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Japanese G1 continuity is absolutely not normal about girls but damned if they don't give us some of the best ones

There was a significant amount of Transformers continuity released between 1987 and around 2007 that was produced in Japanese and is really only known to most English-speaking fans through fansubs, dubs that were only released in Australia, and the like. Shows like Headmasters, Victory, and Zone. Manga like Victory and 15 Go Go Go Teletraan (which was really mostly Kiss Players). Radio shows like Kiss Players.

I'm gonna be super up front. Japanese G1 is not normal about femmes in any way, shape or form. At the same time, it gave us some of the BEST and most underused female characters in the Transformers universe.

Headmasters, which came out right after the US G1 show ended, is particularly egregious. In Headmasters, Arcee has been reduced to Fort Max's administrative assistant, uses ridiculously polite and subservient language, and is also the only medic. And being a medic would be kind of badass if they let her be as badass as Ratchet, you know? But they absolutely do not.

Also, in Headmasters, Carly (now married to Spike) allows her son--a freaking child, not even a teenager--to go on missions when Spike can't and a human is needed, because uh, for some reason it's better for a 12 year old boy to go, not an adult woman?

But most of the good femmes don't come from Headmasters. And some of the best femmes we have are from Japanese G1.

Super-God Masterforce made it up to us by giving gave us Minerva, a human girl who is a Headmaster with a robot body (transtector) making her basically a bad ass mecha pilot, and who actively does fight.

The Victory manga gives us Esmeral, Deathsaurus' incredibly classy wife, and Lyzack, Leozack's twin sister, who is in charge of defending the homefront but really does want to go out and fight. Illumina appears in both the Victory manga and the anime. She's a little human girl who has a crush on Jan Minakaze and is always trying to get people to choose nonviolence.

(Lyzack later appears in an English-language comic - the Wings Universe--wherein she's basically Deathsaurus' servant and Starscream hits on her. I don't like that.)

There are a number of great femmes who were only ever toys. The Cobalt Sentries set gave us Howlback, leader of the Decepticon military police (called the Cobalt Sentries). She is basically Ravage's twin sister but instead of being super stealthy she can turn your attacks right back on you.

(Later she appears in several English language comics and in at least one she is canonically trans. I'm not a fan of her depiction in the SG Recordicons Batman tribute arc, though.)

The Unite Warriors toyline - Takara's response to Combiner Wars, basically - gave us the combiner Megatronia, made up of Megaempress, and her four guards, Lunaclub (sometimes called Luna Clover or Luna Trefle), Flowspade, Moonheart, and Trickdiamond. They are incredibly awesome.

(IDW 2019 used Trickdiamond, but none of the others. Tricky was one of Swindle's contacts.)

Then there's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends isn't there...Kiss Players.

So, okay. There is nothing normal about Kiss Players whatsoever. On the other hand, I'd rather listen to KP than watch RID2015 which is just blatant copaganda from hell.

Kiss Players had an interesting plot involving little bits of Galvatron and Unicron getting into humans and creating the Kiss Players--humans who could give TFs a powerup by kissing them and then merging with their internals somehow. Then there are the Legions, the dick-tongued monsters that everyone who hasn't actually listend to the show or read the manga thinks are Megatron.

The dick-tongued monsters are gross. It is also gross that some of the Kiss Players are barely teenagers and definitely not adults and are constantly ending up in Situations.

But the plot centres around the apparent rise of Convoy, or Optimus, from the dead, and his transformation into a weird groomery dude, which many people don't understand there was an actual reason for, because it's not Optimus, it's someone else riding around in his body.

Melissa Faireborn is like if you chopped Marissa Faireborn's IQ in half, dyed her hair blond and threw out any pants or skirts that covered her knees. She is nothing like Marissa and I treat them as cousins, but Xiaoxiao Li is amazing and her real lover.

Anyhow, this female scientist (Dr Amaou) lost her mind over the loss of her daughter during the events of the 1986 movie et sequelae, and she's got to be stopped from turning Atari and her Autorooper robot pal into a permanent fusion to reincarnate her daughter Shizuku (whom for some reason I always want to call Setsuna instead).

It's a little confusing because most of the really good parts of the plot got jammed into a few episodes near the end of the season, although once you know what it is, it's clear that it's being set up. That artist just likes borderline lolicon way too much.

The second season of KP is very squeaky clean and sends the girls out to collect what they think are Allspark fragments, and they are very annoyed because Ravage, whom they call "black panther man" keeps getting in their way and fucking with them, only to later find out that the bots who gave them this task are Unicronian heralds and Ravage is trying to stop them from helping Unicron do what Unicron does.

Rosanna, everyone's favourite robot pop idol, comes from the second season of KP, although you don't see very much of her or her companions Glit and Sundor.

Incidentally KP sets up the Unicron Trilogy and some of its characters end up in the UT--which did come to the US, and gave us Alexis Thi Dang.

(This post is brought to you because I just wrote an Esmeral thing and someone was musing separately about Megaempress as a parent and I almost ended up writing this post while reblogging them, because I'm a nerd with a hyperfixation).

