Mazinger Z was the first anime I ever saw. It was shown along with Space Captain Harlock and Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman) It started my addiction before it became manga and anime became the phenomenon they are now. He holds a special place in my heart. Glad he's getting some much love and recognition.
Luckily in Latin America we got the whote Mazinger Z series dubbed in spanish and uncut, since with few exceptions like Voltron, Saber Rider, Robotech to name a few that came from the US dubbed or adaptations, most anime we got in Latin America at that time (late 70's through the 80's and early 90's) came straight from Japan getting dubbed in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and aired either uncut or nearly uncut from its original version.
Finally! An english version of this type of video, I've been looking to explain to my English speaking friends about mazinger z! I'm only 19 and Puertorican but my dad had a cd with all the og mazinger z episodes so we watched em all over and over, we have lost this cd sadly and i still struggle to find it online but it's not a memory i can forget, thank you so much!
I was born in 1996, and over the past 2 years, I have accumulated about 60 gundam models. Because of this hobby I've gained interest in other mechs. TL;DR God Bless Mecha Update: I've built 65, a smattering of SD, HG, MG and RG. Also I have 21 to build in my backlog, plus 1 Frame Arms from Kotobukia as well as lots of Warhammer 40k
Here in Italy "Mazinga Z" and "Il grande Mazinga" (how we call them) are a huge part of many people childhood. While is something like dragonball, if you ask someone who Mazinga is, they will probably at the very least watched and episode or 2. In the same vein "Goldrake" is even bigger, since for at least 2 generations it was watched by kids and teens alike. Sadly it's not gaining fans, for the simple reason there are no new series, even if the movie was a great nostalgia trip for many.
I argued with my classmates that "Mazinger Z" must have been an improved version of "Great Mazinger" because it came later. In fact it only came later in Italy!
Our family stayed for 4 months in Hongkong in 1976. These robot movies were my favorite TV show. Have many metal robots from these series Mazinger, Getter etc, and brought them back to Indonesia. Sadly when we moved house on 1998 they were all gone. Now watched this at 2024 as a 58 year old man, experience many mixed emotions 😢. Thank you for sharing this video.
I do love how originally it was supposed to be a motorcycle but get switched to the Pilder. Then in “Mazinger Edition Z” they decided to make the Pilder’s controls work similar to a motorcycle which is pretty clever imo
The original Mazinger Z anime was good, goofy fun. I couldn't get into Great Mazinger or Grendizer as much though. Mazinkaiser and Shin Mazinger were fun and Infinity was a nice nostalgic ending to the original anime.
Gen X'er here who grew up on these in the early 80's. I may give Infinity a look. Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger were also remastered properly on Blu ray (and available in Spain with subtitles). Grendizer though remains untouched, which makes me wonder if Toei lost the source material. The theatrical shorts got 4K screenings this month in Japan.
Yep, in Europe, Goldorak is incredibly loved. Last year, a French studio even made a video game. Funny enough, Goldorak's TV rights were sold to France without Go Nagas's consent. He discovered this at the end of the 70th when on vacation in France and watching TV.
I have an idea for a mazinger anime, its called neo mazinger. Neo mazinger is a sequel to mazinger z infinity, here, the cronus Empire, led by king typon, is trying to take over the world. Neo mazinger is piloted by the son of tetsuya and Jun. The material used to make neo mazinger is super alloy neo z, its was created by koji kabuto in a lad accident (sayaka was there too, don't worry they were completely unharmed) afterwards, koji experiments with the materiel and discovers anti photon energy, and with that he alongside with tetsuya created neo mazinger and its partner, Athena x. Neo mazinger has attacks are from what you expect, a rocket punch called neo punch, a heat attack, called breast magma, a version of the photon beam called anti photon beam (its blue in color instead of yellow) the sword called the neo blade, and like great mazinger, it has a built in scrander called the neo scrander, and it can detach the big V on its chest like great mazinger and throw it and it comes back, its called neo boomerang, from its sink on its face (like all mazingers) it can use the rust storm, like great mazinger, it can use the neo break, an attack like the thunder break. Athena x is piloted by Lisa, the daughter of koji and is made of the same materials, but I don't have any ideas for the mecha. The cronus Empire is made up the descendents of the mycenae empire, and like the Empire, it has the superhuman army, the Ariel army, the mammalian army, the aquatic army, the insect army, the reptile army, and the spectral army. Does any one have ideas?
