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'''''Transformers Go! Go!''''' (トランスフォーマーごー!ごー!) is a [[2020]] [[manga]] for young readers written and drawn by [[Haruka Oda]] published in ''[[TV Magazine]]'', on the TV Magazine website, and on publisher [[Kodansha]]'s comics reader Comic-Days.
'''''Transformers Go! Go!''''' (トランスフォーマーごー!ごー!) is a [[2020]] [[manga]] for young readers written and drawn by [[Haruka Oda]] published in ''[[TV Magazine]]'', on the TV Magazine website, and on publisher [[Kodansha]]'s comics reader Comic-Days.
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==Overview==
==Overview==
{{chapters
{{chapters
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*[[Mission: Snacks, All to Myself!|#5]]
*[[Mission: Snacks, All to Myself!|#5]]
*[[The Evil Leader's Big Miscalculation|#6]]
*[[The Evil Leader's Big Miscalculation|#6]]
*[[Great Adventure on the Planet of Games!|EX]]
*[[Great Adventure on the Planet of Games!|Fan Book 2021]]
*[[Careless Scream|#7]]
*[[Careless Scream|#7]]
*[[Warriors' Day Off|#8]]
*[[Warriors' Day Off|#8]]
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*[[Autobot Police Dispatched!|#17]]
*[[Autobot Police Dispatched!|#17]]
*[[The Trick to a Healthy Autobot Warrior|#18]]
*[[The Trick to a Healthy Autobot Warrior|#18]]
*[[Go! Go! Fan Book 2023 special|Fan Book 2023]]
*[[Protect Freedom! Optimus!|#19]]
*[[Running Wild with Hologram Ninjutsu!|#20]]
*[[The Big Micro-Adventure|#21]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Extra Volume|Transformers Archive]]
*[[The Transformers Go! Go! Search Quiz is Here!|Search Quiz Summer 2024]]
*[[Go! Go! Fan Book 2024 special|Fan Book 2024]]
*[[A Tasty Trap!!|#22]]
*[[The Transformers Gather on the Snowy Mountain!|Search Quiz Winter 2024]]
*[[I Love Surprises!|#23]]
*[[Watch Out for Giraffes at the Beach!|#24]]
*[[Go! Go! print issue 25|#25]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! Fan Book 2025 special|Fan Book 2025]]
*[[Go! Go! Search Quiz Spring 2025|Search Quiz Spring 2025]]<!--Title pending-->
<br/><div class="list-header">Web issues:</div>
<br/><div class="list-header">Web issues:</div>
*[[We Are Transformers!|#1]]
*[[We Are Transformers!|#1]]
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*[[Muscle Revolution! Ya!|#24]]
*[[Muscle Revolution! Ya!|#24]]
*[[The Villains' Strategy Conference, Indeed!|#25]]
*[[The Villains' Strategy Conference, Indeed!|#25]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 26|#26]]
*[[Autobot Police Dispatched!|#27]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 28|#28]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 29|#29]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 30|#30]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 31|#31]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 32|#32]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 33|#33]]
*[[The Trick to a Healthy Autobot Warrior|#34]]
*[[Protect Freedom! Optimus!|#35]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 1)|#36]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 2)|#37]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 38|#38]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 39|#39]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Mini Encyclopedia|Mini Encyclopedia Summer 2024]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 40|#40]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 41|#41]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 42|#42]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 43|#43]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 44|#44]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Mini Encyclopedia|Mini Encyclopedia Winter 2024]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 45|#45]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 46|#46]]
*[[The Big Micro-Adventure|#47]]
*''Wild King'' Special: [[Go! Go! Limited Time Special Chapter|1]] [[Go! Go! Limited Time Special Chapter issue 2 (part 1)|2]] [[Go! Go! Limited Time Special Chapter issue 2 (part 2)|3]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 48|#48]]
*[[I Love Surprises!|#49]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 50|#50]]
*[[Go! Go! Special Chapter for Fan Book 2025|Fan Book 2025 prelude]]
*[[Go! Go! print issue 25|#51]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! Special Chapter for Great Adventure Volume|Vol. 2 Special]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 52|#52]]
*[[Go! Go! New Series Preview|One More! #0]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 53|#53]]
*[[One More! Go! Go! issue 1|One More! #1]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 54|#54]]
*[[One More! Go! Go! issue 2|One More! #2]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 55|#55]]
*[[One More! Go! Go! issue 3|One More! #3]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 56|#56]]
*[[One More! Go! Go! issue 4|One More! #4]]
*'''Collected editions:'''
<div class="list-header">Vol. 1:</div>
*[[We Are Transformers!|#1]]
*[[Where Is the Energon?|#2]]
*[[How to Use a Big Body|#3]]
*[[Big Invention, Big Trouble?|#4]]
*[[Justice, Peace, and Rock 'n' Roll|#5]]
*[[Mission: Snacks, All to Myself!|#6]]
*[[The Evil Leader's Big Miscalculation|#7]]
*[[Careless Scream|#8]]
*[[Warriors' Day Off|#9]]
*[[The Iron Man of Repair|#10]]
*[[Unpredictable|#11]]
*[[Marvelous! Fire Shark Fishing!!|#12]]
*[[Don't Oversleep and Forget Things!!|#13]]
*[[The Villains' Strategy Conference, Indeed!|#14]]
*[[The Commander's Birthday|#15]]
*[[Believe in the Bananas!!|#16]]
*[[Flowers, Delivery, and Inattention|#17]]
*[[A Hunch of a Good Duo!|#18]]
*[[A Natural Couple|#19]]
*Backup strips: [[Zzzzzz|1]] [[Chonky|2]] [[Gleaming|3]] [[Sprout Up|4]]
<br/><div class="list-header">Vol. 2:</div>
*[[Protect Freedom! Optimus!|#1]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 28|#2]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! issue 29|#3]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[The Trick to a Healthy Autobot Warrior|#4]]
*[[Running Wild with Hologram Ninjutsu!|#5]]
*[[Muscle Revolution! Ya!|#6]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 13|#7]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! issue 14|#8]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! issue 17|#9]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! issue 43|#10]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[The Big Micro-Adventure|#11]]
*[[Go! Go! Limited Time Special Chapter|#12]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! Limited Time Special Chapter issue 2 (part 1)|#13]]<!--Title pending-->
*[[Go! Go! Limited Time Special Chapter issue 2 (part 2)|#14]]<!--Title pending-->
*Backup strips: [[Go! Go! Vo. 2 backup #1|1]]<!--Title pending--> [[Go! Go! Vo. 2 backup #2|2]]<!--Title pending--> [[Go! Go! Vo. 2 backup #3|3]]<!--Title pending--> [[Go! Go! Vo. 2 backup #4|4]]<!--Title pending--> [[Go! Go! Vo. 2 backup #5|5]]<!--Title pending--> [[Go! Go! Vo. 2 backup #6|6]]<!--Title pending-->
}}
}}