[fleshandwires]

October 14

Head Injury // Climbing a Mountain

for the @tfrarepairing fest ;3!!

arrived in time (AT LEAST IN MY TIMEZONE LOL)

rambling below the cut

kiss players should have been transformers yuri because why is shaoshao like that towards melissa, why is she so possesive, SHE GETS JEALOUS OF CONVOY WHEN MELISSA IS THINKING ABOUT HIM.. theyre so,, one-sided crush and sort of doomed, thats the perfect combination ever but they never touch the theme EVERRRR.

ALSO. WHY DOES ATARI THINK OF KISSING HER TEAM MEMBERS (WHICH INCLUDES KAYU).

in a perfect universe kiss players is a transformers manga with canon wlw relationships (coping). these two recently started rotating in my brain after listening to one of the podcast episodes:

LIKE. why why why. why would you do this to meeeee,,

theyre just. so cute,

[m00nb04rd5]

Just something that might or might not get me hit with the hammer of "WHAT THE FUCK" but eh...

Could you do a moodboard for the Transformers character, Atari Hitotonari?

(anyways, bye-)

Atari Hitotonari (Transformers Kiss Players)

What in the name of Primus were they even thinking?!?!

[askvectorprime]

Dear VP,

If Noble in Beast Machines was completely organic, how was his body able to hold a spark, which granted him Megatron's memories as well as the ability to speak? Would that not suggest that it was possible that Noble had some mechanical parts?

Dear Spark Speculator,

It is perfectly possible for a spark to exist within an organic body, either temporarily (such as when Starscream possessed Atari), on a long term basis (as was Cryak's unfortunate fate), or intentionally (for example, Scorponok's experiments culminating in the Firstborn).

Likewise, the organic equivalent of a spark, which I believe is known as a "soul", can exist within a mechanical entity. This is how life can be granted to Godmaster transtectors. It could also be seen when Shizuku Amaō's soul became imprinted onto Galvatron's technological cells.

[hana-uranai]

back to being sad that minus jin-say orchestra is no longer around

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WELCOME TO KISS PLAYERS REWRITE!

AKA the blog that is meant to be the rewrite for the infamous and rather-disturbing Transformers Kiss Players!

Now to explain the rewrite, it's basically that: a rewrite of Transformers Kiss Players except make it a lot more approachable for everyone. That, and well, it's now a magical girl show! Well, "show" is not really the right word as it's a blog and a fanfic, but I digress.

Now allow me to introduce the Kiss Players themselves!

Marissa Faireborn - A 19-year-old American girl who grew up near the beaches of South California and was a massive Optimus Prime fangirl when she was young, Marissa is the optimistic and cheerful leader of the Kiss Players, best friends with everyone but is the most friendly with Elita-1 and Optimus, equally. Marissa transforms into her Transformer form "Hibiscus", whose vehicle is that of a pink-and-black Camaro (or at least something similar.), and fuses with Elita-1 to become Malva-1 or "Borboletta". Hiya, everyone! This is Marissa Faireborn, coming to you, live on Kiss Players Rewrite!

Shaoshao Li - An 18-year-old Chinese girl who once grew up in the rural parts of China before her family moved to the city and has a connection to organic life, like plants and animals, Shaoshao is the stern yet gold-hearted Kiss Player, essentially the caretaker of the group (despite her being one-year-younger to Marissa), though she tends to have a short-length fuse, she genuinely cares for others and when someone is hurt, she won't hesitate to tend to their wounds, which is how she managed to meet and become friends with Dinobot (Beast Wars Dinobot, to be precise.) Shaoshao transforms into her Transformer form "Kickback", whose vehicle mode is a fiery-red-orange Honda Dream motorcycle (or at least something similar.), and fuses with Dinobot to become Dinokick or "Velocikick". Oi, everyone. This is Shaoshao Li, also coming to you, live on Kiss Players Rewrite. (Can I go home now? No? Okay).

Atari Hitotonari - A 16-year-old girl (Plot Twist: She's 17 due to the E.D.C.'s fuckery and Amao's dark intentions) who grew up in the suburbs of Japan before being taken in by the E.D.C. after her parents were killed in a building-collapse, Atari is the Kiss Player who starts off as a shy and dependent girl, afraid of everything and is often considered a crybaby to some, but later down the line, she ends up becoming independent enough to go against the E.D.C. and its wrongdoings (in the form of her abuse at the hands of Amao) and ends up becoming a powerful member of the Kiss Players, despite at the beginning of being a Kiss Player, her powers were unstable and she can't control them, but thanks to others close to her, she manages to control her powers and become a powerhouse. She cares much about others around her but cares the most about her hospitalized colleague Kayu Michikusa, and the mentally-troubled Decepticon Starscream, who saved her from getting eaten by a spider-scorpion monstrosity in a cave system after her Autotrooper, Ne-04 was torn apart by the thing, and has been attached to Starscream ever since (Even going as far as to try and figure out what led to him being the monster he was in Earthspark S2-S3). Atari transforms into her Transformer form "Techcross", whose vehicle mode is a jet (any model is up to you, it's a rather small jet), and fuses with Starscream to become Techscream or "Starcross". O-Ohayo, gozaimasu. I'm Atari Hitotonari... Coming to you... (Gosh, why can't I say the whole thing?)

