Go! Go! issue 45
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| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| First published | December 15, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Haruka Oda | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Minoko | ||||||||||||
The Autobots and Decepticons clash over a mysterious energy source, but maybe this time there's enough for them to share.
Synopsis
[edit]Megatron has discovered a new energy source and demands the Decepticons must take it for themselves! Which is how Soundwave and Shockwave end up trudging through a snowy forest, except there's no energy to be seen. A frustrated Shockwave complains if they're even in the right place, but Soundwave's scans show the energy source is right in front of them. Which, naturally, means they run right into Optimus Prime and the Autobots looking for the exact same thing.
The two factions break out into a skirmish. Shockwave blasts Wheeljack's detection device to bits, right before Soundwave ejects Frenzy who incapacitates the Autobots with his sonic scream! The only Autobot left standing, Optimus tries to explain himself to the three Decepticons menacing him: the Autobots likewise followed the trail of an energy signature, but found nothing and were suspecting if it was a trap laid by the Decepticons. However, Soundwave reveals that the energy is actually beneath them! This gets Frenzy's attention, and the Decepticon Mini-Cassette promptly goes to work cracking the ground open with his piledrivers. (Which causes an earthquake that shakes up Autobot and Decepticon alike, but Frenzy doesn't care one bit.) As the "energy" surges through the cracks on the ground, Shockwave finally deduces what it is – a burst of natural hot spring water that blows all the Transformers sky high.
Some time later, Megatron receives a transmission from Shockwave regarding his discovery... the Autobots and Decepticons are enjoying the hot springs together and having a jolly good time! A furious Megatron yells that they should be fighting instead of bathing, but Optimus tells him to stop making such a fuss.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.
