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Official Mazinger Z x Transformers Crossover Coming March 2019

Posted by ZeroWolf Feb 8, 2019 at 11:51am CST 26,070 views
We've had Neon Genesis Evangelion x Transformers, now get ready for the crossover of a lifetime as Super Robot Mazinger Z meets everyones favourite Cybertronian! This information was picked up by fellow Seibertron user and News Staff member, D-Maximus_Primal. Fellow Seibertron users,
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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Comment by o.supreme Feb 8, 2019
Thanks for the referrence ;)^ . Yes ever since seeing Tranzor Z myself as a kid (along with of course Transformers, Voltron Robotech etc...) I have been just as big a fan of Super Robots as I am of Transformers. This is a crossover I never thought would happen, can't wait to get this amazing comic.

Here are also some links to R1 US. Licensed releases of the original Mazinger Z and some of it's sequels/remakes

https://www.amazon.com/Mazinger-Z-TV-Pa?tag=seibertron07-20& ... nger+z+dvd

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Mazinger-C?tag=seibertron07-20& ... nger+z+dvd

https://www.amazon.com/Mazinkaiser-Turb?tag=seibertron07-20& ... kaiser+dvd


https://www.amazon.com/Mazinger-Z-Impac?tag=seibertron07-20& ... zinger+dvd

and Just released on Blu Ray....

https://www.amazon.com/Mazinger-Z-Infin?tag=seibertron07-20& ... r+infinity

I missed this in the theater, but will definitely be picking up the BRD.

Also, this is my pesonal favorite Mazinger series/opening, though the classic and first one for Z Mazinger are pretty epic as well.




In any case, I can't wait to see how these two universes collide! ;)^
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Comment by ZeroWolf Feb 8, 2019
Fire Wars is my favourite opening as well ;)^ it was my get way drug into JAM Project :lol: I didn't include it though as I just wanted to focus on Mazinger Z :)

You're right though, I never thought I would see a cross over like this, and I have to admit, as much of a long shot it is, I'm wondering if transformers will make it into Super Robot Wars :lol:
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Comment by o.supreme Feb 8, 2019
ZeroWolf wrote:You're right though, I never thought I would see a cross over like this, and I have to admit, as much of a long shot it is, I'm wondering if transformers will make it into Super Robot Wars :lol:


Well...Machine Robo-Revenge of Cronos made it in SRW...and although it's not truly "Go Bots" I still referred to them as such when playing SRW Impact & MX 8-) . Also I recall, it may just have been an April Fools day thing (like with Hello Kitty a few years back), but I thought I saw a mock-up of Movieverse Prime in a SRW game once.... :-? :???:

Also, looking forward to SRW T :DANCE:
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Comment by ZeroWolf Feb 8, 2019
I keep looking at the ps4 games but money is always tight for me :( also I think it was just an April's Fool's joke about movie prime being in the game but there's always a chance, I mean think of the scenarios, like Starscream getting confused by seeing the macross valkyries ;)
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Comment by o.supreme Feb 8, 2019
ZeroWolf wrote:I keep looking at the ps4 games but money is always tight for me :( also I think it was just an April's Fool's joke about movie prime being in the game but there's always a chance, I mean think of the scenarios, like Starscream getting confused by seeing the macross valkyries ;)


Yeah I get it. I got "V" on a good deal, but decided to skip X since the roster didn't impress me (although Mazinkaiser is my favorite, that alone wasn't enough to sway me).... I may wait and see if i can get T for a good deal as well, yeah, almost $100 US to import a PS4 game form Asia, even if it is in English, is tough to justify.
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Comment by Skritz Feb 8, 2019
And yet we've yet to see (and most likely never will see) any incarnation of Transformers in Super Robot Wars. :(
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Comment by Rodimus Knight Feb 8, 2019
If they release it here as well in english, it'll be great. I'd read it.
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Comment by Emerje Feb 8, 2019
Optimus Prime drawn by Go Nagai. =P~

Skritz wrote:And yet we've yet to see (and most likely never will see) any incarnation of Transformers in Super Robot Wars. :(

It's a Bandai game, Takara Tomy would never let it happen.

Emerje
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Comment by o.supreme Feb 8, 2019
Emerje wrote:Optimus Prime drawn by Go Nagai. =P~

Skritz wrote:And yet we've yet to see (and most likely never will see) any incarnation of Transformers in Super Robot Wars. :(

It's a Bandai game, Takara Tomy would never let it happen.

