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Ōno Kōjin (大野光仁、おうのこうじん; ''Ōno Kōjin'', ''Ono Kojin'', ''Ouno Koujin''; born May 11, 1959, Tokyo). is a toy designer employed by Takara since 1980. Mr. Ōno's early designs included the ''Diaclone Walk-In Centre'' and ''Microman Acro Saturn''. He designed most of the ''Diaclone Car Robot'' line (with additional design work by Shoji Kawamori) and ''Car Microman'' figures, which drew the attention of the U.S. toy company Hasbro. Hasbro amalgamated the Diaclone and Microman figures and, along with a story treatment developed by Marvel, created the toy cult phenomenon known as the Transformers. Ōno continued to design Transformers throughout the 1980s until the end of the original franchise. Ōno designed most Transformers manufactured by Takara, including Metroplex, Fortress Maximus and Powermaster Optimus Prime. Among the hundreds of Transformers that he designed, he considers the Decepticon Triple Changers Blitzwing and Astrotrain to be his finest achievements in toy design. Although Mr. Ōno no longer designs Transformer toys, as of 2005, he is still employed by Takara where he continues to design figures in other Takara toylines. ==External links== * (Takara Staff Interview: Ōno Kōjin ) * (Official Takara Transformers site ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ōno Kōjin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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