A Proposal for Grinlandia Stories

A Proposal for Grinlandia Stories may well be set mostly in both Portugal and Ireland in all but name, as Grinlandia is itself more likely inspired by Catholic Western Europe, the northern Philippines and some parts of Latin America’s Southern Cone than by other regions. 

A compilation of ten stories 

The Girl (She) Who Runs Through Waves 

The Road To Nowhere

The King Of The WereRats - a filthy dark story about a sewer of WereRats witnessing the downfall and subsequent replacement of their (admittedly screwed up) previous royal dynasty by another one. Funnily enough, its upcoming adaptation also mirrors the downfall of competing British Royal dynasties, themselves being replaced by another one. 

Jessie And Morgiana 

Reno Island 

Mister Designer - the only Alexander Grin Story to clearly be set in the near future, which is mostly due to significant technological breakthroughs. 

The Lanfier Colony - An unintentional allegory for both corporate abuse and on the lighter side, romance, especially between two disabled peers. The disabled Bekeko and Bikika are themselves sadly killed off near the end by Lanfier after Ester and her former rival marry. 

The Scarlet Sails 

The Golden Chain 

The Shining World

Long live the WMT!

The World Masterpiece Theatre may be gone, but its legitimate successors are filling their own niche online.

Sometimes a bunch of works set in a shared universe tend to get compiled into an anthology series. 

Series that have a lot of characters and plot lines as well as being a lot longer than average are more likely to be standalone series, although there is a considerable amount of canon welding if two or more standalone books or even series belong to the same creator or company. 

The Scarlet Sails: a character analysis

The Scarlet Sails is a literary work beloved by a lot of people in many nations formerly aligned with the admittedly screwed up USSR, even though it is rather obscure in the Anglophone Minority world. 

Though it already has a lot of tv and film adaptions, most of which tend to have a bunch of theatrical plays with rather broken fandoms as their ultimate bases instead of the book, which fortunately has a current fandom largely consisting of reasonably behaved fans from all walks of life. 

However, the summary, though very idealistic with a few dark moments, is quite typical for its time period, with median cases of unintentional classism and all, despite being both much less propagandistic and somewhat more progressive for its day than most Russian language novels at the the time. 

Lohengrin (also Known as Longren) has a consistently fitting name for his Baltic German roots, while Sola is Assol In All But Name, mostly because such a Soviet era Russian neologism rhymes with Asshole in a rather deservedly blatant and inappropriate manner. 

Mr Menners Sr, Mrs Menners and Mr Menners Jr are all tongue twisters. 

In longhand. 

For beginners, my version of Lohengrin is a loving if quite dysfunctional man, whose beloved former partner and whose friend (who’s also her husband) are forcibly kicked out of thei house by his boss, himself a filthy rich man with a bunch of corporate lawyers as his lackeys. He is alright as Sola’s father figure, although he does have dysfunctional moments when going too far; such as forcing his daughter figure to become his mere servant when she’s more than just that. He also has a secret war with those same old corporate lawyers, which unfortunately results in getting him imprisoned by a bunch of equally corrupt cops repeatedly and severely so at times. He surely is a Woobie indeed.

My version of Mr Menners Sr is the well meaning but complicit foster father of Mr Menners Jr, who himself is the only birth son of two incredibly corrupt lawyers who abandoned him at the formers’ doorstep. However, while he’s a rather dysfunctional parent and a not so great man overall, he does have a few fairly redeemable qualities. He also seems to be the unfortunate victim of many a violation. 

For my version of Mrs Menners, she was functionally screwed up in terms of parenting; if the main red flags are indications of her awfulness as a whole. She was known for punishing Mr Menners Jr far too severely and denying him most but not all of the essential things that most actual children have even in today’s world. Not only was she a godawful foster mother, she’s also a rather bad woman anyway for a good reason. 

I’m somewhat aware that my version of Mr Menners (itself a possible Russian corruption of Menezes) Jr is more like a wedging, foulmouthed coward of an antagonist than all his literary, theatrical, tv and film counterparts before or since. Having been dreaming of my variant on Menners Jr reluctantly admitting mistakes while also having a pretty godawful dead foster mother (who also violated his whole life by conceiving a son, Mr Menners the third, out of his sperm) and a neglectful, henpecked father (whom the mother also abused till she died in the woods (of factory induced poisoning), as he himself was a former military brat) named Menners Sr. These ones, that thing and the much scarier implication of his birth parents being two of the town’s most corrupt lawyers (both of whom already were middle aged when he was born), seems to say it all. 

Arthur Grey is the youngest foster son of impoverished Szlachta Leonora Cebulinski and the former military brat Marius Grey, a Cape Coloured Anglican. He is cute but troubled and very incredibly foulmouthed, sometimes to the point of being caged into a dollhouse, itself inspired by my dad’s awful daycare experience. There are hopeful implications that his much older blood brother Errol deservedly punished the admittedly screwed up Mr Grey and Mrs Cebulinski mostly for spanking him too far in front of the latter’s other siblings as well. 

The Scarlet Sails: Characters

The Scarlet Sails: Characters

Lohengrin and Co

Lohengrin: Lohengrin is a loving but rather authoritarian, and dysfunctional, father figure to Sola. He sometimes seems to be in and out of prison primarily for only two majorly ludicrous reasons; he was secretly rioting against some of the most corrupt politicians and corporate lawyers of a whole town run by sexual harassers and has repeatedly been arrested rather wrongfully by a bunch of corrupt cops as a result. 

Sola: Sola is understandably a barefoot Autistic+ADHD person with a considerable amount of childhood trauma. It is said that sometimes being bullied, scapegoated and foulmouthed upon by a lot of people (Mr Menners Jr is usually the main exploiter of it along with Mr Menners Sr, but the first Mrs Menners was considerably much worse than both of them, as she genuinely was a malignant Sociopath!) in the town of Nostra was not her fault, it’s mostly because a lot of said townspeople are ableist, but mostly to a small or moderate extent. However, it is she who turns out to be the most reasonable fella of the whole cast. 

The Greys

Leonora: Leonora is possibly from a nouveau riche Jewish family. Although a rather workaholic wife and at times a spiteful parent, she has a good amount of crude humour and does not always favour a single kid over the others. She does care for Arthur however, as she was the only reasonable enough mother figure that he’s ever had at all.  

Marius Grey: Marius seems to be the former military brat husband of a Jewish bureaucrat, who turns out to be the middle child of a commoner butcher’s three surviving sons. He’s a rather dysfunctional dude who tends not to get along well with his children, and sometimes loathes meeting his relatives, but doesn’t want to abuse them any further than when he was in his military career as a stiff upper lipped man. Seems to be somewhat older than his wife. 

Alexander and Alice Grey: The second and third children of Leonora and Marius, who are themselves workaholic and thrifty brunette haired fraternal twins. They’re about the same age as Christopher. 

Cristopher Grey: Marius’s eldest nephew, Christopher is the lankiest member of the whole family. He is a relatively well adjusted if highly unimpressed cyclist. He is about twenty three to twenty six years old, and has two surviving sisters, Orrin and Emily. 

Ronald Grey: The fourth extant child of Leonora and Marius, Ronald is physically slimmer than both of his parents, but turns out to be the family’s sneakiest member because he’s the favourite sibling of his big brother Errol. He seems to be about sixteen to nineteen years old. 

Errol Grey: The first child of Leonora and Marius, he is a cunning yet honest sailor who’s about twenty eight to thirty one years old. He’s a muscleman as well, albeit one who doesn’t take drugs. 

Orrin Grey: One of Marius Grey’s nieces, Orrin is a woman about twenty one to twenty four years old, who sometimes feuds with Emily and Christopher. 

Emily Grey: Another of Marius Grey’s nieces, Emily Grey is a foulmouthed lil rose said to be eighteen to twenty one years old. 

Vincent Grey: One of Marius Grey’s younger nephews, Vincent seems to be Christopher’s rather playful trickster cousin who’s about the same age as Orrin. 

Wallace Grey: Another of Marius Grey’s nephews, he is a maths fanatic who’s about the same age as Emily. 

Lucinda Grey: Marius Grey’s youngest niece, she is about the same age as Ronald. Unlike the other siblings, she seems to have a muscly body like her father Percy.    

Melvin Grey: Marius Grey’s youngest nephew, he seems to be about fourteen to seventeen years old. 

Vivian Grey: Marius Grey’s eldest niece, she seems to be the same age as Errol. 

Percy Grey: Percy is Marius’ unimpressed younger brother, whose status as a conservative family man pales in comparison to his ableist wife’s. 

The Menners 

Mr Menners Sr: Mr Menners Sr is the always complaining albeit just as rather equally complicit, if rarely abusive, adopted father of Mr Menners Jr. He’s also a rather ill suited husband for his second wife and doesn’t care about Mr Menners Jr in a good light much. Mr Menners Sr himself already has learned many of his worst mistakes, albeit it’s only revealed when he finally tells his similarly somewhat healed son very sensitively about what happened in his life as a parent. His first name is Henrique and his actual surname is Menezes. 

Mrs Menners: Wilhelmina Menners was the horrid but sympathetic wife of Mr Menners Sr and the negligent adoptive mother of Mr Menners Jr. She is from a quite big and rather screwed up family of accountants from. Her full maiden name was Ursula Wilhelmina Schengen.

Mr Menners Jr: Even though he’s the son of corrupt corporate lawyers being badly adopted by a brothel madam and her much abused husband, he seems to have been violated only once; Wilhelmina did it in order to secretly conceive a son just when he was only twenty four but she was about thirty nine. He seems to be named Cristiano due to being the son of corrupt Catholic Traditionalist lawyers working for a corporation known for its unethical track record. Technically, it’s not quite literal incest (but it still is a really very bad idea). 

Malandro Menners: Cristiano and Ursula’s son conceived in the violation incident. He really happens to be so much like his mum in hair colour terms. 

The Binchies 

Arthur Binchy: Arthur is implied to be from (a fictionalised variant of) Cork county in Ireland; henceforth his dark ginger hair and green eyes. He is a cute but incredibly foulmouthed young dude with messed up (beyond belief) mental health issues! Even before picking up Sola, he basically mugged his already drunk and elderly birth parents (by accident) just to show his adopted parents that his birth town is full of predatory harassers. They’d rather let him go as a result of becoming horrified about his shatteringly bad mental health, at least until the end. 

