Go! Go! issue 45

« Transformers Go! Go! web issue 45
Publisher	Kodansha
Published in	TV Magazine
First published	December 15, 2024
Manga	Haruka Oda
Editor	Minoko

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Optimus Prime (4) Wheeljack (5) Bumblebee (6)	Megatron (1) Shockwave (2) Soundwave (3) Frenzy (7) Ravage (8) Laserbeak (9)	Hot spring monkeys

Notes

• This story was published as the December 2024 issue of the web comic and advertised Studio Series "Rumble (Blue)," the Transformers Fan Book 2024, and the first collected edition of Go! Go!.

Transformers references

• Frenzy takes center stage following an early peek at his character profile with a character model based on the toy being advertised as is author Haruka Oda's usual style, this month with a twist: here Oda repurposes Frenzy from Rumble's blue Studio Series toy! To step back a minute, Soundwave's twin tape men are the subject of a forty year saga of flip-flopping color schemes after the original Generation 1 cartoon inadvertently swapped the character models between the two somewhere between the toyline and the screen. The extra lead time afforded the cartoon's Japanese dub gave the team the chance to correct the error, meaning that in this particular case Go! Go!'s penchant for following the lead of the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon meant breaking with the Studio Series toyline's fealty to the American cartoon in this instance.

Real-world references

• The monkeys all up in Frenzy's hot spring are Japanese macaques, commonly referred to as "snow monkeys," sociable critters endemic to Japan's mountainous regions famously fond of bathing.

External links

• Issue 45 at TV Magazine