Sōji Yoshikawa

Doctor Sōji Yoshikawa is a human from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"I'll help you Autobots after this round of Candy Crush."

Doctor Sōji Yoshikawa (吉川 惣司 Yoshikawa Sōji) works at Shibuya Manufacturing. He is very gifted in science and technology, able to brainstorm with the Autobots on a competent level.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Walker Edmiston (English), Kenyū Horiuchi (Japanese), Niko Macoulis (German, Generation 2), Albert Augier (European French)

Responding to some commotion on the factory floor, Yoshikawa rushed in to find the Autobots standing around looking useless, and machinery exploding. At first thinking that the Autobots were responsible for the mess, he soon realized that it was Kremzeek, a small electrical life form unleashed by Megatron. His suggestion to try using radio waves to disrupt the critter was attempted by Blaster, however the Autobot then tried to fry Kremzeek, despite Yoshikawa's protests, and succeeded in creating a whole host more of the creatures.

He and Optimus Prime attempted a new plan to unite the horde of Kremzeeks and succeeded — unfortunately the resulting Kremzeek was giant-sized. After using Blaster's idea of beaming Kremzeek to Megatron's energy magnet, Yoshikawa modified some equipment to successfully disperse the creature harmlessly.

Yoshikawa and the Autobots returned to shore to start repairing Omega Supreme, however before they could get started, another Kremzeek jumped out of Blaster, and the chase was on again. Kremzeek!

Kiss Players

Dr. Yoshikawa went on to breed Kremzeeks in captivity and created the Yoshikawa Type 5 Auto-Kremzeek Launcher for the Earth Defense Command. The weapon was wielded by Autorooper units and fired a ceramic shell that shattered on impact, unleashing the Kremzeek inside to absorb the electrical energy of any mechanoid it struck. Kiss Players

Ask Vector Prime

Doctor Yoshikawa was the project lead on the Raiden Initiative. He was selected due to his connection with Shibuya Manufacturing, Worldwide, which was providing the facilities to the Japanese government for the project. His individual area of specialty was their weapons and communications systems, as his years spent studying Kremzeek made him an expert. As the project lead, he was given the honor of naming the Trainbot team leader, the original Shinkansen train model. As a military history buff, he went with the name "Shouki". Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/27

Notes

• The character is named after the real-life animator Sōji Yoshikawa, a co-worker of writer David Wise when they were both working at DiC Entertainment.
• The Sunbow Productions cast list for "Kremzeek" describes Yoshikawa as being forty years old.

Foreign names

• Italian: Sōji Chokiwawa