''Transformers Go! Go!'' chronicles the light-hearted misadventures of the Autobots and Decepticons in a setting strongly resembling the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original Generation 1 cartoon]] for a young audience while somewhat bafflingly promoting various collector aimed exclusives. The original print comic begins in black and white for its first two issues before being promoted to full color from issue 3 onward. The web comic presents an all new adventure replacing the first two black and white issues and then re-runs the print issues exactly from issue 2 onwards, meaning print issue 3 becomes web issue 2, issue 4 becomes issue 3, and so forth. The web comic additionally inserts character profiles calling out the specific toy being advertised in each issue. As of issue 11, the web comic begins to spin out into web-exclusive issues and the whole thing generally becomes a pain to document, but we can't stay mad at a comic this cute. Oh ''Go! Go!'', you scamp.
''Transformers Go! Go!'' chronicles the light-hearted misadventures of the Autobots and Decepticons in a setting strongly resembling the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original Generation 1 cartoon]] for a young audience while somewhat bafflingly promoting various collector-aimed exclusives.  
 
The comic started out in print form in the pages of ''TV Magazine'', typically published on the last Saturday of the month. Beginning with [[Careless Scream|the August/September 2021 issue]], the periodical went bi-monthly, before going tri-monthly with [[Autobot Police Dispatched!|the April/May/June 2023]] issue, with the exact publication date increasingly varying (confusingly, but typical of this kind of publication, the issue is actually released a month or two ''before'' the cover date). Separately from the magazine, exclusive stories have also been published in the ''"[[Transformers Fan Book (series)|Transformers Fan Book]]"'' activity books (kind of like [[Transformers Annual|annuals]] published in the [[United Kingdom]]).
 
