Toransufômâ: Chôjin masutâ fôsu

Plot synopsis:
Several thousand years ago, the planet Cybertron was consumed by a civil war by the two Transformer factions, the Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the Decepticons led by Megatron. Optimus jettisoned the AllSpark, a mystical artifact that brings life to the planet, into space, but Megatron pursued it. Megatron crashed in the Arctic Circle and froze, and was discovered in 1895 by explorer Archibald Witwicky. Witwicky activated Megatron’s navigational system, which scanned the AllSpark’s coordinates into his glasses. The glasses end up in the possession of his great-great-grandson Sam Witwicky. In the present, Sam buys his first car, a rusting Chevrolet Camaro, but discovers it has a life of its own.
In modern Qatar, Blackout attacks and destroys a United States military base in a failed attempt to hack the military network to find information on Megatron and the AllSpark. A team of Army Rangers led by Captain William Lennox escape across the desert, pursued by Blackout’s drone Scorponok. They fight Scorponok off, aided by aerial reinforcements, and travel home with Scorponok’s stinger, discovering sabot rounds damaged the armor. At the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense John Keller leads the investigation into the attack. Sound analyst Maggie Madsen catches another Decepticon, Frenzy, hacking into the network while onboard Air Force One. While the hack is thwarted, Frenzy downloads files on Archibald’s glasses, tracking down Sam with Barricade, disguised as a police car.
Sam and his high school crush Mikaela Banes are rescued by the Camaro who turns out to be Autobot scout Bumblebee, but he is mute and has to communicate through his car radio. Previously sending a beacon to his fellow Autobots, Bumblebee takes Sam and Mikaela to meet the new arrivals – Optimus, Jazz, Ironhide, and Ratchet. Optimus explains the details of their situation, revealing if Megatron gained the AllSpark he would transform Earth’s machinery into a new army and exterminate mankind. Sam, Mikaela, and the Autobots travel to Sam’s house to retrieve the glasses, but the teenagers are captured by agents of Sector Seven, a top secret government branch led by Seymour Simmons. The Autobots stop the agents, but Simmons calls for backup, who take Sam, Mikaela, and Bumblebee into custody, while Optimus obtains the glasses.
The respective groups connected to the Transformers are gathered together at Hoover Dam by Sector Seven’s director Tom Banachek. Inside, the group discover the frozen Megatron and the AllSpark, but Frenzy, who smuggled away in Mikaela’s bag, summons the other Decepticons to attack. Bumblebee is released to protect the AllSpark, shrinking it down to a handheld size so it can be transported to safety. Megatron escapes the dam after thawing out. A lengthy battle occurs in Mission City, with most of the Decepticons being killed, but Megatron murders Jazz. He prevents Sam’s attempted escape with the AllSpark, and begins to fight Optimus. After a long brawl Megatron seems to get the upper hand. Optimus then tells Sam to push the cube into his chest in order to ensure their mutual destruction, but Sam rams it into Megatron's chest instead, extinguishing his spark. Starscream is the only Decepticon to escape, but Barricade remains on Earth.
Optimus salvages a shard of the AllSpark from Megatron’s body. The United States government shuts down Sector Seven, disposing of the dead Decepticons in the Laurentian Abyss. Sam and Mikaela then start a relationship while the Autobots secretly hide out on Earth, Optimus sends a transmission into space inviting any surviving Autobots to join them.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
The best of the 1980s anime-Transformers shows.
That's saying a fair bit as Headmasters from personal perspective didn't hold up(despite saying that I remembered it being good) and I didn't care at all for Victory.
Masterforce was really well done though, the concept initially did seem a little shaky and as with a lot of shows the first couple of episodes had a yet-to-find-its-feet feel to it.
The execution however was truly impressive.
Of the three 1980s anime-Transformers shows Masterforce is the most Japanese-anime-like and also has the most detailed animation and the most consistent characterisations.
