Manga

The very first Transformers manga ever.

Manga (漫画 or まんが) is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons.^[1] Manga are usually black and white comic books which are read from right to left, published in Japan by various comic magazines or packaged with toys and DVDs. There has almost always been a manga to accompany the newest Transformers toyline, sometimes taking place in the same continuity as the concurrent animated series, and sometimes presenting a different take on the story.

Until the publication of Viz Media's official English translation of the original Generation 1 TV Magazine stories in 2020, no Transformers manga series had ever been made available outside of Japan. Unofficial English translations by fans appeared online for years, most notably at the websites TF Pulp and TF Archive.

The following Japanese magazines have published Transformers manga or illustrated text material:

• Comic BomBom
• Comic BunBun
• Dengeki Daioh
• Dengeki Hobby Magazine
• Figure Ō
• Hyper Hobby Magazine
• Kerokero Ace
• Super Robot Magazine
• TV Magazine
• Young Gangan

Transformers manga series and specials

Generation 1

TV Magazine

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (featuring Transformers 2010 characters)
• The Great Transformer War
• "The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!" (Transformers/Beastformers special)
• The Headmasters
• Super-God Masterforce
• Victory
• Zone
• The Battlestars

Comic BomBom

• "A Birth of Planet Saybertron" (illustrated text story)
• "Full Throttle Scramble Power!"
• Famicom How-to Manga: Transformers: Mystery of Convoy
• Transformers (Mystery of Convoy) (strategy guide)

Beastformers

• "The Water Gem of Stillness"
• "Legend of the Three Wise Ones"
• "Beastformers VS Laser Beasts"

Robotmasters

• Robotmasters (online and catalog manga)
• Robotmasters (3D diorama manga)

Binaltech Asterisk

• Asterisk Story

Kiss Players

• Kiss Players
• 15 Go! Go!

e-HOBBY

• "Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version"
• "64 Cybertron Urban Defense Robot GADEP"
• "Destron Leader Megatron Black Ver."
• "Destron Aerospace Warrior Sunstorm"
• "MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver."
• "MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver."
• "Nissan GT-R / Ultra Magnus (Brilliant Pearl White)"
• "Destron Doppelgänger Black Rodimus Convoy"
• "Badlands"
• "Decepticon Dark Commander Grand Scourge"

United

• "A New Battle!"
• "The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos"
• Transformers United EX (illustrated text stories)

Generations

• "A Tale of the Pretenders"
• "Metrowars"
• "Metrowars 2"
• "Starscream's New Power"
• "Train Wars"
• "Controverse"
• "Train Wars 2"
• "Rodimus Wars"
• "Reborn"
• "Headmasters VS Masterforce"
• "Rescue the Monorail!"

Unite Warriors

• Unite Warriors Offshot (illustrated text stories)
• Unite Warriors (manga)

Other Generation 1 publications

• PDTF Comic
• The Transformers (MC Axis pack-in manga)
• The Battle of the Star Gate
• Transformers: All Spark
• "Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base"

Generation 2

• G-2 (pack-in manga)
• "The New Battle!!"

Beast Wars

• "The Maximal Brainwashing Operation"
• Beast Wars II
• Beast Wars Neo
• Beast Wars Metals
• Beast Wars Reborn (illustrated text stories)

Unicron Trilogy

• Linkage
• Energon Volume 4
• "Optimus Prime VS Scourge"
• Galaxy Force

Live action movie series

• "Keroro Gunsō × Transformers"
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Unite for the Universe
• "The Creation Revoltech!"
• Movie Trilogy

Animated

• The Cool/The Cool Extra

Aligned

• "Birth! Black Knight Bumblebee"
• "Return! The Most Evil Duo"
• "Decepticon Jaeger Deadlock"

Prominent continuity-hopping publications

Alternity

• Transformers: Alternity

Legends

• Transformers Legends

Generations Selects

• Generations Selects Special Comic

Miscellaneous

Go-Bots

• Rescue Hero Go-Bots

Henkei! Henkei!

• Henkei! Henkei! (pack-in manga)
• Henkei! Henkei! (Comic BunBun series)
• Visualize (illustrated text stories)

Transformers GT

• Transformers GT: Mission GT-R

Comedy manga

• Ridiculous Legend Transformers
• Q-Robo Transformer

Kre-O

• Kre-O Transformers

Shattered Glass

• "Solar Requiem"

Cloud

• Spacetime World: Guardians of Time (illustrated text stories)

Primus Vanguard storyline

• "Cybertron Convobat prequel comic" (online manga)
• "Cybertron Convobat" (pack-in manga)
• "Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic"
• "Cybertron Magna Convoy"
• "Blue Big Convoy comic"

Dialect Girl

• Transformers × Dialect Girl: My Toys

Mazinger Z versus Transformers

• Mazinger Z versus Transformers

Collected editions

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics (graphic novel collection)
• Transformers: The Manga (English-language translation series)

See also

• An overview of Transformers comics in all languages
• Story pages

References

External links

• Manga at Wikipedia
• TF Pulp - Contains translations of Transformers manga from various generations.
• TF Archive - Contains translations of Transformers manga from various generations.