Shin Mazinger Zero

Shin Mazinger Zero is a manga that was released at nearly the same time as the anime Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen in the magazine Champion Red. Despite the similar titles, it has no connection to the anime. However,

Provides examples of:
"Sayaka:... What."
 * Arc Words: remember when kabuto's gramps says that mazinger has the power to become a demon and destroy the world? he wasn't kidding.
 * After the End: The manga starts this way.
 * Apocalypse How:
 * Breather Episode: after  the actual chapters are more lighter and comedic.
 * Broken Bird : Minerva X.
 * Call Back : Tons of the flashbacks . Also, The first chapter where the Gamia sisters are killed are a direct call back to the original manga.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Sayaka. Even more than in the original series. Get her jealous -and mad- enough, and she is able to tear three Mechanical Beasts apart. At once.
 * Combat Tentacles: Professor Juuzo Kabuto
 * Composite Character :
 * Darker and Edgier : Might or might not be for every other continuity. And HOW !
 * Despair Event Horizon :
 * : This manga as a whole serve as one for original anime and manga continuity.
 * Eldritch Abomination - apparently,  has potential to become one.
 * Fan Service: It's Mazinger, what can you expect?
 * Fan Disservice:
 * Flat What: In a chapter Kouji and Minerva-X are together inside the cockpit. During the battle Minerva lands on Kouji on a very awkward and embarassing position. Sayaka -who has just arrived and destroyed three Mechanical beasts in a fit of jealous rage- sees him, and they -after displayin a tremendously comical Oh Crap stares- try to explain it is not what it seems, and Minerva is not human but she actually is a Super Robo created by The Professor Dr. Kabuto to be Mazinger-Z's partner. Sayaka's reaction?


 * Fun with Acronyms: Multidimensional Automaton Zillion Infinity Neural Generative Exterminate Reverter, it surprisingly It Makes Sense in Context
 * Groundhog Peggy Sue
 * Hot-Blooded: maybe even more than the original!
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In one of the first chapters Later, Toros D7 tries to impale Mazinger and Aphrodite.
 * Innocent Innuendo: Minerva X makes "interesting" sound after finally reunited with Mazinger Z(its complicated) inside the Pilder while sitting on Kouji's lap in a suggestive pose, much to Sayaka's chagrin.
 * Laughing Mad :
 * My Hero Zero: Awfully subverted. Mazinger Zero is
 * Offing the Offspring:
 * Ridiculously Human Robot Girls: Minerva X and the Gamia Q's
 * Reincarnation : Everyone, but most notably Kouji, before the start of the manga.
 * Shout-Out: In Chapter 6, Sayaka, after hearing the words "Gangan Gangan" says that its not Getter Robo.
 * The Immodest Orgasm : Minerva X's reaction while the Pilder docked with Mazinger Z.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: Subverted when Dr. Hell -the seventy-years-old, Obviously Evil Big Bad- has one scene of him walking without shirt. Can you tell Fan Disservice?
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: oh dear god...hehe, god