Mazinkaiser

Although it would strike anyone as another childish anime
It has been actually one of my big childhood favorites
and although it doesn't pack any seriousness behind its plot or drama (if there's any) it does have its own lustrous style

Mazinkaiser takes the viewer to the ultimate Mazinger Z form of robots, being an advanced form more even than the Great Mazinger, it provides amazing fight scenes and marvelous drawing, that will keep you excited and on edge throughout the whole series

I certainly loved it, and loved how they re-introduced the beloved characters (villains or heroes) of the Mazinger Z universe

If you're a fan of Mecha anime ... in general or Mazinger Z in particular you cannot miss this show, you can never go wrong when it is a Mazinkaiser show :)

Mazinkaiser is based on one of the first super robot shows, Go Nagai's Mazinger Z. I'd heard a lot of good things about this seven episode OVA so I was excited to see it. Unfortunately, it wasn't as good as I was led to believe. Mazinkaiser is also the name of the main giant robot in this show. It was originally created for the Super Robot Wars video games and apparently the fan reaction was so good that they decided to make an OVA series based on it. It's set in the Mazinger Z universe with the same characters as Mazinger Z. The characters are ... pretty archetypal; there's the hero that solves everything with bravery and manly yelling, there's the silly comic relief character, there's the girl, there's the scientist guys that do maintenance on the robots, there's the evil nemesis that wants to destroy our heroes. Pretty basic, but it gets the job done. Anyway, Kabuto Kouji, the main good guy, finds Mazinkaiser, the ultimate unbeatable giant robot, and Dr. Hell decides that he must destroy Mazinkaiser because....he's the antagonist and he feels like it. The problem with the show is that there doesn't seem to be any overarching plot. Each episode stands alone. The last episode was actually really cool but it isn't worth watching six average episodes to get there. The art is based on Go Nagai's original designs so it has an old-school style, which I like. The animation changes style from episode to episode. The first one is done with cels, some are done with real thick lines, and some are just done with computers. The sound is nice. All the sound effects are fitting, you can hear the robots stomp as they walk around and the laser blasts are good. And it has an awesome opening done by JAM Project. I'm more disappointed than anything else. Mazinkaiser had everything going for it, but it still turned out mediocre.

Although there is already a 5 review, I disagree with the reviewer on one aspect in that he concludes that it was the lack of over-arching plot that hurts this show.

I just can't view it that way because this is how it is for classic Super Robots and this remake could be considered as elevating the quality of these normally tedious Super Robot stories.

If anything had Mazinkaiser been further modernized as having an over-arching plot it will only worsen the depth of the characters involved in this series.

That said, Mazinkaiser primarily failed in my opinion because it wasn't able to elevate the same euphoric feeling ... the original SRW Mazinkaiser had which was a design that was so good that if you are just a bit interested in classic Super Robots could make up for everything else about the robot's premise.

The biggest weakness of Mazinkaiser was that it didn't build up enough of the justification for Mazinkaiser's appearance and instead of opting for a foreshadowing set of events, the scenes were more along the lines of trying to ride the appearance of Mazinkaiser and by doing so the series gives up many potential opportunities to build up both the characters and the mechs - opting instead to be more of a fanservice show that even if you know nothing about the original Mazinger still seems like a weak and not so exciting arc about a Super Robot.

Ah , yeah Mazinkaiser the Super Robot classic , Mazinkaiser was a Super Robot Wars creation infuse with Photon energy and Getter Rays ( C From Getter Robo series of anime ) here its origin as a Phototype of Mazinger Z , a much more powerful Mazinkaiser is a hugely weird concept being the prototype is more powerful than its two successors Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger , but hey its anime , the OVA is huge in action, less on the characters, and that not a bad thing , the Mazinkaiser OVA is a must watch for any Mechahead , ... pros the Animation and Robot designs, cons the Beach Episode, and the Mazinkaiser backstory