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MazinkaiserMazinkaiser (マジンカイザー) is an Japanese anime OVA, released on Japan in 1999, and based on Mazinger Z, originally from manga artist Go Nagai. The basic plot is a re-telling of the adventures of Koji Kabuto, pilot of the mighty Mazinger Z, the first Super Robot of anime, defender of Japan and of the Photon Energy research laboratory. He is joined by another hero, Tetsuya Tsurugi, in his Great Mazinger, along with token girl Sayaka Yumi in her female robot Aphrodite A, and comic-relief Boss and his Boss Borot. They all fight against the evil machines of Dr. Hell and his assistant, the half-man, half-woman servant Baron Ashura. This time around, however, Ashura forms an army of machines so powerful that is able to defeat both Koji and Tetsuya, and is able to capture Mazinger and do severe damage to Great Mazinger. While Ashura and Dr. Hell plot the final attack to the Photon Laboratory, Koji, who is missing after the battle, finds a hidden laboratory of his dead grandfather, Juuzo Kabuto. There he finds a hologram of his grandfather that tells him that the time has come to unleash the most powerful robot ever created: Mazinkaiser, so terribly powerful it can be used as a lethal weapon of evil as it can be for good. Mazinkaiser (with Koji inside of it) arrive just as Ashura is almost on the verge of destroying the Photon lab, and defeats him, who leaves stunned and hardly believing that a new Mazinger has arrived. The Mazinkaiser robot made its first actual appearance in Banpresto's Super Robot Wars F video game, released for the Sega Saturn console in 1997. The OVA producers used the robot design from the video game, but based the overall design of the series (characters, plot, and tone) on the original Mazinger Z manga that Go Nagai published on Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1972, instead of the anime TV version produced by Nagai and Toei Animation that same year. This explains much of the difference between the original concept of Mazinger manga and the Mazinger anime: the manga version (and therefore as is presented in the OVA), is far more crude in terms of character design and plot; the tone of the story is divided between the serious and the "tongue-in-cheek" with a cynical sense of humor, and is more graphical in nature in terms of sexual and violence situations. The OVA was a huge success and was released on the U.S. in 2003. It inmediately spun a short feature, Mazinkaiser vs the Great General of Darkness (released on Japan on 2002).
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