And it also doesn't try to cram in too much in the story lines or the terrible dubbing like Headmasters and has more energy and characters that are relatable unlike Victory.
The animation is rich in detail and quite exciting in the action, definitely the best animated of this show, Victory and Headmasters combined.
The music is dynamic and un-repetitive and the theme tune is catchy and not cheesy.
The writing is thought-provoking and has a freshness to it, ill-placed humour and slapstick being nowhere in sight.
The stories are well-paced, exciting, with emotion and are gripping, without trying to do too much.
The series also has a well-rounded end, not anti-climatic like Headmasters.
The characterisation is remarkably consistent with Devil Z being a very sinister villain and not a Megatron clone, and we even see some familiar faces.
The voice is decent.
In conclusion, excellent and the best of the 1980s anime-Transformers shows by some distance.
Also one of the high points of the franchise along with the original 1984 show and Beast Wars.
9/10 Bethany Cox. Excellent, great show, the second greatest Transformers ever.
This show is the second best Transformers anime after Transformers: Victory.
I love this show and I also used to watch it a lot with my cousin and these Transformers are really cool.
Humans using bracelets to become the Transformers.It is known that God Jinrai is actually Convoy (Optimus Prime) and then he becomes the Super God Jinrai by combining with the best Transformer of the show, God Bomber, and also the Destrons Masterforce (Decepticons)are a lot strong and more powerful.
And the main villain Devil Z is a lot stronger than Galvatron and Unicron.In the Dominican Republic in this show Devil Z name is Scorponok, that was our favorite Destron.
But no human controlled him,only Devil Z got inside him making him more powerful, he is the leader of the Destrons.But the other two Destrons Giga and Mega made things a lot more difficult when they interfered and they most of the time have severely injured God Jinrai (Optimus Prime), I hated them so much that I'd wish they would die.
By the way, that husband and wife team in the show are just like the new version of Cyclonus and Scourge(Galvatron's most loyal soldiers)This show is great I give it a 10/10.
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..
an interesting take.
I came into this series with uncertain expectations.
I had undertaken the task of watching the various Transformers series, starting with the original series and hopefully going on through the current Cybertron series.
In order to get there, I had to get through Masterforce.So after the events of the Headmasters series, I was unsure if this installment would just be a permutation of that, or if it would just venture out on its own.As it turns out, it did both.
There's a hint left of the old series, but it doesn't come off as just the "next chapter," like Headmasters did.
There's a glimpse of old characters (Rodimus Prime) and a cameo or two of some Headmasters characters like Fortress Maximus, but for the most part, these are new Transformers.
And this time, instead of having the Transformers rely on humans for help, the humans themselves are actually the Transformers.
Some are robots hiding in the disguise of human shells, and others are real humans who adopt robot transtectors to defend the Universe.Best among them all is Ginrai, who adopts a truck that looks an awful lot like the classic Optimus Prime.
I think this is where most original Transformers fans will latch onto the story.The thing this story has going for it is story, pure and simple.
It takes it to the next level.
And while this may have unfamiliar elements, it's definitely a must-see for all Transformers fans.
(Look at TV-Nihon for fansubbed episodes not available in the US!).
Transtectors: No Force.
Masterforce is a spin-off-ish sequel to the horrid Headmasters, where awful Japanese scripters continue the awful tradition of taking interesting Transformers and putting no effort at all, delivering us another horrid sample of Japformers.Masterforce takes the concept of Powermasters and changes aliens into humans, transformers to lifeless mechas called transtectors and (of course) adds to the equation of nonsense a supernatural Decepticon emperor, named "Devil Z".
So, we have Godmasters instead of Powermasters, battling to protect Earth from the evil forces of Devil Z, where for some reason other humans decided to drive Decepticons transtectors.Although the second JG1 series has 5 or 6 interesting episodes and some moments, especially the ending, which makes it far better from the horrible Headmasters, it's still awful.
Better read the Marvel & IDW comics if you want to know these characters.