Mazinkaiser was an ok cartoon. The movie was kinda better.
Thursday, November 13th, 2008I was a lot more excited to review Mazinkaiser before I actually watched it than I am now, but whatever. Let’s give it a try.
My experience with Go Nagai isn’t all the extensive, but it is pretty mixed. Out of the four things I’ve seen/read with his name on it, I’ve only really liked one of them. That was Re: Cutie Honey, and I liked that for the Gainax factor more than anything else. Other than Re: Cutie Honey, I’ve seen the Cutie Honey live action movie, which was ok; read the Devilman manga, which was absolutely terrible; and just now saw Mazinkaiser, which was ok.
From this rather brief experience with the man’s works, Go Nagai strikes me as more of an awesome ideas man. The idea of a super robot beating the crap out of mechanical monsters with terribly silly and impracticable designs week after week sounds cool, but in practice it seems kind of lame. Despite this apparent lameness, I’ve always had a desire to see a Mazinger-something series, simply because the work is so influential. So naturally I was quite excited when I found out that my local library had Mazinkaiser– a new-ish seven episode OVA set in the Mazinger universe– available to check out.
