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Transformers were Japanese toys ported to America. I don't think there's a direct connection other than Japan's fascination with mecha, which predates both Gund
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
Transformers were Japanese toys ported to America. I don't think there's a direct connection other than Japan's fascination with mecha, which predates both Gundam and Transformers.
- wodenokoto 4y agoI had no idea. That makes it seem like an even bigger omission. Transformers was really big and the Michael Bay reboot movies made the franchise huge again and it’s all basically Anime.
- staticman2 4y agoWhile it's true the Transformers toys were made in Japan the old Transformers cartoon which ran in the U. S. was American made and an American company owns the western rights to the toys.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoFrom the Wikipedia article about the show >The series was produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions in association with Japanese studio Toei Animation Toei Animation, the studio that made Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon, seemed responsible for the animation in the first two seasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transformers_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transformers_(TV_series)
- staticman2 4y agoThat's interesting: it seems the writers were American and the animators were a Japanese studio.