TARKUS

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TARKUS Co., Ltd is a Japanese editorial house specializing in hobby references guides. They have produced a variety of Transformers guidebooks over the years, most notably penning the long-running Generations guidebook series in conjunction with publisher Hero-X.

Known Transformers books

Guidebooks known to have been written by TARKUS include:

Hero-X

• Transformers Visualworks

Generations series

• Transformers Generations (2001)
• Transformers Generations 2009 Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3
• Transformers Generations 2010
• Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
• Transformers Generations 2012
• Transformers Generations 2013
• Transformers Generations 2014 Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
• Transformers Generations 2015
• Transformers Generations 2017
• Transformers Generations 2018
• Transformers Generations 2019
• Transformers Generations 2020
• Transformers Generations 2021
• Transformers Generations 2022
• Transformers Generations 2023
• Transformers Generations 2024

Takarajima

• Transformers G1 Character Encyclopedia

MediaWorks

• Transformers Collection 2007

Village Books

• The Transformers: Masterpiece Official Guide

Parco

• The Art of the Transformers

Viz Media

• Transformers: The Manga

Hobby Japan

• Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Generations

Contributors

Writers known to pen Transformers material under TARKUS include:

• Kōji Igarashi
• Kōji Shimada
• Yosuke Ishakawa
• Yutaka Takayanagi
• Wako Takahashi

External links

• Tarkus official website