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PLOT SUMMARY OF THE REWRITE:

Set in a merged continuity outside of the Cyberstars continuity, Cyber-Spirit Hanenohara was researching how to make humans into powerful Cybertronian warriors (Magical-Girl style) after succeeding with the Cybertronian Androids, or the Cyberstars, and their ability to transform Magical-Girl style, and landing on the Kiss Players, dragging the girls (and others from the Kiss Players) into the Earthspark continuity, wiping their memories and changing them drastically while still keeping their original formula, and shaping everything into how she properly wants it to be.

Afterward, the E.D.C. was formed by Hitoshizuku Amao after her daughter died in an unknown accident, on the surface is an organization that works for the Japanese government and specializes in pilot-powered Transformer-Mechas called "Autotroopers", but really the organization was only a facade to hide Amao's darkest secret, to find a way to resurrect her daughter by finding the DNA of a Transformer from all over the globe and using rather unethical experimentation to recreate her, which leads to Amao having an alliance and partnership with the Unicronian-descent Cybertronian-Quintesson cross-breeds, The Legion, and their leader Elysia. In doing so, The Legion would contaminate certain spots where Cybertronian life might be active with tiny microscopic eggs that, when ingested, will grow and parasitize on the Cybertronian's spark, draining the Cybertronian of their hope and morality, before becoming nihilistic murder machines that the parasites will control in. All of this, to resurrect Amao's daughter.

The members of the E.D.C. are sent on death missions to retrieve the DNA of Transformer Amao, whom the Legion needs to resurrect her daughter.

One of these members is Atari, who was initially thought to be the rookie of the E.D.C. members but was with the E.D.C. for quite some time, despite their rather illegal policy of letting members retire once they reached a certain age, which is 17, 18, and 19, meaning that those members sent to these death missions were children, as young as 13 and as old as 16. She and her Autotrooper were sent on one of these death missions in a cavern system, leading to the Autotrooper getting torn apart by a large spider-scorpion monster and Atari being saved by (conveniently-placed) Starscream, who she became friends with before departing back to the E.D.C.

Then, some girls were formally part of the E.D.C. but were either kicked out because of the E.D.C.'s policy or something else. Two of them are Marissa Faireborn and Shaoshao Li.

Marissa Faireborn was the daughter of Flint and Jaye (Idk, I don't watch G.I. Joe, so I'm not familiar, but I know Cobra, loosely.) who grew up in Southern California near the beaches, having a lax and almost stereotypical-girly personality. Meanwhile, Shaoshao Li was the daughter of a family rich with generational history, rumored to have been related to an emperor of China who is hypothesized to have a connection with creatures beyond Earth, not in a spiritual way, more like a conspiracy-alien kind of way.

Now I would explain more but for now, this is all I got. I, Hanenohara in this case, have other things to talk about.

Have fun with talking to my girls!

HAVE FUN, EVERYONE!

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Original - Lisa - 1/8 (hitotonari)

[sundaymorningslight]

Good to see Hal and Eiji together, too, after such a long time.

Love it how they have like ~15 years age difference, but they still look equally young here. :’)

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~Elegance~

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Wataru's Twitter 25.07.2021

[cleverthylacine]

I always thought Dr. Amaou would have made a more compelling human villain to be Prowl’s human nemesis because she would have been closer to a heroic reason. s

She could have tied in interestingly to the Earth plotline opposing the Cybertronians due to personal, easy to understand trauma as the result of the invasion and things happening in Phase 1 and Optimus's actions. Her betraying and turning on her former "allies" and being given the role of hunting them down and wanting to get rid of them due to the death of her daughter is compelling and tragic. And would have, despite my opinions on some of the ending, been an excellent parallel to what they did with Unicron and Cybertronians dealing with the fallout they caused others in the war. She'd be an excellent foil for a lot of characters, especially if they let her be complex and driven by grief and a desire to prevent repeating tragedies.

I just think she would have been a lot more interesting than Spike, and maybe you could even bring in Glit (instead of like two panels in the background) or the other KP characters to act as parallels and maybe be working with her. And it would have been another interesting point of view as the Cybertronians, even the "good ones" (IDW did use a lot of gray for all characters) as being viewed as monsters and villains in other stories.

Sorry for the ramble. I have a more organized idea of this, but a bit rambly now.

Basically yes to all of this.

Dr Amaou has been namedropped in VoS, incidentally, but she didn't interact much with Ravage.

I might do a side story involving Marissa and Glit.

Mostly what I know about the KP charas in VOS are that Xiaoxiao, Melissa and Kasai Convoy (a different convoy) are a trine, Atari Hitotonari is an FTM, and Marissa and Melissa embarrass each other a lot. Melissa is about to start making Marissa's life miserable, though, now that she knows Marissa is robosexual.

Prowl vs Dr Amaou is your idea though and you should TOTALLY do that. They would be SO GOOD at spy vs spy cat and mouse games and I would read the shit out of that.

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