Shin Mazinger
After many years it still affects the mythology of Mazinger is its ability to continue to develop and evoke his paradox, that the idea - apparently simple and straightforward - a story in which ' hero is the demon. The giant robot is in fact defined, since its first appearance, as a god and a devil, which is subjected to the will of its owner, who could either use it to help humanity or to subject. If the historical anime series of 1972 mitigates this concept by making the construction of the robot to the pressing need to address the troops Dr.Hell in the original manga it is expressed in its full strength, when Dr. Juzo Kabuto, a brilliant but mad scientist, Mazinger realized as a simple gift for her nephew, apparently motivated mostly by a sense of guilt for having made an orphan (his parents died during the experiments to synthesize the photon energy), perhaps even to gratify his ego. The fight against Hell, then, becomes more like incidental and daughter of the classic superhero concept that the hero must be a rival of equal size.
That awareness of the use of technology is a theme that recurs in many works of Japanese science fiction and then fold Nagai director more directly on a human as a guideline for exploring the light and shade of the human soul, who, precisely, leading Mazinga to be an instrument of justice but also of death, as when Koji, still inexperienced at the helm, he unleashed the fury causing apparent damage to those sought knowingly by mechanical monsters enemies.
series Shin Mazinger , built in 2009, starts right from the idea of \u200b\u200bparadox and amplifies it by working on multiple levels, aided by the fact that in the screenplay and directed by the talented sits Yasuhiro Imagawa (author of the masterpiece Giant Robot), the series explores once again the line between normality and monstrosity, but at the same time makes a theoretical discourse on the concepts of reconstruction and implementation of 1972 working on original material, but also cover the various derivations that 'idea has generated over time. The result is a series that, in presenting herself as "the true Mazinga" (Shin Mazinger, in fact) at the same time manages to be faithful to the idea nagaiana original but also very different and that, in general terms, it becomes a summary and analysis of the mythology created by the founder of the giant robots. Here is the storyline uses some concepts in the manga Mazinger Z (rereading of the robot through the perspective of the Greek myths), fishing stories from other children, even retrieves the prototype ever made (the Energer Z, the result of the various stages that led to the concept final) and uses a non-linear narrative, made up of flashbacks, plot twists, and continuing revelations about the secrets buried in the past, according to a formula that the public will associate more easily to the American serial story.
The idea itself is still deeply nagaiana: the Japanese author, in fact, it is often noted for re-use of previously discarded ideas and from this point of view seems Imagawa continually dismantle and reassemble his universe, leaving emergence force iconographic, so often extolled paroxysmal (Mazinger becomes a sort of "rocket punch" Giant Punch the Big Bang), and ultimately manages to make the idea of \u200b\u200ba coherent mythology in its various endings and enrich of new elements. In this sense, the operation is certainly fascinating and dark tone and grandeur many episodes hit the mark.
From tonight on the satellite channel Man-Ga.
Mazinger - Z Edition: The Impact!
(Shin Mazinger: Shogeki! Z-Hen)
General Director and Screenplay: Yasuhiro Imagawa
Origin: Japan, 2009
Length: 26 episodes
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