I recently visited France for the first time and let me tell you, the surprise at seeing a Grendizer toy in a store in 2023 was wild. I had NO IDEA it was popular over there at all! Even saw it in a toy museum I visited. Absolutely fascinating finding out what random mecha stuff was popular in other countries
It's no surprise that the Grendizer video game is being made in France.
They did?! Spoilers please! It's a shame they threw the GOAT Imagawa away, again. In any case, it ties up perfectly with the original Mazinger Z ending, any version. If you want a decent retro follow-up, try Ota's Great Mazinger manga. Then his Grendizer, which is nuts.
It was the first robot anime to be broadcast in Europe back in the late 70s. Kids went crazy.
Yeah, the TFO was just lame, at least we haven't seen any designs for it...then again, no design for Mazinger Z either...or any of the villains aside from Faru Faru, but that is an OC villain design created by a fan, so i doubt he will be more than a regular enemy and maybe even just be in the background.
Later on Kouji pilots the Double Spazer, which is a jet which also works as the Grendizer's Scrander. But, yeah, no robot at all in the tv show. It'd be very odd for a show nowadays to have only one main robot like that though. So, we'll see what they'll do.
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Tetsuya is alive and in typical SRW fashion, he's in another universe. You meet him early on fighting Invaders from Shin Getter. During the Shin Mazinger cliffhanger ending, your party wins but out comes Ankoku Daishogun. His appearance causes Mazinger Zero to fully manifest from Mazinger Z and take control of Kouji. Everybody leaves because they're scared of the thing. Kabuto Kenzo got a new body. He, Tsubasa, and Juuzo's AI were secretly working on Mazin Emperor G, Tetsuya's upgrade. The next time you fight and beat Ankoku Daishogun, Hades arrives with his army. When you meet Mazinger Zero again, your party + Gendo from EVA come up with a plan to suppress it if not kill it. Mazin Emperor G is finished in time and Tetsuya helps fight Mazinger Zero with it.
Thank you! And sorry, that was far more complicated than I imagined
That was in the Grendizer movie where the Vegans steal the Great Mazinger from the museum and Kouji is captured and brainwashed to pilot the Great, then also helps out in the Great for a bit after returning to normal, but only in the movie (The Mazinger Z is just shown in the museum and no one picks it up). In the manga, he actually pilots the Z in a later chapter though.
Yeah the dude has cred. And this is the first dynamic mechs show with a budget in a decade(much as I liked the arc adaption). Definitely a fine pull
Oh man, please keep them in the proper scale tho, Dizer does dwarf Z after all XD
Wonder if we're getting the stolen/retooled, recaptured subplot.
Well I expect it'll be recovered this time. I was thinking more like the actual Grendizer Manga plotline
Fukuda is the chief director, and the music choice really feels like a Fukuda project.
I think Tetsujin's like Astro Boy. It's the first giant robot manga and anime so it's viewed as historic.
