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.
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