Agriculture Girls! (農業ムスメ!プロジェクト, Nougyou Musume! Agriculture Girls!) is a 3-minute pilot short based on the 4-koma manga of the same name. It was created by Toei Animation and released in October 2010.
It follows four girls as they try to plant rice seeds to no avail, as one, Kuroba Michiru, creates a giant seed-planting mecha.
This work contains examples of:
- Curtains Match the Windows: The red-haired girl has red eyes of a similar shade.
- Frills of Justice: The blonde has a pink ribbon in her hair and hair frills.
- Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: It's a story about farming... With a mecha!
- The Kid with the Remote Control: Michiru handles the farming robot with a controller, until Kirari steals it from her.
- Mecha Show: Here the Super Robot is a seed planter.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Rice farming has never looked this cool.
- Pastoral Science Fiction: The short is a farming-based rural story that also involves giant farming robots.
- Pink Is Feminine: All of the girls (sans the green-haired one) have some sort of pink on their clothes.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: A purple bow (the black haired girl), a pink cap (the redhead) and a pink ribbon (the blonde).
- Ship Tease: Kirari seems to be in love with Hikari, as she clings to her with heart eyes.
- Super-Deformed: The short has a chibi art style.
- Super Robot: The girls use a mecha robot to help with their farming duties.
- World of Technicolor Hair: The main characters have hair that's blonde, red, black and....green?
- Yamato Nadeshiko: One of the characters is an archetypical kimono-wearing dark-haired Yamato Nadeshiko.