Great Mazinger
| Great Mazinger | |
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グレートマジンガー (Gurēto Majingā) |
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| Genre | Mecha, Adventure |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
Tetsuo Imazawa Masayuki Akechi Nobuo Onuki Takeshi Tamiya Tomoharu Katsumata Yasuo Yamayoshi |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | Fuji Television |
| Original run | 8 September 1974 – 28 September 1975 |
| Episodes | 56 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Go Nagai |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | TV Magazine |
| Original run | October 1974 – October 1975 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Warrior Beasts | |
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| Created by | Go Nagai |
| Weapons | Varied (beams, missiles, bombs, swords, spears, axes, nets, acids, drills, etc.) |
| Construction | Mystical alloy and organic parts |
| Energy source | Geothermal |
Great Mazinger (グレートマジンガー Gurēto Majingā?) is a manga comic book and anime television series by manga artist Go Nagai. The story is a sequel and direct continuation of Mazinger Z series after its initial success. The series was aired on Japanese television in 1974, immediately following the end of the first Mazinger series. It ran for 56 episodes.
The story centers on Tetsuya Tsurugi (剣 鉄也 Tsurugi Tetsuya?), an orphan raised by Kenzo Kabuto (兜 剣造 Kabuto Kenzō?), who is the once thought dead father of Mazinger Z pilot Kouji Kabuto. Kenzo Kabuto is the creator of the new and improved version of Mazinger, which was based on his father's "Chogokin Z" (Super Alloy Z). The new version was designed with a stronger form to fight against humanity's new enemy, the Mycenae Empire, led by the Great General of Darkness and his army of Warrior Beasts. Kabuto, then, gives the Great Mazinger to Tetsuya for him to use. Accompanying him is his female companion, Jun Hono, an orphaned half Japanese, half African-American girl, in her feminine robot, "Venus A (Venus Ace)".
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