In 1972 it appeared in the form of Mazinger Z comic and quickly went on to become a cartoon series. It is a work of the Japanese cartoonist Go Nagai. In Spain it was broadcast on Spanish Television and premiered on March 4, 1978. 27 chapters were broadcast on time after the news of three in the afternoon and before the movie on Saturday afternoon. No, then there were no family-themed and tear films in Antena 3.
The image that illustrates the article I have come to see as a poster to decorate your room, I do not know if that of the little ones or that of the parents, and it has much of that union between the cinema and the big metropolises, the concrete before the iron and the tiny population in the face of the great threat.
The Japanese series and the icons that appear in them became popular after Mazinger Z. Thus appeared Dragon Ball, in the 90s, or Pokemon when entering the 2000s. And there continue the Spanish children playing and knowing the Pokemon through video games, magazines, television series and reaching several generations.
Mazinger Z had a lot of violence, they would say now biased studies and analysis, there were explosions, squeaky fighting, throwing fists and chest fire with the companion Aphrodite. Although really I think that no child was scared of that and everyone wanted to be Koji Kabuto, descend with the glider in the head of Mazinger Z and activate it to fight Doctor Hell and the evil Baron Ashler. Its two faces were magnificent and also the voice was changed depending on which half of the face it showed.
Congratulations to Mazinger Z and we realize that nostalgia does not seem to be a good medicine for almost anything.