I'm from France, Mazinger had just a little of his séries realeased But we had the luck to have grendizer, it's the most famous robot for us, and it open France to all japanese manga and animes
I saw the series in Spanish in Puerto Rico i been living in L.A since 1987 i have an extensive collection of Mazinger Z toys and figures ,I just got a tattoo on my forearm of Mazinger Z and kogi kabuto as a Lil kid its supposed to be my grandson whos 8 years old knows about Mazinger since he was 3 due to a toy my son whos 36 now has and my grandson started playing with it and fell in love with the robot, he has alnost every figure i have my kids grew up with Mazinger z , they are 37, 36 and 25 we are all Mazinger Z fans love you video thank you.
My parents are the reason I love anime. Mazinger Z, Saint Seiya, and OG Dragon ball are the first animes I watched because of them. They were huge hits in Latin America and are a big part of my childhood.
It's Goldorak, no c. And you are right, Goldorak was very popular in French country (especially in France, Belgium and the province of Québec, Canada) To a point that he make the first page of the Paris match. His success is due to the amazing translation that was more superior then the English one, creating word from latin origin for the weapon instead of just stating the obvious (Hand beam, seriously!?!?!) French translation have also gone in a more mature direction rather then a childish one with help to make it as an intemporal success.
Mazinger Z: Infinity was GREAT! (and it's hinted that the Dr. Hell in the movie is not the Dr. Hell Koji defeated, no! It's a Dr. Hell from an alternate world where he and his minions won!)
It took me a while to realize The greatness of giant robots. I started with gundam and never thought I'd like super robot, that is until i saw mazinger z now ive watch/read many great super robot stories that i never would've before. Mazinger, getter robo, the brave series, and so much more.
Mazinger Z the Impact is still my favorite even to this day, and that Big Bang Punch transformation is just amazing to look at plus Koji's VA there did amazing job for the voice
Mazinger Z is F'ing Awesome! My brother had a shogun warrior the mazinger one i played with that mazinger toy till a house fire burned all of my toys. I miss that toy.😢
I really liked this video but I would like to add one correction. Tranzor Z didn't dub the first 65 episodes only but rather skipped around episodes (even merging episodes together) to deal with censoring episodes that were too violent for US television. The Tranzor dub ends on Episode 91, editing out the cliffhanger foreshadowing the series finale and in turn Great Mazinger and effectively ending with Dr. Hell (or Dr. Demon as the dub called him) defeated and our heroes victorious. Also while not an error per se, there was two additional English dubs for Mazinger Z and Grendizer that are now mostly lost. Both were made in The Philippines and whereas the Mazinger dub was made to continue where the Hawaiian English dub left off (only dubbing up to the Minerva X episode), the Grendizer episode dubbed up to Episode 17 before the Marcos Ferdinand regime banned all Japanese sci fi media in 1979. Of the dubbed episodes, only 3 or 4 of the dubbed Grendizer episodes and all 8 of the Pinoy English Mazinger dub episodes survive iirc. Also Mazinger USA predates Mazin Saga, so really the comment on the similar designs are the other way around. Other than something as pedantic as that, I think this video is spot on.
I found Mazinger Z when looking for a Gundam manga in my local library. I didn't find a single mecha manga (besides Attack On Titan 😜), but right before I left one of the workers called out to me with Mazinger Z Vol. 1 in hand. It was my first old school super robot and a super fun read, the book even had an interview with the author in the back that gave a lot of insight on his creative decisions.
Grandizer/Goldorak got a remastered DVD and bluray release some years ago in France, so yeah unless you're from the right countries, no chance to watch it
My favorite robots from the Mazinger franchise, besides the original Z and Great, are Mazinger USA, Minerva X Siren Mode from Mazinger Angels, Z Mazinger, and my all-time favorite, the original Mazinkaiser! I actually managed to snag both volumes of ADV Films' release of the original Mazinkaiser OVA off eBay last year and it's still my definitive Mazinger anime because of it's beautiful musical score, kickass theme songs, and the incredible animation that goes above and beyond to capture the look of Go Nagai's classic Mazinger mangas from the 70s! That said, I also loved Mazinger Z: Infinity. It was a nice loveletter to the classic Mazinger stories and conveyed a message of a bright and hopeful future for humanity. Mazinkaiser SKL is just a damn-good time start to finish! And I LOVE the battle theme "The Danger Zone" by Japanese heavy metal bad Loudness! Just so BADASS!!!
@@Kaizer617 yeah I read the manga, and I thought it was fine. I find the stories in it that were adapted to Shin Mazinger Z was better in the adaptation. I really liked the characters quite a bit, but it wasn’t anything special. Great Mazinger manga on the other hand was just way too short to be very good compared to the original. I heard the Oda manga that was adapted from the tv series to be a bit better, so I might check out those versions as well as the 70s anime. Also, Loudness, the “Crazy Nights” band?
re: the shin mazinger Z segment: While we may not know what Shin Great Mazinger Z would be about, we have a few ideas about how it could have played out thanks to (partially) related media released afterward, in addition to Super Robot Wars, with V and X being major contributors to that.
