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Transformers: The Manga Volume 1 By Viz Media New Listing On Amazon.com

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And just a few days after the Viz Media announcement of the “Transformers: The Manga Volume 1”  in the US, 2005 Boards user Chris McFeely found a new Amazon listing for this upcoming publication.

This book is a collection of comic strips that originally appeared in Japanese Magazines, and it was previously available only in Japan through Hero X Comics by Million Publishing. This is our very first opportunity to have access to this material in a proper English translation.

You can pre-order this book here for $24.99 with a release date on February 11, 2020 at the moment. It will be a hardcover edition with 272 pages. Ready to add this book into your collection? Let us know your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

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Predakwon Avatar
Darkstone

I enjoyed Vol.2 but I'm also really looking forward to Vol.3 as Victory is my favorite of the Japanese shows.

Any news on more volumes coming in the future? I would love to get the Japanese Beast Wars mangas released like this.

Unfortunately, the best source of any "news" is a listing on Amazon and nothing yet.

I'd love BWII, Neo, and Metals Manga. I have untranslated scans since the original books are a little out of my budget.

Darkstone Avatar

I enjoyed Vol.2 but I'm also really looking forward to Vol.3 as Victory is my favorite of the Japanese shows.

Any news on more volumes coming in the future? I would love to get the Japanese Beast Wars mangas released like this.

B-Fox Avatar

Have to sit down and read through vol 2 thoroughly, but flipping through it I'll probably connect better with it than vol 1.

Also I know it's always been his thing, but Fangry/Wilder drawn with fur in beast-mode is still kind of a "stop and make sure you saw that right" moment whenever I see it.

Flash1087 Avatar

I read mine over the weekend and loved it! It wasn't quite as absurd as the first volume, maybe because Headmasters and especially Masterforce already lean pretty hard into Super Robot ridiculousness, but I liked how they sort of adapted the stories of the two series while adding the teensiest backstory.

According to the little blurb at the end, I'm super excited for the third volume, because it's gonna collect all the weird comic-only Zone and Battlestars stuff, which I've always been mega curious about! Gonna call it a birthday present to myself, if that Amazon release date holds true. :D 

Predakwon Avatar
Predakwon

Holy crap, this book is gorgeous! Unreal!

Above and beyond what they needed to do with the colored pages!

The only thing I noticed were two missing pinups (someone correct me if they are included) but they made up for it by including so much more than the Japanese manga collection/omnibus

Just the upper one here
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Just wanted to follow up my old post and say the above illustrations are in Vol. 2. These books are so amazing!

batfan007 Avatar
Wh33l JcK

Isn’t Amazon schedule for vol. 2 next week?

Do you think it will ship on time?

If you want any of them on time order from Book Depository. They also flat pack stuff so it doesnt get damaged (which has happened to literally every book I'ver ordered from amazon , arrived all dinged up)

betsuni Avatar

I'm glad I forgot to cancel my order for Volume 2. The book is really awesome next to Volume 1. I didn't look online, but is this one longer than Volume 1? This Volume sure seems like it stacked next to Volume 1.

Edit: Whoops, didn't see Foster already say it is thicker. Sorry!

HolyCulture Avatar

Is there any news of Vol 2 getting a foil PX version like Vol 1 did?

Foster Avatar

Yeah my preorder for Volume 2 still shows delivery tomorrow. Hopefully it will!

Edit: Amazon just charged my card for the preorder!

Predakwon Avatar
Wh33l JcK

Isn’t Amazon schedule for vol. 2 next week?

Do you think it will ship on time?

Pretty good chance since Amazon isn't using Diamond distribution.

Rightstuf also has this on sale for the 5/12. They don't charge me tax (8.89% here in NY!!!) so I'll probably get it there. along with some other stuff.

Vector Oracle Avatar
Neko-bot77

I'm reading my copy and I have 1 question: is Rumble the b&w one or the b&w one? :p 

Yes.

Flash1087

I started reading this yesterday and I gotta say I love how out-and-out goofy it is. I love the fun it has with a lot of concepts, such as the numerous sub-teams within the Autobots (so there's a team for the Minibots, but also some of the Minibots are on a team with Hound and Trailbreaker exclusively for four-wheel-drive vehicles?) and the weird brotherly bond between Magnus and Optimus. I also love seeing where the genesis of the Cybertron Net from Car Robots came from, as the Autobots also have a weird underground network of tunnels and roads to get around. So far the manga takes everything I loved about the JG1 continuity and makes it even sillier somehow, and I'm here for it.

It’s nice to have the Gilthor story officially available. More people need to see his awesome character design.

B-Fox

That one kid with the Galvatron wrist-watch. All I could think of was: "This kid is going to grow up to write one of the IDW books, isn't he?"

And this series as a whole doesn't suffer from episodic entries – – it suffers from clearly being very short segments in TV Magazine.

Also, did they accidentally call Tracks "Trucks"?

Yeah, I did a double take when I saw that typo. Then I realized who Kenji was inside.

HolyCulture Avatar
Wh33l JcK

Isn’t Amazon schedule for vol. 2 next week?

Do you think it will ship on time?

I assume it will. But I’m also curious if any more foil variant covers will happen like with vol 1.

Wh33l JcK Avatar

Isn’t Amazon schedule for vol. 2 next week?

Do you think it will ship on time?

nathan_s82 Avatar

Just finished reading Volume 1, and cannot wait for the next volumes. Time to retire my old omnibus now.

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