes transform, such as Sailor Moon. The henshin switches on the character's special powers, and is frequently accompanied by a costume change. Often the change of clothing is the only outward indicator that the character has changed and yet nobody seems to notice the hero's true self.Most henshin heroes have a special item which they use to change into their heroic form. These items are usually activated by a command phrase (which is often in Engrish, for some reason), triggering a transformation sequence.

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Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

(Sailor Moon)

8.16

Description:

Tsukino Usagi is 14 years old and in her second year of middle school. She's a bit of a crybaby and klutzy. However, she can transform into a warrior of justice, Sailormoon! An eternal classic that should be read by all. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

18

Chapters

61

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1991-12-28

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa

7.89

Description:

This manga tells the story of the previous Holy war of the universe of Saint Seiya, taking place in the XVIII century, 250 years before the original manga. The story centers on the relation between Tenma, the Pegasus Saint and his beloved friend, Alone, who would eventually become his greatest enemy, Hades. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

25

Chapters

223

Status

finished

Started

2006-09-21

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa Gaiden

7.88

Description:

New series of Saint Seiya focusing on the Gold Saints.
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Chapters

90

Status

finished

Started

2011-05-19

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Short Stories

7.84

Description:

A two volume set of short stories from the world of Sailor Moon. Volume 1 1. Beware the Exchange Student! (Tenkousei ni goyoujin!?) 2. Beware the Tanabata (July 7th Festival)! (七夕にご用心! Tanabata ni goyoujin!?) 3. Beware Cavities! (Mushiba ni goyoujin!?) 4. Mako-chan's Depression! (Mako-chan no Yuuutsu!?) 5. Ami-chan's First Love! (Ami-chan no Hatsukoi!?) 6. Rei and Minako's Girls' School Battle!? (Rei to Minako no Joshikou Batoru!??) 7. The Secret Hammer Price Hall (Himitsu no Hanmaa Puraisu Dou?) Volume 2: 1. Lover of Princess Kaguya ( Kaguya hime no Koibito) 2. Casablanca Memory (Kasaburanka Memorii) 3. Parallel Sailormoon (Parareru Seeraamuun) (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

10

Status

finished

Started

2004-08-23

Date A Live

7.73

Description:

Shidou Itsuka has a problem. The world has been racked by massive quakes of an unknown source for years now, though life goes on. Then one day, Shidou's calm life ends forever when in the middle of a quake in his city, he meets a girl who's apparently a spirit-and the cause of all the destruction! When a team arrives to eliminate the threat, Shidou becomes embroiled in a war to protect these spirits-by making them fall in love with him?! (Source: Yen Press)
Type

novel

Volumes

22

Chapters

146

Status

finished

Started

2011-03-19

Suicide Girl

7.65

Description:

A story where a girl of light fights against the darkness of the world. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

40

Rating

Mature

Status

finished

Started

2020-04-17

+Anima

7.58

Description:

Beings who possess animal-like powers walk among humans in this alternate universe. These mysterious mutants, the +Anima, are shunned by society. Four outcasts in particular--Cooro, a boy with crow-like powers; Husky, a fish-boy; Senri, a bear +Anima; and a girl named Nana, who wields the power of the bat--search for others like themselves while trying to gain acceptance in a world cruel to anyone or anything that is different. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

59

Status

finished

Started

1999-12-27

Saint Seiya: Saintia Shou

(Saint Seiya: Saintia Shou)

7.5

Description:

In the wake of a space-wide civil war instigated by Saga–the Gemini Gold Saint–a new team of Saints comes together with the goal of protecting their goddess Athena. This first all-woman team of armored warriors, powered by the Zodiac, will use their cunning, strength, and compassion to defend their worlds and oppose their very destinies. Mangaka Chimaki Kuori is also known for working on manga for Gundam Seed and the Persona series. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

86

Status

finished

Started

2013-08-19

Saint Seiya

(Knights of the Zodiac)

7.37

Description:

Ages ago, the goddess Athena was served by fighters called Saints who channeled the power of the Cosmos within them. Now a youth named Seiya has trained to become a Saint himself by earning the mystical Cloth of Pegasus. He is joined by other Saints with Cloths of their own to fight for Athena. (Source: ANN) Note: Chapter count includes an omake story "The Swan's Tale: Natassja of the Lands of Ice."
Type

manga

Volumes

28

Chapters

110

Status

finished

Started

1986-01-01

Mahou Shoujo Ore

(Magical Girl Ore)

7.36

Description:

This story is about a 15-year-old girl who is a newbie idol in love with her best friend's brother who is also a popular idol. But she runs into a scary yakuza guy and finds out that her mother was an ex-magical girl, and the yakuza was her mascot. Her love interest gets kidnapped by demons that look like burly men with cute squirrel heads. So she contracts the yakuza to become a magical girl, which in this story means she turns into a handsome guy in a magical girl outfit. On top of that, her love interest shows an attraction toward her magical guy form. Her best friend turns out to be in love with her and also becomes a magical cross-dressing guy to save her life. Thus, their manager, who is a magical girl geek, then decides to turn them into an idol unit. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

12

Rating

Partial Nudity

Status

finished

Started

2012-11-13

Saint Seiya: Gigantomachia

7.25

Description:

