IN APRIL 1972, while sitting in a traffic jam, a young Japanese man named Goh Nagai came up with an idea that would make him famous -and very rich. He thought: 'If a car had arms and legs, then there ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. However, the extensive use of photo energy has weakened the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. This new Mazinger Z: Infinity anime movie continues on the ...
Even if you are not particularly fond of Japanese manga or anime series, the name Mazinger might just as well ring a bell or two. That's because it evokes one of the oldest such creations around, ...
Like many of the country’s biggest manga properties, Mazinger Z first hit newsstands in Shonen Jump, a weekly comic anthology that was also the starting point for everything from Kinniku Man to Naruto ...
Back in the late ’70s, anime that featured giant robots were all the rage. But sadly, they abruptly disappeared, as a government crackdown on supposed “excessively violent” cartoons took the likes of ...
Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly ...
Dr. Hell, Mazinger Z's main enemy, has been defeated and killed in battle, and finally Kouji Kabuto and the rest of his friends can take a break from their duty of defending Japan and the world from ...