Go! Go! issue 46

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« Transformers Go! Go!
web issue 46 		»
Publisher Kodansha
Published in TV Magazine
First published January 15, 2025
Manga Haruka Oda
Editor Minoko

The Autobots celebrate a happy new year!

Synopsis

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Ultra Magnus visits the Autobot base on the New Year's holiday, only to discover the Autobots lazing around and being messy on their time off. Finding this utterly unconscionable, Magnus decides to make the day an educational experience with a game of iroha karuta. Bumblebee thinks it'll be a piece of cake, but Magnus is prepared – with a press of a button on his controller, the cards sprout wheels and start racing about! And, as a still drowsy Blaster has the misfortune to discover, they explode when not matched in time. (Take a guess on who made them.) The terrified Autobots scramble to match all the cards, with Optimus Prime emerging as the winner with most sets matched.

Once the game is concluded, Magnus provides the carrot to his stick with a delicious pot of energon sukiyaki. However, that's when Elita One arrives with more labor a new challenge for the Autobots: some rice paste and a mallet to hammer it with, with instructions that everyone must hammer the paste one hundred times each. Though the gang despairs at first, they soon resolve to see this challenge through and hammer away through the rest of the day. Only after sunset does Bumblebee manage to make his final strike, concluding the mission... and readying the rice paste for Magnus to make everyone some delicious mochi. Enjoying their meals and snacks together, the Autobots all wish the readers a happy new year.

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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots

Notes

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Real-world references

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  • The 52 pick-up looking thing the Autobots are playing here is Iroha karuta (いろはかるた, roughly "alphabet cards"), a Japanese card game for young children involving a twinned set of cards: one with an illustration and a phonetic hiragana character (broadly, a letter) in one corner and another with a statement related to the image that begins with the syllable on the card. The deck includes one pair of cards for each of the 47-odd characters in the hiragana syllabary. The objective is to match the cards, with the player with the largest number of pairs at the end as the winner.
  • The foodstuff that Optimus and Bumblebee are going ham pulverizing with a big mallet (a culinary tool known as a kine (杵)) is a kind of rice-derived paste the Autobots are using to make mochi to eat during the New Year's festivities, as previously seen in issue 33.

Transformers references

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  • Each card in the Autobots' deck depicts a Transformers character or concept. Those that can be made out are, in order of appearance:
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