"Shin Mazinger Shōgeki! Z-Hen" News & Talkback

Yay, Imagawa the director who gave us the awesomeness of G Gundam is going to remake the ORGINAL SUPER ROBOT SERIES THAT STARTED IT ALL and make it a epic series to rivel Gurren Lagann.
 
This isn't going to be Z Mazinger (y'know...the manga that's also a Mazinger Z remake only with Greek mythology), right? *some folks say it is*
 
HOLY CRAP!!!!

All the characters from my childhood appearing one after another in the glory modern animation, my head's about to explode!!!

This image says it all, best series of 09'
 
It seems to be a remake of the original, although I'm sure Imagawa will put his own spin on it. By the look of it he certainly did with Tetsujin 28, which I'm working on watching right now.
 
...did they air the final episode instead of the first one? WHY JAPAN? WHY?

Anyway, for the most part I liked what I saw. Nice to see Lora and Lori, I wasn't expecting them. I REALLY wasn't expecting Dr. Heinrich and Lorelei! Nice surprise!

...is that Maou Dante??

...Gamia Q III is back, but why is she a good guy? CONFUSION.

I like the voices for the most part. Don't like Kouji's seiyuu. He sounRAB too generic. Maybe I'll get used to it.
 
Okay, the designs look awesome. Seems like their sticking close to the original manga style.

BUT WHY COULDN'T THEY GET THE MAZINKAISER CAST?! Couldn't they have atleast gotten Hiroya Ishimaru back as Kouji? I mean, he's voiced the character for over 30 years now. Same for Tomita Kousei as Dr. Hell.
 
I liked the episode too, yeah I don't like Kouji's VA either but I'll get used to him as the series progresses, and Demon Lord Dante making a cameo is awesome, and the fact that part of my username comes from Demon Lord Dante makes it even more epic (which I did out of my huge respect for Go Nagai, the other part is my real first name, and a .hack// reference), and I had cheesy grin on my face when I was watching the thing, and Yasuhiro Imagawa knows his way around the classics
 
But Ishimaru has been voicing Kouji for awhile now. He even voiced him in Mazinkaiser. I'm sure he could still do it. Hell, look at the Lupin III cast. Haven't they had the original seiyuu for awhile now? (Aside from Lupin of course).



Holy crap... I didn't even notice that. There's nothing about the Boss man in this!
 
This was a pilot/preview also it has been stated by the staff that this is a brand new story, not a remake nor sequel.

Even Biscount Pigman is in the series, I'm so happy!
 
BIG BANG...PUNCH!!!

The episode title confused me. "Finale". Some random stuff happened in there and boy it's been awhile. I've forgotten how campy Mazinger can be. But, eh, that's ok.

It was awesome.
 
I hated Boss in Mazinkaiser. He cramps Koji's style.

But this is early development, so he isn't necessarily out just because he's not being shown off right now.
 
They cut a LOT of useful information in the TV broadcast. In the Bandai stream version, which is longer, they cut important stuff like "If I could go back, could I change things?" so it looks like Kouji goes back to the beginning to prevent all this.
 
That's true, the TV version really made it seem more like fanservice than a new version and alternate retelling of the Mazinger series, this makes me glad I was watching the Bandai Channel stream version, instead of the TV Tokyo broadcast version
 
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