The King of 50s Kaiju art

Due to strongly protecting his identity from way too much fame, Kazuyoshi ‘Wasuke’ Abe, Souji Yamakawa’s fellow contemporary who perhaps passed years to decades ago, is most likely known in much of the world primarily for being the rather reclusive character designer of many giant monster characters in a bunch of particularly famous old Japanese live action films and tv shows.

However, in his homeland of Japan, he’s more than just one of the first known character designers for the Showa era Kaiju monsters of a certain company; he’s also a creator who did a crapload of prototypical graphic novels. 

His least known works are also the ones which are nowadays seen primarily in a couple of Japanese museums and more notably in many online Japanese auction sites. Unfortunately, three of them are technically (almost fully) lost media due to countless factors going on throughout the decades.

Unlike Mr Wasuke Abe’s major Kaiju works, which have the luxury of being reprinted again and again, often with passionate love coming from countless fans (young and old alike), a crapload his countless non-Kaiju works are nowadays pretty much forgotten, even in Japan.

To my then unexpected surprise, a lot of his non-Kaiju works are probably very values dissonant nowadays, with the best known being Shōnen Zamba. Despite being a somewhat incomplete story with a short and horribly abrupt lifespan, Shōnen Zamba was a pretty good (but not totally great) jungle swashbuckler for its time. 

The story of Zamba likely began when two benevolent Japanese Brazilian scientists and their young son go to the jungle clad Mato Grosso in Brazil, with their friends, an American couple and their daughter, a little girl named Shari. However, they were all wrongfully imprisoned and then slayed by imperialist Euro-Brazilian forces from afar, which means that the two children have to survive living with somewhat distrustful natives there. 

The graphic novels are highly valued (currently) by a couple of (almost always) Japanese pulp fans, mostly because they have nicely drawn (albeit sitting steeply within what’s now called the uncanny valley) artworks, which sometimes appear on both Mandarake and Yahoo Auctions Japan. Even though all three items are probably sold years back, there are a Kamishibai set, decent picture books and an okay (albeit ridiculously expensive) card game on the unpredictable (and often unavailable except in Japan) AUCFree auction site. 

They’re also shown to have only a few surviving images available, not only on various search engines, but also on a couple of (domestically) Japanese-made books focusing on the makeup of both Shōnen and Seinen demographics (as it mostly was) in the years (and decades) up to and more commonly during the (then-recent) Heisei period. 

A few of his works include: Shōnen Zamba (for Kobunsha and Kodansha, 1954), King Somai, Jinma The Daimyo, Yamao Dan San (For Sankei, 1954), Chief Takashi, and Shōnen Congo (For both Kobunsha and Akita Shoten, 1959).  

 

An Obituary for the WMT

Dear fans of the World Masterpiece Theatre Format.. It is time for the World Masterpiece Theatre and its fellow competitors to make a straight to online diversification possible, which they'll all need. Such a diversification surely will shake a century and ultimately a whole millennium, as even the most charming of cruddy old MockBusters definitely did and still do deserve the love that they all need. 

The old cinematic and televised WMT format is technically no more, as it surely has preceded the most infamous entertainment websites by decades. Such websites include many of the most popular kids online channels, mostly because most companies are created to be as legally greedy as possible, but sometimes they can go way too far. Another thing is that a lot of ultra mainstream brands are not just excessively copyrighted and trademarked, they are infamously familiar and utterly everywhere. 

In a similar fashion, a lot of the most infamous kids online channels are teemed with slavishly money pandering, kid-inappropriately crude, and sickeningly crap works, which sometimes contain heaps of egregious intellectual property infringement and infamously ElsaGate worthy material. 

The Great Brazil Spotlight

Brazil seems to be one of the biggest Telenovela and drama exporters worldwide, which is mostly truth in telly, because it is the country that practically originated the whole telenovela genre in the first place. 

Despite the fluctuating but mostly pretty bad corruption and far too much habitat loss for virtually all of its ecosystems combined, Brazil’s pop culture is definitely better set for international posterity than those of most majority world countries, regardless of the circumstances surrounding them all. This is exacerbated by the fact that Brazil as a country has media archives which are actually decent but primarily located in parts of the southeast and far south, mostly because film reels are frail as heck. 

Amongst its literary classics for kids is an infamous crack fiction work, The Yellow Woodpecker Branch, a prototypical Narnia with characters from the folklores of many nations, meeting each other in the eponymous ranch. 

Ironically, it also gave us the countless MockBusters of Video Brinquedo, a company which once distributed actual legitimate Brazilian Portuguese dubs of many old kids shows 

Many of its telenovelas are pretty popular with a lot of people around the world, and are sometimes remade even in the various Brasilia or Carioca sub-dialects of Brazilian Portuguese, as for both extant versions of the telly classic Bicho do Mato. 

Dear studios

Dear the people of studios

The good news is that you animators are all going to be vaccinated a lot and repeatedly in the coronavirus pandemic. I hope you’re all feeling well, women and men. 

Besides the studio’s animators needing Covid vaccinations every few months, and even if they’re all working individually alone, let’s hopefully say that their animation industry is weathering the pandemic well. 

It helps the fact that, even though said studio is less propagandistic, it’s just as suitably recommended for both adults and children. 

Children’s Classics

I already have a list of internationally up and coming Children’s Classics

For Madhouse, its own coproduced versions of Gamba, Treasure Island, Botchan and Nobody’s Boy Remi are the spiritual predecessors of what’s to come for what will be called the Madhouse Classics line. 

The Adventures of Grichka, based on a series consisting of four books, is quite popular in its native country of France, as well as Spain, Germany, Italy and Portugal. All four of the book based mini seasons will have about 13 episodes each. Its titular character is Grichka, a mixed Selkup-Russian boy. 

The Wild White Stallion, based on its eponymous source material by a Frenchman, is to be an up and coming adaptation to an internationally underrated gem of a novel, which already has a live action film adaptation released decades earlier. Its main focus is on a slowly growing relationship between a Hispano Romani boy called Falco and a Camargue stallion called White Mane. 

The other lines will compete with Madhouse Classics. 

The Pierrot Super Pulp Theatre and its companion Kids Classics have quite a lot of mostly sea, jungle and forest focused stories.

Although created by Rene Guillot, The Village Brave, based on Prince of the Jungle, is a considerably less violent story than its companion Junglee Manchhe. Its titular character is Raanji (Raani in the book), the nephew of two murdered spiritual advisors in a Karbi village of Assam. A filthy treacherous rival largely tries his best to out compete him, but let’s not be obvious about it until he gets attacked himself in a bloody manner. 

Coming up is a new take on the urban legend of Hunterwali, created by the late Wadia brothers from Surat in Gujarat, India. Unlike its rather more prejudiced previous sources, it is a mix of different sensibilities, Swahili mythology and East African girl power in general. It also has a possible sequel focusing on Hunterwali’s tomboy daughter, who is herself a heroine in her own right. 

I wonder if a new version of the Zimbo story is coming up in the future, but it’s way too unlikely because of how big the cultural and linguistic barriers between India and Japan are. First of all, there’s the increasing possibility of a radical Zimbo redesign, which not only takes cues from two films called Adavi Donga and other sources (in other words, the Zimbo ‘99 and Junglee Manchhe films), but also stands out from the older designs, which often veer a bit too much towards unintended retroactive plagiarism. 

The Tezuka Productions Jungle Stories has Ki-GOR and the starring Tezuka classics, Jungle Emperor Leo and the Jungle Kingdom. Although the latter predated both Tezuka classics by about eleven to twelve years, Jungle Emperor Leo is more popular in the long term than the other two.  

Ki-Gor, loosely compiled from short stories written by John M Reynolds and the Drummond Gang, focuses on the story of a streetwise Irish bandit in the Kibale corridor. Tralee born Robin Kildare, Aka Ki-Gor, lost his missionary parents to horrid amounts of corruption in the area where they studied. As he grew older, he steadily made friends with a crowd of jungle animals nearby. Later on, nouveau riche Helen crashed into the scene and had to flee away from a trio of fashion robbers, once they found out about her snappy fashion sense.

An interlude called the Jungle Kingdom, set between Jungle Emperor Leo and the former, will be about the corridor’s savannah and jungle animals embarking on various adventures throughout their lands. 

In the longer term, Ki-Gor can be a dynastic saga about a jungle-raised bandit, his tomboy wife and their offspring in a more continuity-driven (but still flexible) plot which involves the schemes of different villains. It is also an early modern feminist fantasy, since Ann is not only regarded as a true co-star of the whole book series, but also one of the more proactive pre-1960s jungle heroes by far. 

Let’s take a look at the impact of our ancestors

As a subtle take that to overtly fake depictions of both the past and the future, which are themselves considerably too unsubtle for even a majority of us humans to believe in nowadays, our Minority World’s constantly evolving current pandemic period will be just as complicated as our Minority World’s colonial period. Although for many humans of various kinds, Disneyfication isn’t all that bad, and so is Grimmification. 

Characters, copyrights, trademarks and the Public Domain

This is an easy to digest manual for fans of characters not yet in the international public domain or are obscure characters in said public domain. 

Since Emilio Salgari passed away over a century ago, the first eleven instalments in the Sandokan series entered the international public domain in 1962 (for most nations other than the EU) and 1982 (for the EU). 

Nadir Salgari’s contributions to the Mythos were amongst the first (other than Emilio Salgari himself) to enter the public domain for most nations in 1987, but did not become public domain in the EU until 2007. 

Giovanni Bertinetti’s contributions to the Mythos were added into the international public domain in 2001 (for most nations other than the EU) and 2021 (for the EU). Luigi Motta’s contributions to the series have already entered the public domains of most African nations in 2006, but aren’t yet in the EU and Australian public domain until 2026. Omar Salgari’s contributions to the Mythos already entered the public domains of most developing African nations in 2014, but aren’t yet in the EU public domain until 2034. For Emilio Fancelli’s contributions to such a Mythos, they’ve become public domain worthy for most nations in 2022, but aren’t yet in the Indian and EU/Australian public domains until 2032 and 2042. 

Alexander Grin’s own Grinlandia universe got added into the international public domain in 1983 (for most nations other than the EU) and 2003 (for the EU).  

Dhan Gopal Mukherji’s Hari The Jungle Lad and Kari The Elephant novels became public domain works in 1986 (for most nations other than the EU) and 2006 (for the EU). 

The Jukan series by Niels Meyn is technically public domain material in most African nations since 2008. But it’s not yet in the Australian and EU public domains until 2028. His stablemate Anjani The Mighty decidedly entered the South African public domain in 2011, but becomes public domain in Australia in 2031. 

