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Some anime transformations are so dramatic, they leave us speechless! Join us as we spotlight the most jaw-dropping makeovers in anime, from quiet introverts to fierce warriors, lovable nerds to awe-inspiring heroes. Whether the change was emotional, physical, or both, these glow-ups made a huge impact on their stories. Which transformation surprised you the most? Share your favorites in the comments!
Some anime transformations are so dramatic, they leave us speechless! Join us as we spotlight the most jaw-dropping makeovers in anime, from quiet introverts to fierce warriors, lovable nerds to awe-inspiring heroes. Whether the change was emotional, physical, or both, these glow-ups made a huge impact on their stories. Which transformation surprised you the most? Share your favorites in the comments!
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00:14Welcome to Ms. Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the most stunning transformations in the world of anime.
00:22These characters leveled up in the visual department in what feels like the blink of an eye, making everyone wish they could do the same.
00:29As these aesthetic upgrades are often key plot points, there might be spoilers ahead.
00:4320. Yuri Katsuki – Yuri on Ice
00:47The best glow-ups come from within.
00:49Yuri Katsuki goes from being one of Japan's finest figure skaters to falling into a slump after a heartbreaking loss at the Grand Prix Final.
00:57As his mental health takes a hit, he starts gaining weight and questioning his own abilities.
01:10Everything changes when Viktor Nikiforov walks into his life, determined to make a champion out of him.
01:17Viktor, who Yuri considers his role model, revives his love for the sport as well as his self-esteem, which directly impacts how he carries himself.
01:25Unleash the arrows within you.
01:27Maybe no one's seen it before, but I know it's there, smouldering deep down inside you, waiting for its chance to come out.
01:34Some rigorous training later, Yuri is back in top form, ready to conquer the world with his man by his side.
01:4119. Izumi Miyamura – Horimiya
01:46This isn't as much of a glow-up as it is a revelation, but the shock factor definitely left us with our jaws hanging.
01:52Isumi, who is perceived as an introverted and awkward guy at school, transforms into quite the rocker outside.
02:09He is tattered out and has multiple piercings, ties his usually clumsy-looking long hair in a half-up, half-down hairdo, and boasts a laid-back style.
02:20In other words, the school nerd turns out to be a looker when no one's judging.
02:24While this alternative look is charming, Izumi gets even more attractive when he accepts himself as he is and isn't afraid to show it to the world.
02:4318. Yukari Hayasaka – Paradise Kiss
02:48Before there was Nana, Ai Yazawa created another coming-of-age romance with a striking heroine.
02:55This was Yukari Hayasaka from Paradise Kiss, an uptight schoolgirl who never knew a world beyond books.
03:02This is a lot of difficult things. I don't have time to meet you as a while!
03:08When she gets involved with a crew of fashion students led by Joji Koizumi, they see the potential she couldn't find in herself.
03:16A whole new dimension opens up in front of her, as she discovers her identity through her relationship with Joji.
03:23He pushes her out of her comfort zone, both in terms of her appearance and her personality, allowing her to be herself unapologetically.
03:31In the process, she inevitably glows up, embracing fearless new styles that she probably wouldn't have dreamt of trying before.
03:4817. Masamune Makabe – Masamune-kun's Revenge
03:54No one likes a melodramatic misunderstanding, but if it results in an epic evolution, we'd certainly mind it less.
04:00That's what happened to Masamune Makabe, who got rejected by his crush Aki Adagaki for his weight and decided to overhaul his entire appearance as revenge.
04:10The problem is that Aki always liked him, especially when he was chubby. However, a petty secondary character, Yoshino, was able to sabotage their budding romance.
04:27She had pretended to be Aki and turned him down. This prompted him to shape up and take on a conventionally attractive look just so he could break Aki's heart one day.
04:38Now that's a strange life goal, but a glow up is a glow up.
04:4216. Sunako Nakahara – The Wallflower
04:54If My Fair Lady was a reverse harem anime, where instead of a flower shop girl, the female protagonist is a horror fanatic, you'd get this.
05:03Sunako Nakahara is more than just quiet and reserved. She has a rich inner world with unusual interests, but has retreated into a shell after a poor experience with a boy she liked.
05:16Since then, she has grown particularly averse to anything pretty and has no interest in appearing beautiful herself.
05:37Concerned, Sunako's aunt decides to enlist four unbelievably handsome boys to turn her niece into a so-called lady.
05:46As she lives with and gets to know these young men, the power of friendship and love allows Sunako to open up and reveal the loveliness she always had.
06:0715. Kobe – One Piece
06:11Some anime makeovers are so drastic, they can only be chalked up to anime logic.
06:16Kobe is one such character, who changed so much in such a short amount of time, that the feasibility of his transformation is highly debated among fans.
06:26When we first meet Kobe, he is weak, both physically and emotionally. After training under the mighty Garp, he gets ripped at an unprecedented rate, which naturally changes how he looks.
06:47Post-time skip, Kobe is even more charismatic, standing tall and proud as a marine captain. Living the dream life sure looks good on the man.
