#figure 17

[mostly-magical-polls]

Best Magical Girl Glow-Up - Round 1

Choose

Izumi Orimoto

Hikaru Shiina & Tsubasa Shiina

Voting ended onApr 24, 2025

*The two twins fuse together to form the magical girl form.

[obscureanimeoftheday]

Obscure Anime of The Day:

Figure 17

Aired: 2001-2002

Genres: Action, Drama, School, SciFi, Seinen, Slice of Life

[who-do-i-know-this-man-s3]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

Round 1

Fenrys (Viola: The Heroine's Melody)

Figure 17 (Figure 17)

I know Both/Neither.

Voting ended onSep 21, 2024

[juniperusashei]

(Series Review) Figure 17 by Genco-Olm - 4/5

Figure 17 is such a strange series because it superficially seems like a generic riff on the magical girl genre, but in only two volumes manages to rip your heart out and kick it in the ass. Apparently this manga duology was based on an anime that was released first, and was a more expansive story, but I chose to read the manga because I remembered having read it when I was maybe eight years old and being completely riveted. Figure 17 tells the story of a somewhat ineffectual girl who gets visited by aliens who clone her, but her clone is somehow also a robot, and they can combine to form a larger woman. Kind of trite, but the reason I liked it was because very little of this mattered. Instead of the alien invasion, the focus was on the character development and their tragic inner lives. The clone is exactly like the protagonist in every way, except she is more confident, and the main arc of the manga was not defeating alien invaders, but learning how to be more self-assured. It’s probably not very good, but I am thankful for having read this story when I was a kid, because even if I didn’t remember the details, I remembered it as having been very relatable and impactful back then, an assessment that is true still. The alien fighting scenes are tedious, and a lot of the manga is probably not very well-thought out, but I nevertheless found myself flying through the last few pages for fear of getting completely emotionally overwhelmed. Definitely something very formative to be revisited. (less)

[hotwaterandmilk]

Favourite Anime OP/ED Sequences | Figure 17 (2001) Opening feat. Boy by THE ALFEE

[auralice]

Figure 17.

[anime--food]

Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru - Episode 11

[casualfundraws]

I love Figure 17, it was one of the first animes I watched when I was a kid and when I saw Yesterday's Lie I couldn't get the similarities out of my head so I used one of my favorite promotional pictures as a basis and turned Tsubasa and Hikaru into Vee and Luz 💕

Here's the original image I used to make this fanart.

Figure 17 is about a 10 year old girl who lives alone with her dad. They just recently moved out to the country for his dream job and Tsubasa is lonely and grieving the death of her mother.

One night she a something crash into the forest and goes to investigate. She finds a downed spaceship and a terrifying alien creature begins to hunt her. She hides in the spaceship and ends up touching a liquid that had spilled out of a broken container and onto the floor. This liquid bonds with her and forms into Hikaru. Together these two become the alien fighter, Figure 17 and stop the alien monster.

The rest of the anime is the two forming a sisterly bond while searching for more escaped alien creatures. They are joined by the pilot of the spaceship Dee Dee. It's very much a slice of life anime with most of the focus being on the girls and their growing bond between each other and their relationships with their classmates and their dad. There is a fight scene in every episode but it is very much not the focus of the series and usually only takes about 10 minutes of the 50 minute run time.

I highly recommend you go watch it, you can watch it for free on Tubi TV.