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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.
The anime was a co-production between Takara and Hasbro and a reboot of the franchise, featuring new concepts. [1] Despite being a Japanese production, the series premiered first in the United States. The series premiered on Cartoon Network on August 23, 2002 at 4 P.M. with a 90-minute movie special, consisting of the first three episodes. [2]
Archer crafted the basic story outline of each of the three lines, with the anime themselves then being written and animated in Japan, but in practice, the Japanese studios did not always follow Archer's design. While each series ran for eighteen months in Hasbro markets, lasting from mid-2002 through 2007, the three were annual affairs in ...
In the Japanese version of the franchise, the Decepticons are called Destron [2] or Deathtron (Japanese: デストロン Desutoron). The only exception to this naming convention is Car Robots , where the sub-group referred to as "Decepticons" in the Robots in Disguise adaptation, is known in Japan as the Combatrons (the Japanese name of the G1 ...
The Decepticons having been driven from Earth by the Autobots under Ginrai, the Autobots and others form the Galactic Peace Alliance to counter them and other threats to the safety of the universe. The leader of this organization is the new Autobot Supreme Commander, Star Saber, who takes over as commander of the Autobot force protecting Earth.
Landing in Tokyo, Japan, the Decepticon leader's impact decimated the city and scattered his Unicron-mutated cells throughout Earth's atmosphere. Following this catastrophe, the EDC was reborn as an organization dedicated to driving all Transformers off Earth.
The Decepticons (known as Destrons or on occasion Deathtrons in Japan) are the enemies of the Autobots, and the villains in the fictional universe of the movie and cartoon Transformers toyline and related spin-off comics and cartoons. Their best known leader is Megatron. [123]
The series began with a three-part movie-length episode called "Transform and Roll Out!". Stellar cycles (years) after the Autobots won the great war for Cybertron against the Decepticons, an Autobot maintenance crew led by Optimus Prime and consisting of Ratchet, Bulkhead, Prowl, and Bumblebee discover the legendary AllSpark buried on an asteroid.