06:5614. Ken Carnegie – Tokyo Ghoul
07:10No one does emo better than this guy. Ken Carnegie started out as an ordinary bright-eyed university student with nothing but his good-natured personality to set him apart.
07:21However, life had other plans, and boy were they cruel. He's sucked into the world of ghouls after partly turning into one himself. To add to that, he is faced with immense torture, but it ultimately results in him powering up. As a side effect though, his hair turns white, which is edgy from an aesthetic perspective, but rather tragic otherwise.
07:48Combining the new hair color with his mask, Ken looks enviably dripped out.
08:0213. Sumika Fujimiya – Uncle from Another World
08:07Not many people would be happy about their aesthetically challenged childhood bully turning into the prettiest girl around.
08:13Takafumi Takaoka doesn't mind though.
08:20Sumika and Hiiko go way back, and although she was an absolute menace as a kid, especially to him, he respects her as a person. In fact, he is so fond of their far-from-ideal friendship that he wouldn't dare look at her romantically, even when she's a total cutie vying for his attention.
08:37Frankly, we don't blame him. He just can't get the grimy image he has of her from their childhood out of his head, but viewers know how hard he's fumbling.
08:44Innocent or ignorant, you be the judge.
08:5912. Eren Jaeger – Attack on Titan
09:03The AOT antihero's appearance had as many plot twists as the anime itself. The most obvious transformation he undergoes is when puberty hits him like a truck. However, the coolest one is when he steps into his villain era in Season 4.
09:19Earlier in that season, he had a scruffy look with shoulder-length hair and an unkempt goatee. However, after the raid on Liberio, he is clean-shaven and starts doing his hair up in an effortlessly sexy man bun with a few fringes framing his face. The titan marks just add to the grunge quotient while his jacked abs amplify his aura points manifold.
09:48Without a doubt, the look fits him wonderfully as the leader of a movement.
09:5511. Song Jin-U – Solo Leveling
10:06You don't just become the world's strongest hunter without a few perks. For Song Jin-U, great power came with great looks. Once he starts moving up the hunter ranks after being chosen as the player of the system, everything changed.
10:2011. Song Jin-U – Solo Leveling
10:28He got taller, stronger, and hotter. Somehow, he also developed a better fashion sense, serving looks reminiscent of Neo from The Matrix. Even his hairstyle went from a shaggy mess to a neat two-block cut usually found on K-pop idols.
10:43Needless to say, the glow-up was well-earned as he trained night and day to achieve his look.
10:5012. Song Jin-U – Solo Leveling
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11:0710. Tsukimi Kurushita – Princess Jellyfish
11:14Like many artistic people, Tsukimi Kurushita, the lead protagonist of Princess Jellyfish, is a classic introvert. She also never really recovered from the death of her mother at a young age.
11:2913. Though Tsukimi is a sweet-natured, generous friend who would happily do a favour for anyone, social interaction is a daunting task for her. She's also not so great at presenting herself either.
11:4213. From her scruffy, plaited hair, to her baggy jumpers and big glasses, everything about her appearance tells you to pay her no attention.
12:0014. But, when Tsukimi does bother to put some effort in, people can barely take their eyes off her. It's amazing what a little self-care can do for you.
12:0915. Wait for me now...
12:32met Waver Velvet during Fate Zero's Fourth Holy Grail War, he was just a scrawny 19-year-old
12:38full of self-doubt. Though he wasn't exactly unattractive, Waver's personality had a lot
12:45of room for improvement. His narcissistic tendencies often left him labelled as spoiled,
12:50and he usually shied away from doing anything too physically demanding out of fear.
12:56Fast forward into the future, and surprise! That skinny little boy has turned into a not-so-skinny
13:02man with a head of hair that reminds us of a L'Oreal commercial.
13:06As Lord El Melioi II, Waver's body finally catches up with his brawny brain. He's even
13:13a hit with the ladies too, though his precious video game collection will always be his first
13:18love.
13:19Code Geass is filled with the kinds of beautiful female characters you'd expect from Clamp,
13:41but Nina Einstein doesn't count herself as one of them. In the first season, nothing about her
13:47particularly stuck out look-wise, other than her dark green hair, which, in a show where
13:52magenta and neon are normal shades, isn't that out of place. Typically, her clothes are
13:59nothing special either. In fact, the frayed edges and oversizing of them belies her shrinking
14:05personality. Come season two, however, and Nina's newfound confidence makes her a whole new person.
14:11With her hair down, her glasses off, and clothes that actually fit her, it's no wonder she caught
14:17the eye of royalty.
14:24The Rising of the Shield Hero
14:32To say Rav Talia had a rough childhood is an understatement. When she was just ten years
14:37old, her peaceful seaside town was ravaged by a wave of calamity, resulting in the deaths
14:43of her parents and her own enslavement. It's no wonder she wasn't in the best shape when
14:48Naofumi bought her. With a little TLC, however, her new owner and adventuring partner realized
14:55that the unkempt urchin he'd purchased was actually a cute little demi-human. Even more
15:00surprising was her transformation later on into a fully grown woman as her hero levels increased.
