Transformers: Victory
| Transformers: Victory | |
North American DVD cover
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| Genre | Adventure, Mecha, Science Fiction |
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| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshikata Arata |
| Studio |
Toei Animation Takara |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Nippon TV (1989) |
| English network | |
| Original run | March 14, 1989 – December 19, 1989 |
| Episodes | 44 (32 regular & 12 clip shows) |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Masumi Kaneda |
| Illustrated by | Ban Magami |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Children |
| Magazine | TV Magazine |
| Original run | April 1989 – January 1990 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Transformers: Victory (トランスフォーマー ビクトリー Toransufōmā: Bikutorī?) is an anime series produced by Toei Animation. It is a Japanese-produced spin-off of the well-known original Transformers cartoon, and the final complete animated series from the original "Generation 1" era.
Following the conclusion of the American Transformers cartoon series in 1987, Takara, the Japanese producers of the Transformers toyline, opted to create unique anime for their shores to advertise their own version of the Transformers toyline, which began to grow further and further apart from its American progenitor. After Transformers: The Headmasters in 1987 and Transformers: Super-God Masterforce in 1988, Transformers: Victory was produced in 1989.
These Japanese-exclusive Transformers series had been moving further and further away from the stylistic roots of the American series, and Victory represents this divergence at its greatest. The visual style of Victory is derived heavily from the anime of the time, with the transformations of the robots being treated as more monumental, presented through more dynamic and lengthy . Still frame effects and re-used animation were used wherever possible to compensate for high levels of animation compared to previous series, possibly due to budget cuts at the time.
Despite his apparent death in The Transformers: The Movie, Wheeljack returned during the death of God Ginrai/Birth of Victory Leo saga, along with Perceptor from the original series, with God Ginrai and Minerva from Transformers: Super God Masterforce returning too. The series was released in the UK on DVD in Region 2, PAL format on December 26, 2006. In 2008, Madman Entertainment released the series on DVD in Australia in Region 4, PAL format. Transformers Victory was released with Headmasters and Super-God Masterforce in the USA, released by Shout Factory. It was released on August 28, 2012.
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