Not only did his Grandpa make a GIANT FIGHTING ROBOT, which in itself is badass enough, and BECOME PART OF SAID ROBOT, he also made an attachment that lets it TURN INTO A GIANT FUCKING FIST FOR AN ATTACK! BEST! GRANDPA! EVER!
@@thomascochran7907 Fun fact: An enemy in live action Giant Robo preceded that as it were. Mazinger Z just happens to be the first to do it in an anime rather than in a tokusatsu. o3o
@No matter your affiliation You're still human Sometimes I forget just how powerful and volatile the barrier and teleportation technology of the SDF-1 can be. That might just work rather deadly, but do recall that the carrier "arms" are NOT actually of Macross tech, so it's doubtful they can pull it off being launched like that... Unless there was substantial retrofitting of tech with the merging and connecting parts.
Actually, it's just the God Scrander that was made from Zeus's severed arm. Mazinger Z looking somewhat like Zeus is a huge coincidence ((probably some Mycenae bullshit)), but yeah, Mazinger Z himself is just Photon Power and Super Alloy Z
This version of mazinger Z was, but uhhhhhhh, anyone that knows what happens after the cliff hanger, maybe we should spare these children from learning beyond what theyre capable of rn.
The Mazinger Z robot, as its creator once said, has the capacity to do great good or great evil. Thankfully for everyone involved, Koji Kabuto, its hotblooded pilot, seems to favor good.
I can't get over this. The entire Giant Robot turns itself into a fist to punch somebody. Words can not do justice to the levels of insane GAR-ness that is this attack. Gundams weep with envy, Transformers curl up into fetal positions at the sight of it, and Megazords avert their eyes lest they burn out upon witnessing its majesty. Even the Gurenn Lagan and the Steel Jeegs salute this most manly and impractical of attacks.
Its mainly because this series was purely a 'just for fun' series by the author, Yasuhiro Imagawa, I remember reading in an article recently (1-2 months back) that if he was going to continue the series, he would've wanted to add in Great Mazinger and Grendizer as well... which would tell us that it would be a pretty long series... tl:dr - this series is just for funies and author does not have any plans to continue for now
tbf, he did at least get to tease Shin!Great Mazinger with a dude all but stated to be Tetsuya ("Blade") saving Koji and piloting a silhouetted robot that looks suspiciously like Great in the first episode
Also the cliffhanger it ended on was the exact same one the original series did, just that well, the week after the original series ended was when great mazinger started
gearofwar113 Actually, I'm pretty sure that's the activation of Zeus's golden armor, which was seen to turn a dark gray when it's inactive, and was also shown to be pretty damn powerful when thrown at things.
I gotta say I did not see this coming Mazinger Z transforming into a gigantic rocket punch I mean I gotta say it was affective but apparently Koji's Grandfather Dr. Kabuto has gone off the deep end but I think he already went off the deep end when he built Mazinger Z and later Mazinkaiser because of the animation for this series looks like it's in the Mazinkaiser Universe with the way Koji acts in this series and the way Dr. Kabuto looks with that left eye of his.
The ratings of the TV series were not good enough to justify doing a new series/new season. That's why it stopped at Episode 26. Good news, though. Mazinger Z: Impact HAS been released on DVD already (2015 in the US) and there's a Blu ray edition coming out at the end of July this year in the US. Good year for Mazinger Z! An excellent new feature film, and now a Blu ray re-release of one of the better-looking TV versions of Mazinger.
The Big Bang Punch actually makes some sense, because it does a somewhat slow transformation, and Shin Mazinger is apparently designed to do that. Glow Gold, not as much.
this mazinger is probably as strong or just a little bit weaker than the original mazinkaiser (his photon laser is epic) so when or if this series eventually intorduces mazinkaiser, that is gonna be godly
Honestly, the opinions of new watchers are those I'd most like to know. Shin Mazinger started slow for me. It felt to me like they were catering too much to long time fans, with how they embellished simple things like docking and rocket punch. I'd love to know how it plays to people who aren't Mazinger fans, yet I can never find any Mazinger "virgins" who watched.
@RiderSkullMan Sadly, no. The Big Bang Punch is, quite literally, the fist of an angry god. No amount of hammer smashing is going to match the levels of GAR created by a punch from Zeus himself, especially if guided by one of the first and greatest of the Hot Blooded Mecha pilots. commendable effort, though.
Okay, this is an awesome scene and all, but I have one question: Where the flying f*** did the thumb come from? I see that the arms and back thrusters become the other four fingers, but where did the thumb come from? Was it inside the robot's chest? I can't really tell with the angles.
