Transformers: Armada

Transformers: Armada
Optimus Prime, his super mode and Mini-Con Sparkplug
超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマー マイクロン伝説
(Chō Robotto Seimeitai Toransufōmā Maikuron Densetsu)
GenreAdventure, mecha
Anime television series
Directed byHidehito Ueda
Written byRyo Motohira
Music byHayato Matsuo
StudioActas
Licensed by
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
English network
Original run August 23, 2002 (2002-08-23) December 26, 2003 (2003-12-26)
Episodes52 (List of episodes)

Transformers: Armada, known in Japan as Super Robot Life-Form Transformers: Legends of the Microns (超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマー マイクロン伝説), is a Japanese anime series[3] which debuted on August 23, 2002. As the first series co-produced between the American toy company Hasbro and their Japanese partner Takara, Armada begins a new continuity/universe for Transformers, with no ties to any of the previous series, including its direct predecessor Transformers: Robots in Disguise in 2001.[4] It inspired two sequels, Transformers: Energon (2004) and Transformers: Cybertron (2005).

Hasbro handled the production of the English dub of the series, which was outsourced over to SD Entertainment. Hasbro themselves handled North American rights, with Entertainment Rights securing international rights,[5] while Takara handled the distribution of the Japanese license. Transformers: Armada and both of its following series are all part of a saga known as the "Unicron Trilogy".

  1. ^ "Entertainment Rights Secure Rights to Transformers Armada". Archived from the original on 2002-12-25.
  2. ^ "Sky One picks up Transformers Armada".
  3. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 871–872. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  4. ^ "The History of Transformers on TV". IGN. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  5. ^ "Entertainment Rights Secure Rights to Transformers Armada". Archived from the original on 2002-12-25.