is a retelling of the ''

Mazinger Z is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later was reissued in Kodansha ''TV Magazin ...

'' story by

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, mixing it with ancient Greek mythology. Here, Greek myths are the human testimony of the epic battles between robots piloted by extraterrestrials. The appearance of the robot remains similar to the original Mazinger, but with a more modern look. Set in contemporary times, the battle of the Gods (extraterrestrials thought to be Gods by the ancient Greeks) continues. Hades (in mythology, the ruler of the underworld, embodied by Dr. Hell) has returned to attack the Earth and exterminate the human race, and to protect it

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sends a robot born from him, Zeta Mazinger. The robot is given by chance to a student called

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(the classic Mazinger hero) and together with

Aphrodite Aphrodite ( ; grc-gre, Ἀφροδίτη, Aphrodítē; , , ) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, and procreation. She was syncretized with the Roman goddess . Aphrodite's major symbols inclu ...

(piloted by

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) and other classic Mazinger characters such as

Tetsuya Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 哲也, "philosophy, to be" * 鉄也, "iron, to be" * 哲哉, "philosophy, alas" * 徹也, "devotion, to be" ...

he defends the planet. Many other gods are involved, and their relationships of love and envy are part of the plot. Some elements of ''Zeta Mazinger'' appear in '' Mazinger Z: The Impact!'', the most prominent being the apparition of Zeus in his Zeta Mazinger form.

Manga information

Japanese edition

Italian edition

References

External links

''Ζ Mazinger''
at the ''World of Go Nagai'' website
''Ζ Mazinger''
at PaTaTo's Manga DB
''Ζ Mazinger''
at

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