1/1 Heroine
, or RPG Heroine Who Looks Giant On The World Map But Actually Is That Big, is a Web Animation series by Alice Magic that started as a series of standalone comic pages, with their first video adaptation of it being released on November 4th of 2020.
The series follows the comedic adventures of Yuu-chan, real name Yuuri, who was warped from the real world into the world of a JRPG when she signed up for it. The twist is that as the series' name implies, when she's on the world map she subverts the Overworld Not to Scale trope by actually being as big as the artstyle renders her, which the series uses to poke fun at typical JRPG conventions and elements that fail to factor in the sudden differences in size.
This series contains examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptation Expansion: The original comics and the first video didn't provide any context or reason for the heroine being massive - she just was. "Origin Story" provides some context as to who Yuu-chan, or Yuuri, is - an ordinary girl brought into the world that the game is set in.
- Adapted Out: The fifth comic of the original series showed Yuu alongside three other human-sized party members; a blonde dressed like a typical mage with pointy hat and cloak, a black-haired guy wearing a cape, and a pink-haired girl. In the videos, Yuu's party consists of herself; Momocchi, a fellow giantess with white hair; and Hamsalot, a blonde hamster-themed knight.
- Art Shift: The series regularly swaps between Retraux RPG graphics and more anime-styled traditional animation.
- Battle Discretion Shot: In the first video, a giant Yuu goes to kick the Rabbit Knight attacking her boot's toe area. The windup of the kick is animated, but the video returns to the Dragon Quest-like battle view right before it connects, so you only get to hear the Sickening "Crunch!" and see the UI bill the attack as having dealt in excess of 13 billion damage.
- Bait-and-Switch: In the first video, Yuu gets into a battle with a Rabbit Knight and scrolls through all four of her options, settling on the "Run". Then she scrolls further down, revealing a fifth: "KICK".
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Given Yuu's size versus the enemies, most fights end quickly in her favor (and occasionally with actual stomps).
- The first video has Yuu punt a Rabbit Knight for more than 13 billion damage.
- In "Origin Story", she swallows an enemy knight due to failing to realize he replaced the stick of pocky in her hand.
- As Yuu strolls to Momocchi's castle in "Boss Battle", she casually treads upon a few enemy knights on the way. These fellows don't even get a chance to initiate battle, being defeated without a fight.
- After waiting for a few ingame hours for Hamsalot to defeat the Guinea Big in "New Friends(?)", Yuu flicks him at the enemy and knocks it offscreen.
- Defeat Means Friendship: For a certain value of "defeat"; in "Boss Battle", Momocchi cries and gives up without a fight after destroying her own lair and all of her mooks, and one class change from "Dark Queen" to "NEET" later, she joins Yuu's party.
- Didn't Think This Through: Momocchi, in order to combat Yuu at her giant size, grows out of her castle and enters the overworld as well. This only has the result of flattening all of her knight guards and finishing the destruction Yuu was already inflicting upon the building itself, which Momocchi fails to realize until after she gets experience for the kills.MOMOCCHI destroyed her own BOSS LAIR! MOMOCCHI is now HOMELESS!
[Momocchi breaks down crying] - Double Take: After Yuuri is warped into the game in "Origin Story", she glances at a tiny knight standing near her, then disinterestedly looks away - and then her eyes widen as she realizes the size difference.
- Eating the Enemy: Accidentally. When Yuu is first brought into the world of the game in "Origin Story", the stick of pocky in her hand is replaced with a knight. She fails to notice this and receives 3 xp from her snack.
- Equippable Ally: Played for laughs. When searching for a good role for Hamsalot on the team in "New Friends(?)", Momocchi tries equipping him to her head armor slot. This reduces her defense stat by one (of 65,535), so she decides against it.
- "Eureka!" Moment: A Played for Laughs one appears at the end of "New Friends(?)" when, after trying to find a good role on the team for Hamsalot throughout the day, Yuu sees her phone has a low battery and notices the knight behind it. Cut to a slow reveal of Hamsalot running in a wheel to charge the phone.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The title succinctly summarizes the premise of the animations; the female protagonist of a role-playing game parodies the Overworld Not to Scale trope by really being as big as that trope portrays her.
- Fastball Special: During "New Friends(?)", Yuu eventually gets the idea to use Hamsalot as a projectile. This is depicted as her flicking him into the Guinea Big they were battling (with the knight subsequently ricocheting into Momocchi's head).
