Transformers Manga reprint coming from Viz Media

Transformers Manga reprint coming from Viz Media

Posted on 05 Jul 2019

Viz Media are to reprint the original Japanese Transformers manga for the first time outside of Japan according to a recent twitter post. The strips, published in Kodansha's TV Magazine during the toyline's epic run in the 80's, featured various toys across the years in adventures unique to those in the West. 

Volume 1 will be released this Winter, presumably with the early strips, Figh! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers, which featured a prologue story told in two parts, followed by an eight issue run set after the end of the second series of the cartoon. The manga promoted the Scramble City storyline, featuring the first Japanese appearance of Autobot City Metroplex, City Commander Ultra Magnus and Destron attack base Trypticon.

Fans can look forward to some unusual in-continuity explanations of certain errors in the cartoon, such as the Autobot Road, an underground mass-transit system that shows how the Autobots were able to cross the planet so fast in the cartoon.