Both of Mehboob Khan’s Mother India films have casting auditions which entered the public domains of most nations other than India, the EU and Australia in 2015, but are not yet entering the other public domains until 2025 (for India) and 2035 (for the EU and Australia). 

Rene Guillot’s countless characters have entered the public domains of most African nations in 2020, but are not yet in the other public domains until 2030 (for India) and 2040 (for the EU and Australia). 

As the story around Sheena Queen of the Jungle was most likely created by Jerry Iger, it’s very likely that Mort Meskin and Will Eisner were amongst the other first artist-writers for both the character and her eponymous comic strip. Thus, the comic strip version of the character is not in the international public domain until 2041 (for most nations other than India, the EU and Australia), 2051 (for India), and 2061 (for the EU and Australia). 

For Meskin’s contributions to the Sheena Mythos, they have to wait until 2046 (for most nations other than India, the EU and Australia), 2056 (for India) and 2066 (for the EU and Australia). But as for Eisner’s contributions to the same Mythos, they aren’t in the international public domain until 2056 (for most developing nations other than India, the EU and Australia), 2066 (for India) and 2076 (for the EU and Australia). 

Ironically, the first tv version of the character herself is also, in a celebratory twist, the first of her many incarnations to have become a fully fledged public domain character, as she already has been such since at least 2014 for most African nations rather than for India, the EU and Australia. However, she may not fully enter the public domain until 2024 (for India) and 2034 (for the EU and Australia). 

Since Leslie Stevens passed away in 1998, the screenplay to the 1984 film incarnation may not enter the public domain until 2049 (for most African nations, other than India, the EU and Australia), 2059 (for India) and 2069 (for the EU and Australia). As for David Newman’s contributions to the film, they do not enter the public domain until 2054 (for most nations other than India, the EU and Australia), 2064 (for India) and 2074 (for the EU and Australia). 

Something similar can be said for Souji Yamakawa’s countless characters, as they aren’t yet in the public domain up until 2043 (for most developing African nations rather than India, the EU and Australia), 2053 (for India), and 2063 (for the EU and Australia). 

Since Hansrudi Wäscher passed away in 2016, Tibor and Nizar aren’t even in the international public domain up until 2067 (for most African nations rather than India, the EU and Australia), 2077 (for India) and 2087 (for the EU and Australia).

Russian Mockbusters are Awesome!

Apart from its legendary doorstoppers, most of Russia’s beloved literary classics are pretty goddamn old, as they predated home video by a few decades or more. 

Many of these literary legends initially were translative MockBusters, but became their own things as they have spawned adaptions and sequels. 

Doctor Aybolit originally was one to Doctor Doolittle, but it became its own thing. So was Buratino, the spiritual antithesis of Pinocchio, and Emerald City, itself inspired by the Land of Oz. There’s also a Winnie the Pooh variant called Vinni Pukh, who is primarily known (at least outside of his homeland) for appearing in a book based trilogy of short Soyuzmultfilm movies. 

There is a good case when what was at first a Russian Mockbuster became more internationally popular than the original, itself also quite popular in Russia during its modest heyday, even though the latter hasn’t been reprinted in its native France for a long while until recently. Said novel turns out to be The Amphibian Man, a literary legend which itself has inspired things as diverse as The Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Monster From Piedras Blancas, The Shape Of Water, and most infamously, the titular character of Go Nagai’s DevilMan. Funnily enough, its protagonist is himself inspired by Hictaner from The Man Who Can Live In Water, a story by Count Jean De La Hire. 

Following The Amphibian Man is Ariel The Flying Man, a story loosely inspired by Jean De La Hire’s Nyctalope series, which is otherwise better known in the former Eastern Bloc than elsewhere. 

I love watching Lost Media videos

Watching web documentaries on lost media is a cool thing to do. 

There are iceberg videos on the Simpsons, SpongeBob, One Piece, Kamen Rider, Mazinger Z, Pokémon, Dragon Ball and countless others.

I don’t really think the Mazinger Z iceberg is great at catching really lost stuff, mostly because the things that are reviewed are actually found for the most part. The rest is actually pretty decently filled with mistakenly attributed fan arts, plus shitloads of less commonly seen episodes and chapters. 

The Bots of Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style! Part 4

Even More Bots coming soon! 

Bell Metal Homonoia: This gorgeous super robot pony is the much needed steed for the Great Mazinger.  

Ferronickel Palaestra: Palaestra is a very rustic robot. 

Florentine Bronze Discordia: Discordia is the number one super robot of choice for the local thugs of Mudpuppy street in Dimsville. 

Speculum Metal Thoosa: Thoosa is a super robot Seal, another companion to Tethys in need. 

Pig Iron Pertinacia: It is both a farming robot and a robot modelled loosely on a domestic farm sow. 

Electrum Continentia: A Robot with Phoenix pigtail wings. 

Al-Li Nox: Nox is defined as the number one super robot patroller of Dimsville city.  

Melchior Fraus: This super Robot is modelled loosely on the blue ringed octopus. 

Mangalloy Athena: Athena is the Robot mascot of Dimsville’s library. 

Ni-Ti-Al Angelos: Queer Robot Known for doing a Mohawk. 

Magnalium Persephone: Persephone is a gardener robot. 

Sterling Silver Anaideia: Another member of Nox’s robot patrolling team. 

Meteoric Iron Aphrodite: Aphrodite is a fashion Robot Known primarily as a statue.  

Carbon Steel Minerva: Minerva is an agricultural robot known for gardening the flowers.  

Titanium Gold Eirene: A Robot with amazing bombing powers. 

Ferromanganese Iris: Iris is a Beautiful Robot made with the same power sources as the Mazinkaiser Brothers. 

Ferrotitanium Brizo: A Robot whose pigtails are modelled on the wings of a Seagull. 

Silver Misericordia: A Purple Coloured Robot succubus. 

The Bots of Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style! Part 3

More female robots coming soon. 

Asteria: Asteria is another cute super robot puppy, who is the companion of Aphaea. 

Auricupride Aphaea: Aphaea is the cuteness overload of the Mazinger Supporters. 

Zangyin Amphitrite: Amphitrite is a super robot with frog legs, which bounces onto ponds. 

White Bronze Luna: White Bronze Luna is a super robot with dragon wings. 

Lanthanum Selene: Selene is a rabbit shaped super robot who is the companion of Both White Bronze Luna and Zinc Eos. 

Bronze Leto: A Workforce IchiNana, Leto is Known for basically marking the territory in a quite animalistic way. 

Manganese Ceto: Ceto is a large super robot mermaid. 

Cupronickel Amphictyonis: A super robot Avian Siren, It is a beautiful nightmare. 

Brass Metis: Catty Metis is one of the many wholly non anthropomorphic super robots, being a robot cat. 

Tumbaga Rhapso: Rhapso is the winged harpy companion of Cupronickel Amphictyonis. 

Zinc Eos: Zinc Eos is a rather interesting super robot responsible for how many records it has broken.

Spring Steel Epione: Nicknamed the Springtime robot, this puppy shaped super robot is known as the team pet of the Mazinger army. 

Tin Aletheia: A Combat IchiNana, Tin Aletheia is Known as a multipurpose super robot aiding the team during attacks of behavioural concern. 

Styx: Styx is the arch rival of the X Bomber, with the colour of its body being a very dark mix of purple and green. 

Ebony Aisa: Ebony is one of the two Chessmaster Robots behind the great Robot War Forward. 

Ivory Alke: Alke is one of the Chessmaster Robots. 

The Junior Trainees

Elinvar Hygiaea: Hygiaea is a super robot dogface and the much petted smaller companion of local mob boss Tony Kamen. 

Invar Panacea: Panacea is a super robot dragon and the larger companion of Tony Kamen. 

Cymbal Alloy Eileithya: Being a super robot Syrian Golden furred hamster gives this cute beast a lot of advantages. It is the companion of Mazinger Z. 

Tantalum Enyo: A masculine looking red and green super robot. 

The Greater Antagonists

Dirtstone Amechania: Along with the two chessmaster bots, Aisa and Alke, Dirtstone Amechania has a large influence on the plot of the story. 

Morning Petulantia: A possible bright coloured antagonist. 

Evening Hybris: Hybris has the most powerful animal themed weapons out of all the super robots. 

HSLA Steel Iaso: Iaso is one of the more flatulent antagonists, as it is a super robot horse. 

Bulat Steel Furrina: This is a super robot wyvern designed to slam apartments. 

Britannia Silver Palatua: A super robot ferret, it is the companion of Bronze Leto. 

Spielgeleisen Pandia: This is a distinctive super robot Giant Panda, as it is the first bear robot in a whole team of friendly rivals. 

Wrought Iron Pasithea: A super robot red panda known as the companion of Spielgeleisen Pandia, as both of these characters are themselves robot zoo animals. 

Rose Gold Philotes: Philotes is another Super Robot Crone, albeit a pale coloured one. 

Nordic Gold Telete: A funky Robot With Fruit Bat wings. 

Niobium Eris: Eris is a female flying companion of Mazinger Sport. 

History of the Nausicaanade

The Nausicaanade is not just a mixed meta genre, it also is one of the most popular recent meta genres in the history of modern fiction, period. 

The Modern Nausicaanade goes far back to the publication of Albert Robida’s Saturnin Farandoul in 1879. 

The meta genre maker is Wama Son of the Moon, created by the late Mexican comics giant Joaquín Cervantes Bassoco. The comic is so little known to modern non-Hispanophone viewers but indirectly influential outside of Latin America, it’s safe to say that the ridiculous current Mexican copyright laws do not help matters at all. Also, it is basically Nausicaa starring a Tarzan Boy, who is a serial lemon Stu living with certain strange fantasy animals. 

The meta genre codifiers are Wama Son of the Moon’s far more popular and directly influential spinoff, Tawa the Gazelle Man, the Japanese Toku Monster Prince and ultimately its fellow Sagisu family creation Spectreman, plus Star Fleet. The former is Nausicaa starring a Tarzan boy, who isn’t much of a serial lemon Stu in spite of living with certain strange fantasy animals. The second and third are basically Nausicaa starring a Tarzan boy living with remnant cryptid pseudo dinosaurs and Nausicaa starring a dullard spiritual predecessor to both of Tatsuya Yasuda’s Steel Jeegs. The latter is a chronological cross of Nausicaa and Grendizer, starring an outer space team battling a corrupt empire and its wicked military. 

