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!
StrangePlanet
I just found out about this and I can't tell you how happy I am. The Japanese magazine comics were, I think, the longest running piece of fiction about the TFs ever. Storylines and conclusions out the wazoo and stuff I've never seen and… oh my. Am very excited.
Sixwing
I will never be able to look at that panel the same way again.
Digger
Shit I ain’t read that issue in a long while. Hilarious.
onnsake
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Ehhhhh. Skids is counting down the seconds til he can be with her, and she blows off a human dude that was asking her out so that she can rub her sudsy tits all over a robot's windshield instead. She's in a crop top and daisy dukes. And look at the language Skids uses…"mmmmm…would you do it again? You sure you don't mind?" He may as well be asking her to go down on him.
Notice the motion lines….he's convulsing as she rubs him down. Not to mention all that thick, white liquid spilling everywhere. This page is downright filthy when you think about it.
Digger
Right yeah. It’s pretty fine. Also I never thought that scene in Marvel with Skids was implying that. Interesting.
onnsake
Now that I've FINALLY had a chance to see Kiss Players, I gotta say, it sure is a lot of fuss over nothing.
The only "objectionable" thing that stood out to me was Megatron's dick tongue, which is clearly an homage to the tentacles used to get around censors in Japanese porn.
Most of it was just cutesy/girly stuff. I think there was just as much or even more "titillating" stuff in the old Code-approved Marvel books from the 80s. I mean, even as a kid, I realized that the Charlotte/Skids car wash scene was essentially a sex scene. And Circuit Breaker was pretty much naked.
Like I said before, maybe I've just lived in Japan too long, but I think anyone that feels this book or the Legends comics are "obscene" is a real prude.
Digger
Oh heck yeah.
kary
You're welcome! We're glad so many fans have enjoyed watching these series finally.
Lots of hard work went into it, but it was worth it for you guys!
nathan_s82
Thank you for all the work that you guys do. So glad to have Beast Wars Neo now!
kary
The Kiss Players manga scans were included in our Car Robots torrent release. They're not perfect, but you see the whole thing for yourself. Send me a PM if you need a link.
Deathcatg
Since It's Viz, it might have a decent chance of being released on Comixology too, in which case, I'd buy this twice over.
franpincho
PO'd the shit out of this.
Predakwon
IMHO, they're ok. For me, it's a great piece of nostalgia. You can read some fan subs here and decide for yourself.
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It's missing some chapters so I'm very excited for the VIZ books.
Digger
I think the really twisted stuff is the stuff we haven’t seen yet on the wiki. Which is more horror than perverse.
Neko-bot77
Ditto. I just kept saving the comics and reading the tfwiki summaries and nuts to the haters
tigatron2002
yea, like i said, after a few dozen of those threads i just started ignoring people, so i couldnt remember who exactly
GizmoTron
You're thinking of literally one guy who acted like that, the rest of the complaints were just from normies. (And the complaints were fair, since most people really don't get all tingly from seeing robots show off their naughty bits.) The threads also had to be cleaned up because people can't just accept or hear that counter-point and let it go, and instead have to whine back to defend "mah comicz!"
onnsake
OK, I'll try again.
If anyone has scans of the Kiss players manga and doesn't mind sharing with me, please PM me. I'd love to see what all the fuss is about. I imagine it might be a tad risque, but I can't imagine it's actually as bad as the stuff I've seen living in this glorious perverted country for all these years.
Digger
This is true. Heck that’s basically how I’ve gotten all this knowledge anyway. People just think I’m some knowledgeable older fan.
Oh wow really!? That’d be great! I trust you and your team that it’ll be good. Thank you so much.
kary
Yeah I'm sure a lot of that has to do with "getting stuff out the door", so mistakes will get made. Even when we we're fansubbing, we'd go back to double-check on stuff, and then realize, "whoops, now how did we miss that?" Sometimes you can have all the time and the world, and mistakes will still come out in the final version.