Transformers: Victory Region Two DVD
 

I figured since Spengler actually has a credit for contributing to this DVD, I'd inform everyone about it

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Pretty much one of the best Takara seasons. Here's hoping they move to Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo next...plus I would like to stress that the omission of the sole episode of Transformers: Zone was'nt neccesary, And DVD-ROM content could very easily have been spent putting together the Battle Stars Manga for accesibility.

I usually don't complain about these region 2 releases...but knowing Victory is the last of the "G1" collection, it just makes me feel there's been a lost oppertunity.

For anyone wanting to know when Japan could actually put together a TF series properly, watch this, Headmasters, and Masterforce

...they actually credited me? W00t!


And it was certainly my favorite of the Japanese-exclusive G1 shows, which is strange, since it's the most Japanesey of them all (and I usually hate that sorta thing).

The villainous schemes can get a tad boring as they usually consist of the Decepticons attacking a location and getting beaten away, but the bee-yoo-tee-full animation keeps you from losing interest. The series finale is one of the strongest in any transformers show and the Breastforce (stop laughing) are one of the coolest subgroups there is.

The cast is relatively small, and save for the Multiforce, you get some pretty good individual personalities.

And Jan is surprisingly one of the LEAST annoying human sidekicks out of any Transformers show. Good for him!


Definately a cool set. And if you buy the thing, be sure to read the manual. My pal Chris McFeely put a lot of work into that!


EDIT: Oh yeah, and since Zarius mentioned Battlestars and some of you might not know what that was, it was one of the last Transformers G1 series, told exclusively through manga and story pages.

I translated the one manga issue and wrote summaries of the story pages, which you can see here, along with my other translated mangas and a manga guide written by McFeely:

http://www.tfarchive.com/comics/japanese/

Yup, in the booklet, Chris will probably scan the page if you ask him, a few other names are there, but yours and Chris' (by default on the last three) are the only names I recognise. I'm not that particulary active in the Transfandom despite being an authority.