The Transformers, completed title The Story of Super Robot Lifeform - The Transformers, was a simplistically-titled manga which ran in TV Magazine between 1986 and 1987, and served as an accompaniment to Transformers 2010, the title given to the second year of the Transformers line in Japan. Quite why it didn't share the same title as the rest of the line, though, is unknown. A few items of note: