[ANIME] Great Mazinger [1974]

Title: Great Mazinger (グレートマジンガー)
Type: TV series
Broadcast period: 1974-09-08 ~ 1975-09-28
Broadcast time: Sunday, 19:00 - 19:30
Number of episodes: 56
Running time: 30 minutes
Channel: Fuji TV
Genre: SF, robots, action, heros
Production: Toei Doga
Original: Go Nagai, Dynamic Production
Director: Tomoharu Katsumata, Tsunekiyo Otani, Masayuki Akihi, Yasuo Yamayoshi, Yoshikatsu Kasai, Takeshi Shirato, Tetsuo Imasawa, Nobutaka Nishizawa, Takeshi Tamiya
Scenario: Susumu Takahisa, Keisuke Fujikawa, Toyohiro Ando
Producer: Yoshiro Sugawara
Planning: Kenji Yokoyama, Higashi Kasuga, Koji Bessho
Character design: Keisuke Morishita
Animation director: Keisuke Morishita, Tsuneyasu Kashima, Hiroshi Iino, Toshio Mori, Hiroshi Azuma, Takeshi Shirato, Kazuo Nakamura, Hisashi Sakaguchi, Saburo Masutani
Art director: Mataharu Urata, Makoto Yamazaki, Takao Tsuruoka
Music: Michiaki Watanabe
Lyrics: Kazuo Koike (Opening, Ending)
Songs: Ichiro Mizuki
Musical themes: Great Mazinger (Opening), Yuja wa Mazinger (Ending)
Voice actors: Keiichi Noda (Tetsuya Tsurugi), Yumi Nakatani (Jun Hono), Hidekatsu Shibata (Kenzo Kabuto), Hiroshi Otake (Boss), Kazuko Sawada (Shiro Kabuto), Kenichi Ogata (Ankoku Daishogun), Osamu Kato (Duke Gorgon), Koji Yada, Junji Yamada, Haruko Kitahama, Hiromu Jin

DVD:

2003-05-21; Great Mazinger Box, 10 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-2225
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00008KKVK
http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0025939
http://www.toei-video.co.jp/DVD/sp21/mazingerzbox.html

2005-09-21; Great Mazinger Vol. 1, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6971
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0009XE94Q
http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0090024

2005-10-21; Great Mazinger Vol. 2, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6972
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000AU1OOQ
http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0093626

2005-11-21; Great Mazinger Vol. 3, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6973
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000BDJ10G
http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0096650

2005-12-09; Great Mazinger Vol. 4, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6974
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000BONP5M
http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0098415

2006-01-21; Great Mazinger Vol. 5, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6975
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000C1YW9W
http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0103278

Opening:


Ending:


Italian Opening & Ending:


Others:





Images:


The sequel to Mazinger Z. It's not as known as the original, but, nevertheless, it was a great success. The series though wasn't released in a lot of countries like the original. It was released in Italy, Spain and some Latin American countries, Hong Kong, Taiwan and some arabic countries.

Links:
http://anidb.net/a956
http://www.animemorial.net/en/161-Great-Mazinger
http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/lineup/tv/great_mazin/
http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=89533
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1997
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/グレートマジンガー
http://www.encirobot.com/gmaz/gmaz-ind.asp

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