Takashi Kunihiro
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Takashi Kunihiro (國弘高史, sometimes 国広高史, 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
2010 / Scramble City
The Headmasters
- Brainstorm with Arcana
- Chromedome with Stylor
- Hardhead with Duros
- Highbrow with Gort
- Sixshot
- Snapdragon with Krunk
Super-God Masterforce
Victory
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Return of Convoy
The Transformers
TakaraTomy did not release Crankcase domestically:
Beast Wars
Beast Wars II
Beast Wars Neo
Beast Machines
Car Robots / Robots in Disguise
Armada
Energon
- Super Class
Cybertron
- Deluxe Class
- Voyager Class
- Leader Class
- Supreme Class
Classics
- Deluxe Class
- Astrotrain (with Don Figueroa)
- Voyager Class
Transformers (2007)
- Deluxe Class
- Leader Class
Universe (2008)
- Deluxe Class
- Cyclonus with Nightstick (with Don Figueroa and Bill Rawley)
- Ultra Class
- Onslaught (with Bill Rawley)
- Silverbolt (with Bill Rawley)
Revenge of the Fallen
- Voyager Class
- Leader Class
Dark of the Moon
Robo Power Bash Bots
Prime
- Robots in Disguise
Generations
Fall of Cybertron
- Deluxe Class
- Voyager Class
Thrilling 30
Combiner Wars
Titans Return
Power of the Primes
Studio Series
Studio Series 86
War for Cybertron: Siege
War for Cybertron: Kingdom
HasLab
Buzzworthy Bumblebee
Legacy
- Kickback
- "A Hero is Born" 2-Pack (Orion Pax and Alpha Trion w/ Vector Sigma)
Legacy: Evolution
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Masterpiece Movie Series
Gallery
Notes
- Considering his pedigree with creating robots with super modes (from Transformers to the Brave series), he seems to be one of Takara's go-to talents 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]
References
- ↑ 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
Categories:
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- Creator stub
- Pages with broken file links
- Aligned designers
- Beast Era designers
- Classics designers
- Dark of the Moon designers
- Generation 1 designers
- Generations designers
- Masterpiece designers
- Movie designers
- Revenge of the Fallen designers
- Robots in Disguise (2001) designers
- TakaraTomy designers
- Unicron Trilogy designers
- Universe (2008) designers
- Hall of Fame creators
