Shinji Aramaki
Shinji Aramaki (born October 2, 1960) is a Japanese mecha designer and animation director who designed several Microchange toys that would eventually become Transformers, as well as the pre-Transformer versions of the Deluxe Insecticons.
According to an interview published in the December 2007 issue of Otaku USA magazine, Aramaki designed Soundwave, the first wave of Mini-Cassettes, and Reflector. Aramaki also claims to have not only designed Perceptor, but to have been the first to conceive of a transforming microscope.
It is thus possible (but unconfirmed) that Aramaki also designed Armada Perceptor, as Aaron Archer has stated he named the Mini-Con combiner in honor of the fact the man who designed him had also designed the original Perceptor.
External links
- Shinji Aramaki at Wikipedia