A year into its run, the ''TV Magazine'' website began serialising the manga digitally, with a webcomic usually being released on the 15th of each month. As the first two issues of the comic in the magazine had been published in black-and-white, they were replaced with a single new full-color volume to match the rest of the run. This put the numbering between the print and web editions out of sync: print issue #3 was republished as web issue #2, print issue #4 as web issue #3, and so forth. The webcomic additionally inserts character profiles calling out the specific toy being advertised in each story.
 
After ten installments, the webcomic switched to publishing exclusive new strips separately from the magazine, with [[Marvelous! Fire Shark Fishing!!|issue #11]] being the first non-rerelease. For whatever reason—perhaps just to give Oda some time off—it would still occasionally dip back into the magazine's material for reruns. Unfortunately, coinciding with the release of [[Go! Go! issue 26|web issue #26]] to promote the collected edition of ''Transformers Go! Go!'', the preceding twenty-five webcomics were all taken down, simply redirecting to this advertisement—nevermind that many of these strips weren't actually included in the volume!
 
At the start of [[2023]], beginning with [[Go! Go! issue 19|web issue #19]], the comic entered an arc Oda termed "Beast Promo Season"- wherein it switched gears to integrate an iteration of [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] cast (now contemporaneous with their G1 counterparts a la ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Kingdom]]'') in the interests of prepping kids for the then-upcoming feature film ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]]'', climaxing that fall with a giant-sized special in [[Go! Go! issue 28|web issues #28]] and [[Go! Go! issue 29|#29]] featuring many of the film's cast members (though still drawn with more influence from their original G1 or ''Beast Wars'' designs, in a fun bit of dissonance with the actual products being advertised!).<ref>{{citesocial|quote=「ビースト覚醒」への便乗はまだまだ続きます。ということでビースト強化シーズンです🦍🦖 個人的には映画公開当たりまでみっちりやりたいなあと思っています。|link=https://twitter.com/aries_bug/status/1614460747500916736|site=Twitter|name=Haruka Oda|year=2023|month=1|day=14}}</ref>
 
With the magazine and website now publishing in tandem, under two separate numbering schemes, with the collected edition picking and choosing from both, and not to mention the Fan Book stories, the whole thing generally becomes a bit of a headache to document—but we can't stay mad at a comic this cute. Oh ''Go! Go!'', you scamp.


==Toys==
==Toys==
In a surprising display of attention to detail for a title skewing so young, ''Go! Go!'' carries on the grand TakaraTomy comic tradition of aggressive [[Show-accuracy|toy accuracy]], with each character matching one of their real toys all the way down to their [[kibble]] and transformation schemes. As the comic isn't bound to any particular toyline, the combination of advertised toy-of-the-week plus the occasional dip into older toys to paper over the gaps produces a cast cobbled together from disparate ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toylines resembling a modern Generation 1 fan's real life collection!  
In a surprising display of attention to detail for a title skewing so young, ''Go! Go!'' carries on the grand TakaraTomy comic tradition of aggressive [[Show-accuracy|toy accuracy]], with each character matching one of their real toys all the way down to their [[kibble]] and transformation schemes. As the comic isn't bound to any particular toyline, the combination of advertised toy-of-the-week plus the occasional dip into older toys to paper over the gaps produces a cast cobbled together from disparate ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toylines resembling a modern Generation 1 (and ''Beast Wars'') fan's real life collection!  