Emerje


The Brave Series (also made by Takara) have appeared in SRW games...
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Comment by ZeroWolf Feb 8, 2019
Isn't the brave series one of those complicated matters as it was made prior to sunrise being bought by Namco Bandai?
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Comment by Sabrblade Feb 8, 2019
ZeroWolf wrote:Isn't the brave series one of those complicated matters as it was made prior to sunrise being bought by Namco Bandai?
Yes.
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Comment by Bumblevivisector Feb 8, 2019
Did Floro Dery base Chromia's head on Diana A's? I always thought they looked too similar to be coincidence.
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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Feb 9, 2019
Sabrblade wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:Isn't the brave series one of those complicated matters as it was made prior to sunrise being bought by Namco Bandai?
Yes.


Yup, but as it currently stands TakaraTomy has left anything relating to Brave to the stronger Bandai. The final nail in that coffin would be who handled the model kits: at first it was TakaraTomy-affiliated Kabaya, but now Bandai has released Super Mini-Pla kits for the GaoGaiGar series, in addition to the various Chogokin releases.
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Comment by ZeroWolf Feb 9, 2019
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:Isn't the brave series one of those complicated matters as it was made prior to sunrise being bought by Namco Bandai?
Yes.


Yup, but as it currently stands TakaraTomy has left anything relating to Brave to the stronger Bandai. The final nail in that coffin would be who handled the model kits: at first it was TakaraTomy-affiliated Kabaya, but now Bandai has released Super Mini-Pla kits for the GaoGaiGar series, in addition to the various Chogokin releases.

I really need some of those kits.

Still it would be nice if Takara and Bandai Namco could play nice just for the sake of one SRW game...that technically would stay in Japan anyway (god bless import shops)
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Comment by DeceptiGojira Feb 10, 2019
This has put a smile on my face, never I would beleive such crossover will ever happen, hope ther's going to be a translated version of the story.

:-D
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Comment by o.supreme Feb 12, 2019
ZeroWolf wrote:Still it would be nice if Takara and Bandai Namco could play nice just for the sake of one SRW game...that technically would stay in Japan anyway (god bless import shops)


Well the nice thing about the SRW series for Ps4 is that they have had official English translations for Asian markets outside of Japan. The audio is still all in Japanese, but the script & writing is all in English, also since the PS4 is not region locked, they play perfectly on NA PS4. The only disadvantage is that DLC is not accessible unless you open an additional PS4 online account for a different region. But still, I have SRW V, and it is amazing. I am skipping X because it really didn't interest me, but T, which comes out in a couple months looks pretty cool.

Admittedly, there will never be an official NA SRW release because licensing issues would be a nightmare (except for OG games which are occasionally released). But I figure, this *Asian Release* work around is the best way we will ever get English releases of these games.
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Comment by o.supreme Feb 13, 2019
ZeroWolf wrote:We've had Neon Genesis Evangelion x Transformers, we've had Godzilla x Transformers


Just curious...other than some fan art by Matt Frank, when has there been any official Godzilla x Transformers media? I definitely want to go back and revisit that as seemingly I missed it.
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Comment by Michael Alex Kawa Feb 17, 2019
o.supreme wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:We've had Neon Genesis Evangelion x Transformers, we've had Godzilla x Transformers


Just curious...other than some fan art by Matt Frank, when has there been any official Godzilla x Transformers media? I definitely want to go back and revisit that as seemingly I missed it.


I was going to ask the same thing.
I even checked TFwiki, and there is no mention of a Crossover with Godzilla.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Godzilla
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Comment by ZeroWolf Feb 17, 2019
Michael Alex Kawa wrote:
o.supreme wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:We've had Neon Genesis Evangelion x Transformers, we've had Godzilla x Transformers


Just curious...other than some fan art by Matt Frank, when has there been any official Godzilla x Transformers media? I definitely want to go back and revisit that as seemingly I missed it.


I was going to ask the same thing.
I even checked TFwiki, and there is no mention of a Crossover with Godzilla.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Godzilla

Well chalk that one down to my overactive imagination, I could have sworn it was a real thing but I've removed the text from the article, thanks for the correction.
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Comment by o.supreme Feb 18, 2019
No worries, those art pieces by Matt Frank are totally awesome! (I have them both signed by him, and framed) 8-) Unfortunately Toho really has a death grip on Godzilla, and wont let him really "play" with anyone (I have no idea how the Godzilla vs NGE stuff happened, but again that's mostly just some official art, and a music concert IIRC)

IDW initially wanted to include Godzilla in their Infestation crossovers, but Toho gave them a big fat NO.
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