North American video distributor Discotek Media announced on Saturday that it will release the 92 episodes of the original 1972-74 Mazinger Z television anime series. Discotek is aiming to release the first box set at the end of 2013.
The anime was the first adaptation of Go Nagai's 1972 super robot manga of the same name. The story follows high school boy Kōji Kabuto in his super robot Mazinger Z as he battles Dr. Hell, a mad scientist bent on world domination.
The franchise is since spawned four television series (five, if one counts the Robonimal Panda-Z: The Robonimation parody), at least nine movies, and several original video animation projects.
North American video distributor Discotek Media announced on Saturday that it will release the original 1973-74 Cutey Honey television series in a 25-episode box set next year.
The television series was the first anime adaptation of Go Nagai's classic manga of the same name. It centers around Honey Kisaragi, a girl who is actually an android equipped with a device that can create any object she wishes. An evil organization named Panther Claw wants to steal the device, but Honey uses the device to transform into the super heroine Cutey Honey to fight Panther Claw.
The manga eventually inspired 1974 anime film, a 1997 television anime re-imagining (Cutey Honey Flash) with a film spinoff that same year, a 2004 live-action film directed by Evangelion's Hideaki Anno, several video anime projects, and a 2007 live-action television series.
Update: More background information added.
Ok, I know this is only recent but someone please put this on the header cause I think the impossible happened and it trumps all news o_o!
Oh God the excitement! My brothers and I are crazily happy about this! Seriously Discotek Media is now THE GREATEST COMPANY EVER! Now if they were to get Great Mazinger, Grendaizer and the Getter series then the universe will implode on itself.
NagaiAgain WEBMASTER
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Subject: Re: Discotek announces Mazinger Z and Cutey Honey on DVD for 2013 7/23/2013, 2:07 pm
Devilman also announced. Good news for everyone involved.
Kojiana
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Subject: Re: Discotek announces Mazinger Z and Cutey Honey on DVD for 2013 3/10/2014, 2:44 am
I've just learned that the first box of Mazinger Z (episodes 1-46) is going to be available on April 29th, so it's soon (Vost only). Here is an excerpt from the first episode posted by Discotek :
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Cutie Honey's available.
NagaiAgain WEBMASTER
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Subject: Re: Discotek announces Mazinger Z and Cutey Honey on DVD for 2013 3/12/2014, 12:53 am
The image quality is fantastic. This should be much better than the HK bootlegs.
Kojiana
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Subject: Re: Discotek announces Mazinger Z and Cutey Honey on DVD for 2013 3/13/2014, 4:41 am
NagaiAgain wrote:
The image quality is fantastic. This should be much better than the HK bootlegs.
On their facebook page, they said : "We uploaded a sample of the first Mazinger Z TV episode. This is 12 minutes of the first episode with English subtitles. Video quality will be higher on the final DVD."
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