Ban Magami

Why would we want to ban Magami?

Ban Magami (まがみばん Magami Ban) is a Japanese manga artist, born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1957. Early in his career, he was one of the assistants of legendary manga creator Leiji Matsumoto, author of such works as Space Battleship Yamato and Space Pirate Captain Harlock.

Magami was a prolific creator on the original Japanese Generation 1 franchise and a frequent collaborator of series head writer Masumi Kaneda. He contributed character design work for all four Japanese-exclusive season of the Generation 1 cartoon, including characters such as Minerva, God Ginrai, Star Saber, Victory Leo, and many more.

Outside of cartoons, Magami illustrated the entirety of the franchise defining run of manga and story pages in TV Magazine alongside Kaneda from Season 1 all the way through Operation Combination.

He also works on children's books such as "The Secret of Tutankhamen" from Kodansha.

Major works in Transformers brand

Cartoons

Character design

• Transformers: The Headmasters
• Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
• Transformers: Zone

Manga

TV magazine

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• The Story of Super Robot Lifeform: The Transformers
• The Great Transformer War
• Transformers: The Headmasters
• Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics (graphic novel collection of all the manga from TV Magazine)
• Transformers: The Manga (English translated graphic novel series of all the manga from TV Magazine)

Million Publishing

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics (a reissue of all the manga from "TV Magazine")
• Headmasters VS Masterforce

TakaraTomy

• Generations Selects Special Comic "Abominus comic 2" (Guest Artist)

Story pages

TV Magazine

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010
• Transformers: The Headmasters
• Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics (includes a curated collection of story pages from TV Magazine)
• Transformers: The Manga (includes a curated collection of English translated story pages from TV Magazine)

Illustration

DVD box package arts

• Transformers: The Headmasters
• Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
• Transformers: Zone

Known design works

Super-God Masterforce

• God Ginrai
• Minerva

Victory

• Star Saber
• Victory Leo

Return of Convoy

• Super Megatron/Ultra Megatron

Gallery

External links

• Magami's Twitter feed