[ANIME] God Mazinger [1984]

Title: God Mazinger (ゴッドマジンガー)
Type: TV series
Broadcast period: 1984-04-15 ~ 1984-09-30
Broadcast time: Sunday, 10:30-11:00
Number of episodes: 23
Running time: 30 minutes
Channel: Nippon Television
Production: Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Genre: Action, robot, heroes
Original: Go Nagai
Producers: Norio Hatsukawa (Nippon TV), Shunzo Kato (Tokyo Movie)
Episode directors: Yoshio Hayakawa, Tetsuya Endo, Shuji Iuchi, Kamekichi Itano, Toru Itozu, Akira Nishimori, Goro Mikawashima, Yukimatsu Ito, Tomio Shiwasu, Atsushi Minami
Planning: Hiroyuki Onodera
Animation director: Hideyuki Motohashi
Scenario: Masaki Tsuji, Satoshi Namiki, Hiroshi Onogi, Yumiko Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Hoshiyama, Shigemitsu Taguchi
Character design: Satoshi Hirayama
Art director: Eiko Suto
Photography director: Hirokata Takahashi
Music: Kentaro Haneda
Voice actors: Hiroshi Takemura (Yamato Hino), Yoshiko Sakakibara (Aira Mu), Sho Hayami (Erudo), Osamu Kato (Dorado), Yumi Takada (Kaoru Hino), Shigezo Sasaoka (God Mazinger), Yuzuru Fujimoto (Muraji), Eriko Hara (Madoma), Kumiko Takizawa (Yoname), Daisuke Gori (Deriya), Hiroya Ishimaru (Giron), Nobuyuki Furuta (Noro), Masashi Hirose (Bura)
Theme songs:
-Opening-
·Dreamy My Love (lyrics by Toyohisa Araki, composition and arrangement by Tatsumi Yano, vocals by Shoko Suda)
-Ending-
·Toki no Yuwaku (時間の誘惑) (lyrics by Toyohisa Araki, composition by Masami Ito, arrangement by Tatsumi Yano, vocals by Harumi Endo)
-Image songs-
·Mouichido Love Me (もう一度 Love Me) (lyrics by Toyohisa Araki, composition by Masami Ito, arrangement by Kentaro Haneda, vocals by Harumi Endo)
·Aoi hoshikuzu: Blue Stardust (青い星くず-Blue Stardust-) (lyrics by Toyohisa Araki, composition by Masami Ito, arrangement by Kentaro Haneda, vocals by Mayuko Miyahara)

DVD:

2003-06-25; God Mazinger DVD-Box, 4 discs, Pioneer LDC, PIBA-3157, http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0026694 http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00009NKEP

2007-03-21; God Mazinger DVD-Box, 4 discs, Columbia Music Entertainment, XT-2387/90, http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0150824 http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000MGB94I http://columbia.jp/prod-info/XT-2387-90/

Music:
-Single-

1984-04-??; God Mazinger, 1 EP, Vap, 10137-07
http://anison.info/data/source/5181.html
http://anisonhouse.web.fc2.com/d32.html
http://koujun.hp.infoseek.co.jp/db/d32.html
http://www.mazingerz.com/RECORDS/EP.html

-Albums-

1984-06-??; God Mazinger Original Soundtrack (ゴッドマジンガー オリジナル・サウンドトラック), 1 LP, Vap, 30142-25
http://anison.info/data/source/5182.html
http://www.fanfan1.com/products/detail/663344
http://www.mazingerz.com/RECORDS/LP.html

1984-09-01; God Mazinger Original Soundtrack: Drama Hen (ゴッドマジンガー オリジナル・サウンドトラック＜ドラマ編＞), 1 LP, Vap, 30155-23
http://anison.info/data/source/5183.html
http://anisonhouse.web.fc2.com/d899.html
http://koujun.hp.infoseek.co.jp/db/d899.html
http://www.mazingerz.com/RECORDS/LP.html

Others:

1984-05-??; God Mazinger Pictue Book, Shogakukan (小学館), ISBN-10:4091114865, ISBN:978-4091114860
http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/366755/s/

1984-07-??; God Mazinger TV Meisaku (テレビ名作), Shogakukan, ISBN-10:4091104711, ISBN-13:978-4091104717
http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/366688/s/
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4091104711

Images:


After some mysterious incidents, a young boy named Yamato accidentally travels to another universe, the kingdom of Mu. He's the only one capable of waking up and controlling the God, Mazinger and defend the kingdom against Doraro and his monsters. The anime is different from the manga and the novels. It seems that the novels and the manga were better received than the anime, but I (jfgslo) could be wrong since each of them targets a different audience.

The original concept for the Mazinger Z sequel was in fact God Mazinger, but Toei wasn't convinced and the concept of Great Mazinger was chosen instead.

Links:
http://www.tms-e.com/library/old/tv/data/t_majin.html
http://www.tms-e.com/online/lineup/godmajin/index.html
http://www.tms-e.com/online/project/080110_1.html
http://www.dmm.com/monthly/animate_godmazinger/
http://broadband.biglobe.ne.jp/vstore/contents_top_cp.do?SC_ContentsMetaID=4157
http://streaming.yahoo.co.jp/p/y/tms/10033/
http://www.showtime.jp/special/animation/tokyo_online/godmazinger/
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=970
http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=89297
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ゴッドマジンガー
http://www.mazingerz.com/GOD/GOD.html
http://www.mazingerz.com/ANIME/TV.html
http://www.mazingerz.com/ANIME/TVmazinger.html
http://www.encirobot.com/goma/goma-ind.asp
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1999
http://www.accessup.org/janime/7_God_20mazingar/
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~zgd/GodMazinger/GodMazinger-3.htm
http://www.changevworld.com/tracklist/VPCG-83246.htm
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hoshinoruri/comment?date=20070521
http://www.mazingerz.com/RECORDS/EP.html
http://komaki-pennylane.net/?pid=13776815
http://www.mazingerz.com/RECORDS/JACKET.html
http://www.collectiondx.com/node/795 God Mazinger Toy
http://www.mandarake.co.jp/information/weblog/spr/dvd/log00011.html
http://teleman.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/10/post-4c6e.html
http://anime.marumegane.com/1984/godmazinger.html
http://anison.info/data/program/527.html

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