TV Magazine
TV Magazine (テレビマガジン or "TEREBIMAGAJIN" in Japanese) is a monthly Japanese magazine published by Kodansha Ltd. that primarily features children's TV shows and videos, and to a lesser extent, children's video games, model kits, and toys. The content of the magazine is a mix of (1) multi-page spreads featuring photographs of scenes from live-action TV shows, (2) multi-page spreads featuring original artwork depicting characters and situations from anime TV shows, and (3) black and white manga. The magazine was first published in 1971 and continues to be published to this day.
Although other similar Japanese magazines such as TV Kun and TV Land exist (or in TV Land's case, have existed), only TV Magazine featured G1 Transformers articles and manga. Among Transformers fans, TV Magazine is know as the source of anime-style spreads by Studio Ox, exclusive Japanese manga, and the storyline for the Japanese Transformers series Zone, Battlestars, and Operation Combination, since the Japanese anime ended after Victory.
The entire run of G1 Transformers manga from TV Magazine was recently republished in book form in Transformers: The Comics. Transformers fans have also made some of the G1 Transformers material from TV Magazine available online in English at TF Archive and TF Pulp.
External links
- TF Pulp - Contains G1 anime spread scanlations and G1 manga scanlations from TV Magazine.
- TF Archive - Contains G1 anime spread translations and G1 manga scanlations from TV Magazine.
