Chama

Chama (チャマ), real name Yoshifumi Naoi (直井由文 Naoi Yoshifumi, born October 9, 1979), is the bassist of the band Bump of Chicken and a big ol' Transformers nerd. He has masterminded two and counting collabs between the band and the Transformers brand, for which he has both helped design the exclusive toys and penned the attached pack-in comics.

Toy design

The Transformers

• SonicBlue Bumble and Exo Suit Chama (deco)
• Convoy (deco)^[1]

Writing

Transformers × Bump of Chicken

• Transformers × Bump of Chicken EX Episode (SonicBlue Bumble)
• Transformers × Bump of Chicken EX Episode: 02 (Convoy)

Fiction

Transformers × Bump of Chicken

When an energy-starved Bumblebee crashed his ship onto the stage of a Bump of Chicken concert, Chama suggested they play to awaken the robotic giant. The music managed to energize the Autobot, and Bumblebee scanned Chama's powder-blue bass guitar to attain a new "SonicBlue Bumble" form.

After watching Bump of Chicken finish their concert, the power of music filling multiple energon cubes, the amazed SonicBlue Bumble thanked Chama by giving him an exosuit before returning to Cybertron with news of this amazing new energy source. EX Episode

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Toys

The Transformers

Why did they paint his face white. Whyyyyyyy.

• SonicBlue Bumble & Excelsuit^[2] Chama (2019)

• Release date: November 3, 2019
• Known designers: Chama (deco)

Released as part of the collaboration between the Transformers franchise, the Bump of Chicken rock group, and Studio Trigger's Sushio, "Excelsuit Chama" is a redeco of the Transformers Legends Excelsuit Spike, and like Spike has a colorless-clear head with the face painted from behind, which is both clever in concept and disturbing to see in execution. He transforms into a robot head compatible with any Deluxe-to-Larger Legends Headmaster/Titans Return toy. He can also sit inside the included "SonicBlue Bumble" in that toy's vehicle mode.

Despite appearances, this mold's head-mode face is not a redeco of the Hasbro "Emissary" face; the Excelsuit Spike face mold is an all-new sculpt that's also based on the Cerebros head design for Hasbro-market media used that Emissary is based on. Confused? We don't blame you. Though the design elements are the same, the proportions and placements have a number of subtle differences.

Also included in the set is a pack-in mini-comic, "Transformers × Bump of Chicken EX Episode", written by Chama and illustrated by Sushio.

The figure was exclusively released as one of the band's online shop items, though customers had to register as an EMTG (Entertainment Music Ticket Guard) member to purchase it. Collectors first had an opportunity to purchase the figure in-person at an event at the Tokyo Dome November 3–4, 2019, starting at 8:30 AM JST. In-person purchasers needed to have a ticket to the band's concert in order to purchase the figure. Online orders were also available at noon on November 8, 2019, and quickly sold out. Due to demand, a second run of the toy was made available on November 11, 2019, with the second run shipping in March 2020.

Notes

• "Chama" is derived from obotchama (お坊ちゃま), a Japanese word meaning "young master", but also used to refer to an unexperienced young man from a well-to-do family.

References

External links

• Chama on Twitter