It’s absolutely devastating that we lost Kiyoyuki Yanada, Micron Legend’s Megatron was truthfully one of my favorite iterations just because of his deep, cranky voice that knew how to yell.
I only recently heard of his passing, and I was super sad to hear that he passed. Whenever I was writing a story, he was always the default "bad guy" voice in my head, and he was a remarkably good one too. For me, Yanada is the voice I always hear when I think "Japanese Megatron". He was just so phenomenal as this version of the character, portraying just as well Megatron's brutality as well as his respect for his troops. He easily could have been a yelling, screaming rage monster, but he gave Megatron a certain relatability that, up to that point, I don't think Megatron had in Generation 1. Still, I think it would be a disservice for me to remember him only for his role in ML. Actually, my introduction to his work was when he played Thymilph in Gurren Lagann. Like Megatron, he just brought such a heft and weight to Thymilph (and pretty much every other character he voiced) that few anime VAs have managed to replicate. TLDR; Yanada was a brilliant VA and he'll be dearly missed.
My personal favorite role of his was Benkei Musashibo in New Getter Robo, that role featured some great mecha yells plus he did the more humorous aspects of that character very well.
Micron Legends: "Convoy, I believe that without the Matrix in your chest, you would enjoy battle as much as I do. Do you want to prove me wrong?" Armada: "I'm going to make Unicron's power mine! Try and stop me!" One is deeply philosophical, asking if the two leaders are really as different as we think they are. The other is just a grudge match.
In Armada, Megatron is just egging Optimus on. He knows his death will also kill Unicron, and he wants Optimus to be the one to do it. He also wants one last fight. I think this why he talks about Starscream being a fool. Based on his reaction to Starscream's death he clearly didn't believe that (nor do I think it was just a dubbing error), but he's just trying everything to get a rise out of Optimus. I'm sure a lot of the differences between Micron Legend and Armada were just sloppy dubbing errors, but, at least here, it seems like they were going for something entirely different with the characters. I think it's also evident with Armada Megatron's last words, telling Optimus to look after his men.
@@megazarak8089 Actually they're right, Ghost Stories and Pizza Cats have very large differences to their dubbed versions compared to the likes of Dragon Ball or Digimon, not to say those two anime don't have their differences.
Rewatching this battle makes me realise the visual storytelling taking place just with Optimus' upgraded design. The official statement is this colour scheme is a reference to Optimus Primal, hence the deep grey with red accents and eyes. On the context of the show though... it looks like a mixture of Optimus and Nemesis Prime. When does he get this colour scheme? Immediately after his confrontation with Unicron where Optimus fails to rebuke a single thing the former says, and immediately before his climactic battle with Megatron where he basically proves Unicron right. Hell, Unicron's comments about their natures being so similar echoing in his mind as the battle grows more intense just serve to hammer the point home. And then Optimus only gets more and more brutal as the fight progresses. Tearing off Megatron's antlers to use as blades, the almost berserker roaring and growling, culminating in what I can only assume is him trying to tear Megatron in half at the waist. And unlike Megatron, who is expressing his enjoyment of the battle by constantly laughing and smiling in a way that makes him look sadistically gleeful... even though Optimus says he enjoys it, he clearly doesn't LIKE that he enjoys it. It's almost less like he's trying to get it out of his system and more like he outright loses himself in it. Because here's the thing... up until this episode Optimus did a pretty good job of keeping this part of himself suppressed. He could have manhandled Megatron to convince him to fight Unicron but instead held back, trying above all else to give diplomacy a chance and only resorting to battle when he's forced to. In a sense, that's what happens here, because he can't convince Megatron to just let their feud go now that Unicron is gone. After all attempt at reasoning fails, he decides the only solution is to murder the slag out of Megatron. And in the process, he basically becomes Nemesis Prime. A darkly coloured, violent berserker whose vocalisations are mostly growls and snarls and who brutally dismembers his opponents. He only stops and regains his composure when, ironically, Megatron is the one to say, "Stop." If Megaton didn't do that, would Optimus have led up?
It's definitely much more nuanced than Armada's "This is the only way to bring peace to the universe" reasoning for this battle. I like the idea that deep down, Convoy and Megatron are the same in terms of their love of combat. The only real difference between them comes from their reasons for engaging in said combat; and the fact that Optimus has the burden of the Matrix, which has always made it easier for him to put his duties as leader before his own urges.
Hasbro really didn't think kids in the USA were ready for a flawed hero. And yet they tried to pawn Megatron off as a sort of good guy in the very end.
