Information about this one has been pretty sparse. I don’t remember how long ago it was we got the first PV of it. You’d think they’d be all over giving us new info because it’s absolutely the kind of thing that makes you cock an eyebrow and go, “Huuuh?” Maybe that’s different fan demographics, though. This was definitely from a special held on it, though I don’t know anything else about the special.
Super Robot Girls Z has caused many western super robot fans to stare at it vaguely going, “Why this and not Great Hen?” Moe-ing up our favorites from the 70s in place of having Tetsuya Tsurugi in his modern adventure to fight off the Great Emperor of Darkness is not a pleasant proposition on its face. All in all, though, it looks like it could be ok. A property like this, especially considering the links to Go Nagai, is rife with the chance to make the big moe dollars by just cutefying robots and giving us lots of fanservice, but it actually looks like they’re going to a decent level of effort from these videos. The OP has some interesting callbacks to to the source OP, especially the original Isao Sasaki Mazinger Z theme, and as fanservice goes, I’ve certainly seen far worse. The girls are wearing outfits that are reminiscent of the robots’ and mechanical beasts’ designs and aren’t particularly skimpy or anything. I think the inclusion of the little Go Nagai self doodle is cute, and the way of using Pilder On was also kinda funny. I don’t know that I really wanted to see Baron Ashura’s butt, but I thought the same during Z Hen, so whatever. I’m very, very wary, but willing to give this a chance to be ok I guess. What I’m saying is that where Ashura’s skirt gets flipped? I expected that to be the whole show, and because it wasn’t that, it’s coming way under my stupid moe crap par rating, so maybe it’ll be something.
Super Robot Girls Z will run in January. We’ll see then.
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