15:06Her fluffy animal ears, well-groomed hair, and stylish armor is a far cry from the disheveled
15:12slave girl she once was.
15:19Howl's Moving Castle is a fairy tale about how what's on the inside affects what's on
15:43the outside, so how could we not include it here? While the titular wizard goes through
15:48some wild bodily changes as he grows in maturity and selflessness, our heroine Sophie goes through
15:54a similar journey of growth. Before she meets Howl, Sophie is an ordinary, demure hat-shot
16:01girl. Then, a curse from a jealous witch and chance meeting with the rebellious mage changes
16:07her life forever. Her haggard form reflects the stunted person she let herself become, and
16:13it's only through opening herself up to romance and adventure that she breaks through the curse
16:18to become the beautiful and unique woman Howl sees her as.
16:26you still?
16:27Howl, who was it?
16:28What? What are you doing?
16:29The killer Tool, baby?
16:30Howl, baby?
16:31The killer's brain is all back, not the other.
16:32The killer's brain has a weird thing to see.
16:34It's a more of a shock.
16:34What new wonder?
16:34What new wonder is it, another cat in the story?
16:35The killer's brain.
16:37Igrimo, baby.
16:38Igrimo love you!
16:39Igrimo霸, baby!
16:40What new wonder is it?
16:41A new old infant?"
16:42We all have a little puppy fat as kids and Prontoe Argentem is a prime example.
16:47of this.
16:48He's also a prime example of how much can change between our awkward teen years and
16:53our more confident adult ones.
16:56The anime spin-off from the game surprisingly reveals that the tall, slim skirt chaser we
17:01used to seeing was once a quiet, bespectacled boy.
17:05Now he loved Prompto however he looks, but his issues with his weight were implied to
17:10be linked to the depression and isolation he felt as a kid.
17:14Befriending Noctis helped Prompto feel like he belonged, and he worked hard to condition
17:19his body into a form that he was happier in.
17:22Just don't go insulting his chocobo butt hairstyle.
17:41This twisted magical girl anime gives us another example of a makeover shown in reverse.
17:47In the present day, Homura Akemi has sleek, long black hair and icy violet eyes that are
17:53meant to give you a sense of her cold and quiet demeanor right away.
17:57However, in the series' tenth episode we discover that, in one alternate timeline, Homura
18:03used to look very different.
18:05When she was younger, she had to wear glasses and suffered from a heart problem so severe
18:10that she was hospitalized.
18:12Eventually, she was able to use her soul gem to get healthier and, quite literally, let
18:18her hair down.
18:19In the movie sequel, Homura got an even more dramatic wardrobe shake-up to something surprisingly
18:25easy.
18:26A lot of teen girls love having long hair, but for high school student Sawako, her style choices
18:53draw some unwanted opinions from her classmates.
18:57Because of her reserved personality, dark eyes and waist-length black locks, she's constantly
19:03bullied for looking like Sadako, the terrifying female spectre from Japanese horror series The
19:09Ring.
19:11Luckily, she finds acceptance in an unexpected place, Shota Kazuhaya, the most popular boy
19:22in school.
19:23While Kazuhaya loves Sawako just the way she is, once she begins to return his affections,
19:29Sawako decides to put more effort into how she presents herself.
19:33Of course, Sawako's rare smiles reveal that she's never been a horror movie monster.
19:38She just needed the confidence to show off her natural beauty.
19:45Like Prompto, Kiss Him Not Me's main character, Keiserinuma, used to be more heavily set.
20:08Her dramatic weight loss was also down to a similar tragic backstory.
20:12Tragedy of the made-up kind, we should add.
20:16She is a passionate Fujiochi, which is what fans of the boy-love genre are known as.
20:21When one of her favorite male characters is killed off, she becomes so beside herself that
20:26she locks herself in her bedroom and doesn't eat anything for days.
20:31Her eventual emergence is kind of like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon, and it isn't long
20:37before she has several suitors buzzing around her.
20:40Of course, we should point out that we don't endorse this kind of extreme dieting.
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21:06A little make-up can go a long way, but who knew it could go this far?
21:19While some people can light up a room, Palm Siberia is surrounded by bad vibes wherever
21:24she goes.
21:26In fact, much like Sawako, her introduction in Hunter x Hunter is reminiscent of the Ring
21:31Sadako.
21:32Accompanying this dark cloud around her is a dark shroud of tangled hair and grey skin, making
21:38her look like the undead.
21:40But when Palm goes on a date with Hunter x Hunter's lead character, Gon, it was like she
21:45came back to life.
21:50Healthy brown hair, peach-colored skin, she was unrecognizable.
21:55Palm assumed a similarly attractive form to do some political espionage around Secretary
22:01of State Biz F.
22:07Glow-ups are great, but what's the worst glow-down you've ever seen in an anime?
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