I hate trying to embed from the Internet Archive. In order to make it easier for you to see the video embed properly I have to lose the sidebar, which is part of site promotion, or I have to sit here all day messing with settings until I can get it to work. I don’t have time to mess with settings. So sucks to be me, as usual.
Mazinger Z is a 1970s Super Robot series from Japan. Aliens invade the Earth with giant monsters, one of the aliens is half man, half woman right down the middle like an old school carnival sideshow for some reason, and it’s up to teenagers to pilot giant robots and save the world because Japan.
In the 1980s, we Americans got Tranzor Z, a rework of the show to I’m guessing tone the violence down a bit and change cultural references to match what US kids expected. Before you get all mad, the anime itself toned itself down from what Go Nagai put in the original manga. In other words it had a lot more nudity. If that excites you I have two rather big volumes untranslated for sale over at The Clutter Reports.
I couldn’t find a decent copy of the original, and I usually like to have them both up for comparison and for the sake of the sub only crowd or those who prefer original to “hack dubs”, but that’s not in the cards tonight. Here is the first episode of the version I grew up with, though. Enjoy anyway and you can find the full series of this version at the Internet Archive.
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