Cyber Team in Akihabara

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Cyber Team in Akihabara is a Japanese anime. It is done in the Magikawai style. This is a fusion of the Magical Girls and the Kawaii anime genres which saw the first came about in 1998.

Cyber Team in Akihabara is focused on the life of five pretty preteen girls and their very cute pets, the patapis. A "patapi" is a cute mechanical creature which is like a cyber pet. It can eat, sleep, play, and even help out its owners with some stuff. When an extroverted girl Hibari Hanakoganei, the 12 year old main character, receives a patapi from a prince in her dreams, she is thrilled and names it "Densuke". When mysterious forces try to steal Densuke, Hibari discovers that Densuke is not just an ordinary patapi. Densuke has magical powers that allows it to transform into a powerful cyber fighter who looks like Hibari and is called a Diva. Hibari's friends, Suzume and Tsugumi, also receive similar patapis, and together they form the Cyber Team in Akihabara. Later Kamome joins them, and finally the misteryous Tsubame Otoori completes the circle and makes the team complete.

The first few episodes of Cyber Team in Akihabara are like a cross between the animes "Sailor Moon" and "Bubblegum Crisis".The Cyber Team in Akihabara girls each have a patapi. These patapis magically transform into the spitting image of their owners (but wearing Bubblegum Crisis type hardsuits) when fighting the enemies. In the later episodes, a couple of girls even attain the ultimate synchronization with their patapis, enabling them to actually transform into hardsuit mode and merge with their patapis.

The storyline is rooted in an ancient organization known as Rosenkreuz. The Rosenkreuz wants to reform the world to their ideal. For centuries, the Rosenkreuz had worked in secret. But the girls haven't an inkling of Rosenkreuz's existence, and how a big part it plays in their lives. This causes a lot of plot twists. Watching an isolated episode or two will most likely make very little sense. There are 26 episodes (none of them a filler-up), and everyone of them is a part of a well-rounded story that becomes more dramatic and serious as the chapters goes by. None of the impact points of the anime general in genre are absent on Cyber Team in Akihabara (those points are: excellent soundtrack (special mention to opening and ending themes and to the heart-breaking "Cynthia Aisuru Hito"), dramatism, comedy, pretty teenager girls).

Character development is amazing. Even the villains are given attention, allowing viewers to empathize with their plight. All the main players in Cyber Team in Akihabara thinks that what he/she is doing is for the improvement of the world, so it's difficult to label anyone as a real villain.

The art and animation are generally cutesy in style. But after transformation, the girls in hardsuits get voluptuous bodies that seem older than their original form, because the patapis get the form of its owners as young adults (they look like kids prior to transforming, and they evolve in the transformation). All the female villains are extremely well-endowed.

Cyber Team in Akihabara is made for all kinds of audiences that will reach different points of atraction. This is also shown through its innovation and fairly unique approach to the magical girl genre with a renewed and uncliched aesthetic view, characters, story and script.