7.6 /10 1 Votes
Final episode date 29 September 1999 Number of seasons 1 | 7.5/10 TV First episode date 3 February 1998 Number of episodes 35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Junki TakegamiKatsuyuki SumisawaKazuhiko GodoYukiyoshi Ohashi Music by Yuzo HayashiKazuya Tanaka Studio Ashi ProductionsNihon Ad Systems Cast Junko Takeuchi, Hozumi Gōda, Makoto Ueki, Shô Ryûzanji, Chie Hirano Similar Beast Wars II: Super Life‑Form, Beast Machines: Transformers, Beast Wars: Transformers, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Transformers: Energon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Super Life-Form Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (超生命体トランスフォーマー ビーストウォーズネオ, Chō Seimeitai Toransufōmā: Bīsuto Wōzu Neo) is a 1999 Japanese Transformers television animated series and toy line, and a sequel to Beast Wars II. Hozumi Gōda reprised his role as Lio Convoy from Beast Wars II whenever he appeared in this series. Each episode runs for 30 minutes and it was broadcast in standard 4:3 as this was aired in 1999, years before widescreen on TV became common.
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Plot
The series focuses on a battle between Maximal and Predacon factions for possession of an energy source called Angolmois. The lone "one-man army" Big Convoy is assigned the task of being teacher to a group of young recruits against Magmatron's group. By the end of the series, however, both forces unite to oppose the wrath of the dark god Unicron and his sub-group; the Blendtrons..
Toyline
Beast Wars Neo's toy line contains exclusive figures available only in Japan, some of which later became available to other fans via the Hasbro online store or were available in later series, sometimes repainted and remolded. The Transformers: Universe release of Nemesis Prime was Hasbro's repaint of Big Convoy and was released in Australia as exclusive item, in addition to being a Target exclusive in the United States. The figure was later repainted again for Ultra Mammoth, a Transformers Collectors Club exclusive figure. Magmatron also ended up as a Target exclusive, while various other figures from the line were introduced in the United States as repaints for various lines.
Theme Songs
- "LOVE FOR EVER -In Order to Protect You-" (ＬＯＶＥ ＦＯＲ ＥＶＥＲ ―君を守るために―, LOVE FOR EVER -Kimi wo Suru Tame ni-)
- Lyricist: Yoshiaki Ochi / Composer: Yoshiaki Ochi / Arranger: Yoshiaki Ochi / Singers: M.C.R.
- "In Hand of Space" (手の中の宇宙, Te no Naka no Uchū)
- Lyricist: Hitomi Yuki / Composer: Hitomi Yuki / Arranger: Hitomi Yuki / Singers: Hitomi Yuki
- "DA DA DA"
- Lyricist: Yoshiaki Ochi / Composer: Yoshiaki Ochi / Arranger: Yoshiaki Ochi / Singers: M.C.R.