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'''Masumi Kaneda''' (金田益実 ''Kaneda Masumi'') is a Japanese writer, born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1958. He is the executive director of KND Company. Kaneda mainly works as a writer to plan and organize various character media from publishing to audio-visual industry.
'''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 [[List of Japanese Generation 1 cartoons|Japanese exclusive seasons of the Generation 1 cartoon]] as well as the writer for the entirety of the original ''[[TV Magazine]]'' [[List of Japanese Generation 1 comics#Original run|comics]] and [[List of Generation 1 story pages#TV Magazine|story pages]], Kaneda is effectively the "{{w|showrunner}}" of the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|original Japanese Generation 1 franchise]]. Outside of ''Transformers'', he has done fairly extensive work with {{w|Tsuburaya Productions}}'s ''{{w|Ultraman}}'' mega-brand.


Interviews with him make him seem... somewhat eccentric.
Interviews with him make him seem... somewhat eccentric.


{{bigquote|'''Q:''' So, what were the themes of ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)#Transformers: Super-God Masterforce|Masterforce]]''?<br/><br/>'''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, [[Scorponok (G1)|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.|Interview with Kaneda, ''[[Transformers Generations (guidebook)|Transformers Generations]]''}}


&lt;table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"&gt;
==Major works==
&lt;tr&gt;
===Cartoons===
&lt;td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"&gt; “
====Original writer and planner====
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;"&gt; So, what were the themes of ''[[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]]''?
*''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"&gt; ”
*''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]'' (also participated in character design)
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory]]'' (also participated in character design)
*''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone]]'' (also participated in character design)


&lt;/table&gt;
====Supervisor====
&lt;table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"&gt;
*''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' (uncredited)
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"&gt; “
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;"&gt; 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, [[Scorponok (G1)|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.
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"&gt; ”
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"&gt; &lt;p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"&gt;&lt;cite style="font-style:normal;"&gt;—Interview with Kaneda, ''[[Transformers Generations]]''&lt;/cite&gt;
 
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
==Major works==
&lt;dt&gt;Original writer and planner
&lt;/dt&gt;
*[[The Headmasters (manga)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]
*[[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]
*[[Victory (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory]]
*[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone]]
*[[The Battlestars|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars]]
*[[Operation Combination|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination]]


&lt;dt&gt;Supervisor
===Comics===
&lt;/dt&gt;
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''
*[[Transformers: The Movie]]
*''[[The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers|The Story of Super Robot Lifeform: The Transformers]]''
*''[[The Great Transformer War]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (manga)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
*''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (manga)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]''
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory]]''
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone]]''
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (manga)|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'')


&lt;dt&gt;Manga
===Story pages===
&lt;/dt&gt;
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''
*[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]  
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010]]''
*[[The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers|The Story of Super Robot Lifeform: The Transformers]]
*''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (story page)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
*[[The Great Transformer War]]
*''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (story page)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]''
*[[The Headmasters (manga)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory]]''
*[[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone]]''
*[[Victory (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory]]
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars]]''
*Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination]]''
*Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars
*''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics'' (includes a curated collection of story pages from ''TV Magazine'')
*[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics]] ''(a reissue of all the manga from "TV Magazine")''
*''Transformers: The Manga'' (includes a curated collection of English translated story pages from ''TV Magazine'')


==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/KanedaMasumi Masumi Kaneda on Twitter]
*{{w|lang=ja|金田益実|Masumi Kaneda on Japanese Wikipedia}}


[[Category:Writers]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaneda, Masumi}}
[[Category:Japanese writers]]

Latest revision as of 00:59, 2 March 2023

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 "showrunner" of the original Japanese Generation 1 franchise. Outside of Transformers, he has done fairly extensive work with Tsuburaya Productions's Ultraman mega-brand.

Interviews with him make him seem... somewhat eccentric.

“ 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. 		”

—Interview with Kaneda, Transformers Generations

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