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The Transformers Animated series has a somewhat obscured history. The first season was the marketting child of three Takara toylines in association with Hasbro, Marvel Productiuons and Toei Doga, who produced such shows as Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon and One Piece. The Japanese release of the first and second season was an adaptation (much like a cut and pasting of episodes, changing of dialouge and names, same music though) of the original English Version. The Transformers movie, rleeased in 1986 in the US and such, did not reach Japan until around 1990 I think.
Don't know how that'll help, but I wouldn't consider seasons 1-3 and the movie as anime, because though they used a Japanese studio, most of the Major players we're americans and filler aniamtion done by some Japanese and mainly koreans (except in the movie). The presence of a Japanese dub also doesn't make it anime, however it does spawn several anime sequals (The Two Beast Wars Anime series and Movie, headmasters, Masterforce, Zone OAV, Victory, Armada, Carrobot, etc...)
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