Running in TV Magazine from April 1989 to January 1990, the Victory manga lasted for ten issues, all of which were written by Masumi Kaneda and featured artwork by Ban Magami. The Victory manga is a distinct anomaly amongst the Transformers manga series. Like Super-God Masterforce before it, the Victory manga was independent of the anime, telling its own story, whereas all the previous manga had supplemented the TV shows, weaving between their episodes. However, while the Masterforce manga essentially told a variation of the anime's storyline, hitting the same basic plot points and themes and employing characters in the same manner, the Victory manga is a completely different story from the anime. Additionally, while the other mangas (Masterforce included) had very little in the way of con