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Even if _Transformers_ count as anime (it was made by Americans and Japanese
concept: Americans/Japanese, Americans producers, Japanese animation mainly so
I guess it's debatable) there were shows with transformable robots before that
(ie: _Genesis Climber MOSPEADA_ ).

Then, which was the first anime to feature transformable robots or at least
one transformable robot?


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Which was the first anime to feature a transformable robot?


As [Makoto](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/102/makoto) already mentions
in the comments, depending on what you count as `transformable` the answers
might differ a bit.

But with the current scope the first `anime` to feature transformable robots
would be Mighty Atom (Astro Boy) in 1963, shortly followed by Tetsujin 28 in
the same year.

However, the first Japanese comic to feature this came out in the year 1934
strip was called Tanku Tankuro, which also is the name of the main character.

There is a very interesting topic about it over at the [superherohype
forums](http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=319060) Which has
some more in depth insight on transforming robots in Japan.


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