PrimalxConvoy and O.Supreme also shared this news with us.
The project will take the form of a single story manga, but with 6 artists providing 6 different covers to reference the American comics where single issues will sometimes have multiple covers to choose from. The tweet was from twitter account for [url=https://villagebooks.net/mztf_news/]VillageBooks.Net[\url], who are stocking the crossover manga.
Note the following tweet and website description are translated using Google so take information lightly till a better translated source becomes available.
The tweet is as follows:
【Special issue! 】 Drawing amazing full color crossover comic "Mazinger Z vs. Transformers" Decided to be released on March 22, 2019! The two big robot hero gets a big crash past the spacetime! Dream confrontation realized with a series of six popular cartoonists! Drawing down cover by Professor Nagai!
The description on VillageBooks website is as follows:
Draw down amazing full-color crossover comic
"Mazinger Z vs. Transformers"
Decided to release on March 28, 2019!
General
2019.02.08
"Iron castle" and "Super robot life form" collide heavily beyond the spacetime!
Magejger Z who leads Machine Beast Army and fights against Dr. Hell's ambition to contemplate world conquest!
Evil Transformers, Cybertron of Justice Challenging Destron!
A miracle crossover of world famous two big robot hero finally realized!
"Mazinger Z" which is the origin of Super Robot and
"Transformers" which caused a transformation robot boom to the world
go beyond the framework of the work and crash in the magazine!
In addition to the style of B5 size / full color, we adopted the American comics system where one story is repeated by six artists!
[Synopsis]
Cybertron and Destron both men sucked into space-time distortion appear in Japan where Mazinger Z is active beyond dimension. The battle of the four bombs that brought Dr. Hell and Ashura Baron here was cut off and dropped!
【STAFF】
Plot: Hiroto Ishikawa
Synopsis: Naoto Tsushima
Artist: Hayato Sakamoto Hayato Yoshioka Hidekazu Yoshiya Yoshiya Yoshioka Masayuki Fujisawa Makoto Tsushima
Cover: Akira Nagai
Gallery Art: Funazu Nonaka Go Oshima Yuki Isao Fumitaka
For fans unaware, Mazinger Z was created by legendary Manga Artist and storyteller, Go Nagai, he created the characters back in 1972, with an anime version debuting in the December of that year. The show was then succeeded by Great Mazinger in 1974, and then later by UFO Robot Grendizer. Mazinger has enjoyed massive popularity, in Japan and worldwide. Mazinger was also shown briefly under the name Tranzor Z in 1985. Recently Mazinger returned for an all new movie called Mazinger Infinity, which had a limited stateside theatre release.
For those interested, here is the original opening to the anime adaption of Mazinger Z and of its 2009 remake
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