List of Japanese Generation 1 cartoons

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The seasonal refreshes of the Japanese Generation 1 franchise produced a multitude of smaller cartoons. They include:

"Season 1" - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers, consisted of the first two seasons of the Generation 1 cartoon. In addition to several of the episodes being substantially re-ordered (and heavily edited for time), two were not aired, and nine additional clip shows were created for the series, as well as the direct-to-video episode, "Scramble City: Mobilization".

"Season 2" - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010

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« Transformers 2010 »

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 consisted of all thirty episodes from the third season of the Generation 1 animated series, plus two newly created clip shows.

"Season 3" - Transformers: The Headmasters

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« The Headmasters »

The Headmasters cartoon ignored the final episodes of the American Generation 1 animated series and began its own story.

"Season 4" - Transformers: Super-God Masterforce

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« Super-God Masterforce »


"Season 5" - Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory

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"Season 6" - Transformers: Zone

Japanese Generation 1 continuity
« Zone »

The Zone cartoon consisted of a single one-episode OVA.

Additional releases

The remaining chunks of the Generation 1 cartoon did eventually see releases in Japanese markets, albeit in a limited capacity divorced from the larger franchise:

1989 - Transformers: The Movie

While an accounting of events of the film was delivered to Japanese audiences in its proper sequence via the 2010 story pages, the actual film did not make its way to Japanese shores until it received a very limited charity screening and subsequent home video release in the fall of 1989.

1996 - Transformers: The Rebirth

The very belated release of the final season of the American cartoon edged out of Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity by The Headmasters in 1987 occurred straight to video nine years later, a whole four years after the wrap of the Japanese Generation 1 franchise, and included almost none of the original cast reprising their roles.



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