[[Warriors' Day Off#Notes|...and Long Haul.]]
[[Warriors' Day Off#Notes|...and Long Haul.]]
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{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hot Rod]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hot Rod]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Perceptor]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Perceptor]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Steeljaw (G1)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Springer (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Springer]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Rumble (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Rumble (Blue)]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise#Earthrise (TakaraTomy)|War for Cybertron: Earthrise]]'''</u>
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise#Earthrise (TakaraTomy)|War for Cybertron: Earthrise]]'''</u>
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{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Ironhide]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Ironhide]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Sunstreaker]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Bluestreak]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Cliffjumper]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grapple (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Grapple]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Generations-WFC-Trilogy-Deluxe-Bumblebee.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Bumblebee]]
|}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[TV Magazine#TV Magazine exclusive toys|''TV Magazine'' exclusive]]'''</u>
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[TV Magazine#TV Magazine exclusive toys|''TV Magazine'' exclusive]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Long Haul (G1)/toys#TV Magazine|Powerful Long Haul]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Long Haul (G1)/toys#TV Magazine|Powerful Long Haul]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#TFFanbook2023CoreClass|Optimus Prime (Red Clear Ver.)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Transformers Fan Book|Bumblebee Shining Thunder Ver.]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:TF-Generations-WFC-Trilogy-Deluxe-Bumblebee.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Bumblebee]][[File:Powerful Long Haul.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''TV Magazine'' Powerful Long Haul]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom#Kingdom (TakaraTomy)|War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]'''</u>
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom#Kingdom (TakaraTomy)|War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
<ul class="iconlist">
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{{Bp-m1|[[Cheetor (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Cheetor]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Cheetor (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Cheetor]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Rhinox (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Rhinox]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Rhinox (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Rhinox]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<br>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|[[Dinobot (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Dinobot]]}}
{{Bp-p1|[[Dinobot (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Dinobot]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Tigatron#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Tigatron]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Tigatron (BW)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Tigatron]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Airazor (BW)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Airazor]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Airazor (BW)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Airazor]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Inferno]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Ark (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Autobot Ark]]}}
{{Bp-p1|[[Scorponok (BW)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Predacon Scorponok]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-p1|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Waspinator]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[War for Cybertron: Siege#Siege (TakaraTomy)|War for Cybertron: Siege]]'''''</u>
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[War for Cybertron: Siege#Siege (TakaraTomy)|War for Cybertron: Siege]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Shockwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Shockwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Mirage (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Mirage]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Ironhide]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Shouki#MPG|Trainbot Shouki]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Getsuei#MPG|Trainbot Getsuei]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Yukikaze (G1)#MPG|Trainbot Yukikaze]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Suiken#MPG|Trainbot Suiken]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Seizan#MPG|Trainbot Seizan]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Kaen#MPG|Trainbot Kaen]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Raiden#MPG|Trainbot Raiden]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy#TakaraTomy|Legacy]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|[[Lio Convoy (BW)#Legacy|Maximal Leo Prime]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windblade (Cyberverse)#Legacy|Cyberverse Universe Windblade]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cosmos (G1)#Legacy|Autobot Cosmos]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Beachcomber (G1)#Legacy|Beachcomber]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Chromia (Cyberverse)#Legacy|Cyberverse Universe Chromia]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Legacy|Blitzwing]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[Missing Link]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Missing Link|C-01 Convoy]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Generations Selects|Autobot Hound]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Seaspray (G1)#The Transformers|Seaspray]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Skyfire]]}}
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|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Powerful Long Haul.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''TV Magazine'' Powerful Long Haul]]
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''''[[Transformers: Wild King (toyline)|Wild King]]'''''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-multi|[[Lightlong#Toys|Lightlong]]}}
{{Bp-multi|[[Captain Volca#Toys|Captain Volca]]}}
{{Bp-multi|[[Hydrophant#Toys|Hydrophant]]}}
|}
|}
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In light of its overwhelming positive reception, ''Transformers Go! Go!'' became the first ''TV Magazine'' manga since [[Masumi Kaneda]] and [[Ban Magami]]'s [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics|original 1985 run]] to receive a collected release!<ref>{{citesocial|quote=【お知らせ】テレビマガジンとテレマガネットで好評連載中のまんが「#トランスフォーマーごーごー」の単行本化が決定しました 皆様のTF愛がこの度、単行本化へとつながりました! 発売は7月26日(水)笑って癒されるトランスフォーマーまんがをお楽しみに ⒸTOMY #トランスフォーマー|link=https://twitter.com/tele_maga/status/1656894041601228802|site=Twitter|name=TV Magazine|year=2023|month=5|day=18}}</ref>
In light of its overwhelming positive reception, ''Transformers Go! Go!'' became the first ''TV Magazine'' manga since [[Masumi Kaneda]] and [[Ban Magami]]'s [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics|original 1985 run]] to receive a collected release!<ref>{{citesocial|quote=【お知らせ】テレビマガジンとテレマガネットで好評連載中のまんが「#トランスフォーマーごーごー」の単行本化が決定しました 皆様のTF愛がこの度、単行本化へとつながりました! 発売は7月26日(水)笑って癒されるトランスフォーマーまんがをお楽しみに ⒸTOMY #トランスフォーマー|link=https://twitter.com/tele_maga/status/1656894041601228802|site=Twitter|name=TV Magazine|year=2023|month=5|day=18}}</ref>
* '''''Transformers Go! Go!''''' <small>([[July 26]], [[2023]]) ISBN 4065320852 / ISBN 978-4065320853</small>
* '''''Transformers Go! Go!''''' <small>([[July 26]], [[2023]]) ISBN 4065320852 / ISBN 978-4065320853</small>
**Contents TBD
**Collects 19 select issues of ''Transformers Go! Go!''
**Bonus material includes character profiles and new {{w|4-koma}} backup strips.
**{{w|Tankōbon}} format.
**{{w|Tankōbon}} format.
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==Notes==
==Notes==
*The comic's soft, friendly aesthetic creates one prominent exception to the aforementioned toy accuracy: the aspiring ''Go! Go!'' superfan is free to swap out the advertised exclusives bearing gritty [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]] inspired battle damage for their barer standard retail versions with arguably ''increased'' resemblance to Oda's art.
*The comic's soft, friendly aesthetic creates one prominent exception to the aforementioned toy accuracy: the aspiring ''Go! Go!'' superfan is free to swap out the advertised exclusives bearing gritty [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]] inspired battle damage for their barer standard retail versions with arguably ''increased'' resemblance to Oda's art.
 
