Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers

Beast Wars II
A Poster
ビーストウォーズII 超生命体トランスフォーマー (Bīsuto Wōzu Sekando Chō Seimeitai Toransufōmā)
Genre	Adventure, mecha
Created by	Shōji Imaki
Anime television series
Directed by	Osamu Sekita[1]
Produced by	Makiko Iwata (TV Tokyo) Hirofumi Umeshita Akiyoshi Sakai
Written by	Junki Takegami
Music by	Yūzō Hayashi
Studio	Ashi Productions
Licensed by	NA: Hasbro
Original network	TXN (TV Tokyo)
Original run	April 1, 1998 – January 27, 1999
Episodes	43 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Shōji Imaki
Published by	Kodansha
Imprint	BomBom KC
Magazine	Comic BomBom
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	June 30, 1998 – March 1999
Volumes	2 (List of volumes)

Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers (ビーストウォーズII 超生命体トランスフォーマー, Bīsuto Wōzu Sekando Chō Seimeitai Toransufōmā) is a 1998 Japanese Transformers anime series, spawning a movie and a toyline. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 1998 to January 1999, and was the first Transformers anime to be produced by Nihon Ad Systems and animated by the studio Ashi Productions. The series was preceded by Beast Wars: Transformers, and was followed by Super Life-Form Transformers: Beast Wars Neo. The series has a much lighter tone and is aimed more toward children, whereas the more accessible Beast Wars was intended for a wider age-range. The anime uses conventional animation rather than the CGI of its predecessor. With the exception of the faction leaders, all of the characters within the toy-line are either remolds, reissues, or recolors of earlier Beast Wars or Generation 2/Machine Wars toys.^[2]

In addition to the 43 episodes, there is also a 50-minute movie, Beast Wars II: Lio Convoy's Close Call!, which takes place sometime between episodes 32 and 38, and a manga adaptation by Shōji Imaki that was serialized in Comic BomBom from July 1998 to February 1999, also localized in Korea by Daewon Media. The anime was also released in Korea, and it was broadcast on SBS.