Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact! — Season 1, Episode 2: Activation! Mazinger!

Episode synopsis

The beginning shows a wrecked Mazinger Z slumbering away from the Dark General. This will be the continuation of Episode 26, where the Dark General comes and Mazinger Z uses the Big Bang Punch to ram the Dark General. The story moves back to the very start of the events which lead to the previous episode. Kouji and his brother, Shiro, are living with their grandfather, Juzo, while mysterious murders occur around their manor. Investigating these murders is Inspector Ankokuji, who was also hired to be Juzo's bodyguard, while Dr. Hell and Baron Ashura prepare for their first attack on the Photon Power Lab. In the meantime, Boss and his gang kidnap Shiro in order to lure out Kouji and beat him. After Kouji fights Boss, Baron Ashura attacks his household with the gigantic robot known as "Talos", forcing Juzo to send out the Pilder to Kouji and Shiro. Moments later, Juzo activates the product of years of research: the Super Robot, Mazinger Z.

About Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact!

Developed from Japanium ore is the super energy, Photon Power. Seeking this energy is Dr. Hell, a madman craving world domination who along with his subordinates Baron Ashura and Count Brocken, commands the Machine Beasts excavated from Bardos Island (believed to be Rhodes) to attack the Photon Power Lab and take it for himself. Meeting the attack head on is our hero, the hot-blooded teenager Kouji Kabuto who pilots the super robot Mazinger Z, constructed by his grandfather Juzo and made from the strongest metal Chogokin Z. But in this battle between Dr. Hell and the Kabuto family, many legends surrounding the Mycenaean Civilization and Bardos Island, as well as the secrets of Mazinger Z remain shrouded in mystery.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Grand Finale
• E3Sortie! Ashura Corps
• E4Fierce Battle! Mechanical Beast vs. Mazinger
• E5Assault! Count Brocken
• E6Fire! Photon beam!!
• E7Legend! The mechanical beasts of Bardos!
• E8Birth! Baron Ashura!
• E9Activate! Japan raid operation!
• E10Iron wall! The Kurogane 5!
• E11Pincer movement! Mechanical beasts big strategy!
• E12Escape! Undersea Fortress Saluud!
• E13First Love? Beautiful Girl Lorelei!