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==Major works==
==Major works==
===Original writer and planner===
===Cartoons===
====Original writer and planner====
*''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
*''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]'' (also participated in character design)
*''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]'' (also participated in character design)
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*''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone]]'' (also participated in character design)
*''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone]]'' (also participated in character design)


===Supervisor===
====Supervisor====
*''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' (uncredited)
*''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' (uncredited)
===Comics===
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''
*''[[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'')


===Story pages===
===Story pages===
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*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars]]''
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars]]''
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination]]''
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination]]''
 
*''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics'' (includes a curated collection of story pages from ''TV Magazine'')
===Manga===
*''Transformers: The Manga'' (includes a curated collection of English translated story pages from ''TV Magazine'')
*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''
*''[[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 the the manga from ''TV Magazine'')


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 04:59, 31 May 2022

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 a 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

Major works

Cartoons

Original writer and planner

Supervisor

Comics

Story pages

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