Kiss Players/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
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| Publisher | MediaWorks | ||||||||||||
| 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
[edit]Issues
[edit]- Kiss Players issue 1
- Kiss Players issue 2
- Kiss Players issue 3
- All 26 one-page Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! strips
Other content
[edit]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
[edit]- If this sounds like a suspiciously obscure place to slip a document with such far-reaching implications, particularly at a convention famous for its The Purge-like place in Japanese copyright law,[1] know that we've double-checked that TakaraTomy explicitly signed off on it.
- Several times.
Footnotes
[edit]- ↑ 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. See the explainer on the Wonder Festival website for more. Provided you can read Japanese.
