At 01:03 PM 8/6/96 -0400, you wrote:

What men transform in anime?
     The Sailor Starlights (from Sailor Moon SS)...
     Ranma (to Ranma-chan)...
     while not anime, Kubu-kun/Kubu-chan (from Kubu-chan Henshin)...
     The tkd artest is named Kim Kappwan (btw)...
     TuxMask (of corse)...
Am I forgeting someone?

Ryouga, Mousse and Genma (from Ranma)
Tenchi changes into Battle Armour Tenchi, but that doesn't *really*
count....

While not I _really_ don't consider these guys to be so much transforming
as powering up, others might...
	Son Goku
	Son Gohan
	Son Goten
	Vegita
	Trunks

What about Gotrunks, Goku/Vegeta uniting technique, and Cell to perfect Cell?

I say it doesn't matter.  Tuxedo Mask already got the gold medal in this
one.  (Ranma had a strong showing, but he couldn't match up against Tuxedo
Mask/Darien/Moonlight Knight/Prince Darien/Chibi Mamoru/Prince
Endymion...)

  C'mon people.  When I thought up this event it was so simple,well for me
at least.  The event is judged on coolness of transformation.  While it is
true that Ranma Genma etc etc tranform, The transformations just aren't
cool.  It's a quick gender switch, or animal switch.  The only time I'd say
these were cool was when Ranma and Ryoga were running through the geysers of
different temperature water in the third movie.  The half Ryouga half P-chan
was just killer.  For my money Tekno-man has a pretty cool tranformation,
body gets encased in armor, snaps arms into gauntlets.  Hmm..I think what I
originally meant by tranformation was the addition of armour or a new
costume that looked impressive.  Kim Kappwans switch to his fighting duds in
the Fatal Fury Motion picture was amazing.  Tuxedo Masks tranformation(or at
least the one I've seen) is lame at best.  If there was a little more flash
in the Ranma transformations they might be candidates.  Regretably I don't
know any other male tranformations as I am relatively new to the Anime scene.

Ja ne!!

Ran-chan

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