I was in awe when i first saw the giant "Kurogane no Shiro" on TV when I was a kid, something that most people forget to mention is the INCREDIBLE sound design of Mazinger Anime, that gave so much sense of scale to the show, the stomp, the crashes, the machine parts tearing, even today amazes me how much work was put into it. Also has a terrified tone to it, in mazigner world if you are a normal citizen ANYTHIGN can stomp you and you must be ready to let your loved ones go, I think was one of the first Series that I watched that really shows the concept of Dead as a permanent scar, on everyone s life, heck even his grandpa dies right there on first episode, no BS like censorship or " oh, don't worry he is on hospital"..., or stupid stuff like US cartoons like GiJoe or others, people Die when war happens, is a fact and that is why Life is valuable.
My dad introduced me to the first Mazinger Z (dubbed in Spanish) when I was about 9, fell in love immediately and I never really understood any of them but the original so this really helped lmao 😭
For an introduction to mazinger z, I had the best experience reading the manga. The Toei anime can be fun sometimes for a monster of the week show from 1972, but it is quite a slog to get through to progress the story, even if you use a skip-list. The 2009 anime can be quite dialogue heavy and for some reason the action didn’t quite hit for the episodes that I watched, but I may still revisit it for another try.
After all the Mazinger series variation towards the end i was like so many series and then you say 'unfortunately we couldn't cover all the series'. I was like 'oh my'.
I got into the Super Robot Wars series of video games in 2019. I always liked the mecha genre of anime but I wasn't really familiar with much of its history, and the SRW games finally motivated me to check out some of the classic series featured in it. The original Mariner Z was the first one I checked out, I watched the entire series, and Great Mazinger, and the crossover movies in the span of about a month and have been a big fan of Mazinger and Go Nagai ever since. Love the original anime, the manga, and the various revivals and reimaginings that have happened since. I wish we'd get a sequel to Shin Mazinger though!
There should be an update to this video: A lot of the stuff you say "isn't on DVD or bluray in English yet" is in fact available now thanks to Discotek. In fact I think the one holdout at the moment is UFO Robo Grendizer.
This was probably mentioned before, but Grendizer did receive a vhs and dvd release from Imavision in Quebec. Under Goldorak. Im not sure of it had other languages besides french however
Although I would love to watch the original anime’s, they’re all pretty lengthy so I just watched Shin Mazinger and MAZINKAISER which is amazing. I should definitely read the original manga’s and check out Mazinger Z Infinity though
Really late commenter here. Honestly, the Mazinger series means a lot to me. My first exposure to the Mazinger Z design was through my Dad's Shogun Warriors he always kept displayed on the stairs as you go up them. Though, my first time seeing ANY Mazinger media was actually *Mazinkaiser SKL*! I have seen a lot of the original series, and I am watching the OG Mazinkaiser, and I've seen Mazinger Z Infinity in theater(which was AWESOME!!! It was like there was too much awesome to comprehend, even on a theater screen!)... SKL is still my favorite. It's more sentimental. I know it doesn't have the greatest characters, and several other series' have better plots... It was the first 'mature' anime I'd ever seen with violence, fighting, and the pilots, Kaido and Magami, actually do mean a lot to me. To a troubled autistic teen going through a gender crisis, seeing two badasses go through a world-ending scenario, and one of them grappling with his own identity and deciding to find his reason for living... It felt eye opening to me, in a weird way. What I am doesn't matter. I could be fat, rail thin, have short hair or long hair, grow facial hair or be clean shaven... It's what I do with my life that matters, and only I can dictate that. No one else. I make that final decision. "I am Hell", or "I am what I choose to be". I saw that series when I was about 15, and I'm almost 24 now. Still haven't reached that point, but that's ok. I'm still learning, changing, and growing. Also, SKL is kind of urging me to expand my horizon even more. Managed to get a hold of the manga that takes place before the OVA, but it's untranslated. I'm finally starting to seriously learn Japanese because of it. For as weird as Go Nagai's series' can be, and even the spin-offs... They mean and say a lot. Devilman had a gay 'protagonist', and a character who's canonically intersex. Devilman Lady had a bisexual protagonist. Mazinger Z has a lot to say about technology and how it can or should be used for good and it's dangers in the wrong hands. Haven't read some of the other series yet, but Cutie Honey was a source of comfort to a friend of mine who was having trouble transitioning from 'male' to 'female'. A lot of Go Nagai's series' are one of the ways my dad can connect with my sister and I. Hell, he likes to freak me out with Violence Jack. I'm not sure if I'll ever get to meet Go Nagai, but if I ever get to say one sentence to him... It'd honestly be "Thank you so much.". Hope all of you have great days, if/whenever you read this... And happy watching. :)
@@benjaminbaker3446 I’m not sure of the exact lore, but Dr Hell always had ambitions to rule the world. He was fresh out of WW2 and believed that tyrants like Hitler were fools who constantly made mistake after mistake. After gaining a good number of “followers” (his army of goons were all cyborg Frankenstein like creations) and learning about the Mikene, he sought their power for himself. In some iterations of the story, he actually learnt that those whose power he sought to claim were still alive and kicking, so his attempts at gaining photon power was an attempt to prepare for the Empire’s arrival. Funnily enough, the name of Dr. Hell’s organisation is the Underground Empire
Mazinger Z is the godfather of the super robot genre and Gundam for the real robot genre. The problem with the Mazinger series is it did not expand further than the original plot, there are a ton of reboots and retellings, sure there is some new story from time to time but still nothing to be compared to the Gundam brand.
