Mazinger Z versus Transformers

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Mazinger Z versus Transformers
マジンガーZ 対 トランスフォーマー
(Mazinger Z tai Transformer)
Publisher Villagebooks
First published March 28, 2019
Written by Yūjin Ishikawa (plot),
Naoto Tsushima (script)
Art by Yū Kinutani (Prologue and Epilogue),
Hayato Sakamoto (Chapter 1),
Hidetsugu Yoshioka (Chapter 2),
Kazumi Hoshi (Chapter 3),
Naoyuki Fujisawa (Chapter 4),
Naoto Tsushima (Chapter 5)

When a spacetime warp sends the Autobots and Decepticons to the Japan of another universe, they get involved in Mazinger Z's fight against Doctor Hell and Baron Ashura.

Synopsis


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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Photon Power Laboratory Underground Empire Others

and some unnamed Mechanical Beasts.

Quotes

Notes

Transformers references

  • The Autobots and Decepticons hail from a very Generation 1 cartoon-esque universe. The space bridge here is clearly based on the cartoon design and the Transformers characters who appear are mostly the season 1 cast (barring Hot Rod's cameo in the epilogue). Just about the only thing that prevents this series from being in-continuity with the actual cartoon is how Starscream is outright killed at the climax of the story and his ghost is spirited away by the hooded observers.

Mazinger Z references

  • Doctor Hell's description of Mazinger Z being "An iron fortress that soars through the skies" is taken from the very first line of the Mazinger Z anime's famous theme song. The literal translation of Mazinger Z's nickname is "Castle of Black Iron", but it's often translated into "Iron Fortress".
  • Two of the Mechanical Beasts that appear in the video Doctor Hell shows to trick the Autobots are Garada K7 and Doublas M9, the first two Mechanical Beasts Mazinger Z fought and the most well-known among all the Mechanical Beasts. In numerous remakes, reboots or adaptations, they're often again the first Mechanical Beasts fought by whatever incarnation of Mazinger Z is present. They're also almost assured to appear whenever Mazinger Z is included in the Super Robot Wars series of video games.
  • Soundwave's description of photon power being extremely pure and efficient is precisely why Doctor Hell was so adamant to get his hands on it—powered by photon power, his Mechanical Beasts would be virtually unstoppable. In-universe, photon power was originally developed by Kōji's grandfather, Juzo Kabuto as a potent and clean new form of energy.
  • The appearance of Great Mazinger in the epilogue could be seen as a reference to how Great Mazinger was the direct sequel to Mazinger Z. In fact, Great Mazinger was one of the first anime series to be a direct sequel to a prior one.

Errors

Other trivia

  • Optimus Prime's amazement at the technology represented by Mazinger Z and exclamation that such technology would be inconceivable on their Earth is understandable: Mazinger Z is generally accepted to be the very first so-called Super Robot anime, i.e. robots with such fantastic powers, technology or power sources that they're science fantasy rather than science fiction. Real Robots (e.g. the Gundam series, Macross, Patlabor) are somewhat more rooted in realism in comparison, hence why those series often have the main characters be part of the military or police force. The Brave series would fall under Super Robots.
  • It's hard to overstate Mazinger Z's impact on anime and manga. Many tropes now commonplace were either first introduced or popularized by Go Nagai when he created Mazinger Z. Most relevant to Transformers are the command or activation codes (e.g. "Mazin Go!" to have Mazinger Z emerge from its hangar, "Pilder On!" when Kōji Kabuto docks the Pilder craft into Mazinger's head to activate it) and the calling out of attack names (e.g. "Breast Fire!" to emit melting beams from the red plates on Mazinger's chest). Basically if you wonder why the Japanese dubs have Transformers yell out "Transform!" or have all sorts of goofy attack names, you can thank/blame Mazinger Z.

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