Masumi Kaneda
Masumi Kaneda (金田益実 Kaneda Masumi) is a Japanese writer, born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1958. He mainly works as a writer to plan and organize various character media from publishing to audio-visual industry. As the head writer of all four Japanese exclusive seasons of the Generation 1 cartoon as well as the writer for the entirety of the original TV Magazine comics and story pages, Kaneda is effectively the "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}showrunner|{{#if:||showrunner}}]]" of the original Japanese Generation 1 franchise. Outside of Transformers, he has done fairly extensive work with [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Tsuburaya Productions|{{#if:||Tsuburaya Productions}}]]'s [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ultraman|{{#if:||Ultraman}}]] mega-brand.
Interviews with him make him seem... somewhat eccentric.
{{#if:Interview with Kaneda, Transformers Generations|| “ | Q: So, what were the themes of Masterforce? A: Well, they were basically just as depicted in the anime, but essentially "Super-god" [Chōjin] meant that in surpassing the gods, you return to the human being itself. This topic also relates to the ending. You see, BlackZarak changed into a serpent mode. Imbuing it with the most sinister meaning, we named it dakatsu, a snake/scorpion in both name and shape. With Giga and Mega as Adam and Eve, we likened Earth to the apple. And likewise, BlackZarak was the serpent that cast Adam and Eve out from Eden. That was the concept we placed in the snake form. |
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| {{#if:Interview with Kaneda, Transformers Generations| —Interview with Kaneda, Transformers Generations{{#if:|, {{{3}}}}} }}}} | ||
Major works
[edit]Cartoons
[edit]Original writer and planner
[edit]- Transformers: The Headmasters
- Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (also participated in character design)
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (also participated in character design)
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (also participated in character design)
Supervisor
[edit]- The Transformers: The Movie (uncredited)
Comics
[edit]- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- The Story of Super Robot Lifeform: The Transformers
- The Great Transformer War
- Transformers: The Headmasters
- Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics (graphic novel collection of all the manga from TV Magazine)
- Transformers: The Manga (English translated graphic novel series of all the manga from TV Magazine)
Story pages
[edit]- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010
- Transformers: The Headmasters
- Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics (includes a curated collection of story pages from TV Magazine)
- Transformers: The Manga (includes a curated collection of English translated story pages from TV Magazine)
External links
[edit]- Masumi Kaneda on Twitter
- [[wikipedia:{{#if:ja|ja:}}金田益実|{{#if:Masumi Kaneda on Japanese Wikipedia|Masumi Kaneda on Japanese Wikipedia|金田益実}}]]