Dark Amber Leo Prime (First)
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| "Dark Amber Leo Prime (First)" ダークアンバーレオプライム（前）
(Dark Amber Leo Prime (Zen)) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | TakaraTomy | ||||||||||||
| First published | July 6, 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Color | Lebanon Sugi (1.2.3.4.p), Gufu Kandagawa (4.6p), Josh Perez (5.9.10p), Tai Koshii (7.8p), Yuki Ohshima (13p) | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Kouji Nimura | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||||||
In the midst of a dying universe, does a new hero rise...?
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Decepticons/Predacons |
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Notes
Continuity notes
- As per the title, End of G1 Universe seems to be the grand finale of the great Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity in its entirety. Somewhat fitting with the last installment, Generations Selects Special Comic, explaining the universe's origins.
- Leo Prime is referred to by his various appellations, including the "Legendary Green Lion" (established in "Legend! The Green Warrior" and explained in finale of Selects) and "Great Convoy" (a title bestowed on Lio Convoy in "Graduation Ceremony!!" by the god of Cybertron, Vector Sigma). His name at this point is Leo Prime, not Lio Convoy, as this story takes place long after the character took up the latter name in the universe of Prime, as explained by the bio for his Arms Micron toy. He would continue using it during his adventures in the Legends comic. Going by his appearance in this comic, it would seem that Leo Prime returned to his regular Beast Wars II body at some point after Legends.
- Earth having remnants of Unicron's Angolmois Energy is the result of a long-running plot point originally established in Beast Wars Neo.
Transformers references
- We'd be remiss if we didn't note the amazing similarity to the concurrently running Last Bot Standing comic by IDW Publishing. Both stories take place in a dying universe sapped of energy, and the last remaining Transformers seeking to use the last amounts of energy remaining on a wasteland planet. Coincidence or inspiration?
- Bluebolt is a virtual redeco of Kingdom Deluxe Class Maximal Skywarp.
- The ship Bluebolt flees from is based on the Prime: Beast Hunters Cyberverse Vehicle toy Sky Claw.
- Untight is a virtual redeco of Beast Wars Deluxe Class Jawbreaker. The mold's Transmetal 2 design is used to establish him as a Cyborg Beast, a team of machine/beast fusions from Beast Wars II that were the result of imbuing vehicular Predacons with Angolmois Energy. The Cyborg Beasts were not directly connected to Unicron in that cartoon, but Untight here recognizes Unicron as the reason for his conversion to a Cyborg Beast, seemingly reviving an unused concept from Beast Wars Neo wherein a servant of Unicron was to have had a Cyborg Beast-styled design before being ultimately dropped and replaced by the Blentrons.
- The markings Bluebolt draws on the ground are the symbols of the Thirteen, as established in the Power of the Primes toyline.
- Unusually for Japanese fiction, Bluebolt, Untight, and Dark Amber Leo Prime use the English-language activation codes of "Maximize" (マキシマイズ) and "Terrorize" (テラライズ), here referred to as "Henshin Codes" (変身コード). Traditionally, characters in the Beast Era who had beast modes just used Henshin (変身, "Transform", unofficially localized as "Metamorph") to call out their transformations—while vehicular Transformers used the English word "Transform" (トランスフォーム).
