Could some of you enlightened folk tell me what this is supp

>>15738035
Originally these characters were from a public service ad campaign to encourage greeting people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsRm78ZSOgc

It got really popular during the time of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, as I believe it was one of the things they broadcasted a lot at the time in affected areas.

Long story short, at that time some artists started making these transformation videos, and it turned into a meme of some made-up not-Sunrise anime series called Armored Chrysanthemum.

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>>15738103
that's fucking beautiful. thank you for enlightening me, anon.
what would /m want from armored chrysanthemum kotubukia kits?

>>15738114
>koto

I'd prefer they be a one-off dead line like Keroro where they have a working combining gimmick, and a small pilot animal to go along with the mech.

>>15738103
>It got really popular during the time of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, as I believe it was one of the things they broadcasted a lot at the time in affected areas.
what happened was in the immediate wake of the earthquake a lot of sponsors said they wanted their ads pulled, as it's usually considered bad form to have "DEATH AND DESTRUCTION brought to you by Tokyo Disneyland!" so one of the more common PSAs was the "magic words" one
because of the drastic nature of the situation LOTS of sponsors had their ads pulled, and there weren't many PSAs to go around
I remember seeing the magic words PSA at least twice in a single commercial break in my limited moontv viewing.

So with the saturation of these rather goofy PSAs the onlines started doodling, and that is what ensued.

>>15738132
ah, pardon my french. but yeah that'd be pretty neat. i wouldn't be opposed to them being fully transformable just to see what kind of shit-show that would be. Especially the symmetrical-combiner kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_Ey_0HN6M

>>15738139
Thanks for the clarification, what I know around that time was pretty sketchy.

>>15738035
That's both super cute and really awesome.

>>15738139
What does PSA mean?

>>15738713
Public Service Announcement

>>15738713
Like that person said

Public Service Announcements are usually used in commercial broadcasting to fill time when you don't have commercials to run during the break.

https://youtu.be/t2AgANzQiwg was one in the USA