Andrew Hall

This subject of this article goes by multiple names that apply to other articles as well. See Andrew (disambiguation), Hydra (disambiguation).

With that hairdo, he's almost as tall as Karl.

Andrew Hall is a long-standing member of the online fandom under the screen name Hydra. He previously worked for Part One, the Japanese company that owns e-HOBBY, first as a professional translator, then later as a content planner primarily responsible for planning new exclusives and projects for e-HOBBY. During this time, he also wrote bios and stories for TakaraTomy, along with bi-lingual articles for the online e-HOBBY Magazine, and ran e-HOBBY's Twitter account.

Hall left Part One in 2013, and in 2014, founded his own company, Phase Six Inc. (usually rendered as "PHASE6"), with the goal of making new creative collaboration possible between Japan and other countries. The company has handled the art production for projects such as the 2014 BotCon and Transformers Collectors' Club comics, introducing the art of Japanese creators Naoto Tsushima and Hayato Sakamoto to the west.

Works

Original

• Character bios for the second half of the Transformers: Prime toyline
• United EX story and character bios
• Bios for the Japanese Generations toyline
• "Badlands"
• Some entries of the Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime
• Spatiotemporal Challengers
• Bug Bite II's profile card

Translated

• Numerous bios for e-HOBBY toys
• Macrocosmic Seekers
• "Destron Doppelgänger Black Rodimus Convoy"
• "Solar Requiem"

Notes

• Hall's screen name was taken from the Super-God Masterforce character of the same name. When designing Animated Hydra, Derrick J. Wyatt made the character an homage to both Masterforce Hydra and Hall, incorporating Hall's tall, skinny build and pompadour haircut.
• He credits Rik Alvarez for his "incredible help" with the Arms Micron bios, which had to be written before the characters made any appearances; Alvarez helped him get background info.
• Doubt not his credentials! Hall won the BotCon 1999 and BotCon Japan 2000 trivia contests!
• He is very tall.

External links

• e-HOBBY Magazine
• Collector Universe 003: Andrew "Hydra" Hall
• e-HOBBY SHOP twitter
• Hydra's TF Pulp (archived link)
• TF Pulp @ The Allspark (archived link)

Interviews

• August 2015—Auto Assembly (with Kei Zama and Andrew Griffith)