*A bit less cute is Kodansha's... shall we say "enthusiastic" approach to litigating assets from the comic appearing anywhere outside their own servers, free webcomic notwithstanding. Beginning in early 2024, Kodansha embarked on a months long crusade of takedown notices against English fan translations, presumably as another component of their aforementioned efforts to "un-publish" the web issues now sold in the comic's collected editions. This climaxed with a formal press statement issued that December wherein Kodansha voiced an intention to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any "illegal uploads" both in and out of Japan, up to and including translations "without permission."<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It has come to our attention that there are many illegal uploads of TRANSFORMERS Go! Go! on the Internet. Uploading and distributing manga without permission of the copyright holder is a violation of copyright, and may result in both criminal and civil liability, in and outside of Japan. The same applies to the act of uploading a foreign language version of a manga that has been translated without permission.|link=https://twitter.com/tele_maga/status/1871027962604097970|site=Twitter|name=TV Magazine|year=2024|month=12|day=22}}</ref> Conduct yourselves accordingly, ''Go! Go!'' fans.
==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
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*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/ ''Transformers Go! Go!''] at the ''TV Magazine'' website
*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/ ''Transformers Go! Go!''] at the ''TV Magazine'' website
*[https://comic-days.com/episode/4855956445034349599 ''Transformers Go! Go!''] on Comic-Days
*[https://comic-days.com/episode/4855956445034349599 ''Transformers Go! Go!''] on Comic-Days
*[https://transformers-translations.tumblr.com/ ''Transformers Go! Go!'' translations] at the TF Translations blog
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The name or term "Go" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Go (disambiguation).
Japanese Generation 1 continuity
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Transformers Go! Go! (トランスフォーマーごー!ごー!) is a 2020 manga for young readers written and drawn by Haruka Oda published in TV Magazine, on the TV Magazine website, and on publisher Kodansha's comics reader Comic-Days.

Overview

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Transformers Go! Go!
Print issues:

Web issues:
  • Collected editions:
Vol. 1:

Vol. 2:

Transformers Go! Go! chronicles the light-hearted misadventures of the Autobots and Decepticons in a setting strongly resembling the original Generation 1 cartoon for a young audience while somewhat bafflingly promoting various collector-aimed exclusives.

The comic started out in print form in the pages of TV Magazine, typically published on the last Saturday of the month. Beginning with the August/September 2021 issue, the periodical went bi-monthly, before going tri-monthly with the April/May/June 2023 issue, with the exact publication date increasingly varying (confusingly, but typical of this kind of publication, the issue is actually released a month or two before the cover date). Separately from the magazine, exclusive stories have also been published in the "Transformers Fan Book" activity books (kind of like annuals published in the United Kingdom).

A year into its run, the TV Magazine website began serialising the manga digitally, with a webcomic usually being released on the 15th of each month. As the first two issues of the comic in the magazine had been published in black-and-white, they were replaced with a single new full-color volume to match the rest of the run. This put the numbering between the print and web editions out of sync: print issue #3 was republished as web issue #2, print issue #4 as web issue #3, and so forth. The webcomic additionally inserts character profiles calling out the specific toy being advertised in each story.

