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Summary: If you're a Mazinger/Tranzor Z fan, get this DVD!
Review: While I was growing up in the early 80s, there was a great anime show on every morning called Tranzor Z. It was based on the anime series Mazinger Z that, at the time, was already about ten years old. For its US release, Mazinger was snipped, cut, and taped back together to much that, from what I understand, it was barely recognizable in the Tranzor Z series (mostly due to the stricter censor standards in the States). The show ran for a year or two and then disappeared from our nation.With the advent of the Internet, I learned Tranzor Z's origins and that it was, in fact, linked to a greater Mazinger saga. The second series, Great Mazinger, involved a more powerful robot and better pilot, and was only seen in horribly added snippets in Tranzor Z. I have waited with baited breath for any sign of the Mazinger series to once again be available in the US without having to pay for expensive imports or video recordings made in 1984. Once I saw Mazinkaiser, I swept it up in an instant. Though it doesn't really follow the storyline from Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and beyond, the story does a great job of introducing a new heroic robot into the series, keeps our favorite characters together, and offers the same melodramatic heroism and campy humor I came to know and love in Tranzor Z. If you're a Mazinger or Tranzor fan, get this DVD. And get volume 2 when it comes out in October. I know I will.
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