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Beast Wars Japan	Pictures from Japan's Comics Bon-Bon
Beast Wars Japan	Last Updated 5/12/00 May pics added.

Pictures from Comics Bon-Bon

Bon-Bon is a monthly manga "phonebook" magazine with several color pages of ads for toy and TV tie-in stuff. Average issue is about two inches (5cm) thick.

A note on the name of the magazine: my translator friend says that the Japanese transliterates best to "Bon-Bon," as in the sweet treat. However, in the logo itself is the phrase "Bom-Bom" inside a circle made to look like a cartoon bomb with fuse. Looks like they're going for a multi-level pun. It's a treat, like a bon-bon, but explosive like a bomb.

MAY

No manga this month. Hopefully this is just a pause, not the result of deciding to ditch the TF manga totally. A couple new manga start this month, but the Gundam kitbashing manga looks like it's ending, so there'll be room for Car Robots next month. Just a couple of pics.

Fire Convoy X-Ray: "X-Ray" picture of Fire Convoy, with exposed systems and stuff.
JRX et al: A closeup of a mob scene that uses the computer image models from the techspec cards. JRX is at the center, in front of Fortress Maximus.

APRIL

The first Car Robots stuff hits this issue, and the end of the Metals manga.

Manga Summary: The final installment of the Metals manga! Everything and almost everyone explodes!
Manga Metals Cheetor: From the ridiculous...
Manga Tigerhawk: ...to the sublime.
Fire Convoy: Vehicle, battle station and smaller robot modes for Fire Convoy. Also a bit of Mach Alert in the lower left.
Microman Motorcycles: Recolors of Road Pig and Road Rocket from the G2 Laser Cycles line, each now ridden by a Microman figure.

MARCH

Tail end of Metals, so no pics of Car Robots yet.

Manga Sumamry: The endgame has begun, with most of the major characters dead or crippled...or are they?
Red Transmetal Cheetor: Yep, they're dragging some of the Fox Kids repaints into Japan to fill the gap before Car Robots hit. Well, make that past tense, since Car Robots were released the third week of March. Ah, time lag. Anyway, since I didn't have any other pics of the recolored Cheetor up around here, I figured I'd put this one up.
Microman Beetle: You may have seen pics of hte uncolored version of this from the Tokyo Toy Show, here's an anime-style drawing of one of the upcoming Microman transforming insects.

FEBRUARY

Still just unrecolored or imperceptibly recolored TMII toys this month, presumably we might start seeing Car Robots stuff in March. And no new Digivolving Digimon toys to scan either (although the skateboard toys I saw at Kay Bee today include AngeWomon and MagneAngemon). Just the manga summary and a single Microman pic this month.

Manga Summary: Airazor proves she's not always an incompetent damsel in distress!
Microboy Duo: We've seen a transforming Playstation base, now we have triple-changing Gameboys! From "Microboy" game unit to robot to blocky vehicle, and each comes with a special edition Microman figure (Edison shown, Arthur was on the other page and I didn't include it in the scan).

JANUARY 2000

No new pics of note. The TMII toys being advertised for release this time out seem to be identical to the U.S. versions. However, with Transformers: Car Robots toys due to start coming out in March, figure we've got at most one more dry month here.

Manga Summary: The mass-murderer Jaguar lands and starts slaughtering Destron and Cybertron alike...peace through death. Most of the issue is a massive battle between him and Convoy.

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Pictures from Japan's Comics Bon-Bon

Pictures from Comics Bon-Bon

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