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.
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