Anime Profile: Beast Wars: Transformers
Fields |
USA Info |
Japanese Info |
Image |
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Title |
Beast Wars: Transformers | Beast Wars: Chou Seimeitai Transformers (season 1) |
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Beast Wars Metals(seasons 2-3) |
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Released |
52 TV Episodes(3 seasons) |
52 TV Episodes(3 seasons) |
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Dates |
September 16, 1996–May 7, 1999 | ||
Company |
Mainframe Entertainment/Hasbro | TV Tokyo/Takara | |
Creator |
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Director |
Various(Bob Forward, Ian Pearson, Craig McEwen, Jonathan Goodwill, etc) |
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Genre |
Action, Mecha | Action, Mecha | |
Related |
-- listed below -- | -- listed below -- | |
Characters |
Airrazor | Air Razar | |
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Black Arachnia | Black Widow | |
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Cheetor | Cheetas | |
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-- more listed below -- | -- more listed below -- |
Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon.
Related Anime: Beast Wars: Transformers
Anime Characters: Beast Wars: Transformers
English Name |
Japanese Name |
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English Name |
Japanese Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airrazor | Air Razar | Ravage | Jaguar | |
| Black Arachnia | Black Widow | Rhinox | Rhinox | |
| Cheetor | Cheetas | Scorponok | Scorpos | |
| Depth Charge | Depth Charge | Silverbolt | Silverbolt | |
| Dinobot | Dinobot | Tarantulas | Tarans | |
| Inferno | Inferno | Terrorsaur | Terrazaurah | |
| Megatron | Megatron | Tigatron | Tigatron | |
| Optimus Primal | Convoy | Tigerhawk | TigerFalcon | |
| Quickstrike | Quickstrike | Transmutate | --?-- | |
| Rampage(Protoform X) |
Rampage | Waspinator | Waspittar | |
| Rattrap | Rattor |
Anime Description: Beast Wars: Transformers
Note: Beast Wars: Transformers is NOT Japanese Animation, though it has been broadcasted in Japan, and also spawned a few anime spinoffs that have yet to be released in the U.S. Therefore, I have decided to include it on this site. (It is also worth noting that a lot of the English VA's on this show went on to voice characters for the more recent Transformers anime.)
Beast Wars is both a sequel and prequel to the original Transformers series. Taking place three hundred years after the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons, their descendents the Maximals and Predicons now reside in Cybertron. The Maximals (Autobot Descendents) have reigned as the main power of Cybertron and have created co-existance between the Predicons (Decepticon descendents).
However, one Predicon known as Megatron (named in honor of the Decepticon leader) steals a Cybertronian relic known as the Golden Disk. Sent to chase Megatron and the Predicons is Optimus Primal and his band of Maximals. After chasing down the Predicons, both teams of Transformers mysteriously land on a planet (which is later revealed to be Prehistoric Earth).
Trapped on the planet, the Beast Wars begin between the two factions. However, Megatron's ambitions grow bigger by the day, and the Beast Wars will soon erupt into a battle that could place the history of Cybertron and the fate of the entire universe at stake....
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