Takashi Kunihiro

Takashi Kunihiro is a veteran designer in TakaraTomy's Transformers product team. He joined Takara in 1984 and joined the Transformers staff during the period when they were designing the toys introduced in the 1986 animated movie and Season 3 of the television series. In addition to Transformers, he was responsible for the main characters of Brave series figures from FighBird to GaoGaiGar, which have subsequently influenced the designs of modern Transformers.

Toys that Takashi Kunihiro is known to have had a hand in designing

Generation 1

• Hot Rod
• Sixshot

Victory

• Liokaiser
• Star Saber
• Victory Leo

Beast Wars II

• Tako Tank

Beast Wars Neo

• Magmatron

Car Robots/Robots in Disguise

• Megatron

Energon

• Optimus Prime (Super class)

Cybertron

• Primus

Classics

• Astrotrain (with Don Figueroa)
• Jetfire

Transformers (2007)

• Brawl (Leader class)
• Optimus Prime (Leader class)

Universe (2008)

• Cyclonus (with Don Figueroa and Bill Rawley)
• Onslaught (with Bill Rawley)
• Silverbolt (with Bill Rawley)

External links

• Translated interview from Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 1 on TFW2005.com