@cale42 Chou Tengen Toppa Giga Drill Breaker would like to have a word with you. As would the Goldion Crusher, SuperNova(Kouryu+EnRyu), and Mic Sounder's Wire bridge base playing.
it reminds me of the WW2 german antitank weapon wich was named "panzerfaust" wich transleated means "armored fist". now, japanese and germans were allied in WW2, dr.Hell is german (even if he's the antagonist) and the most powerful mazinger is called "Mazinkaiser". I think that Go Nagai should make a mazinger series settled in WW2 in wich Axis powers use mass produced mazingers.
@Nanya a giant hammer!? it better not look like the goldion hammer! mazinger should be awesome enough to not take from gaogaigar or any othe hammer wielding robots!
it aired at 8 PM IIRC which isn't much of an ADULT ONLY time slot, and as far as I know TV Tokyo isn't one of those on-demand otaku channels. old fans were undoubtedly a good chunk of the target audience and they most likely didn't expect the show to become as successful as it did (hence the low animation budget), but I honestly doubt it was meant to be a nostalgiafag-only series and that they had no intentions of bringing in any new fans. see my earlier point about the manga being shonen.
please people, we want to see more of this. in japanese, because with how epic koji's moves are, itd be boring if translated to spanish. we gotta beat the miceneans somehow, or else we'd be screwed. or is that the end of the manga series? with us humans dying to them?
Sry for the late reply this show was made jsut for fun and hasn't any connections to the Go Nagais Manga as for the Mycenas Koji defeats them Arcording to the Video Game Super Robot wars V. In Mission 38 its said Koji Traveld back in zone and helps Zeus defatin the Mycenas using Mazinger Zero
oh not to mention that the Imagawa version of Kouji's speech to the audience from the beginning of the manga included an extra line describing himself as something by the lines of "a young boy like you". the anime didn't even have a speech and as far as I know the whole "god or devil" theme wasn't even there because Toei's Mazinger is a pointless, plotless monster a week show.
mazinger z the father of all super robots. and the maker of the rocket punch..... mazinger z el padre de todos los super robots. y el creador del rocket punch.......... PS3 user name.. MAZINKAISER let's play............ PS3 nombre de usario.. MAZINKAISER vamos a jugar......
Goldion crusher is a hammer like, this is a punch , how could you make such comparison since nothing is related between them? saying like power with power , i could say there is something much stronger than Goldion crusher, but saying if there is any robot could transform into a punch like, my answer is no!
@silva7509 Buscalo como Shin Mazinger 26/26 sub español en google, te saldra una página llamada Toonamix, ahi lo vi yo completo y con subs. No te asustes, el primer episodio parece un spoiler, pero quedtae tranquilo asi es la serie.
@themegashyguy Nah, man. Falcon Punch is old news. Big Bang Punch is where it's at! (And was at when Giant Robo OVA came out,too, now that I think about it...)
I remember seeing a long winded Mazinger-related post somewhere which was basically a lot of elitist rambling that boiled down to "try to avoid introducing Shin Mazinger to other people and making forum threads about it, it's better if only a small group watches it because only WE can truly appreciate it" wouldn't be surprised if more people honestly thought that way about it
The elitist thread is a common trope amongst anime fans. It's the same BS that goes with the dub versus sub fans. There's always a little group that wants to keep it ALL to themselves... They think the hobby is purer if only 10 people can get it instead of even 1000. It's way easier to get anime now than it was 25 years ago even if the videostores have imploded and fewer places are actually selling DVDs and Blu rays in-store! There's just tons more shows available and the pricing on everything but the deluxe boxsets is cheaper than what you had to pay on VHS and laserdisc in the 1990s. That's all because of the expansion of the market due to more access on the Internet and dubs. And yet the elitists will bitch about this to death. Good thing elists don't run companies because they would all be out of business if they paid attention to this crowd!
So Juzo Kabuto created a Mazinger Z that can transform, with the power of Zeus, into a giant flying fist just to deliver a devastating "I AM A MAN" punch. . . This may get me into trouble but Dr. Light's got nothing on this old man.
someone mention Obelisk? *eyebrow raise* either way, severed hand of Zeus... interesting, never heard of that story. either way, Big Bang Punch i'd rate as strong as probably Hell and Heaven from Genesic GaoGaiGar. this is on power alone. going with originality and uniqueness, i'd actually class it above even Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, gar factor? Solid third, in my books, #2 being Goldion Crusher, and #1 being Chou Tengen Toppa Giga Drill Breaker. (hidden #0 being Chuck Norris kick.)
he was probably making a comparison along the lines of y'know, 'oh Mazinger can turn into a fist? GGG has three vehicles that combine just to make a huge ass hammer' of course we're missing shin great hen where it'll turn into a giant sword and get swung by the big-bang'd regular mazinger or something
XDXD Wow. Well, I do like an anime where the big finisher for the protagonist is a GIANTASS DRILL HAND that the laws of all science say should be impossible. So who am i to talk, huh? XDXD