The manga that helped popularise the modern Nausicaanade to Japanese audiences and ultimately other consumers from the rest of the world is the genre namer itself, Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Its compressed film adaptation, which actually was conceived first, is even more influential, inspiring the ATLA franchise and James Cameron’s Avatar amongst many others in recent years. Its sole major imitators are Elfie of the Blue Sea and Green Legend Ran, themselves cult classics featuring humanlike mermaids and monsters representing a bunch of debilitating natural disasters, as well as Fern Gully, which itself stars tropical Australian animals, and Nadia: Secret of the Water, a Jules Verne inspired anime show which itself inspired Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which is Nausicaa with amortal sea dwellers, and another Jules Verne inspired anime show called The Secret Of Cerulean Sand, which is Nausicaa with bright minerals. 

The legendary Farscape by Jim Henson Productions is a cross of Nausicaa and Space Battleship Yamato, starring an outer space team battling wicked empires and corrupt militaries. 

Its own relatives, James Cameron’s Avatar franchise, is Nausicaa featuring a human interacting with catlike, tall and blue but rather annoyingly Stuish aliens. 

Their spiritual successor is Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon, which is more than just a variant of Nausicaa featuring mildly stereotypical Native Amazonians battling tooth and nail against a mining company. Not only is its links with Nausicaa very apparent, if rather indirect, the first word of its title, which means ‘girl’ in a Panoan language called Shipibo Conibo, rhymes with The English word for the goddamn frigging Rainbow.  

The Bots of Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style! Part 2

There Are More Bot characters To Come! 

The Antagonist Robots: A heap of Antagonist Robots. 

Achlys: Achlys is defined as a moderately unattractive super robot made mostly with copper alloys. 

The Sexy Ladies: The Most Awe Inducing Beautiful Bots in the world. 

Steel Artemis: Artemis is a wolf eared female super robot known for regulating the environment.  

Fe-Ni-Co Epiales: Epiales is a plain coloured robot known for witty remarks. 

Crucible Steel Circe: Circe is a Mischievous Robot Crone, a fellow of other robots like Proserpina and Hebe. 

Mu Metal Hebe: This one is a mischievous little fella, a super robot Kitten familiar of Proserpina. 

Cu-Ni-Fe Proserpina: Proserpina is a cat eared super robot who minds the High school. 

Gunmetal Empiusa: Empiusa is a seagoing super robot built from a dead lighthouse at the beach. 

Martensitic Stainless Steel Flora: Flora is a Robot Zebra Finch, who is the companion of Joss. 

Wootz Steel Carmenta: Carmenta is a super robot which demolishes buildings. 

Demeter: Demeter, The hardest working super robot regularly shown, has a multipurpose body and is a farmer’s bot by career. 

Ceres: Ceres, A cute morphing infant super robot, which is shown to have bunny rabbit ears. 

Vesta: Vesta is just well represented as many other upcoming female bots, as it has cat ears and a very muscular body. 

Tethys: Tethys is a turquoise coloured robot mermaid. 

The Traumatic Babes 

Iron Juno: Iron Juno has a feminine body and a skinny build. 

Hera: Hera is a creepy, gray super robot with a dragon tail. 

Silver Steel Ichnaea: This is the uglier and more off putting companion of Hera. 

Lithium Chaos: Lithium Chaos is much differently bodied from most other robot antagonists. Not only is it Much creepier than most of said antagonists, it’s also a grey war robot to begin with! 

The Military Robots

Ananke: Ananke is a muscular super robot painted with the influence of America in mind. 

Hestia: Hestia is a robot which has an athletic female body, along with a pair of Lop Rabbit Ears. 

Copper Thalassa: Thalassa is the junior companion of Tethys. 

Nemesis: Nemesis, meaningfully nightmarish as it is, is a super robot which often does badass arm folds even when sleeping. 

Diana Nemorensis: This is Another Robot in the Venus Line, a stronger grownup sister of both Diana and Venus. 

Stainless Steel Aegle: Aegle is a super robot Skeleton with a Female Mohawk, who is the older companion to Mene. 

Maraging Steel Mene: Mene is a rather ugly woman robot with a skeleton head. 

The Mazinger Maids

Phoebe: Phoebe is a super robot fuelled with electricity in mind. 

Guanin Arke: This Latin American beauty is known for wrestling with High Speed Steel Libera. 

Rhea: Rhea is a grown up female robot with rabbit ears. 

High Speed Steel Libera: Libera is a Lanky Shaped Super Robot Known for its long legs. 

Gaia: Gaia is a brown super robot with sea lion ears. 

The Team Supporters 

Doré Alectrona: A Dragon Shaped companion to the X Bomber. 

Antanium Hecate: Hecate is a robot which rides Alectrona off to space. 

The Archive Panic and The Audience Alienating Premise

Archive Panics and Audience Alienating Premises are two different things. 

Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style! Part 3

The Mazinger Universe has a lot of potential. Here are almost all of its honorary crossover characters from SpectreMan and the Alexander Belyaev novels Ariel and the Amphibian Man. 

The Scientists 

Adamo Salvatore: Internationally renowned and utterly insane Uruguayan mad scientist known for his many birth defects, themselves caused by, well, ridiculous amounts of ancestral incest. 

Kensuke Gori: Adamo Salvatore’s saner and not as inbred anti-villain pupil, Kensuke is himself partly Japanese Brazilian. 

Luisa Gori: Half Japanese and Half Mulatto Brazilian mother of Kensuke Gori and the wife of Armando Villarreal. 

Armando Villarreal: Adamo Salvatore’s unhappy and disengaged fellow, and the father of Kensuke Gori. 

The Ibn Rashid Family

Jibreel Ibn Rashid: Mermanised Younger Brother to Iskander and paternal uncle to Ichneumon. 

The Ocampo Hermosa Family

Jaime Ocampo: Afro Venezuelan relative to Christina Hermosa, Jaime Ocampo, came illegally to Argentina when he was a young teenager, in the midst of the Dinero crisis. 

Ichneumon Hermosa Ibn Rashid: Aka Ichthyander, Ichneumon Hermosa Ibn Rashid is the son of a Mauritanian and a Venezuelan. 

Balthazar Hermosa: A distant brother of Ichneumon's mother Christiana Hermosa. He and his other brother Christopher have a complicated relationship with Reba Dolores Havel Zurita, who in turn beats the crap out of both her husband and only son. After losing his wife to cancer, he accidentally turned into a werewolf, but at the cost of himself losing a lot of memories and later on being traumatically murdered by Adamo Salvatore when he finally set afoot in the wild, along with his merman colleague Jibreel. 

Christopher Hermosa: Balthazar’s brother and another distant maternal relative of Ichneumon and his mother. After seeing Reba Dolores bet the crap out of both her husband and son, he let them escape her psychopathic wrath. After all, he actually got murdered by Reba Dolores herself afterwards. 

Olga Gutierrez: Olga Gutierrez was Randy Kapoor’s Argentine wife, and the mother of Peri Kapoor Gutierrez Hermosa. 

Christiana Hermosa: Christiana was the mother of Ichneumon and wife of Iskander Ibn Rashid. She briefly turned into a two legged mermaid beforehand dying of animal diseases in the eyes of a recently born infant Ichneumon. 

Iskander Ibn Rashid: Iskander Ibn Rashid was the father of Ichneumon and husband of Christiana Hermosa. After witnessing his wife dying of animal diseases after dangerously turning into a mermaid for just a month due to Dr Salvatore’s Tried and True insanity, he himself successfully went on to become a mermaid a year later and survived for two to three more decades, but at the cost of himself living almost fully under the sea. He himself died of fishy diseases when the latter was about twenty one. 

Peri Gutierrez Kapoor Hermosa: Peri is Randy and Olga’s daughter, and Balthazar Hermosa’s adopted daughter. She was one of Ichneumon's only friends and is Jack Olsen's wife. 

Florian Wisniewski: Balthazar Hermosa's wife and Peri's adoptive mother. 

The Zuritas 

Pedro Zurita: Pedro Zurita is a wishfully minded schooner operating without the incestuous clutches of his mafia mother’s underground enterprise. He finally made sure that Ichneumon would remain free on his own after realising that the latter was mostly out of breath, and unhappy in a cage! 

Reba Dolores Havel Zurita: Pedro’s Czech born mafia gangster minded mother and Angelo’s murderous wife. Also known as Leo Havel’s domineering older twin sister. 

Angelo Zurita: Pedro Zurita’s unhappy and disengaged Mestizo Venezuelan Father. He and his son are the most frequent target's of Reba Dolores Havel's murderously scary plans. 

The Ultra Recycle Inc Crew

Joe Takahata: Joe Takahata is a dude with dead parents and a pet mongrel dog whom he looks after. That said, he and his dog had witnessed said parents' deaths in the hands of an ultraviolent Bigfoot-Elf family mafia, led by a notorious couple (read: the same guys who killed almost all the senior Matois and Tetsuya's paternal grandparents), before they were brutally bloodied and bludgeoned by the Ogopogo who killed another senior Matoi by marriage, Kelli Matoi's paternal grandmother Luna. 

Hiromi Endo: Hiromi Endo is a thuggish young lady, mostly because her home life is a lot worse than those of all the Kapoor siblings combined. She is herself a leg and arm cyborg lady, thus she turned Joe Takahata and his dog from normal beings into leg and arm cyborgs. 

The Beasts

Destina: Destina the dolphin was another of Ichneumon's few friends, who truly was from a really screwed up pack of dolphins, with most of whom being confirmed to be traumatised themselves. Destina herself is also a pretty cunning lass as well, letting her brothers maim Reba Dolores with just their fangs. She also lets a hungry old merman eat Reba herself, which in hindsight is actually a pretty satisfying death of a complete monster asshole. 

Ether The Sea Succubus: Ichneumon's power hungry and ultimately murderous marine based succubus 'wife'. When she barrelled Adamo Salvatore's clothing into the sea after his death got confirmed to the whole city society by a reporter, she ultimately made herself more powerful than ever, by honour killing him in legs and arms, due to the fact that he's already on his last legs at that point in his life. 

The Public Domain

Implementing a human creator’s rights onto a franchise, while not easy to begin with, is actually far more difficult and at times nearly impossible in both America and Mexico, because of how influential a lot of their corporations are. 

Even if they change as usual, most national versions of the Public Domain will definitely still be under far more threat from corporate raids than any other intellectual property topic shown. 

Family Estates

There are Japanese creator/family estates that double as merchandising and manga studios; with Tezuka Productions, Bird Studio, Dynamic Inc and Ishinomori Pro being very good examples of such a concept. Nonetheless, they sorely do need a huge generational shakeup in order to keep catching up with the times. 