@@TitanGoji And it wasn't until after I commented that I saw another mention it, and the video is some months old, not weeks like I thought when I found it. My one nitpick aside (as someone who has the whole game series on display), the content of the review is spot on! Good work!
mazinger z the manga was one grotesque number. monster attacks would result in people being sliced in half with blood splattering everywhere; the minions of dr. hell were freakish in appearance, resembling animals or machines grafted onto a human body.
I'm 52. Puerto Rican, and with my brothers grew up an Army Brat raised mostly overseas. Mazinger-Z was my childhood hero. LOVED this video!
Somos 2 bro yo soy de Ponce vivo en los Angeles California hace 32 años y colecciono compro y vendo figuras de Mazinger Z. Saludos 🇵🇷.
@@robertoacevedo6247 WEEEEEPAAAA!
@@josevanga666 saludos bro!!
Igual, tambien creci con mazinger Z😂
So true!!! Im puertorrican also and grew with Mazinger and Robot festival(Festival de los robots).
Mazinger Z was the first anime I ever saw. It was shown along with Space Captain Harlock and Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman) It started my addiction before it became manga and anime became the phenomenon they are now. He holds a special place in my heart. Glad he's getting some much love and recognition.
Are you French by any chance? 😁
Those are all shows that seem to have a big cultural footprint in France!
Luckily in Latin America we got the whote Mazinger Z series dubbed in spanish and uncut, since with few exceptions like Voltron, Saber Rider, Robotech to name a few that came from the US dubbed or adaptations, most anime we got in Latin America at that time (late 70's through the 80's and early 90's) came straight from Japan getting dubbed in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and aired either uncut or nearly uncut from its original version.
In cuba we also loved voltus v.
I would like to know where I can Purchase the “original Mazinger from the 70’s…
Please reply as soon as possible… time is running short.
Thanks 👍🏻👵
Finally! An english version of this type of video, I've been looking to explain to my English speaking friends about mazinger z!
I'm only 19 and Puertorican but my dad had a cd with all the og mazinger z episodes so we watched em all over and over, we have lost this cd sadly and i still struggle to find it online but it's not a memory i can forget, thank you so much!
Of course! We're very happy we could help! 😄
I was born in 1996, and over the past 2 years, I have accumulated about 60 gundam models. Because of this hobby I've gained interest in other mechs.
TL;DR God Bless Mecha
Update: I've built 65, a smattering of SD, HG, MG and RG. Also I have 21 to build in my backlog, plus 1 Frame Arms from Kotobukia as well as lots of Warhammer 40k
Pacific Rim got me into mecha, which led me into Gundam, which led me into Mazinger 😂
keep it going kid
Here in Italy "Mazinga Z" and "Il grande Mazinga" (how we call them) are a huge part of many people childhood. While is something like dragonball, if you ask someone who Mazinga is, they will probably at the very least watched and episode or 2.
In the same vein "Goldrake" is even bigger, since for at least 2 generations it was watched by kids and teens alike.
Sadly it's not gaining fans, for the simple reason there are no new series, even if the movie was a great nostalgia trip for many.
I argued with my classmates that "Mazinger Z" must have been an improved version of "Great Mazinger" because it came later. In fact it only came later in Italy!
Mazinger zero is actually the strongest characters in fiction with him having control over all of fiction
hopefully, the original manga can get English releases soon.
i buy that in a heartbeat.
That I'll buy and hope they translated great mazinger and grendizer
I want an English release of the Getter Robo Saga manga so badly. I don't even collect manga.
The best thing Japan produced is scat videos.
I hope they do.
Watched the original cartoons back in the early 80's and I was hooked!!
its anime not an cartoon
@@gamikash7499at the time we didn't know it was anime , so for us here in Puerto Rico it was cartoons, muñequitos como le deciamos.