After ten installments, the webcomic switched to publishing exclusive new strips separately from the magazine, with issue #11 being the first non-rerelease. For whatever reason—perhaps just to give Oda some time off—it would still occasionally dip back into the magazine's material for reruns. Unfortunately, coinciding with the release of web issue #26 to promote the collected edition of Transformers Go! Go!, the preceding twenty-five webcomics were all taken down, simply redirecting to this advertisement—nevermind that many of these strips weren't actually included in the volume!

At the start of 2023, beginning with web issue #19, the comic entered an arc Oda termed "Beast Promo Season"- wherein it switched gears to integrate an iteration of Beast Wars cartoon cast (now contemporaneous with their G1 counterparts a la Kingdom) in the interests of prepping kids for the then-upcoming feature film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, climaxing that fall with a giant-sized special in web issues #28 and #29 featuring many of the film's cast members (though still drawn with more influence from their original G1 or Beast Wars designs, in a fun bit of dissonance with the actual products being advertised!).[1]

With the magazine and website now publishing in tandem, under two separate numbering schemes, with the collected edition picking and choosing from both, and not to mention the Fan Book stories, the whole thing generally becomes a bit of a headache to document—but we can't stay mad at a comic this cute. Oh Go! Go!, you scamp.

Toys

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In a surprising display of attention to detail for a title skewing so young, Go! Go! carries on the grand TakaraTomy comic tradition of aggressive toy accuracy, with each character matching one of their real toys all the way down to their kibble and transformation schemes. As the comic isn't bound to any particular toyline, the combination of advertised toy-of-the-week plus the occasional dip into older toys to paper over the gaps produces a cast cobbled together from disparate Generations toylines resembling a modern Generation 1 (and Beast Wars) fan's real life collection!

...and Long Haul.


War for Cybertron Trilogy Studio Series '86 War for Cybertron: Earthrise TV Magazine exclusive
War for Cybertron Trilogy Bumblebee
TV Magazine Powerful Long Haul
War for Cybertron: Kingdom
War for Cybertron: Siege MPG
Legacy Missing Link Generations Selects The Transformers
Masterpiece Wild King

Collections

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In light of its overwhelming positive reception, Transformers Go! Go! became the first TV Magazine manga since Masumi Kaneda and Ban Magami's original 1985 run to receive a collected release![2]

  • Transformers Go! Go! (July 26, 2023) ISBN 4065320852 / ISBN 978-4065320853
    • Collects 19 select issues of Transformers Go! Go!
    • Bonus material includes character profiles and new 4-koma backup strips.
    • Tankōbon format.

Notes

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  • The comic's soft, friendly aesthetic creates one prominent exception to the aforementioned toy accuracy: the aspiring Go! Go! superfan is free to swap out the advertised exclusives bearing gritty War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon inspired battle damage for their barer standard retail versions with arguably increased resemblance to Oda's art.
  • A bit less cute is Kodansha's... shall we say "enthusiastic" approach to litigating assets from the comic appearing anywhere outside their own servers, free webcomic notwithstanding. Beginning in early 2024, Kodansha embarked on a months long crusade of takedown notices against English fan translations, presumably as another component of their aforementioned efforts to "un-publish" the web issues now sold in the comic's collected editions. This climaxed with a formal press statement issued that December wherein Kodansha voiced an intention to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any "illegal uploads" both in and out of Japan, up to and including translations "without permission."[3] Conduct yourselves accordingly, Go! Go! fans.

References

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  1. "「ビースト覚醒」への便乗はまだまだ続きます。ということでビースト強化シーズンです🦍🦖 個人的には映画公開当たりまでみっちりやりたいなあと思っています。"—Haruka Oda, Twitter, 2023/1/14
  2. "【お知らせ】テレビマガジンとテレマガネットで好評連載中のまんが「#トランスフォーマーごーごー」の単行本化が決定しました 皆様のTF愛がこの度、単行本化へとつながりました! 発売は7月26日(水)笑って癒されるトランスフォーマーまんがをお楽しみに ⒸTOMY #トランスフォーマー"—TV Magazine, Twitter, 2023/5/18
  3. "It has come to our attention that there are many illegal uploads of TRANSFORMERS Go! Go! on the Internet. Uploading and distributing manga without permission of the copyright holder is a violation of copyright, and may result in both criminal and civil liability, in and outside of Japan. The same applies to the act of uploading a foreign language version of a manga that has been translated without permission."—TV Magazine, Twitter, 2024/12/22
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