Yuki Ohshima
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Yuki Ohshima (大嶋優木 Ōshima Yūki; 1974- ) is a Japanese freelance toy designer and occasional manga artist and writer. He's designed various figurines for Takara's Transformers lines and wrote two different manga series for the franchise. Prior to his official work on the franchise, he published several Transformers dōjinshi (Japanese fan-comics), including a crossover between the brand and Machine Robo (Japan's incarnation of GoBots).
His art is characterized by its high level of mechanical detail, as well as drawing Transformers based directly on their toys with great accuracy. This eventually led to him doing toy design work for Masterpiece, MPG and Missing Link Transformers. For his human characters, his art style is classified as moe, although many western Transformers fans believe it to actually be lolicon. Even when the girl in question is supposed to be a full-grown adult. The suggestively shaped tongue doesn't help.
Yuki states that he made all those creepy girls because he always wanted to do something that made jaws drop.[1] Well, he did it, didn't he?
Manga
[edit]- Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go!
- Kiss Players
- The Creation Revoltech!
- Metrowars
- Train Wars
- Rodimus Wars
- Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude (colorist, page 18)
- End of G1 Universe
- Dark Amber Leo Prime (First) (colorist, page 13)
- Age of Primes (colorist, page 7-11)
- Mystery of the Speedia 500 (colorist, page 19-20)
Illustrator
[edit]Box art
[edit]- Transformers Collection Kup and Wheelie box art
- Generations Shouki and Goshooter box art
- Legends Optimus Primal box art
Book covers
[edit]- Transformers Generations 2017 cover
- Japanese The Transformers Classics Vol. 1 cover
- Japanese The Transformers: Robots in Disguise Vol. 2 cover
- Figure Ō No.316 cover art
Others
[edit]- BotCon 2008 Ricochet bio art (linework only)
- "Do Over" (linework only)
- Masterpiece Star Saber bio art
Known toy design work
[edit]Car Robots
[edit]Kiss Players
[edit]Generations
[edit]- Thrilling 30 Arcee
- Thrilling 30 Metroplex with Scamper
Masterpiece
[edit]- MP-32 Convoy (Beast Wars)
- MP-33 Inferno
- MP-34 Cheetus (Beast Wars)
- MP-35 Grapple
- MP-36 Megatron[3]
- MP-39 Sunstreaker
- MP-41 Dinobot (Beast Wars)
- MP-44 Convoy Ver.3.0
- MP-45 Bumble Ver.2.0
- MP-46 Blackwidow (Beast Wars)
- MP-47 Hound
- MP-48 Lio Convoy (Beast Wars)
- MP-51 Arcee
- MP-52 Starscream Ver.2.0
- MP-56 Trailbreaker
- MP-57 Skyfire (with Optimus Prime, Jazz and Wheeljack)[4]
- MP-60 Ginrai[5]
MPG
[edit]- MPG-01 Trainbot Shouki
- MPG-02 Trainbot Getsuei
- MPG-03 Trainbot Yukikaze
- MPG-04 Trainbot Suiken
- MPG-05 Trainbot Seizan
- MPG-06 Trainbot Kaen
- MPG-06S Trainbot Raiden
- MPG-07 Trainbot Ginou
- MPG-08 Trainbot Yamabuki
- "God Ginrai Project"[5]
- MPG-09 Super Ginrai
- MPG-14 Godbomber
- MPG-14S God Ginrai
The Transformers: Missing Link
[edit]- C-01 Convoy/C-02 Convoy (Anime Edition)
- C-03 Bumble
- C-04 Cliff
- C-05 Sunstreaker
- C-06 Cordon
- C-07 Arcee (Prototype)/C-08 Arcee
- C-09 Cybertron Hero Set
Gallery
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So... INNOCENT LOOKING. -
Percussive maintenance much? -
Cute! But... DEADLY cute.
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Yūki Ōshima profile board from "KAIYODO and OTAKU culture" exhibition in Taipei, November 17, 2007 to February 17, 2008.
- ↑ KT Figure Collection at E-Hobby.co.jp
- ↑ Generations 2017 MP-36 translated article
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Transformers Generations 2022 interview with Kōjin Ōno on the Masterpiece toyline.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Interview on the 40th Anniversary of the Transformers brand with Kōjin Ōno in Transformers Generations 2024, translated at Soundwaves Oblivion
