Transformers × Dialect Girl: My Toys
Transformers × Dialect Girl: My Toys (トランスフォーマー×方言女子：私のおもちゃ Toransufōmā × Hōgen Jōshi: Uchi no Omocha) is a three-part manga strip by Dōdō Yamasaki, detailing the daily life of romance novelist and big Transformers nerd Kahori Hanamura. It was published in 2017 in Young Gangan magazine under supervision by TakaraTomy in order to promote concurrent Transformers toylines.[1]
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Overview
[edit]The three chapters follow the daily life of Kahori Hanamura, an 18-year-old romance prodigy who has recently moved from the countryside to Tokyo to write for a literary magazine. She spends her time causing trouble for her 27-year-old cousin and editor Satoko Hanamura, who would much rather she meet her deadlines instead of skipping showers and ordering Transformers online. The manga features a number of fantasy sequences where Kahori connects her current predicament to Transformers, as well as imagining that her toys are talking to her.
Notes
[edit]- Similar to other Transformers manga like Kiss Players and Legends, Transformers × Dialect Girl uses rather crude sex appeal to try and sell the brand. Unlike those examples, it doesn't insert this into the fictional world of the Transformers, instead promising the reader that yes, hot girls play with Transformers toys too.
- The manga promotes a mixture of contemporary toylines such as Legends and Movie The Best, as well as slightly older ones like Henkei! Henkei! and United.
- While the kanji 私 is commonly read as watashi (わたし) and is gender-neutral, the manga's title reads it as uchi (ウチ). Uchi is a little more commonly spoken by women from the Kansai region, which fits Kahori who also speaks in the Kansai dialect.
References
[edit]- ↑ "【トランスフォーマー×方言女子】絶賛発売中のヤングガンガンno.15掲載中の特別読切タカラトミーさん完全監修[私のおもちゃ]、そうですコレはトランスフォーマーを愛する僕らの話ですよ☆ 買ったら遊ぶじゃろ？#トランスフォーマー"—Young Gangan, Twitter, 2017/7/21
External links
[edit]- Transformers × Dialect Girl: My Toys translation by Mohair Translations
