Z Mazinger TV Series to be directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa

[Fencedude]

We will now pause as Vicserr convulses on the floor in paroxysms of joy.

Ok.

http://giapet.net/2008/06/13/yasuhir...azinger-anime/

And yes, that is "Z Mazinger", not "Mazinger Z".

[Nork22]

Oh hell yes!

Bring on JAM Project as well for the blood-pumping intro!

[Kurou]

Nice!

Imagawa is the best mecha director around, so this is great news.

[Junker Woland]

Wow. Cool to see them mine one of the more obscure Mazinger properties, plus Imagawa heading the project instills a lot of confidence.

Totally can’t wait to see the character and robot designs…

[LordGeo]

Originally Posted by Fencedude

And yes, that is "Z Mazinger", not "Mazinger Z".

SO the new Mazinger anime will be an adaptation of this manga?

Either way it's nice to finally find out some info on the new Mazinger... I was just wondering today whether we'll hear any news of it soon.

[Fencedude]

Originally Posted by LordGeo

SO the new Mazinger anime will be an adaptation of this manga?

Either way it's nice to finally find out some info on the new Mazinger... I was just wondering today whether we'll hear any news of it soon.

Yep, thats the one.

Apparently the character designs will be in "classic" style, while hte mecha designs will be in "modern" style.

[Mazinkaizer]

Although i was waiting for the Mazinger Z news but a Z Mazinger adaption (for the first time) is something i always wanted to have too. The manga were 5 volumes so a 26 Eps TV series would be more than enough to for a faithful adaption plus some additional stories too

The part i like the most about the news "The character design is going to be done in the classic, old school style, but the mechs will be done in a modern style". Pretty much what i would expect from a Go Nagai show

[Westlo]

I'm hard.

[regz91]

Originally Posted by Mazinkaizer

Although i was waiting for the Mazinger Z news but a Z Mazinger adaption (for the first time) is something i always wanted to have too. The manga were 5 volumes so a 26 Eps TV series would be more than enough to for a faithful adaption plus some additional stories too

Well, Moon Phase says it's going to be "based" on the manga, but will be an anime-original story. The interview with Go Nagai that first mentioned this (which Moon Phase helpfully links to) also seemed to suggest that the anime will gather "all" the Mazingers together. It sounds to me like another Giant Robo-type project, which bears the name of one property but will actually gather all of the author's different properties together into one original story.

The site also says this anime will air this winter.

[Garasharp K7]

Originally Posted by Mazinkaizer

The part i like the most about the news "The character design is going to be done in the classic, old school style, but the mechs will be done in a modern style". Pretty much what i would expect from a Go Nagai show

As long as 'modern style' doesn't mean cg mechs, then I gots no problem with it. I just can't imagine Go Nagai's robots done in the same style as say, Vandread, Macross Zero or last year's Giant Robo. It just doesn't fit 'em one bit.
Of course I could be worrying over nothing - 'twould be better to wait 'til the character designs show up and so on. I'm still going to watch it though. It's fecking Mazinger. Wouldn't miss this for the world.