Go! Go! issue 41
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| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 15, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Haruka Oda | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Minoko | ||||||||||||
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Notes
- This story was published as the August 2024 issue of the web comic and advertised Earthrise Prowl, Studio Series Rise of the Beasts Bumblebee, and The Transformers: The Movie Hot Rod, the Transformers Fan Book 2024, and the first collected edition of Go! Go!.
- In the opposite of a Transformers reference, series author Haruka Oda has explicitly confirmed that the Autobot ghost with a very specific-feeling helmet is in fact a wholly original design.[1]
Transformers references
- Odds are good that Starscream calling dibs on the ghost costume is a riff on his very, very storied history of playing the spooky ghost in Transformers stories dating all the way back to his posthumous reprisal in the Generation 1 cartoon after his memorable death scene in 1986's The Transformers: The Movie.
Real-world references
- You may notice this spooky scary issue is a bit early for Halloween. That's because it's actually for the Obon (お盆) festival, a Buddhist holiday in August centered around celebrating departed loved ones via bonfires, dances, and various other festivities.
- After he exhausts the traditional sheet ghost, Starscream swaps to a scary wig riffing on more Japan-specific depictions of onryō (怨霊, "vengeful spirit") probably best known to global audiences via Sadako Yamamura, the antagonist of popular horror franchise The Ring.
- The paper lanterns with googly eyes and tongues that Soundwave deploys are chōchin'obake (提灯お化け, "paper lantern ghost"), not-so-folkloric Japanese ghoulies seen pretty much exclusively as decoration in children's books and haunted houses. Appropriate!
- The triangle headband thing wrapped over the Autobot ghost's helmet is a funerary vestment dating to around the Heian period that, while out of fashion for centuries, is strongly lodged in Japanese cultural shorthand for ghosts.[2]
External links
References
- ↑ "誰でもないです！オリジナルのオートボットゴーストです👻"—Haruka Oda, Twitter, 2024/8/15
- ↑ "What is the Triangle Headband Japanese Ghosts Wear?" at the website of translator/folklorist Zack Davisson