A few of the most influentially litigious Creator/Family Estates in the world are mostly from the USA. Alexander Key Pro, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, and Robert E Howard Productions are good examples. A lot of exceptions from other countries include Moulinsart Hergé Inc from Belgium and the C B Adams Studio from Mexico. 

A heap of Plausible Adaptations to relatively obscure Pop Culture Works

Hi there! I’m checking out a list of my potential adaptations to relatively obscure pop culture works. The future is so unpredictable that, if I become rich via textiles, guess what? In most cases, I’m thinking of future permissions from the companies behind my favourite secondhand items! 

A potential Multimedia Universe is yet to be on the way for Leo the Lion and his fellas Ki Gor, Nizar, Sheena and Akim. Said Universe will be much more interlinked and satirical than the works that they’re all based on. In addition to both the scare factor and dramedy, it will primarily feature good old secondhand songs by internationally known Japanese pop folk giants the Kome Kome Club; with the sole major exception being Akim, which has a strong south asian soundtrack. 

A whole new Light Novel branch for the Mazinger franchise will include a very consistent yet more adult (and more faithful to the whole roots) take on Mazinger Z and friends, as well as a hotter and sexier variant of Go Nagai’s Star Fleet (Stories).

Two of Alexander Belyaev’s Public Domain works will soon become honorary relatives of Mazinger Z and friends starting with the Amphibian Man, The technically Prototypical DevilMan, which is about a grey eyed orphan named Ichneumon, aka Ichthyander, the son of a female mix race Venezuelan and a male Haratin Mauritanian social worker. Ichneumon is also the pupil of an equally infamous Italo Uruguayan mad scientist named Adamo Salvatore. Its spiritual sequel, Ariel, will feature the somehow more heavily modified titular protagonist as the sole known functioning male heir to a technically dead dynasty of minor Habsburg era nobility. 

A trio of Public Domain works by the late Russian adult and teen fiction visionary Alexander Green will finally have their own animated counterparts. Said works are named The Scarlet Sails, Jessie and Morgana, and The Girl Who Runs On the Waves. The former and latter are quite optimistic but not too Disneyish; plus they both share some things in common. Jessie and Morgana is very different; being a stunning horror novel filled to the brim with nightmare fuel. 

There is a much bloodier spin on the cult classic show SpectreMan, a legendary Toku that predated Steel Jeeg and pals by just two years. Its preceding story is set after the end of civilisation as we know it, simply called Monster Island, which is based on another Tomio Sagisu (aka Souji Ushio) show called Monster Prince. 

A crapload of works by Souji Yamakawa will all be set in their own shared universe, albeit on very different time periods. 

Mazinger: The Teruya Legacy

Mazinger is a franchise that actually needs and deserves a MAJOR light novel branch, bundled with a continuity which is both good and consistent as well as being largely snarl free. This is mostly due to Go Nagai being both forgetful and a bit superficial, partly because of how busy he is as an old man.

As the franchise original and its spinoffs are still making a lot of money internationally, let's say that, because of how many super robots the franchise has, a MAJOR light novel series reimagining is going to make sure that there will be a canonical version indeed, as the continuity snarls are in other branches instead. The series of Light Novels, called Mazinger Fantasy, is gonna be good if handled well and properly licensed. But here's a catch; the whole novel series could never be released in certain countries for political reasons. 

The first few chapters of the very first novel will focus on Imo Teruya, a young man who got stranded in Hawaii following a fallout with Shyam Lahiri, who himself had long been mutilating his eyes so much that they appear blind. From then on, he lived alone. Having initially met his slightly older scientist girlfriend online, he slowly gets immersed into her culture. They got married a few years later, but in the midst of a habitat loss driven cultural conflict. 

The rest focuses on how Imo and Monica raised their children in their mother's birthplace. For their oldest child and daughter Rin, she had to look after her two younger brothers Goku and Koji. In succeeding books, the mother dies, her husband later becomes a shellshocked man, and their children find heaps of goddamn super robots, start to meet their spouses, and have families of their own after marriage. 

The Star Fleet Stories consists of spinoffs set in different time periods of the same continuity. The first, X Bomber, is basically a somehow hotter and sexier take on the original live action puppet show, which itself is inspired by Thunderbirds and in turn has partially inspired Taiwan’s Legendary Puppet Drama show Pili.  

The second one is Ryunger, a sequel to X Bomber anyway, which focuses on a stranded soldier named Cyril Eno instead of Duke Fleed as in the original Toei anime and Tv Magazine manga. 

The third one is Spectreman, a much bloodier and gorier spin on the original Toku show. It focuses on an orphaned high school jock named Joe Takahata, himself the only child of family making latecomers, who finds out that he partially got Cyborgified by a fully organic trans human technician trying to save his bodily life from a history of soccer related concussions. 

Mazinger: The Fantasy

Ahh, I am finally having a good time pinning Mazinger Z images, especially of the surprisingly Manga accurate Mazinkaiser, simply because the series itself doesn’t just contain the hugely popular first instalment of the same name, it has a sequel called Great Mazinger and also has spinoffs like Grendizer, Goldorak, Grendizer Giga, Mazinkaiser, Edition Z: The Impact, Mazinkaiser SKL, Internal Peace and Infinity. 

The original Shonen Jump manga and its siblings, such as the junior high school Tv Magazine variants, are all written and drawn by Go Nagai. There are also retellings by Gosaku Ota and Yu Kinutani. 

The Mazinkaiser direct to video show is technically the most stylistically modern style Manga Accurate of the adaptations, due to the fact that Kenji Hayama was surprisingly good for the job and I wish he will truly do something different, like illustrating lots of artworks for things ranging from light novels to films! Being fairly loosely based on both the original manga that started it all and the Mazinger section of Super Robot Wars in its early years, it has a few misses, but is otherwise a very good and strongly energetic watch. It is also the first Non-Toei spinoff to be pretty much dubbed into English, but its film companion, Mazinkaiser Vs The Great General of Darkness, would not be dubbed into English until 2023. It also has a trio of regular manga companions. The first one was a spiritual predecessor drawn by Koichi Maruyama, then a comically wild 2002-03 manga was created by Naoto Tsushima, the man behind The Fighting Foodons, and the last one was a partial continuity reboot of the predecessor manga itself, written by Go Nagai. 

The Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact tv show is rather less stylistically accurate to the modern style and somehow cuter looking than Mazinkaiser, which kinda makes sense as it’s a multimedia event crossover doubling as another dark and dank retro futurist reimagining of the original manga. It hasn’t been dubbed into English for a long while, mostly due to how complicated its plot really is! It also has a more stylistically Manga Accurate manga adaptation, which is even darker and crazier, and has even gained a side story and a sequel, during its run and after its run ended! 

The original Mazinger duo and Infinity are not just in their own heavily knitted continuity now, most of said Toei works are much less stylistically Manga Accurate than other adaptations. The first show actually has three English dubs, one from Hawaii which was pretty meh, another from the Philippines which is both an improved sequel to the Hawaii dub and probably being beloved lost media in that country, and the third being a heavily censored Cult Classic in a so bad it’s good way. However, said show’s sequel Great Mazinger isn’t dubbed into English except for its back door pilot’s very minor moments in Tranzor Z; and so are the many old Grendizer-related, usually non serial Mazinger films, mostly due to legally complicated reasons that render the act of dubbing them into English pretty much impossible for now. 

Infinity has its very own secret; an English dub which is actually much better than the English dubs of its predecessor show, though it does have some shortcomings. Also, it is stylistically a bit more similar to its spinoff predecessor, Mazinger Edition Z, while also retaining some of its 70s anime tints. Its own manga spinoff midquel, Internal Peace, got released at the same time as the film. 

The original Grendizer is itself actually a spinoff of the original Mazinger duo, and is technically not a fully canonically and officially recognised sequel, as it is set in a timeline which is considerably somewhat different from that of the serial tv anime duo’s. Besides being the first Mazinger spinoff to really be partially dubbed into English, but twice, one being probable lost media for the Philippines and the other for Force Five in America. 

Its very own pretty insane unfaithfulness to the three volumes of its equally kind of canon but somehow more stylistically Manga Accurate first two manga companions by Go Nagai and Yu Okazaki are pretty much increasingly well proven. Its two sole regular films aren’t really dubbed into English, however smooth they may be. It also has two other manga companions, one by Gosaku Ota which is a depressing reimagining, and the other by Eiji Imamichi which is more tongue in cheek! Decades later, said spinoff got its own fourth and much cuter manga adaptation called Grendizer Giga. Another spinoff was made in France, but is instead a largely non canonical sequel to the original anime’s own famed French dub known as Goldorak. There is another take named Grendizer U, which will be a hotter and sexier reboot of the original show, based more on Gosaku Ota’s ideas than on Go Nagai’s. 

The Mazinkaiser SKL tv show is definitely a banger and, like its spiritual prequel with a similar name, it got dubbed into English, but its original manga source material is obscure. Ironically, it feels like an anime oddball amongst its fellas due to its very different art style, which is basically a Seinen one.

Treasures to save for Christmases and birthdays

There are Treasures that can definitely be saved for Christmases and Birthdays. 

Things that I already have

Postwar Showa Shonen Manga History Parts 1 and 2 - Made by Heibonsha at the turn of the millennium, when the Internet was almost always only seen in the minority world, this two part pre-Nine Eleven and pre-COVID Mook anthology is practically a second-hand must for fans of old Shonen tv shows, anime and manga the world over. 

The Great Jungle Graphics for Boys - This Mook, a part of the Children’s History series by Heibonsha, is possibly the breakout spinoff of the two Shonen Manga History Mooks; mostly because it primarily has Tarzanids in most of its pages while each of the latter two have only had a few.  

Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style! Part 2

There are far more characters in this part than the first one. Check it out! 

The Hero and Antagonist Scientists 

Maria Medeiros: Maria Medeiros, aka Bloody Maria, is one of the most influential Go Nagai created antagonists of all time, and also one of the most pitifully broken aces. She was one of the Imperial Alliance’s bondage ladies, who fell in love with Axel Hagen and fled along with most former members of the Imperial Alliance, from the glitching of the Imperial Alliance itself. Her heel face turn is complete when she oversaw the destruction of the Imperial Cruiser. 

Leo Havel: Leo is Andre and Bruno’s estranged Czech best friend from their childhood. He also has had a rather infamous twin sister, the gangster Reba Dolores, who in turn was the wife of poor Angelo Zurita and the mother of pitifully broken Pedro Zurita. 