Our family stayed for 4 months in Hongkong in 1976. These robot movies were my favorite TV show. Have many metal robots from these series Mazinger, Getter etc, and brought them back to Indonesia.
Sadly when we moved house on 1998 they were all gone. Now watched this at 2024 as a 58 year old man, experience many mixed emotions 😢. Thank you for sharing this video.
I do love how originally it was supposed to be a motorcycle but get switched to the Pilder. Then in “Mazinger Edition Z” they decided to make the Pilder’s controls work similar to a motorcycle which is pretty clever imo
Toward the end of Edition Z, Energer Z and its motorcycle/pilder are introduced as a Mazinger precursor !
The original Mazinger Z anime was good, goofy fun. I couldn't get into Great Mazinger or Grendizer as much though. Mazinkaiser and Shin Mazinger were fun and Infinity was a nice nostalgic ending to the original anime.
Gen X'er here who grew up on these in the early 80's. I may give Infinity a look. Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger were also remastered properly on Blu ray (and available in Spain with subtitles). Grendizer though remains untouched, which makes me wonder if Toei lost the source material. The theatrical shorts got 4K screenings this month in Japan.
I'd love for Diskotek to get their hands on "Getter Robo", "Getter Robo G", and "Grendizer." Still waiting on that...
Yep, in Europe, Goldorak is incredibly loved. Last year, a French studio even made a video game.
Funny enough, Goldorak's TV rights were sold to France without Go Nagas's consent. He discovered this at the end of the 70th when on vacation in France and watching TV.
I have an idea for a mazinger anime, its called neo mazinger. Neo mazinger is a sequel to mazinger z infinity, here, the cronus Empire, led by king typon, is trying to take over the world. Neo mazinger is piloted by the son of tetsuya and Jun. The material used to make neo mazinger is super alloy neo z, its was created by koji kabuto in a lad accident (sayaka was there too, don't worry they were completely unharmed) afterwards, koji experiments with the materiel and discovers anti photon energy, and with that he alongside with tetsuya created neo mazinger and its partner, Athena x. Neo mazinger has attacks are from what you expect, a rocket punch called neo punch, a heat attack, called breast magma, a version of the photon beam called anti photon beam (its blue in color instead of yellow) the sword called the neo blade, and like great mazinger, it has a built in scrander called the neo scrander, and it can detach the big V on its chest like great mazinger and throw it and it comes back, its called neo boomerang, from its sink on its face (like all mazingers) it can use the rust storm, like great mazinger, it can use the neo break, an attack like the thunder break. Athena x is piloted by Lisa, the daughter of koji and is made of the same materials, but I don't have any ideas for the mecha. The cronus Empire is made up the descendents of the mycenae empire, and like the Empire, it has the superhuman army, the Ariel army, the mammalian army, the aquatic army, the insect army, the reptile army, and the spectral army. Does any one have ideas?
Just let Yasuhiro Imagawa make his Great-hen.
What about Masahiko Murata or, for the Toei incarnation, Junji Shimizu?
Find this a very creative idea.
@@baiongammax5236 thanks, I was inspired by an unused great mazinger sequel concept
Shin Mazinger Z is also available on Netflix, at least in Italy.
Prime
It was in spain too a few years ago
This was my mom's favorite anime growing up. She still has fond memories about this and Gatchaman (G-Force)
I used to love tranzor.... back in the early 80s, it was one of my favorites
Yeah that's how I was introduced to it. I know now it's Manzinger Z but I grew up in the 80s on Tranzor Z
Italian here, 47 yrs old and I grew up with Super Robots and anime since i was 2. Still in love wih them and always will.
This was my childhood and for so many other people as well.
I'm from France, Mazinger had just a little of his séries realeased
But we had the luck to have grendizer, it's the most famous robot for us, and it open France to all japanese manga and animes
I saw the series in Spanish in Puerto Rico i been living in L.A since 1987 i have an extensive collection of Mazinger Z toys and figures ,I just got a tattoo on my forearm of Mazinger Z and kogi kabuto as a Lil kid its supposed to be my grandson whos 8 years old knows about Mazinger since he was 3 due to a toy my son whos 36 now has and my grandson started playing with it and fell in love with the robot, he has alnost every figure i have my kids grew up with Mazinger z , they are 37, 36 and 25 we are all Mazinger Z fans love you video thank you.
My parents are the reason I love anime. Mazinger Z, Saint Seiya, and OG Dragon ball are the first animes I watched because of them. They were huge hits in Latin America and are a big part of my childhood.
06:20 Goldorack was the French name as far as I know. It's called Goldrake in Italy.
