TV Magazine

TV Magazine (テレビマガジン Terebi Magazin) is a children-oriented monthly Japanese magazine published by Kodansha Ltd. that primarily features children's television shows and videos, and to a lesser extent, children's video games, model kits, and toys. The content of the magazine is a mix of multi-page spreads featuring photographs of scenes from live-action TV shows, original artwork depicting characters and situations from anime TV shows ("story pages"), and black-and-white manga. As with other periodicals of its kind, it comes with a variety of bonus inserts and supplements each month, mostly consisting of punch-out cardboard items one can fold together. The magazine was first published in November 1, 1971, and continues to be published to this day.

Although other similar Japanese magazines such as TV-Kun and TV Land existed during Generation 1 in Japan, only TV Magazine featured Transformers articles and manga during this period. Among Transformers fans, TV Magazine is known as the source of anime-style spreads by Studio OX, exclusive manga, and the storyline for the Japanese Transformers series Zone, Return of Convoy, and Operation Combination, since the anime ended after Victory.

The entire run of Generation 1 Transformers manga from TV Magazine was republished in book form as Transformers: The Comics. Transformers fans have also made some of the Generation 1 Transformers material from TV Magazine available online in English at TF Archive and TF Pulp. In 2020, Viz Media began officially publishing the stories in English in the Transformers: The Manga series.

Transformers-related titles

Manga

• 1985 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• 1986 - The Story of Super Robot Lifeform: The Transformers
• 1987 (Spring) - The Great Transformer War
• 1987 (Fall) - Transformers: The Headmasters
• 1988 - Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
• 1989 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
• 1990 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone
• 1991 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars
• 2003 - Ridiculous Legend Transformers
• 2004 - Robotmasters
• 2015 - Birth! Black Knight Bumblebee
• 2021 - Transformers Go! Go!

Story pages

• 1985 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• 1986 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010
• 1987 - Transformers: The Headmasters
• 1988 - Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
• 1989 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
• 1990 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone
• 1991 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars
• 1992 - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination
• 1995 - Transformers: G-2
• 2008 - Henkei! Henkei! Transformers

TV Magazine exclusive toys

• Cheetus golden version (1997)
• Super God Sword (2000)
• Black Super Fire Convoy (2000)
• Black God Magnus (2000)
  • Black God Fire Convoy (2000)
• Crystal Convoy (Supercon, 2003)
• Black Megatron (2003)
• Fire SL Grand Convoy
• Black Rodimus Convoy (2004)
• Clear Green Energy Axe
• Clear Deep Blue Energy Spear
• G1 Convoy (Lucky Draw figure, 2005)
• Dark Nitro Convoy (2005)
• EZ Collection Master Megatron, Galaxy Convoy and Starscream clear versions (2005)
• Flame Convoy - Sky Lynx Edition (2005)
• Megalo Convoy gold edition (2005)
• Dragoyell (2007)
• Convoy gold chrome (2008)
• Optimus Prime (Clear Ver. (2014)
• Black Knight Bumblebee (2015)
• Blizzard Optimus Prime (2016)
• Burning Megatron (2017)
• Energon Charge Bumblebee (2019)
• Red Fire Optimus Prime (2019)
• Long Haul (2021)

External links

• TV Magazine at the Japanese Wikipedia
• TF Pulp - Contains translations of Generation 1 story pages and manga from TV Magazine.
• TF Archive - Contains translations of Generation 1 story pages and manga from TV Magazine.
• Lucky Draw Transformers - Scans of TV Magazine with any / all campaign toys, plus a check list of which issues contained prize draws