Hirofumi Ichikawa

Hirofumi Ichikawa is a noted Japanese Transformers fan who has made the jump to working on the brand in an official capacity for Takara.

As a fan, he wrote numerous fan-comics and magazines, mainly focusing on introducing Japanese fans to the Hasbro/American vesion of Transformers and the concepts and characters within, including a very indignant magazine decrying the "funny" dub of Beast Wars that was presented in Japan that had removed much of the "serious sci-fi" edge that had made the show immensely popular with the English-speaking fanbase.

Writer/Illustrator
Ichikawa has penned several pieces of Transformers fiction for Takara, including the entirety of the DVD-pack-in comic Linkage_(comic) with Micron Legend (the Japanese name for Armada, doing both the script and artwork. He also writes the bios for almost all of the e-hobby exclusive toys like Sunstorm, Road Rage] and [[Pepsi Convoy, as well as the entirety of the Binaltech fiction. With the release of the "Beast Wars Reborn" anniversary set, Ichikawa is both writing and illustrating a special story to accompany it, published in Figure Oh magazine.

Toy Designer
With the beginning of Energon, Ichikawa was given the job of "mech design", taking the engineering designs of many toys and finalizing the aesthetic details, sculpts, etc. The toys he has worked on include...


 * Energon and Cybertron Optimus Prime
 * Energon Megatron
 * Energon Omega Supreme
 * Energon Divebomb
 * Cruellock
 * Energon Scorponok
 * Energon and Cybertron Wing Saber
 * Vector Prime
 * Cybertron Hot Shot
 * Cybertron Scourge
 * Cybertron Snarl
 * Undermine
 * Leobraker
 * Cybertron Crosswise
 * Cybertron Downshift
 * Cybertron Primus