Transformers Go! Go!
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Transformers Go! Go! (トランスフォーマーごー!ごー!) is a 2020 manga for young readers written and drawn by Haruka Oda published in TV Magazine, on the TV Magazine website, and on publisher Kodansha's comics reader Comic-Days.
Overview
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Transformers Go! Go! chronicles the light-hearted misadventures of the Autobots and Decepticons in a setting strongly resembling the original Generation 1 cartoon for a young audience while somewhat bafflingly promoting various collector aimed exclusives. The original print comic begins in black and white for its first two issues before being promoted to full color from issue 3 onward. The web comic presents an all new adventure replacing the first two black and white issues and then re-runs the print issues exactly from issue 2 onwards, meaning print issue 3 becomes web issue 2, issue 4 becomes issue 3, and so forth. The web comic additionally inserts character profiles calling out the specific toy being advertised in each issue. As of issue 11, the web comic begins to spin out into web-exclusive issues and the whole thing generally becomes a pain to document, but we can't stay mad at a comic this cute. Oh Go! Go!, you scamp.
Toys
In a surprising display of attention to detail for a title skewing so young, Go! Go! carries on the grand TakaraTomy comic tradition of aggressive toy accuracy, with each character matching one of their real toys all the way down to their kibble and transformation schemes. As the comic isn't bound to any particular toyline, the combination of advertised toy-of-the-week plus the occasional dip into older toys to paper over the gaps produces a cast cobbled together from disparate Generations toylines resembling a modern Generation 1 fan's real life collection!
| War for Cybertron Trilogy | Studio Series '86 | War for Cybertron: Earthrise | TV Magazine exclusive |   | ||||
| War for Cybertron: Kingdom | War for Cybertron: Siege |
Collections
In light of its overwhelming positive reception, Transformers Go! Go! became the first TV Magazine manga since Masumi Kaneda and Ban Magami's original 1985 run to receive a collected release![1]
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Transformers Go! Go! - cover art by Haruka Oda
Notes
- The comic's soft, friendly aesthetic creates one prominent exception to the aforementioned toy accuracy: the aspiring Go! Go! superfan is free to swap out the advertised exclusives bearing gritty War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon inspired battle damage for their barer standard retail versions with arguably increased resemblance to Oda's art.
References
- ↑ "【お知らせ】テレビマガジンとテレマガネットで好評連載中のまんが「#トランスフォーマーごーごー」の単行本化が決定しました 皆様のTF愛がこの度、単行本化へとつながりました！ 発売は7月26日（水）笑って癒されるトランスフォーマーまんがをお楽しみに ⒸTOMY #トランスフォーマー"—TV Magazine, Twitter, 2023/5/18
External links
- Transformers Go! Go! at the TV Magazine website
- Transformers Go! Go! on Comic-Days
- Transformers Go! Go! translations at the TF Translations blog
