Manga

The very first Transformers manga ever.

Manga (漫画 or まんが) is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons. Manga are usually black and white comic books which read from right to left. They are published in Japan by various comic magazines or packaged with toys and DVDs. There has almost always been a manga to accompany the newest Transformers toyline, sometimes taking place in the same continuity as the concurrent animated series, and sometimes presenting a different take on the story.

Until 2020, no Transformers manga series had ever been made available outside of Japan. Unofficial English translations by fans appeared online for years, most notably at the websites TF Pulp and TF Archive.

The following Japanese magazines have published Transformers manga or illustrated text material:

• Comic Bom Bom
• Comic Bun Bun
• Dengeki Daioh
• Dengeki Hobby Magazine
• Figure Ō
• Hyper Hobby Magazine
• Kerokero Ace
• Super Robot Magazine
• TV Magazine
• Young Gangan Magazine

Transformers manga series and specials

Generation 1

TV Magazine

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (featuring Transformers 2010 characters)
• The Great Transformer War
• "Great Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!" (Transformers/Beastformers special)
• The Headmasters
• Super-God Masterforce
• Victory
• Zone
• The Battlestars

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics (graphic novel collection)
• Transformers: The Manga (English-language translation series)

Comic Bom Bom

• "A Birth of Planet Saybertron" (illustrated text story)
• "Full Throttle Scramble Power!"
• Famicom How-to Manga: Transformers: Mystery of Convoy
• Transformers (Mystery of Convoy) (strategy guide)

e-Hobby

• "Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version"
• "64 Cybertron Urban Defense Robot GADEP"
• "Destron Leader Megatron Black Ver."
• "Destron Aerospace Warrior Sunstorm"
• "MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver."
• "MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver."
• "Nissan GT-R / Ultra Magnus (Brilliant Pearl White)"
• "Destron Doppelgänger Black Rodimus Convoy"
• "Solar Requiem"
• "Badlands"
• "Decepticon Dark Commander Grand Scourge"

Generations

• "A Tale of the Pretenders"
• "Metrowars"
• "Metrowars 2"
• "Starscream's New Power"
• "Train Wars"
• "Controverse"
• "Train Wars 2"
• "Rodimus Wars"
• "Reborn"
• "Headmasters VS Masterforce"
• "Rescue the Monorail!"

Other Generation 1 publications

• Transformers PD Type
• The Transformers (MC Axis pack-in manga)
• The Battle of the Star Gate
• Transformers: All Spark
• "Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base"
• Unite Warriors Offshot (illustrated text stories)
• Unite Warriors (manga)

Beastformers/Laser Beasts

• "The Water Gem of Stillness"
• "Legend of the Three Wise Ones"
• "Beastformers VS Laser Beasts"

Generation 2

• G-2 (pack-in manga)
• "The New Battle!!"

Beast Wars

• "The Maximal Brainwashing Operation"
• Beast Wars II
• Beast Wars Neo
• Beast Wars Metals
• Beast Wars Reborn (illustrated text stories)

Rescue Hero Go-Bots

• Rescue Hero Go-Bots

Unicron Trilogy

• Linkage
• Energon Volume 4
• "Optimus Prime VS Scourge"
• Galaxy Force

Robotmasters

• Robotmasters (pack-in manga)
• Robotmasters (online manga)
• Robotmasters (3D diorama manga)

Binaltech Asterisk

• Asterisk Story

Kiss Players/15 Go! Go!

• Kiss Players
• 15 Go! Go!

Henkei! Henkei!

• Henkei! Henkei! (pack-in manga)
• Henkei! Henkei! (Comic Bun Bun series)
• Visualize (illustrated text stories)

Live action movie series

• "Keroro Gunsō × Transformers"
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Unite for the Universe
• "The Creation Revoltech!"
• Movie Trilogy

Animated

• The Cool/The Cool Extra

Alternity

• Alternity

United

• "A New Battle!"
• "The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos"
• Transformers United EX (illustrated text stories)

Transformers GT

• Transformers GT: Mission GT-R

Aligned

• "Birth! Black Knight Bumblebee"

Miscellaneous

• Q-Robo Transformer
• Ridiculous Legend Transformers
• Kre-O
• Spacetime World: Guardians of Time (illustrated text stories)
• Legends
• Transformers × Dialect Girl: My Toys

See also

• Story pages

External links

• Manga at Wikipedia
• TF Pulp - Contains translations of Transformers manga from various generations.
• TF Archive - Contains translations of Transformers manga from various generations.