Specifically, their new focus was on their line of transformable items in the Micro Change line. Microman Secret File Volume 1 catalog and manga (1984)īy 1984 Takara was continuing the trend of focusing their New Microman line away from the core 3.75-inch-tall (9.5 cm) Microman action figures to robots and other items. Additionally, a set of 30 Menko cards featuring Moritou’s manga versions of Microman characters and vehicles was released during that period as well. This serialized manga was compiled into six volumes released from 1978 to 1979.
In 1977 TV Magazine-a children’s oriented magazine published by Kodansha Ltd.-began publishing an official, Takara approved serialized Microman manga drawn by manga artist Yoshihiro Moritou. Microman related anime & manga Microman Kodansha TV Magazine manga (1978-79)
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In 1984 Hasbro acquired the license for the transforming object toys from Takara’s Micro Change toyline as well as similar transforming Takara toys in the Diaclone toyline and the two were combined by Hasbro to create the Transformers toyline.īelow is a table showing which Transformers were based on which Micro Change toys and their variants: Transformers to Microman/Micro Change connections Transformers (Hasbro) The line featured toys that were seemingly ordinary items (such as cassette tapes, microscopes, watches and even guns) that could transform themselves and "change" into other forms to help Microman in their fight against the Acroyears. A few years later in 1983, Takara launched a new Microman series within the New Microman line dubbed Micro Change. In 1981 Takara produced a new Microman line called New Microman.
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