Axel Hagen: Axel Hagen is Cyril’s former mentor and Bloody Maria’s husband. He is a former member of the expedition. 

Cyril Eno: The person whom the Ryunger is modelled on, Cyril is a space agent who landed years onto a space station filled to the brim with power hungry jackasses. There, he rode the Ryunger into dangerous places in outer space. After that, he retired and went back to earth, as his friend Jeremy Stinson let two youths into the ship even as their parents were dying, and the rest is history. 

Jack Banes: Jack Banes is one of the Space raised people in Star Fleet Stories. He has chestnut hair. 

Jeremy Stinson: Jeremy Stinson is Cyril’s angst ridden friend. He was once a punk. 

Lorelei Hagen: Axel Hagen and Bloody Maria’s gorgeous little blond daughter. She grew into a pretty, precocious adult. 

The X Bomber Team 

Benn Robinson: Benn Robinson is the brains behind the smallest known vehicle part of Dai X.

Ashleigh Robinson: Benn’s yellow hazel eyed Daughter. 

Rusty Comaneci: Rusty Comaneci is Adele’s younger brother. He also has a workaholic widower dad. 

Amitabh Kuroda: A peace loving guy, Mr Kuroda has been studying nature for a pretty long while. 

Aya Kuroda: Amitabh’s daughter, who is on the Fleet with him due to her strong willed nature. 

Barry Hercules Kline: Widower Father to Gaia Kline, and the husband of a Vietnamese Eurasian American woman who died in a Nuke Apocalypse. 

Juzo Kubota: Juzo Kubota is Noah’s mostly coldly mannered widower Father, who lived in Canada for much of his life. A friend of his dead wife’s parents might have studied aliens before dying in a space debris crash. 

Noah Kubota: Juzo’s stunningly brave son. Has dishevelled auburn hair and green hazel eyes.  

Kyle Henson: A retired military supervisor who has blue eyes and was actually a friend of Leena and Sukhwinder Kapoor before they had a fall out with him. 

Chas Lee: John Lee’s snarky and skinny brown haired younger brother. 

Adele Comaneci: Adele is one of the more interesting characters in the series. She has blue eyes and is of Romanian heritage. Her brother is Rusty Comaneci. 

Big Man John Lee: Ginger friend of Noah Kubota and other characters. 

Jason and Ajax: Named after a pair of Greek folk characters but inspired by Hajime Sorayama’s robot pair, Jason and Ajax are a pair of cordless blue and yellow robots living inside the huge flying station. 

The School Supporters 

Jasmine Utsumi: Jasmine has a Bindi on her forehead and is perhaps the younger sister of Amy Utsumi. She is a hazel eyed dark golden blonde and was about thirteen in her first appearance. Like Georgina Burns, she sometimes wears a small tiara. 

Georgina Burns: Georgina Burns is a drab blonde and a former school student on an expedition with the fellow human nomads who raised Rayon Kapoor. Though not a royal, she sometimes wears a simple small tiara which defines her rather prominent if not ultra wealthy class background. 

Blake Leigh: A mysterious childhood friend of Daisuke Matoi, Blake Leigh is actually one of the guys and girls who were forced out of school to become youth soldiers in outer space. 

Frances Davis: An eager teenaged sister of Jessica Davis, she bravely participates in the expedition to study aliens in their natural habitat. 

Misato Kapoor: Definitely, the youngest member of the Kapoor Siblings. She has light brown skin. 

The Pricks 

The Arsenal Cadets: The arsenal cadets is a trio of Arsenal Cadets, actually orphaned human triplets who were raised into villainy. 

Vijay Kapoor: Sukhwinder’s younger brother, Vijay Kapoor was sometimes spanked by his wife For a long time, which may definitely explain why the brothers have had a pretty bad childhood home life for a long while. Not only did he become so averse to breaking out of his wife’s house, he couldn’t ever speak for a long, long time. Unlike his wife and Randy, he died too drunk to get out of the house, which is just as sad. 

Mo Hitch: Mo Hitch was the Kapoor Siblings’ Jerk ass minded mother, Flint’s daughter, Vijay’s wife and Peri’s grandmother. 

The Fun Newcomers

Mickey Barkley: Halley’s twin brother, Nuke and Lucy’s son. 

Halley Barkley: Mickey’s twin sister, Nuke and Lucy’s daughter. 

Elisha Mayne: A Cyborg member of the Mazinger Scooby Gang, Elisha has turquoise eyes and pale greyish mauve Dyed hair. 

Thalia Melendez: Trey ‘Mucha’ Melendez’s cute cyan eyed, blonde haired younger sister. 

Ursula Marr - Imo’s Mother and the Minami twins’ Roma military-trained soldier grandmother 

Taro Minami: Imo’s equally shellshocked Father and the Minami twins’ skeptical paternal half-Croatian grandfather. 

The Bots of Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style!

There are dozens of humanoid super robots in the pitch for a possible Cirque Du Soleil adaptation of Mazinger lore. Rather than just being upgrades as in most continuities, the bots are figuratively treated as if they’re characters in their own right like the Fantastic Four by Marvel Studios. 

The Mazinger Brothers and supporters

Minty: A huge horizontal rocket which began life as a derelict Concord plane. 

Michi-San: a mobile space station (named after pop star Michi Sellars) conceived (in reality) by Shusei Nagaoka for Britain’s Electric Light Orchestra, which acts as a huge UFO carrying around the four vehicles that aren’t Bomber X. It is the (green sea turtle shaped) main mascot of both the band and the series as a whole. 

Mazinger Z: Mazinger Z is the youngest of the bunch because it is smaller and more recently made than its 2 predecessor brothers, as both of which were rather insanely risky playground equipment to begin with before the lengthy and slow recycling process had even begun.

Mazinger Y: Mazinger Y, though technically a brother of Mazinger Z, is the middle ground between Mazinger X and the latter in terms of size and age. Also known as Great Mazinger 2, this super bot wasn’t much used before its very first regular appearance. 

Mazinger X: Mazinger X is the eldest of the regular robot set. Conceived and designed along with Y and Z by Makiling Bernardo. 

Mazinger W: Mazinger W, aka the advanced Shin Mazinger Z, is another prototype made with the arms and legs of destroyed bots, as well as the torso that preceded those of the Regular Mazinger brothers. Being the prettiest looking also helps. It is a masculine female codenamed Bellona. 

Mazinger U: Also known as the Shin Great Mazinger, it has a stupendously Square robot design. Like Themis and Bellona, it is codenamed Nyx. 

The Mazinger Family: Other Robots Related to the Mazinger Brothers. 

Mazinger T: A masculine female bodied, tricoloured Prototype known for its utter cuteness. Unlike the various others but like Mazinger W, it has a complicated, Ribbonlike Sixpack. Also known as Themis. 

Titanium Eve: One of the fanciest robots that are known to mankind. The reason why Titanium Eve is so unbelievably strong is that it’s made mostly out of Titanium and fellow very recyclable materials. 

Solar Multi Sixpack: The Solar Multi Sixpack, yet another recyclable super robot beauty, is defined as one of the few regulars with alternative formulas. Also known as Theia. 

Mazinger S: Also Known as Mazinger Sport, the largest of all the Mazingers is basically one of the more difficult to tame. 

Team Atlas: Consisting mostly of huge Adult robots which are amongst some of the most powerful of their kind in a traditional sense. 

Jace: Jace is a single brown haired female robot leading the Team Atlas female squadron. Also known as Nickel Harmonia. 

Joss: Joss is a female robot under Team Atlas, which is orange, white faced, and skinny looking as hell. Aka Shibuichi Nike. 

Toss: Toss is another female robot under the wing of Team Atlas. She has a very white face but, like Joss, is reddish orange and white bodied. Aka Gold Eleos. 

Liza: Nicknamed after Liza Ross, wife of Garrick Hagon, this lady bot is damn good at scare tactics and has a very purple head and face. Aka Hydronalium Chione. 

Bloodstone Atlas: Atlas is the lead of Team Atlas, as well as being the second biggest of the gang army. Also known as essentially the original Big Red Dai X, like fellow members of the Mazinkaiser trio, it wasn’t much used until its first regular appearance. 

White Mazinkaiser: also known as White Kaiser or Mazinkaiser, It is the design for which the much simpler succeeding Mazinger brothers are based on. 

Grey Mazinkaiser: Also known as Grey Kaiser or more famously, Great Mazinkaiser, this is one of the most powerful bots ever made in the traditional sense. 

Black Mazinkaiser: Also Known as Black Kaiser, Black Mazinkaiser is the biggest and most cursed of the Mazinkaiser trio. 

Ryu 1: Essentially the original Grendizer, Ryu 1 is defined as a large super robot doubling as a UFO. One of the most powerful super bots ever made in the traditional sense. 

Ryu 2: Ryu 2 is named to rhyme with Mew Two, as it is one of the members of the X Bomber Alliance. 

Ryu 3: Ryu 3 is the third in the Ryu series of UFO robots. It is no more powerful than Mazin Emperor G however. Unlike Ryu 1, it has a nearly fully blue snood. 

X Bomber: X Bomber is one of the most powerful robots there is! It is a mech that hasn’t seen the light of its day until its first regular appearance. Aka Tibetan Silver Tyche. 

The Veena Sisters: The Veena Sisters are all named, this time, after Indian musical instruments. These six robots are defined by differing features. 

Vichitra: Defined by its high mana and mostly orangey alloyed body, Vichitra is technically one of the more sensual Veena sisters. Aka Platinum Apate. 

Rudra: It is one of the more distinctive Veena sisters, with a hat on top of its princess haircut. Aka Spangold Dione. 

Sitar: Pretty and Soft, Sitar is defined by its hat and the rest of its haircut. It has similarities to Tambura and Tabla in all but hairstyle. Also Known as Akagane Bia. 

Tabla: Gorgeous Tabla is defined not just by its almost all orange body, except for the black napes, but also by its drum shaped head, which means that the top of its head is inspired by North Indian Music. Aka Ormolu Benthesikyme. 

Tambura: Much Bigger and more ‘adult’ than both Tabla and Vichitra. Aka Goloid Macaria. 

Sarod: Cute Sarod has a flowery Hime cut and is almost entirely pink. Aka Zolotnik Ersa. 

The Sports Trio: A Bunch of Supporting Bots. 

Baseball Blazer: Baseball is practically defined as a huge robot far more suited to sports other than baseball. First appearing along with Great Mazinger in the fight against Master Vex. Aka Albata Hemera. 

