Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen: Difference between revisions

The [[Shin Mazinger Zero]] manga was released near the same time, but is not actually related to the plot of the anime.

 

 

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* [[Berserk Button]] (For Kouji, it's insulting his grandfather Juzo. For Baron Ashura, it's his/her appearance... especially when it thinks ''you're'' the one responsible for it)

* [[Big Damn Heroes]] (The ENTIRE first episode is essentially a series of [[Big Damn Heroes]] entrances, by the entire cast. Likewise, the series seems to specialise in awesome sudden entrances from heroes and villains, usually as part of a [[Cliff Hanger]])

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] (Several times throughout the series, including characters talking to/hearing the narrator or being aware of their own role in the story)

** When Boss steals Count Brocken's head to create a distraction and gain some time, this little exchange takes place:

** Likewise, Pygman's ''character design'' is taken from ''[[Violence Jack]]''. The actual character himself is from ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', but his new appearance is not.

*** For irony points the character design is the Mazinger analogue for [[Violence Jack]]: Jim Mazinger.

** The minor Go Nagai machine Groizer X is revised and made one of Mazinger Z's enemies in several episodes.

** Energer Z, the original design for Mazinger Z that Go Nagai drafted up prior to revising it into the machine we all know and love, is introduced into the series proper near the end.

** ESPECIALLY {{spoiler|in the last episode where the only thing that was holding the Mycenae empire was Dr. Hell. Since Kouji defeats him, they pretty much show up. And this happens AFTER the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]!}}

*** For those of you not understanding how that works, {{spoiler|turns out that the summoning ritual to bring back the mycene is Baron Ashura's blood from its ''suicide''. To prevent this, Doctor Hell programmed it to be unable to take its own life as long as he lived. Guess who Kouji knocked off moments before the end of the last episode.}}

* [[No Endor Holocaust]] (Averted ''hard'' in Kouji's first battle, when he accidentally crushes a bunch of civilians during a robot fight)

* [[Older Than They Think]]: Zeus tossing his arm as a [[Rocket Punch]] was originally done [[Dai-Guard|nine years earlier]], by a [[Real Robot]] no less.

* [[Rocket Punch]] (It's a [[Trope Namer|Mazinger]] show so there's lots of them. The titular robot can even [[Up to Eleven|transform into a giant Rocket Punch itself]], which Kouji calls the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9aBE153Xw Big Bang Punch]")

** Taken to ridiculous extremes in the last episode.

* [[Sequel Hook]] (And how! With so many mysteries left unsolved, {{spoiler|such as Blade,}} we can look forward to [[Great Mazinger|Great-hen]]. That is, unless [[Giant Robo|history repeats itself...]])

* [[Serial Escalation]]: (The series is constantly outdoing itself and hits the peak in the final episode, which ''claims'' to feature 100 Rocket Punches)

* [[Shout-Out]] (There are tons of these sprinkled all over the show, mostly to other [[Go Nagai]] manga)

* [[Spam Attack]] / [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] ( {{spoiler|1=100-Shot Rapid Fire Rocket Punch. WAAAAAAAAY more punches than the name claims. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX469Ftb-m4 And it is AWESOME] }})

** Might also count as a {{spoiler|fleet of [[Attack Drone|Attack Drones]] }}

* [[Stripperific]] (The Gamia sisters, who end up wearing just cloaks with nothing on underneath)

* [[Super Robot]] (Again, it's a Mazinger show, so this is kind of a given)

* [[Super Robot Wars]] (Is making its debut in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]] 2'', to the [[[[And the Fandom Rejoiced]] joy of the fans]. Though even before this was announced, the franchise was explicitly name-dropped by the mechanical designer, who said he was requested to come up with an "all new, awesome MAP attack" for Mazinger. Z2-2 finally gives Mazinger a MAP weapon in form of Big Bang Punch.)

* [[The Professor]] (Prof. Yumi as well as the Three Doctors)

* [[The Woobie]] (Baron Ashura. Sure, it's a weird hermaphrodite, but it's like the whole show is against him/her!)

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] (Count Brocken, a ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|headless undead cyborg Nazi]]'' who carries his head around with him at all times, and his Iron Legion air forces)

* [[Together in Death]] (Baron Ashura... who became together in life again, when they were resurrected as two halves of the same person)