Shinji Aramaki

Shinji Aramaki (born October 2, 1960) is a Japanese mecha designer and animation director who designed several Microman toys that would eventually become Transformers, as well as the pre-Transformer versions of the Deluxe Insecticons.

According to an interview published in the December 2007 issue of Otaku USA magazine, Aramaki designed Soundwave, the first wave of Mini-Cassettes, and Reflector. Aramaki also claims to have not only designed Perceptor, but to have been the first to conceive of a transforming microscope.