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, ...

Ten years ago, the villainous scientist Dr. Hell led his wicked followers, known as the Underground Empire, in a struggle to destroy all of humanity. It was against these forces that the young hero ...

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 ...

That was the question posed to Mazinger Z protagonist Koji Kabuto about what he could potentially become should he harness the power of the iconic robot. Many decades after the original manga and ...

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 ...

Mazinger Z is one of the most well-known Japanese animation series in Spain. Based on the manga by the renowned artist Go Nagai, it premiered in Spain on March 4, 1978, replacing Daniel the Naughty in ...

Dr. Hell and Dr. Kabuto are two archaeologists who found the remains of an ancient civilization capable of making giant robots. When Dr. Juzo Kabuto found out Dr. Hell's plans of creating the robots ...

Mazinger Z is a Super Robot, constructed with Super-Alloy Z. Kouji Kabuto is the robot’s pilot.

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 ...