It's Goldorak, no c. And you are right, Goldorak was very popular in French country (especially in France, Belgium and the province of Québec, Canada) To a point that he make the first page of the Paris match. His success is due to the amazing translation that was more superior then the English one, creating word from latin origin for the weapon instead of just stating the obvious (Hand beam, seriously!?!?!) French translation have also gone in a more mature direction rather then a childish one with help to make it as an intemporal success.
Mazinger Z: Infinity was GREAT! (and it's hinted that the Dr. Hell in the movie is not the Dr. Hell Koji defeated, no! It's a Dr. Hell from an alternate world where he and his minions won!)
It took me a while to realize The greatness of giant robots. I started with gundam and never thought I'd like super robot, that is until i saw mazinger z now ive watch/read many great super robot stories that i never would've before. Mazinger, getter robo, the brave series, and so much more.
Mazinger Z the Impact is still my favorite even to this day, and that Big Bang Punch transformation is just amazing to look at plus Koji's VA there did amazing job for the voice
Thank You Titangoji. I love this Super Robot so much.
Mazinger Z is F'ing Awesome! My brother had a shogun warrior the mazinger one i played with that mazinger toy till a house fire burned all of my toys. I miss that toy.😢
Mazinger Z was my introduction to anime since it was the first one I ever had seen, at the tender age of 4.
I really liked this video but I would like to add one correction.
Tranzor Z didn't dub the first 65 episodes only but rather skipped around episodes (even merging episodes together) to deal with censoring episodes that were too violent for US television.
The Tranzor dub ends on Episode 91, editing out the cliffhanger foreshadowing the series finale and in turn Great Mazinger and effectively ending with Dr. Hell (or Dr. Demon as the dub called him) defeated and our heroes victorious.
Also while not an error per se, there was two additional English dubs for Mazinger Z and Grendizer that are now mostly lost. Both were made in The Philippines and whereas the Mazinger dub was made to continue where the Hawaiian English dub left off (only dubbing up to the Minerva X episode), the Grendizer episode dubbed up to Episode 17 before the Marcos Ferdinand regime banned all Japanese sci fi media in 1979. Of the dubbed episodes, only 3 or 4 of the dubbed Grendizer episodes and all 8 of the Pinoy English Mazinger dub episodes survive iirc.
Also Mazinger USA predates Mazin Saga, so really the comment on the similar designs are the other way around.
Other than something as pedantic as that, I think this video is spot on.
I found Mazinger Z when looking for a Gundam manga in my local library. I didn't find a single mecha manga (besides Attack On Titan 😜), but right before I left one of the workers called out to me with Mazinger Z Vol. 1 in hand. It was my first old school super robot and a super fun read, the book even had an interview with the author in the back that gave a lot of insight on his creative decisions.
Grandizer/Goldorak got a remastered DVD and bluray release some years ago in France, so yeah unless you're from the right countries, no chance to watch it
My favorite robots from the Mazinger franchise, besides the original Z and Great, are Mazinger USA, Minerva X Siren Mode from Mazinger Angels, Z Mazinger, and my all-time favorite, the original Mazinkaiser! I actually managed to snag both volumes of ADV Films' release of the original Mazinkaiser OVA off eBay last year and it's still my definitive Mazinger anime because of it's beautiful musical score, kickass theme songs, and the incredible animation that goes above and beyond to capture the look of Go Nagai's classic Mazinger mangas from the 70s! That said, I also loved Mazinger Z: Infinity. It was a nice loveletter to the classic Mazinger stories and conveyed a message of a bright and hopeful future for humanity. Mazinkaiser SKL is just a damn-good time start to finish! And I LOVE the battle theme "The Danger Zone" by Japanese heavy metal bad Loudness! Just so BADASS!!!
From my understanding, the original manga and anime are separate canon, so should I watch the anime or read the manga?
@@thomasffrench3639 They're both fine choices. Whichever floats your boat. I'd say give both a chance.
@@Kaizer617 yeah I read the manga, and I thought it was fine. I find the stories in it that were adapted to Shin Mazinger Z was better in the adaptation. I really liked the characters quite a bit, but it wasn’t anything special. Great Mazinger manga on the other hand was just way too short to be very good compared to the original. I heard the Oda manga that was adapted from the tv series to be a bit better, so I might check out those versions as well as the 70s anime.
Also, Loudness, the “Crazy Nights” band?
Very good guide. Looking forward to more guides to other related franchises.
re: the shin mazinger Z segment: While we may not know what Shin Great Mazinger Z would be about, we have a few ideas about how it could have played out thanks to (partially) related media released afterward, in addition to Super Robot Wars, with V and X being major contributors to that.
