The winner of the contest was an elementary school student, who submitted the drawing of a robot called Red Arone, which superficially resembled both Ultraman and Mazinger Z.

The personification of this popularity can be seen as 1: 1 size Mazinger Z, Tetsujin, and Gundam statues built across the world.

Some of the most famous are anime such as Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, the Super Robots such as Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go ( Gigantor ) and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, and the Real Robots such as Yoshiyuki Tomino's Gundam series and Shōji Kawamori's Macross series.

The body had the color scheme of Mazinger Z.

He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s.

He is credited with creating the Super Robot genre and for designing the first mecha robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with Mazinger Z.

The opening mimics that of Mazinger Z Vs.

* Boss ( Mazinger ), from the anime Mazinger Z

* Mazinger Z

* Dr. Hell, a character in the anime series Mazinger Z

Typical shows from this period include Lupin III and Mazinger Z.

The most notable is Tomoharu Katsumata's 1973 feature film Mazinger Z Vs. Devilman, which features Devilman teaming up with Nagai's titular robot to fight Dr. Hell.

The series enjoyed high ratings while it was on the air, though its popularity was dwarfed by that of Nagai's longer-running Mazinger Z on Fuji TV.

Mazinger Z Vs. Devilman is a crossover film between Devilman and Mazinger Z produced by Toei and released in.

* Baron Ashura, a character from the anime series Mazinger Z

Super Robot Wars are turn-based strategy games featuring a variety of Japanese mecha series from many generations, such as Mazinger Z, Gundam, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and GaoGaiGar.

In addition, the studio helped propel the popularity of the magical girl and Super Robot genres of anime ; among Toei's most legendary and trend-setting TV series include the first magical-girl anime series, Mahoutsukai Sally the anime adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same name, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, animated adaptation of his manga, which set the standard for Super Robot anime for years to come.

** Mazinger Z ( 1972 – 1974 ) ( broadcast in the US as “ Tranzor Z ”)

** Mazinger Z Vs. Devilman ( 1973 )

The robots were designed by series creator Keiichi Sato, who also designed the Mazinger mechas featured on the Mazinkaiser OVA and the mutant creatures of The SoulTaker TV series.

The whole 6: 00PM slot from Monday to Friday featured a series of " super robots ," such as Grendizer, Mekanda and Voltes V with " Mazinger Z " airing on Wednesday.

Tetsuya and the Great Mazinger are featured, along with Jun in the Mazinkaiser OVA and movie Mazinkaiser: Death match!

In other instances, footage from Great Mazinger ( the sequel to Mazinger Z ) was spliced in on occasion to replace removed footage ( despite the obvious visual differences between the two titular robots ).

Kouji, without knowing the true Shin Great Mazinger, was worried and asked Tetsuya if he can handle an entire army of super robots.

The concept of Shin Great Mazinger is to bring Great Mazinger to the ranks of modern and more powerful robots such as Mazinkaiser and Shin Getter Robo.

The main difference between Mazinger Z and previous robots was that the hero, Koji Kabuto, would pilot the robot from the inside in the same manner as one would drive a car.

A good quantity of " Soul of Chogokin " toys from different Super Robot series of the past have been produced, like Mazinger ( which has over 12 models based on different robots from the anime ), Gaiking, Dancougar, Tetsujin 28-go, and a few others.

The toy line not only features traditional robots such as Mazinger Z and Brave Reideen, but also robots from The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation and the Super Sentai series.

Mazinger Z is an enormous Super Robot, constructed with a fictitious metal called, which is forged from a new element ( Japanium ) mined from a reservoir found only in the sediment of Mt.

Its period of greatest popularity lasted from roughly October 1973 to March 1974, during which time it regularly scored audience ratings in the high twenties ; episode 68, broadcast March 17, 1974, achieved the series ' highest rating of 30. 4 %, making Mazinger Z one of the highest-rated anime series of all time ( 1 ).

The shows spawned so-called “ team-up movies ” early on, which were like longer episodes that teamed up Mazinger Z with one of Go Nagai ’ s other creations, as in Mazinger Z vs. Devilman ( mazinga zeto tai debiruman ) in 1973 and Mazinger Z Vs.

Ankoku Daishogun, which in some ways served as a partial remake of Mazinger Z vs. the General of Darkness.

Since 2007, several rumors surfaced regarding a new series which would be based on the Z Mazinger manga.

In February 2009, it was officially announced a new Mazinger anime called which later began airing on April 4, 2009.

Mazinger Z was also the first show to feature a female robot ( Aphrodite A, piloted by female lead Sayaka Yumi ), and a comic-relief robot made of spare parts and garbage named Boss Borot ( which ended up suffering severe damage in nearly all of his appearances ), after its pilot, brash yet simpleminded gang leader, Boss.

Mazinger Z also spawned the parody series, Panda Z, also by Nagai, in which the main characters of the original series are replaced by anthropomorphic animals.

In 1994, Banpresto released an arcade game called Mazinger Z which was a vertical shoot ' em up with three selectable characters: Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger and Grendizer.

Gunbuster follows the genre of Super Robot anime, started by the Mazinger Z series, but also contains some elements of the Real Robot genre by showing mass produced versions of the titular robot ( called " Sizzlers ") as well as previous smaller combat mecha called " RX " which are used along with bigger battleships in space warfare, elements seen previously in Gundam and Macross.

is Japanese for " Super Alloy " and is a fictitious material which first appeared in Go Nagai's Mazinger Z manga and anime.

The first of these toys was the " GA-01 " Mazinger Z, which, in spite of questionable engineering that led Popy to offer a free replacement campaign, ignited a craze that changed the face of the Japanese toy industry in the 1970s.

In addition to being aired on television in the Philippines ( see below ), a few episodes of this English version of " Mazinger Z " were released on home video in the United Kingdom in 1983 ( now out of print ).

Speculation is that both Mazinkaiser and Shin Great Mazinger were being upgraded in the Photon Labs, forcing Tetsuya to use the prototype Great Mazinger.