Rugby Rusty: Rugby is a rather overweight looking, or in fact heavily armoured, super robot. A comic relief unlike the somehow more serious Baseball, it is painted in dull shades of both orange and pink, and has a comically large snood mask, which hides its real head underneath it all.

Football Flash: Football Flash is intended to be be companion robot of the Bloodstone Atlas alliance. Stockier than the Ryu Robots, Flash is definitely a newfound friend of Rusty and Blazer. 

The Great Mazinger Ladies: the competition to the Veena sisters. 

Onyx: Onyx has a very purple face, with the rest of its body being very dark grey. It also has a stunningly grey crown. Aka Shakudo Veritas. 

Venus: Venus is the hipster of the trio, with a flowing cleopatra cut. 

Daffodil: Daffodil has a pretty crown and is quite clearly somewhat pink coloured, except for the bras, which are azure. Also Known As Cast Iron Clementia. 

Diana: Diana, being a strong willed super robot, is a black haired Wonder Woman Wannabe. 

Team Grandizer: A Competitor to the Bloodstone Atlas Team. 

Mazin Emperor G: Mazin Emperor G is one of the most powerful bots in the traditional, not so universe shattering or quantum wielding, sense. 

Goldrake: Goldrake is a handsome and pretty buddy robot following the steps of Baseball Blazer. 

Grandizer: the modern Grandizer, being a green coloured, military driven robot and obviously so controlled with ease by the emotional whims of a human being, it can easily be a force to reckon with, even if it’s muscled indeed! 

Mazin King H: A fellow robot to Ryunger and Prince I in Cyril Eno’s expedition, King H is larger than Ryunger and Mazin Prince I, though not as large as the Mazin Emperor G. 

Mazin Prince I: Known for being somehow cuter and younger looking than Emperor G and King H, Prince I is defined by its multicoloured body. 

Mazinger: Cirque Du Soleil Style!

I wonder if a huge change of the world revolving around Mazinger Z and its buddies needs to be heavily expanded for a possible Cirque Du Soleil adaptation? Call it Mazinger: Cirque Du Soleil style!

The Teruyas 

Koji Teruya: Named after a deceased Japanese actor, Koji Teruya is the youngest son of professor Imo Teruya and a woman of Yombe and Woyo descent from Cabinda in Angola named Monica Da Silva, hence his dark skin. In the apocalyptic present, he mostly lives alone and is possibly a perverted wild teenager (later becoming an adult), and his real first name is most likely Makiadi, which means Misery, in the Kongo Languages. Even as the story progresses, he makes some astonishingly mature decisions without even knowing about the things behind them. 

Mai Teruya: Mai Teruya is Koji’s wife and a very angst headed member of the infamous Sewer Alley high school staff. Although little is known about her life before she met Koji, she attended the high school of Acorn Highway, which is more popular than that of the Sewer Alley. She first met Koji when the latter rescued her from a horde of rampaging Bigfoots. 

Riki Teruya: Koji’s grandpa.

Ei Teruya: Mai and Koji's only daughter. It helps that she's the one most likely to inherit Koji's black hair. 

Goku Teruya: Being Koji’s much more jackass younger brother, Goku is defined as a mixed race brunette and, in his early appearances as a mysterious scene stealer, actually had a hairstyle similar to that of Koji! He has a son named Kabuto, with a consensual wife named Lucian. 

Imo Teruya: Imo Teruya is the shellshocked, widowed father of Koji and Goku, as well as being the husband of the late Monica Da Silva. Besides having a Japanese surname indicating that while some of his ancestors are Japanese, he possibly is more Croatian and Romani in terms of genetics than Japanese. 

Monica: Monica was Imo’s scientist wife and the mother of their offspring. 

Laura: Laura is, technically, one of Koji’s countless cousins. 

The Hidden Woods

Rubina Jacobs: The Pig Man’s girlfriend and later wife, who first appeared in the story as a frequently kidnapped and bound background character, but gained more character development as the story comes to a close. 

The Pig Man: A stranded and wild young guy mostly known by his nickname. According to Koi, he is more clearly a friend in need that Koji Da Silva doesn’t know much about. 

The Rahals  

Emi Rahal: Emi is very partly of Lebanese Maronite ancestry mostly because of her mum and dad, who raised her and Sasha in a loving environment despite the damn odds. 

Greg Rahal: A gingerbread haired punk who cares for the environment, Greg is one of Mehmood Safin’s current friends, because they first met each other in an expedition to recycle debris from space. 

Sasha Rahal: Emily’s Blonde Sister, Greg’s Other younger sister, and one of the Galactic Expedition’s most valuable members. She is about a year older than the infamous Koji Minami in her first appearance and has bright flaxen blonde hair. She herself is something of a broken ace too! 

The Matois 

Kenzo Matoi: Kenzo Matoi, an independent scientist, was the father of Liriope. Like Yu, his scar might have surely been in the forehead, albeit on the right side. 

Yu Matoi: was the wife of Kenzo Matoi and the mother of three children. Like her husband, she has an interesting forehead scar, albeit on the very top. 

So Matoi: So was a dude who got sick of the military when he was a part of it. Along with fellow scientist Shyam Lahiri, he was actually best friends with Leena and her husband Sukhwinder before they all fall out with the dysfunctional couple and ran away from them.

Marcie: Marcie was Yu’s wife, was of partial Japanese and predominant Croatian ancestry. She died exactly at the beginning of the story, where she was trying to fend off an Ogopogo! 

Megara Matoi: Megara has simply a black Hime cut. 

The School Staff

Lola Koi Bernardo: Filipina American student attending Acorn Highway high. She is the daughter of Makiling Bernardo. 

Gaia Kline: Gaia Kline is one of the most vital members of the school staff since she first attended said school. She is perhaps mixed race (she has a black dad and an Eurasian Mum), has green eyes and chocolate cinnamon skin.

Jim Watts: Jim Watts was originally one of Koji and Megara’s rival classmates besides his best friend Chris. He finally met the irresistible Maya Barkley at the Sewer Alley’s infamous bootcamp after they both met Koji. His brunette sister is Casey Watts. 

Amy Utsumi: Amy is one of Kelli Matoi’s Friends at the Sewer Valley High School. She is chocolate cinnamon haired and a tough cookie.

Chris O’Malley: Chris is the younger brother of Sally O’Malley and Jim’s only long term friend till they met Koji Teruya. 

Sally O’Malley: Sally is a school janitor who’d been attending the same Sewer Alley high school before her brother Chris came along during his grade hop from Harper middle school. 

Rock O’Malley: Light Brown haired Rock O’Malley is the oldest of the O’Malley siblings. 

The Galactic Gazers and supporting members 

Tommy Marsh: Tommy the black nerd, a shy and sometimes pissed off dude, is both Lucy’s younger brother and also one of Koji’s high school friends. 

Daisuke Matoi: Fraternal twin brother to Kelli and older brother to Shiro Matoi. Has messy locks of brown hair. 

Renee Miucin: Part Romanian Renee is Nicholas Barkley’s girlfriend and Bruno’s haughty niece. 

Nicholas ‘Nuke’ Barkley: Nicholas is Boss Barkley’s younger brother. While Boss was initially about fifteen years old in his first appearance, Nuke is about three years younger. 

Casey Watts: Casey is Jim’s older sister and a friend of Romy Umon. 

Sayaka Slon Hines: Sayaka Slon (Slavic word for elephant) Hines is a woman who is such a military bruiser that she is rightfully the only known choice for piloting one of the Veena sisters, somewhat after its first two destructions become known to the public. She is the daughter of Gosaku Hines, who is himself the half-Japanese, half-Black widower of a Croatian American drill sergeant. 

Brad ‘Boss’ Barkley: Boss Barkley, though a regular high school bully outside, has a rather troubled home life filled with two distant workaholic parents and a rather nasty pair of screwed up maternal grandparents from the Deep South. His mum and dad are Mona Jones Barkley and Jason Barkley. 

Lucy Marsh: Although her parents were luckily with her for considerably longer than Tetsuya's paternal grandparents were there with him (that is, until they died of overwork), she has suffered from a moderate amount of bullying by a large amount of ridiculously bigoted fellows at the Acorn Highway elementary school. As a result of such bigotry, she dislikes too much bullshit and does have a pretty troubled past, albeit not as sad and pitiful as Tetsuya's. Along with Tetsuya, she also has been mentally scarred, albeit less so, by their shared encounters with a notoriously criminal Bigfoot family, which includes a husband and wife team; the Bigfoot husband killed off Gary and Kenzo, while the Bigfoot wife killed the former's paternal uncle and aunt; but before that, The Bigfoot wife’s parents were responsible for the death of Tetsuya’s parents. Unlike in most other versions where she is called Jun Hono, she is shown to have a huge crush on Nuke Barkley; years later, they married and have fraternal twin children named Mickey and Halley. 

Yumi Tsurugi: Yumi is Megara Matoi’s best friend. Unlike Kelli, Yumi has Raven hair. Her older sister is Jun Tsurugi. 

Maya Barkley: Medium Brown haired Maya Barkley is the twin sister of Boss Barkley and older sister to Nuke Barkley. 

Jessica Davis: Lucy’s Brunette haired maternal cousin and a fellow orphan. Her parents were slavish workaholics who lived as cubicle rats at Cycle Inc's HQ until they got fired, thus they lived deep in a thick temperate rainforest full of Bigfoots. 

Kelli Karabatsos: Megara’s fellow Hime cut friend. A very brunette haired brat, she witnessed her workaholic grandpa, mother and father all dying at the hands of a really aggro Bigfoot along with her fellow classmates. 

Shiro Matoi: Megara’s pretty goofy younger brother, bundled with filthy hair. 

Jun Tsurugi: Jun is Yumi’s older sister, who was friends with Narendra and Tetsuya Kapoor. She has black hair but, like Maya Barkley and Jessica Davis, has very pale peach skin. 

Trey ‘Mucha’ Melendez: A Chicano dude who originally attended the same high school as Megara Matoi. 

The Kapoors 

Ren Kapoor: Ren was Tetsuya’s much more insane older brother who lived in the wilderness for much of his life, as evidenced by the contrived circumstances surrounding his puberty. Along with his wife Olga Gutierrez, shortly after they gave birth to Misato’s erm, second cousin, he died of various mental health defects and a heart condition which he inherited from his maternal grandpa, Flint Hitch. 

