[ZariusTwo]

The Takara trilogy is as good as Japan gets with TF really...they CANNOT do this franchise justice for beans and don't seem willing to.

Headmasters is a dismal failiure right out of the gate, it's bad fanfiction. The opening trilogy has the most replay value purely for ideas like Prime and Rodimus teaming together, but the transistion from established characters to the Takara leads is NOT smooth and the storylines don't go anywhere, leading in several episodes to pointless filler. The Headmasters come off as mary sues right out of the gate, Galvatron hatches the dopiest schemes ever conceived in TF history, more dopey than Meg's schemes in G1, and, in a rarity for a Japan series...it really has no ending.

It's sole redeeming quality is the most insanely humerous dub ever created for anything ever.

Masterforce shouldnt work, yet it does. An incredible amalagamation of Super Sentai trappings and more familiar ideas like the TF Pretender and Headmaster lines. It also featured an ingenious example of marketing the Powermaster Optimus Prime figure without actually bringing back Optimus Prime. Likeable human characters and the drama just meshes well with the Transformer action

Devil Z is a ridiculous idea on paper but with the mythos incorporating things such as maverick sparks, it makes that character look ahead of it's time.

Transformers Victory is another surprisingly great TF series from Japan...more of a science-fiction western take on the concept, but more focused on the Transformers. The character deaths and the occasional rebirths are actually DRAMATIC, and the final battle is amongst the best peice of animation in TF anywhere. Dezarius is the best Takara villain ever created and one of the only instances of a Japan excluse as a primary antagonist