The story takes place between Poseidon and Hades. Athena and their knights must fight against powerful giants who lives on mount Etna, on the Italy.
Type

novel

Volumes

2

Chapters

11

Status

finished

Started

2004-01-01

Saint Seiya Episode G

7.2

Description:

In ancient times, the Titan Cronos (son of Uranus the sky and Gaia the earth) and his wife Rhea gave birth to six children. Five of them were swallowed by Cronos, and only one was saved, Zeus, hidden from Cronos by Rhea. Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus forces his father to vomit the other five gods. Zeus, along with his brothers and sisters, decide to battle the Titans for control of the universe. Cronos and the other eleven Titans lose the battle and are sent to Tartarus. Thousands of year later, in Greece, the Pope visits the room of the recently reincarnated infant Athena, with a golden dagger. Before he can kill her, the Gold Saint Saggitarius Aiolos saves her, and unmasks the Pope. Aiolos, horrified, flees. The Pope declares him a traitor to the Sanctuary, and has Capricorn Shura murder him. This causes his younger brother, Leo Aiolia, to grow under the shadow of his "traitor" brother, suffering from all manner of abuse and scorn. This leaves him with a grudge against the Gold Saints and Sanctuary as a whole, which causes the Pope and most of the Sanctuary to distrust him. To make things worse, the enemies of God Zeus, the Titans, are revived and begin to seek vengeance against him and the Sanctuary. This marks the start of Aiola's story and the battle of the Gold Saints against the Titans. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

20

Chapters

87

Status

finished

Started

2002-12-19

Parallel Sailor Moon

7.17

Description:

The story takes place in an alternate reality from the rest of the Sailor Moon series, so it does not fit to the main storyline or canon. One of the main reasons it does not fit into the main storyline is because it is stated in the main series that Usagi Tsukino will only have one child (Chibiusa). However, the lead character created especially for this story is Usagi's second child, Kousagi Tsukino. The daughters of the other four Guardian Senshi (all in grade 3 with Kousagi) also are in the story, who look exactly like (and are named after) their mothers (though the Japanese spelling of the names are different). (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

oneshot

Volumes

0

Chapters

1

Status

finished

Started

1999-09-01

Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - Meiou Shinwa

7.15

Description:

In 1990 (previously 1986), in Elysion; the five Bronze Saints Seiya, Hyōga, Shun, Shiryū and Ikki, having wreaked havoc in the Underworld's army and succeeding in resurrecting the God Cloths, engage the god Hades in a final duel to the death. During the battle, Hades remembers that he has seen Seiya's face before and comes to the conclusion that he faced him before. He thus starts reminiscing about his previous host body, and the story starts 247 years prior, in the 18th century. The protagonist, the Pegasus Saint of this era, is an orphan who is best friends with a boy named Alone, the host of Hades. Former Bronze Saints Dohko and Sion, two prominent characters in Kurumada's original manga as the sole survivors of the holy war of that century, have just been promoted to Gold Saints and eventually the two duos meet. Note: The chapter count includes 118 regular chapters, 2 special chapters included in volume 10, and a prologue.
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

121

Status

finished

Started

2006-04-27

Kill la Kill

(KILL la KILL)

6.86

Description:

The story centers around two fiercely fighting schoolgirls, Ryuuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuuin. On a campus ruled by force, a transfer student wielding a Basami sword brings about upheaval. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

17

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2013-10-04

Date A Live

()

6.7

Description:

April 10th. Yesterday was the last day of spring vacation, so starting this morning it was a school day. After being woken up by his cute little sister, Itsuka Shidou believed that it would be the start of another normal day. As for predicting the chance meeting with the girl who called herself a spirit...... Along with a sudden shockwave, the townscape vanished without a trace. In a corner of the street which had now become a crater, the girl was there. "—You, have you come to kill me too?" She is the disaster that will destroy humanity, a monster of unknown origin, and a being rejected by the world. There are only two ways to stop this girl: annihilation, and conversation. His little sister Kotori, wrapped in a military uniform, thus said to Shidou: "Since it's like this, just go date her, and make the spirit fall for you!" "Wh.. whaaaaaaaat!?" Enter a new age of boy meets girl!! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

6

Status

finished

Started

2012-04-26

Kibou no Shima

(An Island Named Desire)

5.95

Description:

A group of teenage boys travels to an island where it is rumoured that only women live. They are all eager to lose their virginity but will the legends surrounding the island be true or something more sinister is happening there?
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

20

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2015-07-08

Gekikou Kamen

(Moonlight Mask)

0

Description:

Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2021-12-10

Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker

0

Description:

After graduating from Seiya Elementary School, Amu is ready to start junior high school. Amu is glad to be with her dear friends, but then she is asked to undertake a "secret mission" and has to transfer to a new school…? A new adventure of Amu and Shugo Chara is about to begin! (Source: Comic Days, translated)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2024-08-02

Fukugyou Mahou Shoujo

(Side Business Magical Girl)

0

Description:

An original oneshot about job-juggling part-timer Ayaka Isogai, and her eye-opening recruitment into the magical girl business.
Type

oneshot

Chapters

1

Status

finished

Started

2020-12-29

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