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.
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