"The Matrix of Leadership. I don't deserve to wear it." I always hated that line cuz it never made sense in the context the English dub gave. Here, it makes sense.
This is the best final battle hands down there’s no super modes, no link ups, or Microns just a good old beat down whatever they got even using their own body parts.
To this day, I've yet to find one where either combatant resorted to using discarded body parts as improvised weaponry; damn shame this sort of ingenuity occurred at the end, and is hardly shown (if at all) by today's standards.
This battle is so much better with the organ music instead of the freaking toy commercial music playing in the background. It really adds to the atmosphere.
Yea and they removed convoy getting stabbed in the back with a post, im sick of that shit, and personal I would have liked to see convoys super-mode one last time.
Cool! But er...... Another continuity error from Armada/Legend of Microns to Energon/Superlink: Hot Rod/Hot Shot does not become Rodimus Prime, and another Rodimus appears in .Energon/Superlink series.
That's less a continuity error and more taking a different choice/direction with a character. This was an era that wanted to put a newer spin on Transformers, and that was just one of many choices resulting from that decision.
@smallrequirement Yep, I know that one. Cybertron feels like nothing related to the previous two, much better to be viewed as independent story and universe.
It’s absolutely devastating that we lost Kiyoyuki Yanada, Micron Legend’s Megatron was truthfully one of my favorite iterations just because of his deep, cranky voice that knew how to yell.
I only recently heard of his passing, and I was super sad to hear that he passed. Whenever I was writing a story, he was always the default "bad guy" voice in my head, and he was a remarkably good one too.
For me, Yanada is the voice I always hear when I think "Japanese Megatron". He was just so phenomenal as this version of the character, portraying just as well Megatron's brutality as well as his respect for his troops. He easily could have been a yelling, screaming rage monster, but he gave Megatron a certain relatability that, up to that point, I don't think Megatron had in Generation 1.
Still, I think it would be a disservice for me to remember him only for his role in ML. Actually, my introduction to his work was when he played Thymilph in Gurren Lagann. Like Megatron, he just brought such a heft and weight to Thymilph (and pretty much every other character he voiced) that few anime VAs have managed to replicate.
TLDR; Yanada was a brilliant VA and he'll be dearly missed.
My personal favorite role of his was Benkei Musashibo in New Getter Robo, that role featured some great mecha yells plus he did the more humorous aspects of that character very well.
My favourite VA, was Daigunder and Prof Big Bang aka Daikun was Kiyoyuki Yanada is the greatest VA of all time.
I know. Its regrettable that he hasn't and won't ever be in any Transformers media.
And now I find out that Kiyoyuki Yanada died...
One of the most dramatic, powerful, unforgettable rivalry of all-time.
Convoy and Megatron are one of the greatest rivalry of all centuries.
Micron Legends: "Convoy, I believe that without the Matrix in your chest, you would enjoy battle as much as I do. Do you want to prove me wrong?"
Armada: "I'm going to make Unicron's power mine! Try and stop me!"
One is deeply philosophical, asking if the two leaders are really as different as we think they are.
The other is just a grudge match.
In Armada, Megatron is just egging Optimus on. He knows his death will also kill Unicron, and he wants Optimus to be the one to do it. He also wants one last fight. I think this why he talks about Starscream being a fool. Based on his reaction to Starscream's death he clearly didn't believe that (nor do I think it was just a dubbing error), but he's just trying everything to get a rise out of Optimus.
I'm sure a lot of the differences between Micron Legend and Armada were just sloppy dubbing errors, but, at least here, it seems like they were going for something entirely different with the characters.
I think it's also evident with Armada Megatron's last words, telling Optimus to look after his men.
To this day, Convoy and Megatron's final duel remains one of my favorite moments in Transformers history.
I'll definitely say this. This shows that "sub" and "dub" are different worlds.
Ghost Stories and Samurai Pizza Cats are golden proof.
@@NovasPizza interesting. More notable anime like that are Dragonball Z and Digimon.
Definitely @@megazarak8089
@@megazarak8089 Actually they're right, Ghost Stories and Pizza Cats have very large differences to their dubbed versions compared to the likes of Dragon Ball or Digimon, not to say those two anime don't have their differences.
@@jarodnole4618 There are dub differences in Dragon Ball Z. (The mercy of Vegeta) and in Digimon movie dub is drastically differnt from the original.
Rewatching this battle makes me realise the visual storytelling taking place just with Optimus' upgraded design.
