Go! Go! issue 46

« Transformers Go! Go! web issue 46
Publisher	Kodansha
Published in	TV Magazine
First published	January 15, 2025
Manga	Haruka Oda
Editor	Minoko

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots
Ultra Magnus (1) Blaster (2) Ratchet (3) Bumblebee (4) Optimus Prime (5) Hot Rod (6) Wheeljack (7) Elita One (8)

Notes

• This story was published as the January 2025 issue of the web comic and advertised Studio Series Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, Kingdom Ultra Magnus, the Transformers Fan Book 2024, and the first collected edition of Go! Go!.

Real-world references

• The 52 pick-up looking thing the Autobots are playing here is Iroha karuta (いろはかるた, roughly "alphabet cards"), a Japanese card game for young children involving a twinned set of cards: one with an illustration and a phonetic hiragana character (broadly, a letter) in one corner and another with a statement related to the image that begins with the syllable on the card. The deck includes one pair of cards for each of the 47-odd characters in the hiragana syllabary. The objective is to match the cards, with the player with the largest number of pairs at the end as the winner.
• The foodstuff that Optimus and Bumblebee are going ham pulverizing with a big mallet (a culinary tool known as a kine (杵)) is a kind of rice-derived paste the Autobots are using to make mochi (もち), a Japanese snack cake traditionally consumed as part of New Year's festivities, as previously seen in issue 33.

Transformers references

• Each card in the Autobots' deck depicts a Transformers character or concept. Those that can be made out are, in order of appearance:

• こ (ko) - Optimus Prime
• ? - Beast Megatron
• に (ni) - Mirage
• し (si) - Tigatron
• く (ku) - Grimlock
• う (u) - Frenzy
• は (ha) - Megatron
• と (to) - Cosmos
• た (ta) - Chromia
• み (mi) - Energon
• よ (yo) - Getsuei
• ? - Arcee
• め (me) - Shockwave
• ? - Bluestreak
• あ (a) - Inferno
• ふ (hu) - Cybertron
• け (ke) - Cliffjumper
• そ (so) - Starscream
• さ (sa) - Suiken

External links

• Issue 46 at TV Magazine
• Issue 46 on Comic-Days