Z Mazinger - Recommendations

• Other (1 ep)
• 2007

• TV (13 eps)
• 2007

The hero is Daisaku Kusama who encounters an enormous robot "Giant Robo 1 (GR1)" at ruins in Okinawa. He makes a contract with an ancient to be the commander of GR1. Daisaku is genetically modified to become one with GR1 to fight. The ally organization is "UNISOM." The enemy organization is "Gigantic Rebellion Operators (GRO)." They manipulate Giant Robos and start "armored terrorism" through the world. The mysterious girl in this anime is V. V is a girl who appears in front of Daisaku like an illusion. Her relationship between the GR is unkown.

• TV (74 eps)
• 1975 - 1977

Years ago, after watching his family die at the hands of the Vegan empire, Duke Fleed managed to escape, stealing the powerful UFO Grendizer that the enemy used to destroy his planet in the process. Eventually ending up on Earth, the boy was adopted by Dr. Umon and given the name Daisuke, intent on living out the rest of his life in peace. However, when his father and the mecha pilot Kouji Kabuto realize that the Vegan empire has arrived at Earth to repeat history, Daisuke is forced back into the pilot's seat to save his new home. Alongside Kouji's flying saucer, can Daisuke and his Grendizer stop the fleet and save the world?

• OVA (7 eps)
• 1992 - 1998

In the near future, a small team of scientists have solved the world’s energy problems with the Shizuma Device. While the development of the device was hampered by a chilling disaster, the device is now viewed as the ideal power supply; it is clean, recyclable, and can be used to power every device imaginable. However, the terrorist group Big Fire has found a way to recreate the disaster that was triggered during the item’s development, in every Shizuma Device around the world. It is up to InterPol, a group of justice specialists with extraordinary powers, to stop this nefarious plan and save the world with the help of their trump card known as Giant Robo and the young Kusama Daisaku, the crux of the robot’s power.

• TV (56 eps)
• 1974 - 1975

After a long and difficult battle, Dr. Hell and his malicious forces have been defeated. While it seems as though peace has been achieved, a much stronger evil has arisen; the Mycenaean Empire. Lead by the Emperor of Darkness, they waste no time to dispatch their fearsome Battle Beasts, which easily defeat Mazinger Z. As Koji and Sayaka leave for the United States, it's up to skilled pilot, Tetsuya Tsurugi, and his new and improved Great Mazinger to take a stand!

• Other (1 ep)
• 1973

Dr. Hell is at it again with another plot to defeat Mazinger Z. This time he has a new trick: holograms! Dr. Hell uses his new holographic technology to make it look like Mazinger Z has gone crazy and is attacking the people of Japan, and the real Mazinger Z is seemingly unable to defeat his doppelganger due to its ability to disappear like a ghost. With Japan against him, his friends captured, and power running out, can Mazinger Z figure out how to defeat the holographs?

• TV (38 eps)
• 1996 - 1997

Hisho, Ginga, Ace, Hayate, and Ikazuchi all work at a studio doing various idol-related jobs at the request of their manager, Reiko. But in reality, these five teenagers are really the Reideens, a group of superheros who fight the Super Devils sent by Lushu, a mysterious being. Little do the Reideens know, these Super Devils are being sent for a more important purpose...

• TV (40 eps)
• 1977 - 1978

Evil aliens known as the Boazanians have invaded Earth, easily defeating all of its conventional military defenses. However, all is not lost: Japan has been secretly developing a mighty weapon – the powerful robot known as Voltes V! This massive mecha is made up of five combat vehicles, three of which are piloted by the sons of Voltes V's inventor; and when the evil Boazanians attack, the five vehicles combine to crush the invaders’ newest evil plot while using their mighty laser sword to slice the enemy robots in two!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1974

Kouji, Boss and the rest of the gang are taking some well needed rest and relaxation on a hot and sandy beach. The tranquility of the day is broken by a harbinger of doom: a robed prophet who foretells the end of the world at the hands of the General of Darkness! Though skeptical, news reports from around the world soon confirm that Earth's major cities are under attack, and only one thing can stop the carnage - Mazinger Z! Along with Diana A, Boss Borot and the rest of the team, Mazinger Z will fly and fight his way to victory to save the world from the General's assault!

• TV (26 eps)
• 2009

Developed from Japanium ore is the super energy, Photon Power. Seeking this energy is Dr. Hell, a madman craving world domination who along with his subordinates Baron Ashura and Count Brocken, commands the Machine Beasts excavated from Bardos Island to attack the Photon Power Lab and take it for himself. Meeting the attack head on is our hero, the hot-blooded teenager Kouji Kabuto who pilots the super robot Mazinger Z, constructed by his grandfather Juzo and made from the strongest metal Chogokin Z. But in this battle between Dr. Hell and the Kabuto family, many legends surrounding the Mycenaean Civilization and Bardos Island, as well as the secrets of Mazinger Z remain shrouded in mystery.