The official statement is this colour scheme is a reference to Optimus Primal, hence the deep grey with red accents and eyes. On the context of the show though... it looks like a mixture of Optimus and Nemesis Prime. When does he get this colour scheme? Immediately after his confrontation with Unicron where Optimus fails to rebuke a single thing the former says, and immediately before his climactic battle with Megatron where he basically proves Unicron right. Hell, Unicron's comments about their natures being so similar echoing in his mind as the battle grows more intense just serve to hammer the point home.
And then Optimus only gets more and more brutal as the fight progresses. Tearing off Megatron's antlers to use as blades, the almost berserker roaring and growling, culminating in what I can only assume is him trying to tear Megatron in half at the waist. And unlike Megatron, who is expressing his enjoyment of the battle by constantly laughing and smiling in a way that makes him look sadistically gleeful... even though Optimus says he enjoys it, he clearly doesn't LIKE that he enjoys it. It's almost less like he's trying to get it out of his system and more like he outright loses himself in it.
Because here's the thing... up until this episode Optimus did a pretty good job of keeping this part of himself suppressed. He could have manhandled Megatron to convince him to fight Unicron but instead held back, trying above all else to give diplomacy a chance and only resorting to battle when he's forced to. In a sense, that's what happens here, because he can't convince Megatron to just let their feud go now that Unicron is gone. After all attempt at reasoning fails, he decides the only solution is to murder the slag out of Megatron.
And in the process, he basically becomes Nemesis Prime. A darkly coloured, violent berserker whose vocalisations are mostly growls and snarls and who brutally dismembers his opponents. He only stops and regains his composure when, ironically, Megatron is the one to say, "Stop." If Megaton didn't do that, would Optimus have led up?
It's definitely much more nuanced than Armada's "This is the only way to bring peace to the universe" reasoning for this battle. I like the idea that deep down, Convoy and Megatron are the same in terms of their love of combat. The only real difference between them comes from their reasons for engaging in said combat; and the fact that Optimus has the burden of the Matrix, which has always made it easier for him to put his duties as leader before his own urges.
@@greatexkaiser1035 I don't think the Armada scriptwriters trusted kids to appreciate the story Micron Legend wanted to tell.
I myself have wondered that, especially how his eyes changed from yellow to red - just like Nemesis.
Hasbro really didn't think kids in the USA were ready for a flawed hero. And yet they tried to pawn Megatron off as a sort of good guy in the very end.
Glad the dialogues are much longer than Armada version. Deep into the plot.
agreed, but this "outcome" is still ambiguous to this very day.
"The Matrix of Leadership. I don't deserve to wear it."
I always hated that line cuz it never made sense in the context the English dub gave. Here, it makes sense.
This is the best final battle hands down there’s no super modes, no link ups, or Microns just a good old beat down whatever they got even using their own body parts.
To this day, I've yet to find one where either combatant resorted to using discarded body parts as improvised weaponry; damn shame this sort of ingenuity occurred at the end, and is hardly shown (if at all) by today's standards.
Gundam 08th MS team is the only one I can’t think of. The main mech rips off its broken arm and uses it as a flail on the enemy.
And there's Kamen Rider Black Sun (however they're organic so-). Black Sun and Shadow Moon tear off each other's grasshopper limbs to use as swords
This battle is so much better with the organ music instead of the freaking toy commercial music playing in the background. It really adds to the atmosphere.
I absolutely love villains that get excited from fighting
Had to come here
Because......kiyoyuki yanada passed away
Probably best Transformers fight. Only bad side was that it was a quick fight
Yea and they removed convoy getting stabbed in the back with a post, im sick of that shit, and personal I would have liked to see convoys super-mode one last time.
Man this fight is brutal between two leaders
Cool!
But er...... Another continuity error from Armada/Legend of Microns to Energon/Superlink:
Hot Rod/Hot Shot does not become Rodimus Prime, and another Rodimus appears in .Energon/Superlink series.
That's less a continuity error and more taking a different choice/direction with a character. This was an era that wanted to put a newer spin on Transformers, and that was just one of many choices resulting from that decision.
@@greatexkaiser1035 Still, it feels wrong to reduce both Starscream and Hot Rod to side character, while Optimus and Galvatron remains their place.
@smallrequirement So this plot inconsistency is again made by Hasbro marketing purpose?
@smallrequirement Yep, I know that one.
Cybertron feels like nothing related to the previous two, much better to be viewed as independent story and universe.
I use this background music for the English version of this is English dub.
アニメイテッドラチェット「こんな手に汗握る戦いがあるやろか」
❤
It is odd they have mouths/teeth/tongues
well in the japanese version they were rather human like.
Terms as "birth" and in general the fact that they can sleep says a lot.
Convoy almost bacame a fallen