Transformers Go! Go!

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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

	Transformers Go! Go!
Print issues: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Fan Book 2021 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 Fan Book 2023 Web issues: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 Collected editions: Vol. 1: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 Backup strips: 1 2 3 4

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 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.

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 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 fan's real life collection!

...and Long Haul.

War for Cybertron Trilogy Bumblebee Optimus Prime Wheeljack Megatron Soundwave Laserbeak Ravage Elita One

Studio Series '86 Jazz Grimlock Hot Rod Perceptor

War for Cybertron: Earthrise Starscream Ratchet Ironhide Prowl

War for Cybertron Trilogy Bumblebee

TV Magazine exclusive Powerful Long Haul Optimus Prime (Red Clear Ver.)

War for Cybertron: Kingdom Ultra Magnus Blaster Eject Optimus Primal Beast Megatron Rattrap Cheetor Rhinox Dinobot Tigatron Airazor

War for Cybertron: Siege Shockwave

TV Magazine Powerful Long Haul

Collections

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!

• 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.

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  Transformers Go! Go! - cover art by Haruka Oda

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 War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon inspired battle damage for their barer standard retail versions with arguably increased resemblance to Oda's art.

External links

• Transformers Go! Go! at the TV Magazine website
• Transformers Go! Go! on Comic-Days
• Transformers Go! Go! translations at the TF Translations blog