Transformers Go! Go!
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Transformers Go! Go!(トランスフォーマーごー!ごー!) is a2020mangafor young readers written and drawn byHaruka Odapublished inTV Magazine,on the TV Magazine website, and on publisherKodansha's comics reader Comic-Days.
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Transformers Go! Go!chronicles the light-hearted misadventures of the Autobots and Decepticons in a setting strongly resembling theoriginal Generation 1 cartoonfor a young audience while somewhat bafflingly promoting various collector-aimed exclusives.
The comic started out in print form in the pages ofTV Magazine,typically published on the last Saturday of the month. Beginning withthe August/September 2021 issue,the periodical went bi-monthly, before going tri-monthly withthe April/May/June 2023issue, with the exact publication date increasingly varying (confusingly, but typical of this kind of publication, the issue is actually released a month or twobeforethe cover date). Separately from the magazine, exclusive stories have also been published in the"Transformers Fan Book"activity books (kind of likeannualspublished in theUnited Kingdom).
A year into its run, theTV Magazinewebsite began serialising the manga digitally, with a webcomic usually being released on the 15th of each month. As the first two issues of the comic in the magazine had been published in black-and-white, they were replaced with a single new full-color volume to match the rest of the run. This put the numbering between the print and web editions out of sync: print issue #3 was republished as web issue #2, print issue #4 as web issue #3, and so forth. The webcomic additionally inserts character profiles calling out the specific toy being advertised in each story.
After ten installments, the webcomic switched to publishing exclusive new strips separately from the magazine, withissue #11being the first non-rerelease. For whatever reason—perhaps just to give Oda some time off—it would still occasionally dip back into the magazine's material for reruns. Unfortunately, coinciding with the release ofweb issue #26to promote the collected edition ofTransformers Go! Go!,the preceding twenty-five webcomics were all taken down, simply redirecting to this advertisement—nevermind that many of these strips weren't actually included in the volume!
At the start of2023,beginning withweb issue #19,the comic entered an arc Oda termed "Beast Promo Season" - wherein it switched gears to integrate an iteration ofBeast Warscartooncast (now contemporaneous with their G1 counterparts a laKingdom) in the interests of prepping kids for the then-upcoming feature filmTransformers: Rise of the Beasts,clima xing that fall with a giant-sized special inweb issues #28and#29featuring many of the film's cast members (though still drawn with more influence from their original G1 orBeast Warsdesigns, in a fun bit of dissonance with the actual products being advertised!).[1]
With the magazine and website now publishing in tandem, under two separate numbering schemes, with the collected edition picking and choosing from both, and not to mention the Fan Book stories, the whole thing generally becomes a bit of a headache to document—but we can't stay mad at a comic this cute. OhGo! Go!,you scamp.
Toys
In a surprising display of attention to detail for a title skewing so young,Go! Go!carries on the grand TakaraTomy comic tradition of aggressivetoy accuracy,with each character matching one of their real toys all the way down to theirkibbleand transformation schemes. As the comic isn't bound to any particular toyline, the combination of advertised toy-of-the-week plus the occasional dip into older toys to paper over the gaps produces a cast cobbled together from disparateGenerationstoylines resembling a modern Generation 1 (andBeast Wars) fan's real life collection!
| War for Cybertron Trilogy | Studio Series'86 | War for Cybertron: Earthrise | TV Magazineexclusive |   | ||||
| War for Cybertron: Kingdom | War for Cybertron: Siege | MPG | ||||||
| Legacy | Missing Link | Generations Selects | The Transformers | |||||
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Collections
In light of its overwhelming positive reception,Transformers Go! Go!became the firstTV Magazinemanga sinceMasumi KanedaandBan Magami'soriginal 1985 runto receive a collected release![2]
- Transformers Go! Go!(July 26,2023)ISBN 4065320852/ISBN 978-4065320853
Transformers Go! Go!- cover art byHaruka Oda
Notes
- The comic's soft, friendly aesthetic creates one prominent exception to the aforementioned toy accuracy: the aspiringGo! Go!superfan is free to swap out the advertised exclusives bearing grittyWar for Cybertron Trilogycartooninspired battle damage for their barer standard retail versions with arguablyincreasedresemblance to Oda's art.
References
- ↑"“ビースト覚 tỉnh” へ の liền thừa はまだまだ続きます. ということでビースト cường hóa シーズンです🦍🦖 cá nhân には ánh họa công khai đương たりまでみっちりやりたいなあと tư っています. "—Haruka Oda, Twitter, 2023/01/14
- ↑"【お biết らせ】テレビマガジンとテレマガネットで khen ngợi còn tiếp trung の まんが “#トランスフォーマーごーごー” の 単 hành bổn hóa が quyết định しました toàn dạng の TF ái がこ の độ, 単 hành bổn hóa へとつながりました! Phát bán は ngày 26 tháng 7 ( thủy ) cười って dũ されるトランスフォーマーまんがをお lặc しみに ⒸTOMY #トランスフォーマー "—TV Magazine, Twitter, 2023/05/18
External links
- Transformers Go! Go!at theTV Magazinewebsite
- Transformers Go! Go!on Comic-Days
