Beast Wars Neo was the second Japanese-only Beast Wars franchise, consisting of the following components: * A toyline. * A manga series. * An anime series. * A (mostly unseen) backstory for the IDW Beast Wars comics. The cartoon series aired exclusively in Japan between season one of Beast Wars and seasons two and three, in order to fill the gap until the later seasons could be dubbed into Japanese. It followed (and was a semi-sequel to) Beast Wars II. Of note is the fact that the Beast Wars Neo manga was considerably more different from its anime counterpart than BW2's had been.