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This article is about the TV Series from the Toei Animation anime series. For the manga by Go Nagai, see Mazinger Z (Nagai).

Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ?) is a TV anime series produced by Dynamic Productions and animated by Toei Animation. It aired on Fuji TV from December 3, 1972 to September 1, 1974, with 92 episodes in total. It is based on the Mazinger Z manga. In September 8, 1974, was aired the sequel: Great Mazinger.

Synopsis[]

The manga and anime tell the story of the protagonist, Koji Kabuto and the titular mecha Mazinger Z. The Mazinger was created by Koji's grandfather Professor Juzo Kabuto from the discovery of the fictional Japanium and using it to create the powerful and durable Super Alloy Z. It's main purpose was to combat the Mechanical Beasts of Dr. Hell, a former colleague of Professor Kabuto who killed the research team he and Prof. Kabuto were a part of during an expedition in the Greek island Bardos. Prof. Kabuto managed to escape and began his work on the Mazinger and other robots to combat Dr. Hell. Managing to finish it, the professor was killed by a bomb planted by one of Dr. Hell's henchmen, Baron Ashura. Koji noticing the explosion rushes to his grandfather's side. With his dying breath, the professor informs his grandson of the impending danger and gives the Mazinger to him. Koji swearing vengeance on Dr. Hell, becomes the pilot of Mazinger Z and with help from his girlfriend Sayaka Yumi, his younger brother Shiro Kabuto, and some sort of help from Boss, Koji fights against Dr. Hell and his minions.

Characters[]

Photon Power Laboratory[]

Underground Empire[]

Mycenae Empire[]

Science Fortress Laboratory[]

Guest Characters[]

  • Episode 1: Mami
  • Episode 4, 8, 60, 65: Homeroom Teacher
  • Episode 12: Junichi
  • Episode 18: Dr. Gordon, Mary, Lisa
  • Episode 20: Mitsuo Satomi, Onimaru
  • Episode 22, 24, 25: Teacher Ippongi
  • Episode 23: Yuri
  • Episode 26: Saijo
  • Episode 28: Demon
  • Episode 30: Gonta, Heisuke
  • Episode 31: Kasuya, Kaga, Yokoi, Hiroshi Kasuya
  • Episode 33, 37: Dr. Smith
  • Episode 33, 34: Rico
  • Episode 45: Miura
  • Episode 46: Risa, Shinichi
  • Episode 51: Kito, Ayuko
  • Episode 61: Lorelei Heinrich, Stroheim Heinrich
  • Episode 63: Hitomi Aozora
  • Episode 64: Matsumoto, Moroguchi, Nishimura
  • Episode 67: Erika
  • Episode 76: Geronimo
  • Episode 86, 87: Dr. Watson
  • Episode 90, 91: Koji & Shiro's Mother

Mechanics[]

Photon Power Laboratory[]

Underground Empire[]

Mechanical Beasts[]

Ghost Mechanical Beasts[]

Mycenae Empire[]

Science Fortress Laboratory[]

Other[]

Locations[]

Episode List[]

Below is the listing for the episodes in the Mazinger Z anime which originally aired on Fuji TV in 1973. The English titles below are provided by the Discotek DVDs with some modifications.

