Trivia / Transformers Zone

• Creator Killer: While both Toei and Takara are still active to this day, the failure of the Zone OVA pretty much ruined the relationship between the two companies forever. They haven't worked together on any project ever since, with Toei partnering with Bandai to make merchandise based on their properties and Takara working with various different animated studios in Japan to make new Transformers projects.
• No Export for You: Originally, Shout! Factory was originally going to release the OVA for North American distribution. But Toei Animation, being one of the most notorious anime companies difficult to deal with, outright refused to release the episode as they did with Transformers: Scramble City. The reason still remains unknown.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: The OVA can be easily found on YouTube, both fansubbed, and even with a fandub.
• The Other Darrin: Here's a list:
  • Banjo Ginga who played BlackZarak in Masterforce, is played by Hirohiko Kakegawa.
  • Minoru Inaba who played Predaking in the original The Transformers, is played by Yukimasa Kishino.
  • Masato Hirano (Headmasters), who replaced Chikao Shiroyama (original cartoon) as Abominus, is replaced by Yukimasa Kishino.
  • Yukimasa once again replaced three seiyuus as Bruticus. He must love to do this.
  • Devastator who was voiced by Seizō Katō is replaced by Hirohiko Kakegawa.
  • Masato Hirano replaced the previous seiyuu as Menasor.
  • The legendary Daisuke Gōri (already voicing the Big Bad Volen Jiger) replaced Masato Hirano (from Headmasters) who replaced Yutaka Shimaka (original G1) as Trypticon.
• Role Reprise:
  • Hideyuki Tanaka reprised his role as Victory Saber from Transformers Victory.
  • Keiichi Noda reprises his roles as Overlord and the narrator from Transformers: Super-God Masterforce.

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