#atari hitotonari

[cleverthylacine]

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).

#Japanese G1 continuity #femme bots and human women #maccadam #transformers victory #transformers super god masterforce #transformers headmasters #transformers kiss players #transformers unite warriors #cobalt sentries #esmeral #megaempress #minerva #flowspade #lunaclub #moonheart #trickdiamond #illumina #lyzack #howlback #rosanna #angela #melissa faireborn #(not marissa) #xiaoxiao li #atari hitotonari #alexis thi dang

[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.

#ask vector prime #transformers #maccadam #savage noble #megatron #starscream #atari hitotonari #cryak #scorponok #firstborn #galvatron #shizuku amaō #sparks #godmasters #beast machines #japanese generation 1 #kiss players #idw2 #idw transformers

[tfrq]

cardboard today, plastic uh..... eventually, probably

#atari hitotonari #sari sumdac #i jst wanted to share these dumb toy pics ok #roll #art #....i guess?? #humans

[k-tack888]

メリークリスマス☆キスぷれ Merry Christmas Kiss Players

#transformers #kiss players #キスぷれ #Marissa Fairbone #Atari Hitotonari #Shaoshao Li

[atariforce]

Hitotonari Atari by kurohaneco

#Atari #Atari logo #illustration #kurohaneco

[kidknux]

TFRQ Starscream; harrier jet, 40 feet tall. As Megatron’s second in command, he was on the same ship during the confrontation that stranded them all on earth.

Starscream is egotistical and ambitious to a fault, hoping to take Megatron’s place as leader of the Decepticons- not because he particularly cares about their goals, but out of spite. With most of the universe thinking they’re dead, he could let himself vanish, or simply find his long-time associate Swindle and make their relationship more permanent. Or, he could make sure that Megatron never leaves this awful planet, and make his own triumphant return as new leader of the Decepticons.

Starscream has an outlier ability that he’s still working on controlling, that lets him convert his voicebox into a weapon that fires a powerful sonic blast. Generally it activates itself when he’s extremely worked up. He likes to change his colors and frame a lot, either from vanity or something else, but because of a lack of resources he tends to limit himself to testing different swatches of color on his arms. He’s not exactly familiar with this planet, but he doesn’t need to be- he’s recently captured a military officer to give him all the information he needs to know.

Atari Hitotonari, who is actually just a flight attendant that was in the wrong place at the wrong time, seriously disagrees with this strategy.

#transformers #maccadam #tfrq #tf au #starscream #bumblebee #my art

[alanahikarichan]

whoops my hand slipped

Sari and Atari, from a Kiss Players revamp they are scribbling at. aw yeah.

#sari sumdac #atari hitotonari #kiss players #transformers #kiss players connection #my art

[kissplayconnection]

So, in order from top left: Marissa, Shaoshao, Atari, Sari and Carly!

#marissa faireborn #Shaoshao Li #Atari Hitotonari #sari sumdac #carly #lightart

[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.

#dr amaou #kiss players #maccadam

[tfrq]

CAN U GUYS TELL US ABOUT ATARI!! WHATS SHE LIKE!!!

CaptainNessbot-Today at 9:41 AM

Atari is  a 26 year old airline stewardess

japanese, obvs

but does a lot of international flights

kidotix-Today at 9:42 AM

airline stewardess was maybe a little ambitious for her, since she has some problems with motion sickness still, but she’s trying to get tougher so maybe it was intentional

she’s been trying to get tougher for about 26 years now so there’s gotta be results eventually right

she does her best

Unfortunately airline stewardess uniform, Not dissimilar from what an air force uniform probably looks like to an alien

CaptainNessbot-Today at 9:45 AM

A coward and crybaby, but she also abhors violence, and wishes she was tougher to protect people she cares about

kidotix-Today at 9:48 AM

she’s the older sister of ironically another decepticon human companion, A-ko, tho them ending up with their partners is under very different and unrelated circumstances

she really wanted to be the cool big sis for her, but despite frequent attempts she could never manage it and it was usually A-ko who had to protect her instead 

she still tried to act like she was, tho, even if she never quite managed it

CaptainNessbot-Today at 9:49 AM

They haven’t talked in a year or so, I think

kidotix-Today at 9:50 AM

nods

Atari doesn’t know about A-ko running away so there’s probably been a drop in communication, if it had happened before Atari was kidnapped

which isn’t unreasonable, she’s traveling a lot on account of her job and there’s probably not a lot of time to call and check inand their parents r kinda….??

CaptainNessbot-Today at 9:54 AM

Atari is currently in the custody of a certain screechy bird

kidotix-Today at 9:55 AM

Atari got plucked right out of the airport by Starscream so he could interrogate her about the planet’s military forces

what happens next may shock you

(they end up friends somehow, starscream is absolutely terrified of this tiny girl’s power of making him feel emotions now)

kidotix-Today at 10:04 AM

i’m pretty sure she basically out-screams him when he actually tries to get scary while interrogating her bc of how freaked out she gets, nd he ends up forced to crash course on how to calm down humans and be less intimidating so she stops crying every time he talks to her

by the time he finds out she can’t actually tell him anything that useful she’s been with him long enough to blab about him if he lets her go, which eventually evolves further into the realization that. how did this girl even survive out there. she’s gonna die if he throws her back out on her own he can’t do that

#bitroniccc #asks #atari hitotonari #starscream #decepticons #tfrq #humans #story #roll #quint #just have a straight up discord copypaste for an answer

[tfrq]

Before Atari had a giant evil jet friend, she had no standards for how she should be treated as a human being. You could do anything to her.

#transformers #atari hitotonari #art #tfrq #roll #humans #im love her

[artoni]

i maintain kiss players could have been amazing with a different artist

probably not with me as said artist tho

#transformers: kiss players #kiss players #Marissa Fairborne #Shaoshao Li #Atari Hitotonari #I feel like Marissa is the token american bombshell spy chick #atari's fucking cute a little chubby omg #and shaoshao is just like 'bitch if i'm going to find a china dress to fit i'm at least gonna find a goddamn trenchcoat to put over it' #artoni draws stuff