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''[[If It Swims, It Flies|He can fly beneath the sea]]''

''[[Humongous Mecha|In his robot-man]]''

 

 

''Mazinger Z'' tells the story of young [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Idiot Hero]] Kouji Kabuto, grandson of a genius professor named Juuzou Kabuto. The Professor secretly built a [[Humongous Mecha]] named Mazinger Z, to battle the forces of evil—led by his rival gone [[Mad Scientist|mad]], Dr. Hell. Unfortunately, Juuzou gets assassinated quickly, but he still manages to inform Kouji about his creation. The Professor tells him to take over, but warns him that he could become "a God or a Devil" with its power.

* ''[[God Mazinger]]'': It has nothing to do with the original series, but originally it was meant to be its sequel. However the idea was discarded, and the other two series were made instead. Hibino Yamato, a Japanese [[Ordinary High School Student]] has frequent hallucinations about a weird world: the Kingdom of Mu, a world resembles ancient Greek. Suddenly he is forcefully thrown into that world through a dimensional portal to relive God Mazinger, a giant stone statue where inhabits a [[Physical God]] only can be awoken by the chosen one. Hibino is led to its presence to wake up the giant, fuse with it spiritually and fight together a threat is invading the kingdom. It was produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Dynamic Planning, and aired by Nippon TV in 1984. A manga based on it was produced in 1984: ten volumes were published by Kadokawa Shoten and four volumes by Shogakukan.

* ''[[New Mazinger]]'': It was going to be a Mazinger series specifically made for the American market, but only one single volume was published in 1988 by First Publishing. The setting is an post-apocalyptic Earth after one hundred fifty years of constant war. Every armies use gigantic [[Power Armor]]s to battle. One of them -called Mazinger- is piloted by Mayor Kabuto. In one battle he is transported to a parallel world inhabited by giants.

* ''[[CB Chara Go Nagai World]]'': A [[Crossover]] between '''''Mazinger Z''''', ''[[Devilman]]'' and ''[[Violence Jack]]'', featuring a ton of [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]] to many [[Go Nagai]] series. The [[Devilman]] main characters find themselves suddenly chibi-fied and trapped into a strange world, and they set in a quest for ascertain what is happening and getting their real bodies back. It was made in 1991, and a manga version was published in 1992.

* ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'': Following the success of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', and the Mazinger Z upgrade Mazinkaiser created for the series, this anime received a retelling in 2001 as an OVA series, ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'', which introduces said mecha into the Mazinger canon. The OVA also featured the characters from the second of the trilogy, ''[[Great Mazinger]]''. [[Go Nagai]] published an alternate one-shot in 2001, but in 2003, was published one volume adapted the OVA history, written by [[Go Nagai]] and drawn by [[Naoto Tsushima]].

* ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'': A new series, ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen|Shin Mazinger Impact! Z Chapter]]'', began airing in April 2009. It is sort of a reboot. [[Go Nagai]] written an one-shot story set in that continuity.

* ''[[Shin Mazinger Zero]]'': Shin Mazinger Zero is a manga that was released in 2009 in the magazine Champion Red, created by [[Go Nagai]] and [[Yoshiaki Tabata]]. It has no connection with ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'', but it is connected with the original anime. Three volumes have been published so far.

* ''[[Mazinkaiser SKL]]'': Made in 2011, it has nothing to do with the formers series. A digital manga based on this story was made, by [[Go Nagai]] and [[Kazumi Hoshi]].

 

Other than in all [[Super Robot Wars]] games, ''Mazinger Z'' also appears in several videogames: Mazinger Z, a Beat'-Em-Up for [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]; Mazinger Z, an arcade Shoot'-Em-Up featuring all robots in the trilogy; Mazin Saga Mutant Fighter, a Beat'-Em-Up for Genesis based on the [[Mazin Saga]] manga; and CB Chara Wars, an action game based on the [[CB Chara Go Nagai World]] OVA.

 

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== A-H ==

* [[Disposable Woman]]: Rumi was the maid Prof. Kabuto had hired to take care of his grandsons while he was creating Mazinger Z. She was cold-bloodly murdered by Baron Ashura less than five minutes after her first appearance. Kouji and Shiro cried when they found the corpse, but she was not mentioned again after the first episode.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Aphrodite A and Diana A; Minerva X is a greater example, since it is quite literally a feminine version of Mazinger.

* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: It happened fairly often in the manga. Usually was Sayaka the one did the -unwilling- distraction -either because her clothes were torn or because she was involuntarily naked-, but sometimes it was done by enemies to distract Kouji. The Gamia sisters come to mind...

* [[Do-Anything Robot]]: Mazinger Z has weapons to solve nearly any situation it can find (although it helps Mazinger is piloted by a quick-thinking [[Genius Ditz]] is able of devising new strategies -or ways to get himself out of trouble- on the fly), and throughout the series it gets upgraded equiped to combat at any enviroment.

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