Transformers Go! Go! Mini Encyclopedia

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トランスフォーマーごー！ごー！ミニずかん (Transformers Go! Go! Mini Zukan)
Publisher	Kodansha
Published in	TV Magazine
First published	June 26, 2024
Manga	Haruka Oda
Editor	Minoko

Transformers Go! Go! Mini Encyclopedia, full title Transformers Go! Go! Character Mini Encyclopedia, is a one-shot collecting character profiles for the cast of Transformers Go! Go! published by Kodansha on the TV Magazine website in summer 2024.

The non-comprehensive guide lists characters broadly in order of appearance in addition to several new faces that, at time of publication, had yet to appear in the comic. Entries are divided by faction.

Autobot profiles

• Optimus Prime
• Bumblebee
• Wheeljack
• Jazz
• Grimlock
• Elita One
• Ratchet
• Hot Rod
• Ultra Magnus
• Mirage
• Arcee
• Prowl
• Blaster
• Eject
• Perceptor
• Ironhide
• Hound
• Sideswipe
• Sunstreaker
• Bluestreak
• Cosmos
• Seaspray
• Beachcomber

Decepticon profiles

• Megatron
• Starscream
• Soundwave
• Laserbeak
• Ravage
• Shockwave

Maximal profiles

• Optimus Primal
• Rattrap
• Cheetor
• Tigatron
• Airazor

Notes

• This collection was produced as a sort of "bonus issue" of the web comic for the month of June 2024 as well as a "simul-release" with the July/August/September issue of the print comic published that same week. It featured no ads.
• The issue is structured as a bit more of a "spotter's guide" for Transformers than a traditional profile book, as the profiles for the pre-existing characters are actually abbreviated relative to those already included in regular issues of the web comic rather than the other way around.

Transformers references

• A slew of characters introduced to the world of Go! Go! for the first time here, and each of them sport character models based on one of their contemporary toys as is series author Haruka Oda's style:
  • Hound is identified as his Generations Selects toy via the characteristic ankle hinges of the War for Cybertron: Siege mold and most un-Siege-like Earth Jeep chest of the Selects tooling.
  • Sideswipe is largely based on his War for Cybertron: Kingdom toy as denoted by particular details as that mold's characteristic red inner calves, prominent inner shoulder wheels, and white collarbone, but with fairly significant deviations in the arms to bring him back in line with his Generation 1 cartoon model including his shoulder scoops and the re-addition of his forearm doors.
  • Sunstreaker is identifiable as his War for Cybertron: Earthrise mold via the shoulder and calf detail, though his shoulder vents have notably been picked out in black here, a move that has yet to appear on a real deco of the toy.
  • Bluestreak can be clocked as his Earthrise toy via his red heels and arm detailing.
  • Cosmos is hard to miss as his toy from the Speedia 500 assortment of the Legacy toyline, loaded up as he is with that toy's kibble.
  • Seaspray for lack of a proper contemporary update, is identifiable by his rounded off shapes and big shoulder pins as his original Generation 1 toy.
  • Beachcomber is identifiable as his Legacy toy via the gray patterns on his calves, the folded up roll-bars inside his heels and his Autobrand placement.

External links

• The Transformers Go! Go! Mini Encyclopedia at TV Magazine