History Anime / Mazinkaiser

* AdaptationDyeJob: The Doublas M2 has a different colour scheme and head which are rounder and more human-like with a SlasherSmile compared to the original which featured a dragon-like head.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the original Mazinger manga, Venus was a huge step up from Aphrodite A, allowing Sayaka to destroy several mechanical beasts and helping Kouji fight Gordon Hell. In Mazinkaiser it being more powerful is nothing more than an InformedAttribute, being defeated just as often as her old mecha.

** RocketPunch: The Turbo Smasher Punch which, like Great's Screw Crusher Punch, [[SpectacularSpinning makes everything better by spinning]].

* TheWorfEffect: Both Mazinger-Z and Great Mazinger suffered this within the first two episodes, with both machines falling to Dr. Hell's Mechanical Beasts' army. Also, Tetsuya had been established in both ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' like a highly-skilled AcePilot, CombatPragmatist BloodKnight and TheDeterminator, HotBlooded badass. In ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' the animators showed a situation was dangerous and an enemy a real threat by severely injuring or incapaciting Tetsuya, or showing him struggling.

* {{Gainaxing}}:
** Lori and Roll do this plenty of times, as do the three androids.
** Even Venus A does this in the beach episode.

The seven-episode OVA was followed up by the movie ''Mazinkaiser vs. [[Anime/GreatMazinger The Great General of Darkness]]'', a remake of the 1974 film ''Mazinger Z vs. The Great General of Darkness'', where the [[Anime/GreatMazinger Mycenae Empire]] invades while Kouji is vacationing in Paris, forcing him to fight his way back to Japan and take the Mazinkaiser into battle once more. Said movie does not share the continuity with the OVA, with it not even using the same version of the Mazinkaiser mecha, though ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' installments since ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' have used them together.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the original Mazinger manga, Venus was a huge step up from Aphrodai A, allowing Sayaka to destroy several mechanical beasts and helping Kouji fight Gordon Hell. In Mazinkaiser it being more powerful is nothing more than an InformedAttribute, being defeated just as often as her old bot.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:"Shin" Great Mazinger]] in the last few episodes.

** [[spoiler:Boss, in the movie.]]

* CanonImmigrant: Everything we could explain about this one has already been addressed on the page description.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: In the last 2 episodes, Mazinkaiser gets dunked in lava. Since Mazinkaiser is MadeOfIndestructium, Kouji can survive for a short while in that enviroment, but everyone knows they had to get him out of the volcano QUICKLY, or he would die. Averted with Mazinkaizer's Fire Blaster, which melts foes even when the visible beam misses them entirely.
* DeathByAdaptation: As the OVA episodes do not share the same continuity with TheMovie, [[spoiler: Dr. Morimori, Lori and Loru]] are taken out in the latter while more or less surviving in the former.

* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: In one episode Mazinkaiser (with Kouji inside it) was tossed into the crater of Mount Fuji (paying homage to an episode of the original series). Kouji fainted due to the extreme heat and sheer pressure... and that was it. The characters pointed out not even Mazinkaiser could endure that for long and they had to get Kouji out of the magma RIGHT AWAY, though. The lava also seems less dangerous than it should be (it is too bright, too fluid and not viscous enough). However, given the kind of punishment Mazinkaiser shrugs off throughout the series, withstanding a lava bath seems almost trivial.
* LetsGetDangerous: Two twins Lorry and Roll are fanservicey, yeah. But when it's time to get serious, they show that they're more than just FanService: see episode 5, i.e.
** They also show their stuff in the movie, what with piloting a Fembot and all. Too bad that's where they die.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Mazinkaiser takes this concept and RUNS WITH IT. Nothing seems being capable to even scratch it. This video should show it convincingly: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZwGqhTP5I&feature=related]]

* {{Mooks}}: Baron Ashura hires very, very dim ones.
* MsFanservice: Two of 'em: Lorry and Roll. Sayaka also had her moments, specially the fourth OAV.

* NippleAndDimed: When Sayaka's bikini top is pulled off; brief scene with very prominent nipples. Same for when the three androids from episode 3 are destroyed.
* PunchClockVillain: Ashura's mooks, which are undoubtedly part of why they're so utterly stupid.

* RedshirtArmy: The Mazinger Army.

* TelescopingRobot: Mazinkaiser had THREE blades hid into its body (two of them into its shoulders and the bigger into its chest), and its midsection stored one giant missile.

** ChestBlaster: The Fire Blaster; notably, it's theorized the Fire Blaster can punch a hole through to the Earth's core; it's [[WaveMotionGun so powerful]] that even though the main blast goes over a bunch of mechanical beasts, the sheer heat of it ''still'' melts them anyhow).

** TheMovie took it even further by crushing Great, Venus, ''and'' the Mazinger Army. At least half of them didn't survive.

''Mazinkaiser'' is a seven-episode SuperRobot {{OAV}} re-imagining of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' story released in 2001. It tells the story of how [[TheHero Kouji Kabuto]] discovers and masters his grandfather Juzo Kabuto's final legacy, the most powerful of the Mazingers.

