It's like Kiss Players, but with more transphobia.
Transformers Legends (トランスフォーマーレジェンズ Toransufōmā Rejenzu) is a series of comic strips by Hayato Sakamoto, showcasing the adventures of toy otaku Rattrap. It is published online to promote TakaraTomy's Transformers Legends toyline. Special Bonus Edition (出張版 Shutchōban) chapters of the comic come packed with the Legends toys.
Legends is a four-panel comic strip set in a world known as the "Legends Universe", where Transformers is a franchise of toys and fiction—essentially the real world, but instead of people it's populated by super deformedBeast Wars characters who don't consider themselves Transformers. The main characters of the comics are the Beast WarsMaximals, reimagined as a group of salarymen working at the "Axalon Trading Company" in Japan. They retain their quirky speech patterns from the jovial Japanese dub of the show. Jokes revolve around the characters being Transformers fans themselves, each representing a different facet of the fandom, the main cast being:
Rattrap, the company's new recruit who grew up with and unconditionally loves Beast Wars
Rhinox, a middle-aged man who doesn't care for anything newer than the Generation 1 of his childhood
Optimus Primal, the serious-minded boss who has no interest in toys himself, but does buy them for his son Minor
Tigatron, a moe otaku who only likes Transformers franchises with cute girls, like Kiss Players
Waspinator, an employee of Tera-Kura Co., fan of all things Transformers and expert on minor trivia, he serves to fill the other characters (and readers) in on the more obscure portions of the franchise
Early comics, preceding the launch of the Legends toyline, revolve around the Axalon employees' misadventures at the office and their visiting various real-life events. As the toyline got going, the pack-in Bonus Edition comics began telling stories about the specific characters they were packed with, often creating storylines spanning several comics. The webcomic then shifted to expanding on these characters and storylines through various prologues and epilogues.
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As is to be expected, the characterizations for the cast are derived from the Japanese version of Beast Wars and Beast Machines. In most instances, these characterizations were extremely different from their Western counterparts. As such, some of the "gags" might fly over the heads of those unacquainted with the radically different Japanese version of the show.
