Anime Wrap-up: Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact
In the latest of my regular "quarterly reviews" of the anime I watch, I mentioned having become quite impressed with a not-that-old updating of a vintage series. I also brought up, though, being just a little aware that "Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact" didn't seem to have been widely discussed among other fans for all that reactions to the licensing announcement had been positive enough to get my attention. Somewhere along the way, I seem to have noticed a comment or two about one of the "Super Robot War" video games, which cross over mecha anime old and new but which the English-speaking fandom has to import from Japan and play in Japanese, including that particular series but "fixing the ending." It cast a certain apprehension over the escalating stakes of the final episodes.
To try to be non-specific, the series did end in somewhat the same "setting up" fashion as the original Mazinger Z did, only this time with a rather serious cliffhanger. That there hasn't been a continuation to this date means being stuck trying to "use your imagination," and perhaps that's the problem. For an anime series to "mangle the ending" is almost a cliche when it comes to fan reactions; I've done my best to positively view some of the more infamous series accused of that, but perhaps it's a bit different when you don't sense things going in particular directions several episodes out. Even so, there can seem a trace of "giving up" to let everything seen beforehand be cancelled out in the end.
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To try to be non-specific, the series did end in somewhat the same "setting up" fashion as the original Mazinger Z did, only this time with a rather serious cliffhanger. That there hasn't been a continuation to this date means being stuck trying to "use your imagination," and perhaps that's the problem. For an anime series to "mangle the ending" is almost a cliche when it comes to fan reactions; I've done my best to positively view some of the more infamous series accused of that, but perhaps it's a bit different when you don't sense things going in particular directions several episodes out. Even so, there can seem a trace of "giving up" to let everything seen beforehand be cancelled out in the end.
This entry was originally posted at http://krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/259175.html. Comment here or there (using OpenID) as you please.