Kotetsushin Jeeg

Koutetsushin Jeeg
Kotetsushin Jeeg Title
鋼鉄神ジーグ (Kōtetsushin Jīgu)
Genre	Mecha
Anime television series
Directed by	Jun Kawagoe
Produced by	Hiroyuki Kitaura Kazuomi Nagai Kichou Minami Kiyoko Matsumura Kiyomi Okazaki Osamu Hosokawa Satsuki Mizuno Takashi Watanabe
Music by	Yoshihisa Hirano
Studio	Actas
Original network	WOWOW
Original run	April 5, 2007 – July 12, 2007
Episodes	13

Koutetsushin Jeeg (鋼鉄神ジーグ, Kōtetsushin Jīgu^?, lit. Steel God Jeeg) is a Japanese animated television series and retcon to the 1975 Super Robot series Steel Jeeg, created by Go Nagai. It is directed by Jun Kawagoe (previously known for New Getter Robo and Innocent Venus). The show began airing on the satellite network WOWOW on April 5, 2007 at 11:30 p.m. JST.

Press material describes the show as "A simple tale of 'Good versus Evil' while at the same time [being] a robot anime created for the sake of the adult core audience."

On February 19, 2007, it was announced that the JAM Project song "STORMBRINGER" would be the show's opening theme.

The story of Koutetsushin Jeeg takes place fifty years after the original and features a new cast of characters - primarily the new main character Kenji Kusanagi, a high school student and motorcycle racer who becomes Koutetsushin Jeeg to fight the sudden reappearance of "Haniwa Genjin" ("Haniwa Phantom Gods", or clay robots) from the Great Jama Kingdom ruled by Queen Himika. Other characters include Tsubaki Tamashiro (granddaughter of Miwa Uzuki) and Kyo Misumi, Kenji's partners. Other main characters from the original series also appear.

1975, Kyushu. The war against the Great Jama Kingdom is turning against the Japanese Security Forces. During a violent clash between Queen Himika and her generals against the first Jeeg, piloted by Hiroshi Shiba, the bronze bell embedded within Jeeg activates and he is transported to the crater of an extinct volcano. There, he grasps a giant sword, creating an energy vortex that surrounds the entire island. Dark clouds swirl and Kyushu is engulfed in an impenetrable space, later dubbed the "zone". All communication with Kyushu ceases. As years go by with no change in the zone recorded, people and even the world's governments lose their interest in the zone, and the world moves on. The Japanese Government however decides to build a new Build Base to watch over the zone in preparation of a possible attack...