Thanks to Snakas for pointing out that Ami Ami has posted new images within their listings for the Diablock Bumblebee and Optimus Prime toys.

Bumblebee can be see here and Optimus Prime here.

A video has been posted on You Tube showing off a recent advertisement for the Transformers Animated toy which will be sold in Japan.

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The video is narrated by Takahashi Hiroki, voice of Optimus Prime in the show..

HK-TF member Chenkofs has posted images of a testshot of TakaraTomy's Transformers Animated Arcee toy.

The figure is a darker shade of pink with a pink face and can be seen by following the above link.

The Amazon.co.jp site has been updated with some new images of the upcoming Japanese Transformers Animated Optimus Prime Vs Megatron two-pack.

Credit to snakas

Thanks to the Cyber Gundam Blog we have added images of the April 2010 Hyper Hobby Magazine to our Japanese Magazine section.

The images cover the three pages of Transformers Animated and Transformers Revenge toys, mainly showing the new Transformers Animated toys in packaging.

­­Amazon.com have added two new Transformers Animated related listing as well as updating the product page­ for Transformers Animated: The Allspark Almanac, Vol. 2 ­ with t­he cover art.  The two new listings are for the ­Transformers Animated Omnibus Volume 1 and Transformers Animated: The Adventure Continues! Vol. 1 .  The later being Season 3 of the cartoon but in a book.

Credit to TFW2005.com for the news

Taobao seller bleach_???? has listed an auction on the Chinese auction site for a the TakaraTomy version of Transformers Animated Shockwave.  You can view the auction here and see the mirrored image below.

The latest issue of TV-Boy (Terebi-kun) contained an article about Transformers An­imated and confirmed that the show will start airing in Japan in April (the usual time for new anime series) on TV Aichi.  The issue of TV-Boy also came with a DVD where Optimus Prime, voiced by Jiroki Takahashi, gives an introduction to the series.

The magazine once again talks about how the show will be set within the Movie Universe (something it seems that a lot of people missed despite it being reported several months ago, at least it was right here), which is why Bulkhead's name was changed to Ironhide (again this was explained in months ago).

You can view some images of the magazine below, expect a full gallery of this and other Japanese hobby magazines later this evening.

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TakaraTomy have updated their Transformers Animated website with toy pages for the main cast including character biographies for the Autobots.

Whilst we wait for Yokobarion, we have updated our Winter Wonderfest 2010 gallery with more images showing the Transformers Animated, Transformers Revenge, Transformers Disney Label and Transformers Device Label (including Blaster, who once again we want to reitterate was never cancelled - only delayed).

The Japanese release of Transformers Animated was shown off at the recent Winter Wonderfestival event in Japan.  The toys show off the new metallic paint apps as well as the Japanese packaging and new Transformers Animated logo.

Both the packaging and logo have similarities to the Transformers Movie releases in Japan, as a lot of the text is in English rather than Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.

We hope to have more images from the 2010 Winter Wonderfestival later.

Jim Sorenson has confirmed that the Allspark Almanac II will be released consisting of a 220 page book covering Season 3 of Transformers Animated­

Livejournal user torikai has posted on details of the Japanese voice cast over on the Transformers Animated LJ community.

Optimus Prime will be voiced by Hiroki Takahashi (Beast Wars II Starscream/Hellscream, Mantis, Autolauncher and Car Robots Guildo and Build Hurricane.
Bumblebee will be voiced by Daisuke Kishio (Chad in Super Link [Kicker to Western viewers]
Sari will be voiced by Satomi Akesaka
Megatron will be voiced by Norio Wakamoto (Flame Convoy in Galaxy Force)

It's also worth noting that JAM Project will be performing the opening themesong.­