I was in awe when i first saw the giant "Kurogane no Shiro" on TV when I was a kid, something that most people forget to mention is the INCREDIBLE sound design of Mazinger Anime, that gave so much sense of scale to the show, the stomp, the crashes, the machine parts tearing, even today amazes me how much work was put into it. Also has a terrified tone to it, in mazigner world if you are a normal citizen ANYTHIGN can stomp you and you must be ready to let your loved ones go, I think was one of the first Series that I watched that really shows the concept of Dead as a permanent scar, on everyone s life, heck even his grandpa dies right there on first episode, no BS like censorship or " oh, don't worry he is on hospital"..., or stupid stuff like US cartoons like GiJoe or others, people Die when war happens, is a fact and that is why Life is valuable.
so glad that where finaly getting the bluray
My dad introduced me to the first Mazinger Z (dubbed in Spanish) when I was about 9, fell in love immediately and I never really understood any of them but the original so this really helped lmao 😭
I remember Goldorak was a thing in Montreal, Canada
For an introduction to mazinger z, I had the best experience reading the manga. The Toei anime can be fun sometimes for a monster of the week show from 1972, but it is quite a slog to get through to progress the story, even if you use a skip-list. The 2009 anime can be quite dialogue heavy and for some reason the action didn’t quite hit for the episodes that I watched, but I may still revisit it for another try.
After all the Mazinger series variation towards the end i was like so many series and then you say 'unfortunately we couldn't cover all the series'. I was like 'oh my'.
The DISCOTEK releases can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video...
Infinity is free on RUclips movies right now!
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Actually Grendizer have is blu-ray version in France
I got into the Super Robot Wars series of video games in 2019. I always liked the mecha genre of anime but I wasn't really familiar with much of its history, and the SRW games finally motivated me to check out some of the classic series featured in it. The original Mariner Z was the first one I checked out, I watched the entire series, and Great Mazinger, and the crossover movies in the span of about a month and have been a big fan of Mazinger and Go Nagai ever since. Love the original anime, the manga, and the various revivals and reimaginings that have happened since. I wish we'd get a sequel to Shin Mazinger though!
Please talk more about mazinger Z
Wow 😮 would pay whatever amount for Whole Collection starting from the early 70’s…. Enjoying all the info 👍🏻
My Son 59 is a Collector.
My favorite is mazin emperor g & mazinger zero in the SRW X
Mazinger Z will always be my favorite.
Mazinkaiser is probably my all-time favorite mecha design.
I remember him as Transzor Z in the 80s. Good times.
6:41 ....what
I lived in Japan as a 5 year old and I watched this show and I have some of the toys now
I was a child in Colombia watching it in spanish :)
There should be an update to this video: A lot of the stuff you say "isn't on DVD or bluray in English yet" is in fact available now thanks to Discotek. In fact I think the one holdout at the moment is UFO Robo Grendizer.
It was called Tranzor z here in the United States and it was my favorite character as a kid before voltron became a thing
This was probably mentioned before, but Grendizer did receive a vhs and dvd release from Imavision in Quebec. Under Goldorak. Im not sure of it had other languages besides french however
Don't know if it is mentioned yet, but the story of Impact! does in fact continue (officially/unofficially) in the Super Robot Wars line of games.
I got the Grandizer movie on VHS. Anyone know where i can stream these?
Although I would love to watch the original anime’s, they’re all pretty lengthy so I just watched Shin Mazinger and MAZINKAISER which is amazing. I should definitely read the original manga’s and check out Mazinger Z Infinity though
I want Grendizer here in America. Please Toei give us Grendizer!
Now that we have grendizer u, i need a great mazinger anime remake
I watched this when I was a kid in the 70s
Also I feel the design’s of Super Robot Wars manga God Mazinger and Mazinsaga’s design’s inspired Kaiser’s
Let's MAZIN GOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Mazinger Otome is mentioned, but not Robot Girls Z?
You forgot the best Mazinger anime: Robot Girls Z
Watched it in Colombia I liked the original best
Supaaaahhhhh Lobotooooooo Mazingaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Really late commenter here. Honestly, the Mazinger series means a lot to me. My first exposure to the Mazinger Z design was through my Dad's Shogun Warriors he always kept displayed on the stairs as you go up them. Though, my first time seeing ANY Mazinger media was actually *Mazinkaiser SKL*! I have seen a lot of the original series, and I am watching the OG Mazinkaiser, and I've seen Mazinger Z Infinity in theater(which was AWESOME!!! It was like there was too much awesome to comprehend, even on a theater screen!)... SKL is still my favorite. It's more sentimental. I know it doesn't have the greatest characters, and several other series' have better plots... It was the first 'mature' anime I'd ever seen with violence, fighting, and the pilots, Kaido and Magami, actually do mean a lot to me. To a troubled autistic teen going through a gender crisis, seeing two badasses go through a world-ending scenario, and one of them grappling with his own identity and deciding to find his reason for living... It felt eye opening to me, in a weird way.