Tetsuya Kapoor: A rather overcompetitive but pitifully broken ace, which means anyone can avoid him mostly because his heavy beefing tendencies are not fun to look at, and he's generally been ill suited to long term friendship for a couple of years, due to his actual paternal birth grandparents being dead in the hands of a Bigfoot and their ex friend Kenzo being a rather depressed dude who is basically one of the company's indentured scientist labourers. Tetsuya was a regular elementary school bully of the Matoi siblings. Luckily, he is only partially to blame for Goran and Kenzo’s deaths, but at the cost of him becoming a bit more of a woobie trying to live with his various kinds of grief. Even after losing his mentors to a savagely aggro male Bigfoot, he also witnessed his paternal uncle and aunt being killed off for real, albeit by a savagely aggro female Bigfoot, IN ORDER TO GO TO HEAVEN with their two most consistent colleagues. He was about nineteen in his first regular appearance, though his slowly developing sexuality didn’t come fully out of the closet until somehow later, when he was twenty one telling his old rival Koji about how his mum disowned him and his dad forever as a result of both men being hugely spanked by her. 

Zayn Kapoor: Dharmendra and Tetsuya’s somehow more unstable and regularly angst ridden middle brother, who currently lives on his own in a slum house and is definitely known as the most emo member of the family. 

Narendra Kapoor: Tetsuya’s close but similarly dysfunctional younger brother, whom he disrespects but deeply sympathises with.  

Saraswati Kapoor: Being the second youngest yet most comedic known regular member of the infamous Kapoor bunch, the infamously named Saraswati Kapoor is also the only girl in a family of 2 dead parents and four living, farting and breathing siblings.

The Galactic Solar Expedition 

Jasper Kline: Gaia Kline's cheapskate younger brother, who is a buddy of Shiro. 

Romi Umon: Romi Umon is the daughter of widowed scientist Orion Umon. A brave and content soul, her twin brother is Ravi Umon.

Ravi Umon: Fellow friend of the Kapoor brothers. One of the wild Koji’s sole remaining friends from his childhood years, besides Akhil Safin. 

Akhil Safin: Raised by his older sister Selena Maya on a UFO called Grendizer, which is, actually, a huge robot that their Volga Tatar parents saved from impending destruction by space beasts invading their children’s birthplace of America, cyan eyed brunette Akhil Safin lived in said UFO for years until they arrived back to planet earth, only to realise that their parents have sadly passed away in the nuclear accident that shook the Washington state, USA. 

Rayon Kapoor: The estranged but heroically inclined son of Leena and Sukhwinder, Rayon was adopted by a horde of wandering unknowns, who are in fact human UFO nomads, political and climate refugees embarking on an expedition that tours the solar system. He has scruffy Black Hair. 

Selena Maya Safin: Akhil’s older sister, known for her role in helping certain society members to study the short lives of the insanely incomprehensible starfish aliens of their eponymous Universal Empires.  

The Mentors 

Orion Umon: Orion is the half Japanese father of Romi Umon, whose wife was one of the victims in a notorious incident known to Sewer Alley natives as the Great Nuclear Stink. 

Ron Hines: An awesome dude, he taught Sayaka to be a woman brave and strong, while trying to search for a dozen Cold War Iron curtain treasures once thought to be missing. 

Shyam Lahiri: Shyam Lahiri was the Victor Frankenstein of his time! Even when he was friends with his later enemies, Leena and Sukhwinder shortly before they betrayed him, he was generally a sucker for both robots and monsters, something that most characters of the story can and should know that. What they didn’t know is that he was the father of Minus and Plus all along. 

The Human Antagonists 

Sukhwinder Kapoor: Defined as the demeaning and constantly cold mannered husband of Leena Sagar, Sukhwinder had a pretty interesting sibling rivalry with his younger brother, the Kapoor Siblings’ father Vijay. He was nearly always a friendly lackey in need to his mentor, the equally somewhat sympathetic Dr Bruno Miucin. 

Leena Sagar: Leena was Sukhwinder’s girlfriend and later wife. They first met each other by accident at the Acorn Highway High school when they grew up. She had (very nearly) always been a persistent antagonist who loved destroying robots, but would actually fear killing a human inside. Along with Sukhwinder, she was a long time friend of the Miucin brothers. 

Bruno Miucin: Known for his pointy ears and wicked ideas, Bruno was the son of a wealthy but rather screwed up Cold War raised couple, who conceived him on a Sunday morning. Being their only child, he saw both of them preying on their two cats and got traumatised by said grisly incident as a result. A rather callous if understandable brute with some heavy noble demon tendencies, he actually was friends with Gary Matoi until he’s had enough of the latter’s healthy old antics and shooed him out. 

Andre Miucin: Bruno’s even funnier younger brother, he actually was shown to be great at doing black comedy, so yeah, which may even mean he and Bruno were basically more similar than they thought of themselves as.

The Dao Brothers

Joshua Dao: Joshua is a science teacher. 

Wesley Dao: Joshua Dao’s brother, Wesley has more in common with his mother than he has with his father. He possibly has brown eyes. 

Crazy Literary Collectibles: Tarzan Boy Edition

Crazy Literary Collectibles: Tarzan Boy Edition

Things that have a few Hotmails and Ebooks shown

The Jungle Born story has a rarely seen but freely available Ebook, which means that it’s not needed for a collection until later in the Tarzan Boy collecting process. Because it’s luckily being added into the public domain for the EU, I adapted its Ebook form into a pretty sad and somehow pessimistic fanfic of the same name, which in turn will be the screenplay for a more hopeful miniseries of the same name. 

There are only two Kwa stories which have their own freely available Ebooks in the Gutenberg Australia site. The rest are also available, but only for buyers of paid Ebooks. All of the six stories are compiled into a cheaply covered but actually decent short story collection in the Lulu self publishing site at only barely six Australian dollars. 

Tam, Son of the Tiger has a freely available Ebook on the Gutenberg Australia site, which indicates that it’s not collected yet until the Tarzan Boy collecting business goes well beyond ten non Tarzan and Mowgli books. 

Both Jan of the Jungle stories have their own free Ebooks on the Gutenberg Australia site as well, thus they’re not yet bought until the collecting process goes way beyond a dozen or more books. I adapted both of them into fanfics doubling as proposed screenplays for a miniseries.

The Jukan series is becoming public domain in 2028, so there’s an increasingly likely chance of all eighteen stories getting a rather dirty Australian English translation in the near future. 

Things that can get away within a couple of absurd publishing world situations

There are so many Akim comic book volumes, I can’t collect them all for reasons related to archive panic; thus only a few hundred of the covers could definitely be integral to a web adaptation of the whole franchise - which is meant to be something made in the style of Tezuka Productions, Sony Pictures and Splash Entertainment's memetic spin on the not really public domain Astro Boy legend. 

Jingle Jangle Jungle

There are authors who were jingle jangle jungle writers and artists at some stage in their lives.

John Russell Fearn: Although John Russell Fearn made just two jungle stories which starred his own character Anjani, he was an ethnic British Englishman primarily known for making a ton of pulpy stuff for various SF mags decades ago. Both Anjani stories aren’t yet in the public domain until 2031 for most nations. 

Niels Meyn: This is his best known work, the Jukan series. Said literary series was very popular in the Nordic countries during its heyday and was essential pulp reading for a lot of Nordic youths in its time. Its titular character essentially was Bomba the Jungle Boy’s Nordic equivalent, mostly because all four Nordic Countries have complicated experiences with WW2. Although an English translation for the older version (called the Old School Potboiler edition to those not yet aware of the whole franchise) remains possible, the whole series is technically not yet entering the public domain until 2028 for most nations. 

Otis Adelbert Kline: Otis Adelbert Kline did three jungle stories in his brutally filthy and arrogant short life. Fortunately, for a relatively obscure trio, they’re known for being the favourites of many an honestly tolerable preservation pirate. The fact that not only are they cherished by fans of fellow lesser known pulp works from the world famous Argosy Mag, they’ve recently been added into the public domains of most nations as well. 

Perley Poore Sheehan: Perley Poore Sheehan did make about six short jungle stories, which are currently in the public domain for most nations (since 1994 for Australia and 2014 for the EU) and which all feature his Tarzan expy Kwa.

The good news is that the public domain does exist, but is still constantly changing, as most of us should know better about. 

MockBusters: A History of Cheapskates

Hello there! I must have been thinking about MockBusters for a long while now. People have been reading and watching MockBusters since the dawns of both literature and cinema, we are just more aware of the legal and social implications surrounding MockBusters nowadays (in the Present Day) than ever before. 

For a rather long time, but mostly from near the famed if rather unceremonious end to all the Shogun Periods up until the debut of both Mazinger Z and Gatchaman late in 1972, much of Japanese Pop Culture must have been suffering from misleading international marketing, which was mostly because of the fact that there was no Google Translate at the time! 

On a more celebrated note, the Thai Comics Industry started in 1932 with a comic that began life as a local MockBuster to - of all things - Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye the Sailor Man. Said comic was titled Khun Muen after its eponymous titular Hero, who is a plucky Street urchin wearing a Spartan Warrior Hat. 

In The Hispanic World, Heaps of Tarzan Boys would infiltrate the pop culture industry within a bang or two. The first of them all was Nanuk, written and drawn in Barcelona during the last years of the pre-Franco Era in the 20th Century. The most famous, however, was Tawa, the titular hero of the more popular spinoff within the Wama Line, written and drawn by a Mexican Comics luminary, Joaquín Cervantes Bassoco. 

Fiction House Classics’ Human Characters

Fiction House Classics’ Human characters. 

Gift Hunting

Gift Hunting for the most interesting secondhand items is an international pastime. Not just that, it is one of the most integral parts of both geek and broad internet pop culture too. 

Old Shōnen Books: Apart from secondhand Japanese Transformers and elderly Licca Dolls in spades, old Shōnen Books are amongst some of the most easily sold secondhand items in Japan, so are the secondhand museum-centric ‘Mooks’ which acknowledge them as a vital but, in international terms, relatively obscure literary format. Unlike the first two however, unless they’re mangas, old Shōnen Books are usually harder to find outside of Japan. 

Shōnen Pulp Novel: The Shōnen Pulp Novel comes in two sub demographic forms, the Junior Shōnen Pulp Novel and the Senior Shōnen Pulp Novel, which gave way to the modern Senior Shōnen light novel format. 

Shōnen Emonogatari: Of the demographic Emonogatari forms, the most commonly remembered one is for the Shōnen demographic. After all, the Shōnen Emonogatari was basically the rather strange distant cousin of the venerable Kamishibai and the lesser known Shōnen Pulp Novel, which gave way to the modern Junior Shōnen manga and more significantly so, the modern Junior Shōnen light novel.