# Date Title Monster of the Week
1 12/03/1972 The Birth of a Miraculous Robot Garada K7, Doublas M2
2 12/10/1972 Stop The Ashura Army! Garada K7, Doublas M2
3 12/17/1972 The Plan to Annihilate Mazinger Z Gromazen R9
4 12/24/1972 Mazinger Z in Peril!! Gaia Q5
5 12/31/1972 Ghost Mazinger Appears KingDan X10
6 01/07/1973 Dr. Hell's Two Great Mechanical Beasts Zaila, Danchel
7 01/14/1973 Baron Ashura's Great Plan Ozones B3
8 01/21/1973 Great Devil Abdullah's True Colors!! Abdullah U6
9 01/28/1973 Deimos F3 is Demon's Bastard Child Demos F3
10 02/04/1973 The Flying Metal Arm, Dyan Dayan N4
11 02/11/1973 The Phantom Galen Cannon is going to Blow!! Brighton J2
12 02/18/1973 Traitor! The Enlarged Robot, Vikong! Bicong 09
13 02/25/1973 The Devil's Giant Rolling Attack!! Goronko S2
14 03/04/1973 Rage! The Sleeping Giant, Spartan! Modilus, Spartan K5
15 03/11/1973 The Mechanical Beast Tsunami Plot Chigul E7, Gorias W3
16 03/18/1973 Orders to Assassinate Koji Kabuto! Balcan P5
17 03/25/1973 Horizon, The Underground Mecha-Beast Holzon V3
18 04/01/1973 Grossam, The Bloody Gang Of Pirates! Glossam X2
19 04/08/1973 The Flying Demon Beast Deviler X!! Deviler X1
20 04/15/1973 The Storm-Summoning Mechanical Beast Stronger Stronger T4
21 04/22/1973 Duel in the Ghost Town Wainder A2
22 04/29/1973 Pursuit!! Underwater Fortress Saluud Balanger M1, Balanger M2
23 05/06/1973 Mechanical Beast Damdam - Giant Wheel Operation Damdam L2
24 05/13/1973 The Mach Mechanical Beast Jinrai Jinrai S1
25 05/20/1973 The Three Aeros Brothers - Great Eruption Operation Aeros B1, Aeros B2, Aeros B3
26 05/27/1973 Clash! Samurai Koji vs Ashura Mechanical Beast Daima U5
27 06/03/1973 The Operation To Capture Aphrodite A Belgas V5
28 06/10/1973 The Dark Command - The Operation to Steal Super Alloy Hogas D5
29 06/17/1973 Great Reversal - Mazin Power!! Glenghost C3
30 06/24/1973 Shiro in Danger - Mazinger Z to the Rescue!! Brutus M3
31 07/01/1973 The Hostage Mechanical Beast - Electromagnetic Wave Operation Megaron P1, Megaron P2, Megaron P3
32 07/08/1973 The Terrifying Three-Headed Mechanical Beast Gerberos J3
33 07/15/1973 Great Airstrike! Baras K9 is the Sky's Outlaw Baras K9
34 07/22/1973 Red Lightning - Mazinger Flies in The Sky Genocider F9
35 07/29/1973 The Shinigami Mechanical Beast Deathma's Onslaught Deathma A1
36 08/05/1973 The Transforming Mechanical Beast in the Five Great Lakes Granada E3
37 08/12/1973 Messenger From the Dark - The Scrander's Certain Destruction Rokuron Q9
38 08/19/1973 The Mysterious Robot - Minerva X Archerian J5
39 08/26/1973 The Suicidal Challenge! Saluud Of The Crimson Seas Zarigan G8
40 09/02/1973 The Evil Commander - Count Brocken Grader F3
41 09/09/1973 Broken Wings - Deathmatch in the Sky Karma K5
42 09/16/1973 The Devil's Commandment!! Concentrated Attack of Land and Air Deltan V8
43 09/23/1973 Assault!! The Paratrooper Commando Gyron J1
44 09/30/1973 Great Advance!! The New Underwater Fortress Bood Rod R2
45 10/07/1973 Target of the Devil - Photon Power Laboratory!! Basil F7
46 10/14/1973 The Mechanical Beast Ninja Twins Enter Brothas S1 & Brothas S2
47 10/21/1973 Grandeur! The W Operation of Hell Mandra M3, Badhra Q5
48 10/28/1973 Boss Robot - Begin Battle!! Kasimov T7
49 11/04/1973 The Crazed Robot's Great Brawl Gumbina M5
50 11/11/1973 Shot Down!! Jet Scrander Briver A3
51 11/18/1973 Assassins From Hell - The Skull Army! Dagan G3
52 11/25/1973 Koji in a Pinch! Sayaka Mazinger Sortie! Bazuson M1
53 12/02/1973 Two-Phase Transformation!! The Camouflaging Mechanical Beast Doublephaser V1, Doublephaser V1 Small
54 12/09/1973 Explosion!! Kyouryoku Rocket Punch!! Jeiser J1
55 12/16/1973 The Mt. Fuji Great Descending Operation Blowgun G3
56 12/23/1973 The Stolen Chougoukin Z! Yuubarin T9, Satan Glaus P10
57 12/30/1973 Dr. Hell Occupies Japan!! Balmos Q7
58 01/06/1974 Frontline Base - Hell Castle!! Gian F3, Titarn G9
59 01/13/1974 Hell Island - The Devil's Battle Declaration!! Titarn G9
60 01/20/1974 Mazinger Z Fires Its Secret Weapon!! Deathcross V9
61 01/27/1974 The Robot of Destiny, Rhine X's Song River F9, Rhine X1
62 02/03/1974 Unexpected?! Boss Robot Flies in the Sky Knightarn O3
63 02/10/1974 The Beauty Carrying the Bomb Fungus B7
64 02/17/1974 Woman 007 VS Brocken's Murderers Devilchief A7
65 02/24/1974 The Balloon Bomb Carried by the Wind Marion P3
66 03/03/1974 The Formless Killer - Genova M9 Genova M9
67 03/10/1974 Don't Cry Koji! The Crucified Life Montos Q3
68 03/17/1974 The Bodyguard From Hell - Archduke Gorgon Skeleton O7, Gusios βIII
69 03/24/1974 Melted in the Air!! Hover Plider Gusios βIII
70 03/31/1974 The Invincible Commander - Koji Kabuto!! Minos M7
71 04/07/1974 Break Through the Crisis!! New Plider GO!! Unicorn Σ2
72 04/14/1974 Certain Kill!! Daisharin Rocket Punch Apollo A1
73 04/21/1974 Mazinger Z Kidnapped Kentol Γ7
74 04/28/1974 Sublime!! The End of Aphrodite A!! Harpia Π7
75 05/05/1974 Desperate Attack! Gorgon's Mechanical Beast Serpenter I6
76 05/12/1974 Lover of the Century - Diana A! Drago Ω1
77 05/19/1974 Officer on the Line - Count Brocken Blaster A7
78 05/26/1974 Baron Ashura Falls in the Pacific Ocean!! Elephans γ3
79 06/02/1974 Mazinger Explodes in 1 Second!! Jetfire P1, Greeks ΨII
80 06/09/1974 Fall Into Bardos Island's Trap!! Blacker F2
81 06/16/1974 Sleep in Hell!! Koji Kabuto!! Triple L5
82 06/23/1974 Mazinger Z in the Hands of the Devil Hawk Y2
83 06/30/1974 First Appearance!! Apparition Officer Viscount Pygman!! Chickeron N9
84 07/07/1974 The Ocean Depths are Mazinger Z's Grave!! Poses OII
85 07/14/1974 Mysterious!! Attack of the Dark Shadow!! Rayas D5
86 07/21/1974 All-Out Attack! The Triple Operation of Death Bornest S9, Parlas ΔV
87 07/28/1974 Deadly Explosion!! The Terrifying Viscount Pygman!! Glory R2
88 08/04/1974 Life or Death?! The Desperate Battle at Hell Island!! Harkenschmitt X9
89 08/11/1974 No Time Left!! The Miracle 4,000 Meters Underground!! Gilania β5
90 08/18/1974 Rage, Shiro!! Shoot at Mother's Visage!! Klasbas P9
91 08/25/1974 Last Chance!! Dr. Hell - Showdown of Death!! Haribiyun V6, Saiga O3
92 09/01/1974 Death Match!! Revive Our Mazinger Z!! Pilanias, Gratonios

