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Transformers: Victory (1989)
Victory Superior, Masterforce Inferior
I quite enjoyed this series; it brought back fond memories of the Robots in Disguise anime (would love to see that on DVD if Hasbro, Saban/Jetix, or whoever would be in charge of that reads these kind of reviews). I also greatly preferred it to Headmasters and Masterforce-almost no scantily clad female characters or cases of original series Autobots and Decepticons-or the Trainbots, for that matter-getting sidelined in favor of whichever toys they're trying the hardest to sell. The only episode apart from the annoying frequent clips shows I didn't watch-"A Deadly Battle Bet" according to one translation-is a stupid one where Deathsaurus disguises himself as a giant statue of an immodestly clad woman; it contributes nothing to the plot that you can't find out from the subsequent episodes' recaps. I'm also not a huge fan of the Shout! Factory dub-it's somewhat inconsistent and, while only one profanity is used, it appears fairly often and rather needlessly, particularly when they could have used the inoffensive-at least in my opinion-Transformers specific "curseword" scrap. However, those are the only factors I can really name preventing me from giving this series a rank of 9.
Toransufômâ: Chôjin masutâ fôsu (1988)
In the words of Optimus Prime: Pure drivel.
The series starts out cool and has some intriguing concepts, but I quit after watching only six full episodes. The human characters are annoying as usual, and I for one don't need a "sexy" villain as I assume Giga is supposed to be in a Transformers series-particularly one that's supposedly intended for kids. Even the episodes I did watch seemed like they could be pretty disturbing for little kids, what with the violence and dark magic zombies. It's a shame really-I was looking forward to Ginrai, Overlord, Grand Maximus, and Black Zarak, but they're not cool enough to warrant that kinda crap. Here's hoping Victory was more tastefully done.
Transformers: The Headmasters (1987)
Just finished watching this.
Transformers: The Headmasters has its good and bad points. While it doesn't cram all its new characters into three episodes like "The Rebirth," it doesn't devote a lot of time to any of them except the Autobot Headmasters and one or two others. It's also a bit intense for a kids show, not to mention that several episodes feature female characters in revealing clothing, though with the exception of "Head Formation of Friendship" such characters are background and the scenes they appear in can be skipped without losing any vital plot information. Also, way too much Daniel and Wheelie-and I thought they were annoying in English. The subtitling on the Shout! Factory version is also fairly disjointed at times.