As far as Masterforce is concerned, the human characters ARE Transformers. You may personally only count robots as Transformers, but that's not what the premise of this series is. To continue denying this would be like watching Beast Wars and insisting that they're not Transformers because they don't transform into vehicles. For the purposes of the Masterforce story, they have encompassed binary-bonded humans as being Transformers too.

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We get a vague/confusing explanation of the process, and of Buster and Hydra, but I didn't pick up that they were supposed to be no longer organic.
They're still fully organic at this stage. It's until toward the end of the series that they become robots (hence why I put the warning "MASSIVE Spoilers" ).

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Can't the Pretenders walk around without their shells a bit more often?
They need to cover their shame.

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In all the pictures I'd seen and in the cartoon intro, I thought Buster (the pink haired one) was female, and never realised it was a guy until reading the title and synopsis of this episode. The face and body just looked so feminine, 'he' even walks graceful like a female, and I knew there was a few females throughout this series. Maybe it was intended to be a female at first, but changed later.
Nah, it's called Bishounen. Fan-girls love it. Don't worry, there's no yaoi in Masterforce. Heh. I thought Buster was a girl too when I first saw her. Him.