Thread:Jfgslo/@comment-1809047-20130907052630/@comment-901832-20130929064159

Zeromaro wrote: Anyway, I've got stuff to ask about the Ota manga. I've pretty much got the gist for Mazinger Z; I'm mainly asking for what happened in Great and Grendizer (I read the first volume and first chapter of volume 2 of the latter). I know Tetsuya died along with Kenzo and Misato but how much of it is in depth? Regarding the story of Ota's versions, I'm not the biggest fan of Ota's because I truly dislike his art style and what I perceive to be a lack of care for the main characters in comparison to their portrayal in the anime or Nagai's versions, particularly in Grendizer's case. What I can tell you right now, though, is that the story is indeed more deep than in Nagai's versions since it offers the origins of the characters and their motivations. In Great Mazinger, there is a famous story about Jun where racism is addressed and it was so interesting that it was made into an episode of the TV anime. There also are a lot of cultural references to real events during the 1970s. Grendizer also has a deep story and an even more astonishing ending, the end of civilization by Grendizer's programming and how only Koji and Hikaru survive (Duke, Maria and Sayaka aren't dead, but almost with that ending), although it has even worse art than Great Mazinger. Here are some links that provide a lot of details about the plot (most of them in Italian):

Great Mazinger Ota http://ilpazzomondodigonagai.forumfree.it/?t=46669328 http://www.animeclick.it/manga/Great+Mazinger http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/GreatMazinger http://raggiogamma.altervista.org/Enciclopedia/Mazinga_Gosaku_Ota/Ota2.php http://gonagai.forumfree.it/?t=13331591 Grendizer Ota http://ilpazzomondodigonagai.forumfree.it/?t=44845614 http://www.animeclick.it/manga.php?xtit=Goldrake http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/UFORoboGrendizer http://raggiogamma.altervista.org/Enciclopedia/Mazinga_Gosaku_Ota/Ota3.php http://gonagai.forumfree.it/?t=22123110 http://gonagai.forumfree.it/?t=27779609

You should better ask an Italian of a French user since both series were published complete in those two countries. Because, although I have Japanese scans of both, I'm not a fan of Ota's work and, besides, in this case, the devil is in the details since there is a lot of character psychology that would be lost if the story is not properly read. Unless you'd want to check the scans yourself, which I can upload if you wan them.