Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)
Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (トランスフォーマー 超神マスターフォース) is the title of a Japanese Transformers line of toys and anime series that ran from April 12, 1988 to March 7, 1989 for 42 episodes. The series is available on DVD in the UK.
About Masterforce
Episodes
1. Rise Up, Pretenders!
2. The Destron's Fersome Manhunt!
3. Kidnapping!? The Targeted Jumbo Jet!
4. The Birth of the Headmaster Jrs!
5. Rage! Little Devils with No Need For Rules!
6. Go, Goshooter! Showdown in the Wasteland!
7. Panic! Protect the Wild Animals!!
8. The Super Warriors: The Godmaster Brothers
9. A Fierce Battle!! The Cybertrons are in Trouble
10. The Hero is Chosen, and His Name is Ginrai!
11. Ginrai: God-On of Rage!!
12. A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva
13. Friend of Foe!? The True Form of the Monster!!
14. Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai!
15. The Heroic Birth of Super Ginrai
16. Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter
17. An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger
18. A Powerful Foe!! Sixknight the Wanderer
19. At Full Strength! The Four Godmaster Gunmen
20. The Cybertron Warrior, Sixknight?!
21. Save the little girl! The Chojin Warriors, the Godmasters
22. Lightfoot Must Choose: Life or Death?
23. Expose the Destrons' Dark Deception!
24. Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?
25. Will the Bomber Project be Destroyed!?
26. God Ginrai: Into the Sky!!
27. God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon
28. Overlord - Terror of the Chokon Tornado
29. Escape from the Erupting Underwater Volcano!!
30. Destroy Godbomber!!
31. The Appearance of the Final Godmaster!!
32. Secret Orders: Destroy the Cybertron Base!!
33. Crisis! The Cybertron Base Explodes
34. Black Zarak: Destroyer from Space
35. Crisis! The Day of the Downfall of Humanity
36. Will God Ginrai Save Cancer!?
37. God Ginrai: Showdown at the Destron Base
38. The Ultimate Combination!! Black Zarak, the New Lifeform
39. Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn
40. The Cybertrons' Desperate Attack!!
41. Malevolent and Inhuman: The True Form of Devil Z
42. A Battle... And Then...
Fiction
 Spoiler warning: Plot details follow. of the next episode/issue in the series or 30 days after release, whichever is sooner |
Characters
Autobots
- Ginrai (Voice: Hiroshi Takemura)
- God Bomber
- Lightfoot (voice: Tsutomu Kashiwakura)
- Ranger (voice: Yoshitada Ōtsuka)
- Road King (voice: Kaneto Shiozawa
- Go Shooter (Gō Shūta) (voice: Yumi Toma)
- Cab (voice: Hiroko Emori
- Minerva (voice: Yuriko Yamamoto)
- Metalhawk (voice: Katsuji Mori)
- Lander ((voice: Ryōichi Tanaka
- Phoenix (voice: Masato Hirano)
- Diver (voice: Yūji Mikimoto)
Sixchanger
- Sixknight (voice: Sho Hayami)
Pretender Headmaster
- Grand Maximus (voice: Ikuya Sawaki)
Did not appear in anime.
- Devil Z (Voice: Hidekatsu Shibata)
- Evil energy lifeform that leads the Decepticons.
Godmasters
- Overlord (voice: Keiichi Noda)
- Decepticon Ambassador of Destruction.
- Giga (voice: Keiichi Noda)
- The father-figure of the Decepticons. Controls the Giga Tank.
- Mega (voice: Rihoko Yoshida)
- Mother-figure of the Decepticons. Controls the Mega Jet.
- Hydra Darkwings (voice: Ken Yamaguchi)
- Buster Darkwings (voice: Yoku Shioya)
- Darkwings
- The combined jet form of Hydra and Buster.
- Darkwings
- Clouder (voice: Takeshi Kusao)
Headmaster Juniors
- Wilder (voice: Keiichi Nanba)
- Bullhorn (voice: Kōzō Shioya)
- Cancer (voice: Yōko Ogai)
Pretenders
- Blood (voice: Kōji Totani)
- Dauros (voice: Daisuke Gōri)
- Gilmer (voice: Masaharu Satō)
- Turtler (voice: Masato Hirano)
- Overbite
- Kraken
- Lobclaw
- Gulf
- Tentakil
- King Poseidon (voice: Masato Hirano)
Headmasters
- Black Zarak (voice: Banjō Ginga)
Gunman
- Browning (voice: Kyōko Yamada)
- A small pet transformer given to Cancer from Mega. Speaks in Kansai dialect. Transforms into a Browning M1910 pistol.
Guard Minders
Minions of Black Zarak, they turned into six-wheeled tanks.
- Black Lorry (voice: Masaharu Satō)
- FastTrack (voice: Hirohiko Kakegawa)