What I am doesn't matter. I could be fat, rail thin, have short hair or long hair, grow facial hair or be clean shaven... It's what I do with my life that matters, and only I can dictate that. No one else. I make that final decision. "I am Hell", or "I am what I choose to be". I saw that series when I was about 15, and I'm almost 24 now. Still haven't reached that point, but that's ok. I'm still learning, changing, and growing.
Also, SKL is kind of urging me to expand my horizon even more. Managed to get a hold of the manga that takes place before the OVA, but it's untranslated. I'm finally starting to seriously learn Japanese because of it.
For as weird as Go Nagai's series' can be, and even the spin-offs... They mean and say a lot. Devilman had a gay 'protagonist', and a character who's canonically intersex. Devilman Lady had a bisexual protagonist. Mazinger Z has a lot to say about technology and how it can or should be used for good and it's dangers in the wrong hands. Haven't read some of the other series yet, but Cutie Honey was a source of comfort to a friend of mine who was having trouble transitioning from 'male' to 'female'. A lot of Go Nagai's series' are one of the ways my dad can connect with my sister and I. Hell, he likes to freak me out with Violence Jack.
I'm not sure if I'll ever get to meet Go Nagai, but if I ever get to say one sentence to him... It'd honestly be "Thank you so much.".
Hope all of you have great days, if/whenever you read this... And happy watching. :)
Same
Hey does anybody know where you can find the Mazinger trilogy manga translations by both Nagai and Ota?
ALL HAIL THE FIRST TRUE MECHA ANIME❤
I desperately need more mazinger anime
had the voltron toy growing up
Never knew that a Japanese service called Buyee sponsored this video.
Mazinger and grendizer are the same series? Huh. That’s neat
Fun fact: Dr Hell is actually a descendant of the Hellsing family of monster hunters.
His ancestors hunted them, and now he creates them, and in many ways is one himself. Very ironic
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I’m not sure of the exact lore, but Dr Hell always had ambitions to rule the world. He was fresh out of WW2 and believed that tyrants like Hitler were fools who constantly made mistake after mistake. After gaining a good number of “followers” (his army of goons were all cyborg Frankenstein like creations) and learning about the Mikene, he sought their power for himself. In some iterations of the story, he actually learnt that those whose power he sought to claim were still alive and kicking, so his attempts at gaining photon power was an attempt to prepare for the Empire’s arrival.
Funnily enough, the name of Dr. Hell’s organisation is the Underground Empire
These is where it began
Also mazinger infinity is free on RUclips with adds
Mazinger Z is the godfather of the super robot genre and Gundam for the real robot genre.
The problem with the Mazinger series is it did not expand further than the original plot, there are a ton of reboots and retellings, sure there is some new story from time to time but still nothing to be compared to the Gundam brand.
The fact that robot girls z wasn't mentioned is funny
Good video but I think SRW and the Dynamic Originals deserve a mention
big ups cool you got the cinema snob to collab
So, no mention that MazinKaizer began as a design for Super Robot Wars so Koji could have an upgrade next to Shin Getter Robo and Nu Gundam?
We actually didn't find that out til later 😅
@@TitanGoji And it wasn't until after I commented that I saw another mention it, and the video is some months old, not weeks like I thought when I found it.
My one nitpick aside (as someone who has the whole game series on display), the content of the review is spot on! Good work!
@@ZappaSlave Greatly appreciate it! 🙏🏻
Without Mazinger, there is no Gundam. Gundam fan boys have Go Nagai to thank.
RAAAAAZZZOOOR ROOOCKEEEET PUUUUNNNCH!!!!!!!!
I grew up with this, Goldrake, Jeeg etc in Italy.
Seems weird in English.
Now all we need it Boss Borot Z
My thoughts exactly.
Was kinda hoping you would mention devilman vs hades since great mazinger was in that one and it was based as hell
Mazinkaiser
Mazinkaiser haou
Mazinkaiser liger
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I have both Mazinkaiser 1 n 2 DVDs 🎉🎉🎉🎉
This robot means A LOT for people from Latin America
Great mazinger is my fav 😁 thunder breakkkk
In chile mazinger z is still massive in the capital
mazinger z the manga was one grotesque number. monster attacks would result in people being sliced in half with blood splattering everywhere; the minions of dr. hell were freakish in appearance, resembling animals or machines grafted onto a human body.
hope you take a look at grendizer U next
I love my generation
Getter Robo G rules!
Where can you watch this
Majin go!!
Im a big mech fan and a mazinger z fan but why does this sound so much like pacific rim