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The two examples of Micro Change fiction you point out are filler pages from magazines that no one knew existed until recently. Certainly neither falls under the "anime/manga" argument that BillyJoelZeta was making. No one has ever contested that Microman had major official media in Japan, just not the portions relating to the Micro Change toys that became TFs.
The only thing even close was Diatron 5, the movie that many people thought was an official Diaclone cartoon for years and even to this day.
I for sure do not know what I’m talking about when it comes to early 70s Microman manga. I also don’t think the 10 year olds of 1983 who were the target audience for Change did either. I know for sure the 10 million kids who bought pirate CassetteMan toys didn’t need any persuasion. The shit was obviously awesome on sight, which was my main point to begin with. You only ever needed a good story when the toys started to suck. That one toy ad with the camera and cassettes coming to life said everything that needed to be said.