The series begins after the battle against Dr. Hell with attacks from the Warrior Beasts. With the Mazinger Z overwhelmed by this new threat, it was almost destroyed until it was rescued by the Great Mazinger. With assistance from the Science Fortress Laboratory, Tetsuya Tsurugi and the Great Mazinger battle against the risen Mycenae Empire. With the defeat of military leader, Great General of Darkness peace had came for once a brief while. The Empire brought Dr. Hell back from the dead as the new military commander and overpowered the Great Mazinger until the restored and strengthened Mazinger Z came back to fight. Koji and Tetsuya would fight together to bring down this threat with their robots and their allies. With a final assault on the empire, the Mazinger brothers emerge victorious. "Great Mazinger" is a direct sequel to "Mazinger Z", since Mazinger Z's last episode is also Great Mazinger's first. To battle a new, more powerful menace, an improved version of Mazinger, with a new pilot, is introduced. The new hero, Tetsuya, proves to be a bit of a hothead and in the end he'll need the help of Koji (the hero of Mazinger Z) so he can defeat the forces of evil. I have great childhood memories of this show : the art was inventive and the villains rather scary, at least more than in "Mazinger Z". The Mikene empire, set at the center of the earth, was populated with grotesque half-beast creatures who kept sending one grotesque threat after another. Definitely a great show, with a darker, grittier tone than "Mazinger Z".
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