Thread:Jfgslo/@comment-1809047-20130907052630/@comment-901832-20130908032821

I know about that. You can actually find my posts about it in the French forum Forum Go Nagai, Go! (the French version of Nagai Again). There I commented about how the anime was first. Anime takes longer to be produced and it cannot be produced in just two months. Nagai mentioned (I referenced that in the French forum, but the links there no longer work) how he presented the project to Toei and how he inteded for Sayaka to be a regular girl and not a tomboy, but since the animators at Toei knew Nagai's female characters (mainly from Harenchi Gakuen and Abashiri Ikka) as being strong tomboys or independent women, her personality in the anime was portrayed like that despite that Nagai intended to make her a normal female character as he presented her in the manga version.

The scans that you read at mangafox correspond to the first complete version of the series (1975 version by Kodansha) since Shueisha's version didn't include the TV Magazine stories and those are the ones that are occasionally missing from editions, but they aren't absent in Kodansha's editions. Now, what you are saying about the 1999 edition is partially correct and at the same time it isn't. You see, there are no missing stories, it's just that Kodansha's decided to publish the last stories in the Great Mazinger volumes. If you can, contact judex from the French forum (you need to be a member of the forum in order to be able to contact him and I don't remember ever seeing him speak in other language than French). I believe he physically has the 1999 edition and other versions and he can tell you that there are no stories about Boss Borot, Venus A or Jet Scrander missing from the scans of Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger. Check http://gettermario.dynamicforum.net/t3250-mazinger-z-mangaversion-de-go-nagai and take a look at the excellent description of the differences in editions done by judex. In fact, for anything Mazinger manga related, he most likely can answer almost anything.

Regarding Mazinkaizer SKL Versus, I don't really know much about the plot of the manga at this time. If I find the plot of the last volumes I'll let you know,