The seven-episode OAV was followed up by the movie ''Mazinkaiser vs. [[Anime/GreatMazinger The Great General of Darkness]]'', a remake of the 1974 film ''Mazinger Z vs. The Great General of Darkness'', where the [[Anime/GreatMazinger Mycenae Empire]] invades while Kouji is vacationing in Paris, forcing him to fight his way back to Japan and take the Mazinkaiser into battle once more. Said movie does not share the continuity with the OVA, with it not even using the same version of the Mazinkaiser mecha, though ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' installments since ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' have used them together.

See also ''Anime/MazinkaiserSKL'', a three-episode OAV released in 2011, an entirely different re-imagining with all-new characters.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: In one episode, Mazinkaiser got dunked in lava. Since Mazinkaiser was MadeOfIndestructium, Kouji could survive for a short while in that enviroment, but all knew they had to get him out of the volcano QUICKLY, or he would die. Averted with Mazinkaizer's Fire Blaster, which melts foes even when the visible beam misses them entirely.

* DistractedByTheSexy: It happened fairly often in the original manga. Usually it was Sayaka who was the (unwilling) distraction -either because her clothes were torn or because she was involuntarily naked-, but sometimes it was done by enemies to distract Kouji. One of those scenes was animated in the BeachEpisode: Kouji accidentally undoes Sayaka's top[[note]]he was trying to grab her shoulder and missed[[/note]]; she's actually more upset by Boss getting a look at her breasts than she is by Kouji, even though he [[DistractedByTheSexy weaponizes her boobs]] in order to escape the enemy fortress.

* WalkimgArmory: Mazinkaiser's arsenal consists of...

%%** {{BFS}}: The (Final) Kaiser Blade from the OVA.
%%** BreathWeapon: The Rust Tornado, which still has the corrosive component
%%** ChestBlaster: The Fire Blaster; notably, it's theorized the Fire Blaster can punch a hole through to the Earth's core; it's [[WaveMotionGun so powerful]] that even though the main blast goes over a bunch of mechanical beasts, the sheer heat of it ''still'' melts them anyhow).
%%*** Also technically the Gigant Missile, though it comes from Kaiser's navel.
%%** DualWielding: The paired Kaiser Blades from the movie; the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' original version calls them Shoulder Slicers.
%%** EyeBeams: The Photon Power Beam, which doesn't get a new name.
%%** KillItWithIce: The Freezing Beam from the movie.
%%** PowerFist: The Kaiser Knuckle in the movie.
%%** PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: In the movie, the [[MidSeasonUpgrade Kaiser Scrander]] can be pulled off and used as one. [[spoiler:It even slices cleanly through the flying fortress Demonika.]]
%%** RocketPunch: The Turbo Smasher Punch which, like Great's Screw Crusher Punch, [[SpectacularSpinning makes everything better by spinning]].
%%** SphereOfDestruction: The Kaiser Nova from the manga (and ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''), where Kaiser charges its Photonic Energy to full power and releases it in a single gigantic burst.

* WeaponOfChoice: Mazinkaiser's arsenal consists of...
** {{BFS}}: The (Final) Kaiser Blade from the OVA.
** BreathWeapon: The Rust Tornado, which still has the corrosive component
** ChestBlaster: The Fire Blaster; notably, it's theorized the Fire Blaster can punch a hole through to the Earth's core; it's [[WaveMotionGun so powerful]] that even though the main blast goes over a bunch of mechanical beasts, the sheer heat of it ''still'' melts them anyhow).
*** Also technically the Gigant Missile, though it comes from Kaiser's navel.
** DualWielding: The paired Kaiser Blades from the movie; the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' original version calls them Shoulder Slicers.
** EyeBeams: The Photon Power Beam, which doesn't get a new name.
** KillItWithIce: The Freezing Beam from the movie.
** PowerFist: The Kaiser Knuckle in the movie.
** PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: In the movie, the [[MidSeasonUpgrade Kaiser Scrander]] can be pulled off and used as one. [[spoiler:It even slices cleanly through the flying fortress Demonika.]]
** RocketPunch: The Turbo Smasher Punch which, like Great's Screw Crusher Punch, [[SpectacularSpinning makes everything better by spinning]].
** SphereOfDestruction: The Kaiser Nova from the manga (and ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''), where Kaiser charges its Photonic Energy to full power and releases it in a single gigantic burst.

** RocketPunch: The Turbo Smasher Punch which, like Great's Screw Crusher Punch, [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning makes everything better by spinning]].

* BreathWeapon: Rust Tornado, an UpToEleven version of Mazinger's Rust Hurricane, combined with Great Mazinger's Great Typhoon: Mazinkaiser blows several jets of particle-charged wind from its mouth grill that corrodes the enemy into nothingness (assuming the terrifying gale winds did not break it apart first). Its huge destructive force dug a ditch through a side of Mount Fuji.

** TheMovie took it [[UpToEleven even further]] by crushing Great, Venus, ''and'' the Mazinger Army. At least half of them didn't survive.

** [[spoiler:Tetsuya does this in the first episode too]]

** TheMovie took it [[UpToEleven Even further]] by crushing Great, Venus, ''and'' the Mazinger Army. At least half of them didn't survive.