Hideaki Yoke

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Yoke-san surrounded by fans at BotCon 2005

Hideaki Yoke (餘家英昭 Yoke Hideaki) is Takara's former lead designer on Transformers. He was a prominent designer on Microman and in particular pitched and oversaw the Micro Change subline that would prove pivotal to the original Decepticon roster.<ref name ="HoF">Commemmorative video for Hideaki Yoke's induction to the Transformers Hall of Fame.</ref> Yoke acted as Takara's liaison to Hasbro in the early years of Transformers' development. He worked on Transformers ever since and, according to Aaron Archer, has had more of a hand in the engineering of the toyline than any single other person in its history. Yoke retired from TakaraTomy in March 2017.

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Generation 1

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

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The Transformers

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The Battlechargers were not released domestically by Takara:

Armada

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Animated

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Convention appearances

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Notes

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  • Yoke's favorite Generation 1 Transformer that he designed is Perceptor.<ref name ="HoF"/> His second favorite is Reflector.<ref>Translation of a March 2012 interview with Yoke at TFW2005</ref>
  • According to Aaron Archer at OTFCC 2004, he chose to name the Armada Mini-Con combiner robot "Perceptor" to honor the Takara employee who engineered the Street Action Team because that employee was also responsible for engineering the original Generation 1 Perceptor toy, ie Yoke, though Archer did not call him out by name.
  • The Transformers Animated character Yoketron was named after him.
  • Upon his retirement in 2017, Hasbro and TakaraTomy presented Yoke with a sealed original 1985 toy and small statue of Perceptor; looking in the microscope lens on the statue reveals the words "Thank you". Awwww.
  • He never stops smiling.

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