Kiss Players/15 Go! Go!

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Kiss Players
Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go!

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Transformers: Kiss Players/Transformers: Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! Compilation
トランスフォーマー キスぷれ/トランスフォーマー情報管理局テレトラン15GO!GO! 総集編
Publisher Yuki Ohshima
First published August 11, 2007
Manga by Yuki Ohshima
ISBN ?
Page count 100

Transformers: Kiss Players/Transformers: Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! Compilation (トランスフォーマー キスぷれ/トランスフォーマー情報管理局テレトラン15GO!GO! 総集編) is a graphic novel collecting the entirety of the Kiss Players and Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! comics, as well as copious amounts of Yuki Ohshima's additional artwork and background material. A mixture of glossy full-color and uncoated black-and-white pages, it was available exclusively at Summer Wonder Festival 2007, a Japanese convention.

Contents

Issues

Other content

The book contains a complete collection of every piece of package art produced for the toyline, followed by the thirty pieces of color art created by Ohshima to accompany the live Kiss Players script-reading at Tokyo Toy Festival 2007. Also dotted throughout the book are design sketches, showcasing a few concepts that didn't make it into either manga.

The book also contains two timelines: one for the Kiss Players line itself (serving mainly to summarize and chronologically arrange the radio dramas), and most famously, the elaborate, retcon-filled timeline that chronicles the history of Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity.

Notes

  • It bears unpacking just why this collection was a one-day only affair. The "Wonder Festival" convention, being partially a celebration of the Japanese hobby tradition of garage kits (essentially fan-made plastic models) occupies a very particular place in Japanese intellectual property law wherein independent artists' fan merchandise is granted licensed status by vendors for the duration of the event.[1] Thus, this is effectively an ascended doujinshi made on Ohshima's own dime.

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