- Fight Woosh: In the first video, the encounter with the Rabbit Knight is initiated with a swirling effect before fading to black.
- Giant Woman:
- Yuu-chan, and later Momocchi, are giantesses exclusively on the overworld of the game in parody of the Overworld Not to Scale trope. The premise of the series hinges on combining this with typical JRPG antics.
- Later Exaggerated in the "World Map(?)" episode, where Yuu uses the titular World Map in her inventory when she gets lost, causing her to grow to the size of a mountain.
- A Glass of Chianti: The Dark Queen Momocchi is introduced in "Boss Battle" as sitting on her throne with a wine glass full of red liquid.
- Hamster-Wheel Power: Yuu finally finds a good role for Hamsalot when she sees her phone has a low battery... and then sees him sitting on the ground behind it. By daytime, Hamsalot is running in a human-sized hamster wheel hooked up to Yuu's phone to charge it.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Subverted with Hamsalot: Yuu briefly gets the idea to use him as a healing item in "New Friends(?)", but stops short while inching him towards her mouth and blushes furiously at the concept.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Momocchi flails her arms and cries when she realizes she accidentally destroyed her own castle.
- Mood Whiplash: Hamsalot battling the Guinea Big in "New Friends(?)" initially is depicted as a tense fight. Then the camera zooms out and the music cuts off, showing that Yuu is asleep and Momocchi is happily waving flags back and forth to cheer on Hamsalot.
- Mythology Gag: One of the tweets in "Origin Story" is "What does the strawberry do?" and another in "New Friends(?)" adds the word "meter" to the question, nodding to a subtweet to the tweet for the first video which read "please do not ask what the strawberry meter does", and the inevitable responses to such a tweet.
- NEET: Parodied with Momocchi getting a class change to "NEET" after destroying her own lair in "Boss Battle". This carries over to "New Friends(?)", where her armor is shown to be from a set entitled "NEET".
- Overworld Not to Scale: 1/1 Heroine is inspired by old JRPG overworlds that made the characters appear to be functionally massive compared to their surroundings, but this series subverts and parodies that - as its name implies, when Yuu-chan is on the overworld, she really is as big as the game graphics would make her appear.
- Retraux:
- The use of the Overworld Not to Scale trope is inspired by old-school JRPGs from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System era. As such, 1/1 Heroine frequently uses art drawn in the style of such games to demonstrate the size difference within a more "game-y" context compared to the regular animation.
- The initial encounter with the Guinea Big in "New Friends(?)" has wavy, CRT television-like lines on it.
- Self-Disposing Villain: In "Boss Battle", Momocchi exits her castle, thus putting her on the overworld and causing her to become the same size as Yuu... and then she gets a bunch of experience and realizes that that growth spurt not only defeated all of her knights, but also destroyed what remained of her castle. This causes her to break down crying and join Yuu's party.
- Shout-Out: Dragon Quest's battle complete fanfare is used as the game's jingle for the same scenario.
- Sir Verb-a-Lot: Hamsalot is a knight with a helmet that resembles a hamster's head, informing his name. He later ends up living up to that name by running on a giant hamster wheel to charge Yuu's phone.
- Square-Cube Law: Lampshaded in the description of "Boat Ride!", which depicts both Yuu and Momocchi riding at giant size on a regular-sized ship.if you listen closely you can hear the square cube law screaming in the distance
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The victim of the giant Yuu's kick in the first video, a Rabbit Knight that seems to be an early-game mook.Rabbit Knight takes 13,508,942,371 damage.
- Time-Passes Montage: Hamsalot's debut in "Forming a Party!" depicts him sitting in the Adventurers' Guild in the early afternoon, which eventually fades into the orange of evening, the darkness of night, and back into the sunlight of morning.
- Trapped in Another World: "Origin Story" shows that Yuuri was an ordinary girl who was warped into the game the series proper is set in at the tap of her phone screen.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Played for laughs with Momocchi's fear of water. When she and Yuu ride the titular boat in "Boat Ride!" Momocchi spends the duration of it sitting on Yuu's shoulders and shivering in distress, much to the latter's chagrin.
- Zero-Effort Boss: Played for Laughs. Yuu destroys a bit of Momocchi's lair in "Boss Battle" on her own, but the Dark Queen herself growing out of the building to engage Yuu finishes the job (and all of her mooks). She ends up crying and doesn't actually fight Yuu at all, so there is no boss battle in the episode.
