Recover the Bonds Lost!
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| "Recover the Bonds Lost!" 失なわれた絆を奪回せよ!
(Ushinawareta Kizuna o Dakkai Seyo!) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Comic BomBom | ||||||||||||
| First published | November 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | December 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Art | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars manga continuity | ||||||||||||
Apache must save Tasmania Kid, who has been captured by the Cyborg Beasts.
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- This chapter contains a number of references to Transformers eating—including its ending beats, in which Apache promises to cook a big meal with his space daikon for everyone—an idea with which the greater franchise and in particularly the Beast Era maintains a rocky relationship.
- Items shown strewn about Apache's destroyed room include a book titled Transform Your Mindset: Change is Possible! (心も変身（トランスフォーム）あなたも変われる! Kokoro mo Henshin (Toransufōmu) Anata mo Kawareru!) and a photo of "his family from back home in the boonies."
- Lio Convoy's special vintage oil is labeled "Convoy Killer" (コンボイ殺し Konboi Koroshi), in a style reminiscent of Japanese sake bottles.
Continuity notes
- Lio Convoy has apparently picked up a bit of a bad nightcap habit, which he is implied in the chapter's final panel to continue(!).
Real-world references
- The weapons, such as pistols or rifles, carried by Apache in this issue seem to be contemporary 20th century weapons from the real word. In a postscript interview in the 2023 collected edition, author/illustrator Shōji Imaki reveals Commando and other Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies to have been a direct inspiration.
- Apache's various hobbies, from daikon-farming to morning radio calisthenics, are in keeping with stereotypes of older, rural Japanese men. While gazing a photo of his family (see above) in his bedroom, Apache himself comments that they're from the countryside. What this means in Cybertronian context is anyone's guess.
- As Hellscream scuttles along the ground in shark mode toward Apache, he directly invokes Jaws by name, performing a little rendition of the film's iconic main theme (rendered via kana that convey its distinct rhythm).
