Takashi Kunihiro

Takashi Kunihiro (國弘高史 Kunihiro Takashi) is a veteran designer in TakaraTomy's Transformers product team. He joined Takara in 1984 and joined the Transformers staff during the period when they were designing the toys introduced in the 1986 animated movie and Season 3 of the television series. In addition to Transformers, he was responsible for the main characters of Brave series figures from Exkaiser to GaoGaiGar, which have subsequently influenced the designs of modern Transformers.

Known design projects

Generation 1

The Transformers

Victory

Return of Convoy

Star Convoy

Beast Wars

Beast Wars II

Beast Wars Neo

Cybertron

Classics

Astrotrain (with Don Figueroa)
Jetfire

Transformers (2007)

Universe (2008)

Cyclonus (with Don Figueroa and Bill Rawley)
Onslaught (with Bill Rawley)
Silverbolt (with Bill Rawley)

Revenge of the Fallen

Dark of the Moon

Jetwing Optimus Prime
Ultimate Optimus Prime
Robo Power Bash Bots^[2]

Prime

Generations

What's all this about?

This article on a real person associated with the Transformers brand is a stub and is missing information.
You can help MediaWiki by expanding it.

What's needed: credits from Hasbro Pulse livestreams, virtual conventions, Hasbro designer social media (mostly Instagram), etc etc etc

Titans Return

Titans Return Autobot Apex & Powermaster Optimus Prime

Power of the Primes

Power of the Primes Evolution Optimus Prime

Studio Series

Studio Series 86

War for Cybertron: Kingdom

HasLab

Unicron^[1]

Masterpiece Movie Series

Notes

Considering his pedigree with creating robots with super modes (From Transformers to the Brave series), he seems to be one Takara's go-to talent when it comes to designing them
Fellow TakaraTomy designers Shogo Hasui and Hisashi Yuki jokingly commented on Kunihiro's difficulties in designing the Revenge of the Fallen Leader class Optimus Prime and Jetfire toys. Yuki revealed that Kunihiro had problems reserving space for the electronics whilst maintaining on-screen accuracy, while Hasui joked that Kunihiro was "looking paralyzed" when he saw he had to make the two toys combine as well.^[4]

Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 TakaraTomy designer interview in Transformers Generations 2021 Translated interview on TFW2005.com
↑ https://patents.google.com/patent/CN202173779U/en?assignee=tomy&num=100&oq=tomy The patent lists Kunihiro as the designer for Bumblebee and Starscream. It's possible he designed Bash Bots Megatron and Optimus Prime as well.
↑ August 16, 2022's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Ben MacCrae, Delaney Norris, Sam Smith, Evan Brooks, Isabella Weiss, and Mark Maher.
↑ TakaraTomy designer interview in Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 3 Translated interview on TFW2005.com

External links

Translated interview from Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 1 on TFW2005.com

[G21-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 TakaraTomy designer interview in Transformers Generations 2021 Translated interview on TFW2005.com

[2] ttps://patents.google.com/patent/CN202173779U/en?assignee=tomy&num=100&oq=tomy The patent lists Kunihiro as the designer for Bumblebee and Starscream. It's possible he designed Bash Bots Megatron and Optimus Prime as well.

[3] August 16, 2022's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Ben MacCrae, Delaney Norris, Sam Smith, Evan Brooks, Isabella Weiss, and Mark Maher.

[4] TakaraTomy designer interview in Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 3 Translated interview on TFW2005.com

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]