Kugou Mome (久郷モメ), Kamine Jojouko (神根女々子), Kuzano Mezawarisuke (草ノ目障助), Masashima Shiro (昌島四郎), Harunomiyai Mina (明宮衣美奈), Nanashiro Mizuha (七城水葉) Kitayama Shuten (北山秀天)
Flipnote Warrior (Ugomemo Senshi) is a web Fanime by Mirror Panel (Nayoru Matsusaka). It's a tribute to Nintendo 3DS's Flipnote Studio 3D app, and has been animated on it for 4 years.
Published on YouTube on Dec 4, 2020 and is available here
. The official English dub by Distant Sun Animation is available here. A livestream shows concept arts for the characters and ideas.
Mome Kugou is a reluctant Magical Girl who has to protect the world from creativity-eating monsters, using the power of magical Nintendo 3DS and her Mentor Mascot Ugo.
Flipnote Warrior provides examples of the following tropes:
- Action Prologue: The story starts in a corpse-filled space battlefield, proceeded with a fight scene with Mizuha Nanashiro, before switching to the protagonist Mome Kugou in another location and time.
- As You Know: Mome wasn't paying attention when Ugo explained why she's a Flipnote Warrior, so in the present he has to explain it again.
- Blessed with Suck: Mome makes a pact with Ugo so she could become better at drawing. Being a Magical Girl Warrior is sure not something she wants to do. She doesn't even get a Magical Girl costume.
- Bolivian Army Ending: The animation ends with Mome determined to fight Anti-Sakuga despite it being clealy out of her league to buy time.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- Ugo explains that Transformation Sequence is difficult to animate, so Mome simply gets a different shirt. Mome gets annoyed by the meta as much as not getting to do doing anything cool.
- The art technique of making characters often look sideways to avoid drawing both eyes is referenced when Anti-Sakuga makes Mome temporarily lose the right half of her face.
- Catapult Nightmare: As Mome explores an increasingly creepy mansion, when she's caught, she flings from her bed and needs a while to catch her breath.
- Combat Clairvoyance: "Drawing Sense" is explained as an ability to predict and dodge attacks.
- Creepy Doll: Mome gets scared after stumbling on a traditional Japanese doll, but quickly gets frustrated.
- Credits Gag: The animation doesn't have many people working on it, so for the ending it is Mirror Panel coming up with as many roles as possible, being credited for In-Between Animation 21 times.
- Eldritch Location: Mome Kugou wakes up in a bizarre, unnatural-looking world. Within just a few steps, the location changes from a park to a street to a traditional Japanese mansion. It turns out to be a dream.
- Everything Makes a Mushroom: Anti-Sakuga's Ground Punch creates a mushroom cloud where Mome was.
- Evil Knockoff: The Anti-Sakuga Mome fights becomes more humanoid and then uses his own version of Flipnote to cancel Ugo's magic.
- Extra Eyes: The Anti-Sakuga in the prologue grows extra eyes all over its body when enraged.
- The Heartless: The Art Fairies feed on negative emotions of struggling artists, which benefits both. But when this cycle is unbalanced, they are turned into Anti-Sakuga monsters and parasite off people.
- Hidden Eyes: Mome's eyes get obscured when she gets determination to fight by herself.
- Humanoid Abomination: The Anti-Sakuga in the prologue is a shadowy, horned humanoid monster.
- Invisible to Normals: The Art Fairies and Anti-Sakuga can't be seen by regular people.
- Kent Brockman News: The TV news tell about a mysterious famous "homosexual thief" who "stole" someone's "first time" at Comiket.
- Mentor Mascot: Ugo is a spirit of the Flipnote who lives inside Nintendo 3DS and looks like a frog. He also acts as Mome's guardian and teacher.
- My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever: Mome has to combat Anti-Sakuga long enough for Ugo to draw a purification magic circle around the area.
- Naked People Are Funny: Shuten Kitayama in his transformed state only wears an open shirt, with his crotch being censored with his mugshot.
- Old-Timey Cinema Countdown: When the animation goes into narration, it starts with an old-fashioned grainy countdown.
- Parody Commercial: After a stressful nightmare sequence, the animation suddenly does an obviously fake sponsor eyecatch featuring Nintendou and Bandei.
- Phantom Zone: Mome can transfer Anti-Sakuga into 3DS Dimension to fight them without worrying about collateral damage.
- Product Placement: Being a Nintendo 3DS tribute, it naturally uses the console as a magical device, alongside Wii as a Transformation Trinket.
- Retraux: Flipnote Warrior is made using traditional animation, then exported to Nintendo 3DS's Flipnote Studio, the app it's a tribute to, to make it pixelated, then exported back for art correction and editing.
- Shout-Out: Ugo pushes Mome into fighting the The Heartless with an argument that otherwise the animation of PrettyCancel Max Heart will suffer, and she does so, afraid that Nagisa and Honoka expies would look ugly.
- Stomach of Holding: Ugo vomits out the Wii Remote, which for Mome is a Transformation Trinket, and he asks him to come up with another way.
- The Slacker: Mome tries to skip school because she's not feeling it and wants to go back to sleep. When Ugo asks her to investigate an ancient, she suddenly feels like going to school instead. Then, she prefers gaming to fighting monsters, and is only convinced because her favorite anime is at risk.
- Terrible Artist: Mome Kugou joined Flipnote Warriors so she can get better at drawing, and her first use of the new 3DS spawned a cartoonish poop.
- Transformation Sequence: Subverted. Mome tries to transform, but it just changes her shirt because, as Ugo explains, it's bothersome to animate. She's still good in a fight.
- You Wake Up in a Room: When the story starts, Mome Kugou wakes up in an open bedroom in an alien world she doesn't recognize. It turns out to be a dream, though it felt nostalgic for her.
