History Toys / FrameArmsGirls

Introduced by Kotobukiya to fill in the Mecha Musume void left in the market after Konami stopped further production of ''Toys/BusouShinki'', the FA Girls are also an attempt to make the original series Frame Arms mechs more accessible and appealing by turning the robots into cuter robot girls.

Kotobukiya themselves have chibi versions of the FA Girls planned as Cu-Poche jointed chibi action figures. As of April 2017 Gourai and Stylet are the first two to be made available as Poches, with White and Black Materia en-route. They have also announced plans for ''crossover'' Frame Arms Girls from other franchises with the Cross Frame girls, the first two known such girls being Anime/GaoGaiGar and Sylphy from the Desktop Army series.

In a fashion rather like the Shinki, FA Girls have a lot of articulation and a modular pegs/parts system that leverages Kotobukiya's universal Mobile Support Goods (MSG) accessories for their model kits and action figures. However, unlike shinki and more like traditional Gunpla and other model kits, you ''do'' need to assemble the girls by detaching their parts from plastic runners and putting them together.

** Chapter 7 shows that putting the AS systems and FA Girl code into the Architect AI turned her into a full-fledge Frame Arms Girl, who [[PinocchioSyndrome ends up desiring a body of her own]].

* PoweredArmor: Their combat armor and rigging gives the impression of such, and are portrayed accordingly in the OVA and the Lab Days manga. At a larger scale, Kotobukiya has made Gigantic Arms suits for the girls, as well as made another toyline, the Hexa Gear series, with beast-mechs that transform into vehicles, fully compatible with FA Girls as transformable armored shells ([[http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l302/Chris_Lv255/1489680103389_zpsgolz11se.jpg as demonstrated by Architect here]]).

* AceCustom: Unlike the restricted-intelligence mass production FA Girls, the protagonists are research models with more advanced 'unlocked' learning capabilities.

* ThisIsADrill: The MSG weapon kit for the Vortex Driver, fully usable by the girls. It can be motorized with a battery-powered Gimmick Kit that runs on small [=LR44=] batteries.

The [[Anime/FrameArmsGirls anime adaptation]] has started airing in early April as part of the Spring 2017 Anime lineup, and will run for 12 episodes. In it, a young lady named Ao Gennai gets introduced to the world of cute little robot girls as a result of her father signing her up for a monetized review/research program with Frame Advance (the FictionalCounterpart to Kotobukiya), which also conveniently frees her up from having to hunt for a part-time job in order to earn a little extra pocket money. The Blu-Ray release for the anime is in 4 volumes (3 episodes each), with exclusive new model kits of the girls (volume 1 has no-armor Gourai, volume 2 has no-armor Stylet, volume 3 has Anime Colours Baselard, and volume 4 has [[spoiler:Gourai KAI]]) included with each.

[[caption-width-right:350:AKA ''Busou Shinki 2: Electric Boogaloo''.]]

''[[http://fagirl.com/index.html Frame Arms Girls]]'' is a line of MechaMusume action figure kits produced by Kotobukiya.

In a fashion rather like the Shinki, FA Girls have a lot of articulation and a modular pegs/parts system that leverages Kotobukiya's universal Mobile Support Goods (MSG) accessories for their model kits and action figures.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: FA Girls seem to react rather interestingly to having their charging cables plugged into their back.

Kotobukiya themselves have chibi versions of the FA Girls planned as Cu-Poche jointed chibi action figures. As of April 2017 Gourai and Stylet are the first two to be made available as Poches, with White and Black Materia en-route.

* FunWithAcronyms: Overlapping with UnfortunateNames and InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike, the '''F'''rame '''A'''rms '''G'''irl'''s ''' got acronymized by some of the fandom into [=FAGs=]. Several of the creators have requested for them to referred to as [[InsistentTerminology F.A. Girls]] -- however, when the name of the anime's production committee is written as [="FAGirl"=], this just leads to the fandom reading it as "fag in real life".

* FunWithAcronyms: Overlapping with UnfortunateNames, the '''F'''rame '''A'''rms '''G'''irl'''s ''' got acronymized by some of the fandom into [=FAGs=]. Several of the creators have requested for them to referred to as [[InsistentTerminology FA Girls]].

* FunWithAcronyms: Overlapping with UnfortunateNames, the '''F'''rame '''A'''rms '''G'''irl'''s ''' got acronymized by some of the fandom into [=FaGs=]. Several of the creators have requested for them to referred to as [[InsistentTerminology FA Girls]].

[[caption-width-right:350:AKA Busou Shinki 2 Electric Boogaloo]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Fujisaki, Baselard's Meister, devises a simple test to see how much FA Girls can learn in chapter 4, by having her colleague Satou challenge them to assemble one of Baselard's weapon kits.

* PoweredArmor: Their combat armor and rigging gives the impression of such, and are portrayed accordingly in the OVA and the Lab Days manga. At a larger scale, Kotobukiya has made Gigantic Arms suits for the girls, as well as made another toyline, the Hexa Gear series, with beast-mechs that transform into vehicles, fully compatible with FA Girls as transformable armored shells.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh7RHTJGczQ Here's a trailer for the FA Girls OVA.]]

An [[Anime/FrameArmsGirls anime adaptation]] has started airing in early April as part of the Spring 2017 Anime lineup, and will run for 12 episodes. In it, a young lady named Ao Gennai gets introduced to the world of cute little robot girls as a result of her father signing her up for a monetized review/research program with Frame Advance (the FictionalCounterpart to Kotobukiya), which also conveniently frees her up from having to hunt for a part-time job in order to earn a little extra pocket money.

Kotobukiya themselves have chibi versions of the FA Girls planned as Cu-Poche jointed chibi action figures. As of April 2017 Gourai and Stylet are the first two to be made available as Poches, with White Materia en-route.

* TheStoic: Thanks to Humida's design choices, many of the early FA Girls shipped with a neutral-expression faceplate.

** Baselard festooning things with stickers. Her [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1492662647064.jpg Charger]], Stylet's jetpack, and an equipment case.

* PoweredArmor: Their combat armor and rigging gives the impression of such, and are portrayed accordingly in the OVA and the Lab Days manga.

An [[Anime/FrameArmsGirls anime adaptation]] has started airing in early April as part of the Spring 2017 Anime lineup, and will run for 12 episodes. In it, a young lady named Ao Gennai gets introduced to the world of cute little robot girls as a result of her father signing her up for a monetized review/research program with Kotobukiya, which also conveniently frees her up from having to hunt for a part-time job in order to earn a little extra pocket money.

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* EmergencyWeapon: All FA girls ship with a simple combat knife and a holster/sheathe for it that plugs into the 3mm sockets on their bodies.

** Baselard festooning things with stickers. Her [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1492662647064.jpg Charger]], Stylet's jetpack, and an equipment case.

** Baselard festooning things with stickers. Her Charger, Stylet's jetpack, and an equipment case.

** In chapter 3 of ''Lab Days'', [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1241013-anime-manga Stylet squeals out loudly]] when Gourai quietly sticks the charging plug into her back, and tells her "not to jam it in without warning" in a fashion that could be taken out of context.