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So I feel the subforum is ready for something fairly new and interesting.
Over the past week, I've been watching a lot of the Giga videos. As almost everyone on SHF knows, they follow a formula with the heroine and/or villainess undergoing various positions of extreme sex. The costumes are also generally very tight, and when they're not using Western superheroine costumes, it's mostly tokusatsu characters resembling Power Rangers or Sailor Moon. The actresses do vary in talent, but a good number are fairly good in expressing strong emotions about sexual peril. It's all of these things which make Giga popular in our sphere.
But the more I watched, the more I also looked for an element that I often enjoy and emphasize: transformations. In most of the Giga videos, if there is a transformation, it's rather brief. Either the heroine or villainess presses a button and changes in a flash, or there's a short spin or magical girl sequence.
I had never before seen a Giga transformation where the character takes the time to put on her costume, revels in the power it gives her, and really enjoys being her transformed self. Either in the standard "Alicia Silverstone becomes Batgirl" mode, or something a little bit sexier. Admittedly, those sequences are rare (I've seen Logan or Jim Weathers or Primal do them on rare occasions), and I've done them a few times myself in PG-mode, even a rated-R transformation with Terra.
But I randomly stumbled across one, and hence the review of the episode known formally as "Unprofessional Scouted From Evil Organization (Fallen From Evil and Evil Dress)" in the Giga catalog GHNU-82. It's not from that long ago, either: mid-2022. Stars actress Hono Wakamiya as Kaoru aka Gerbera.
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Gerbera appearance was with a different actress, so there was no real continuity in any of the stories. However, this one might be considered the actual "origin story" of Gerbera, so here's what transpires in the video:
- A meek office worker woman named Kaoru is summoned to a secret organization headed by a panel of three mysterious men in suits.
I don't know Japanese, so I don't know for sure what they say in this scene, but I assume it has something to do with them wanting to recruit her
to work for them. I don't know why - she seems like a bit of a shrinking violet - but she leaves the meeting possibly considering their offer.
- In a nearby hallway (possibly the same building) a man in a purple suit gives her a card and invites her into his office which also looks like a campy science lab. She sits down at his desk and he gives her the spiel about a costume he has which he pulls out of a metal-lined container. He calls it the "Gerbera suit" (this phrase is repeated many times in the episode), which consists of a spandex bodysuit with attached shoulder pads and cape, gloves and boots, and a sturdy helmet in the color scheme of red, purple and black. He gives the costume pile to her, she agrees to take it, and leaves the office.
- The next scene is the centerpiece of the episode for me. She takes the costume pile and plops it on her clear glass coffee table, looking at it for a while and trying to decide whether to put it on. Picking it up, it exudes kind of an attractive glittery aura, possibly seducing her in some way into making the decision to try it. And here's where one of the best transformations I've ever seen begins!
Kaoru contemplates the allure of the powerful helmet.
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Unfortunately, we don't see her unbuttoning her blouse or taking off her skirt.
Instead, there's a shot where the jacket, blouse and skirt are passively "thrown" onto a chair.
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