Transformers: Galaxy Force (manga)

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Transformers Galaxy Force
Volume 1 of 1. Complete the set, kids!
Transformers Galaxy Force Volume 1
Publisher	Kodansha
First published	August 5, 2005
Written by	Yoshihiro Iwamoto
Art by	Yoshihiro Iwamoto
Continuity	Unicron Trilogy
ISBN	ISBN 4063320308 ISBN 978-4063320305
Page count	189
Price	390 yen

The Transformers: Galaxy Force (or Transformers: Cybertron) manga, written and drawn by Yoshihiro Iwamoto, ran for nine issues from February 2005 to October 2005 in the pages of Comic Bom Bom when the Galaxy Force cartoon was on air. The series is not drastically different from the cartoon, hitting all the same major storytelling beats, albeit in a more truncated form.

The series appears to have been intended to run to twelve issues, but with Galaxy Force not performing well in Japan, it was canceled after only nine installments. The manga ended with Optimus Prime and Wing Saber combining and defeating the super-powered Starscream, leaving the stories of Gigantion, Planet X and the concluding battle of the series untold. Iwamoto was, at least, given enough lead-in time for the final issue to end it with a double-page spread hinting at all the challenges that lay ahead, providing a dramatic "open" ending to the strip. Bom Bom itself did not have much life left in it thereafter, and the magazine was retired a scant two years later.

The first six issues of the manga were collected in a graphic novel along with a whimsical "Mission 0" which acted as a "making of" extra. Alas, the collection was published only one month before the cancellation of the manga, meaning that the final three chapters were not included within its pages. Iwamoto later noted that too much of the pre-publishing work for the volume had been completed when the cancellation was announced, and the plans could not be changed. Naturally, this made these last three uncollected chapters somewhat rare amongst Japanese collectors, and even rarer amongst Western ones.

Chapters

• Mission.0: Iwamoto Laboratory—Making of Galaxy Force
• Mission.1: Touchdown! Optimus Prime
• Mission.2: The Devil's Dogfight! Coby's Courage
• Mission.3: Intense Race Planet! Velocitron
• Mission.4: Deep Sea Discovery! Vector Prime
• Mission.5: Fastest Dream! Hot Shot's Run
• Mission.6: The Temple of Hell! Overhaul
• Mission.7
• Mission.8
• Mission.9

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Optimus Prime Jetfire Vector Prime Landmine Hot Shot Red Alert Scattorshot Nitro Convoy Clocker Brakedown Overhaul Mini-Cons Safeguard Recon Mini-Con Team Jolt Reverb Six-Speed	Megatron Starscream Thundercracker Ransack Cumplezone Scourge	Coby Hansen Lori Bud Hansen

Notes

• The "Mission #" headers and the actual chapter titles were absent from the original Comic Bom Bom printings and retroactively added to the graphic novel collection. Because Missions 7-9 were never collected, they lack chapter titles. For the purposes of this wiki, the articles have been titled "Galaxy Force Mission 7-9".