Thread:Jfgslo/@comment-1809047-20130907052630/@comment-1809047-20130908022634

First let me get this outta the way. The manga came before the anime by two months, (Manga came out October 2, 1972; Anime came out December 3, 1972) it's not just on wikipedia; I checked all the forums including Nagai Again. I asked SantaBla about this same topic before in a different fashion as seen here:  (I thought it was blended with Ota's manga at the time) and he mentioned something about the 1999 redition being the complete original story. I don't know if that's true or not and right now I don't care. I'm shelfing this part since apparently no one knows the real answer to this original manga stuff.

Now for the real business. I've been going around Japanese blogs lately and find stuff on Mazinkaizer SKL Verses. But the most I could find was a mecha based on Devilman's Jinmen: Barubara D-2 and the fact that Volume 2 was used to make the OVA. My Japanese isn't all that great and the posts don't tell much of the plots. The most I can make is that Volume 1 is based on Death Caprice Squad's intro missions, the plot of the OVA for volume 2 (I still don't know if Machine Island is supposed to be a prison or some kind of sight of an accident with gravitons), and Volume 3 involves some mad scientist and his goons. I figure something fresh could be better known.