Music[]

  • Composer: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Lyrics: Kazuo Koike
  • Vocals: Ichiro Mizuki
  • Ending Theme: Bokura no Mazinger Z
  • Composer: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Lyrics: Kazuo Koike
  • Vocals: Ichiro Mizuki, Otowa Yurikago Kai
  • Insert songs:
  • Z no Thema (Zのテーマ)
  • Composer: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Lyrics: Kazuo Koike
  • Vocals: Ichiro Mizuki
  • Sora Tobu Mazinger Z (空飛ぶマジンガーZ)
  • Composer: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Lyrics: Kazuo Koike
  • Vocals: Ichiro Mizuki, Otowa Yurikago Kai
  • Die Loreley by Friedrich Silcher
  • Sayaka no Thema (さやかのテーマ)
  • Composer: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Lyrics: Kenji Yokoyama
  • Vocals: Kumiko Kaori
  • Wa ga Tomo Mazinger Z (わが共マジンガーZ)
  • Composer: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Lyrics: Kazuo Koike
  • Vocals: Shin Doi
  • Vocals: Ichiro Mizuki
  • Ore wa Great Mazinger (おれはグレートマジンガー)
  • Composer: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Lyrics: Kazuo Koike
  • Vocals: Ichiro Mizuki, Otowa Yurikago Kai

Staff[]

Releases[]

In 2013, Discotek Media announced that they had acquired the license to the 1973 anime from Dynamic Planning. The DVD includes the first 46 episodes of the anime and was released for Region 1 on April 29, 2014[1] and is available for purchase on their website. A second DVD set containing the second half of the series was released on December 23, 2014 [2]

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