{"product_id":"mazinger-z-blu-ray-box-vol-1-budget-edition","title":"Mazinger Z Blu-ray Box Vol.1 Budget Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Mazinger Z with this affordable Blu-ray box. The television anime captured the hearts of children across Japan when it aired in the 1970s, achieving an extraordinary peak rating of 30.4 percent. Bandai's Jumbo Machinder and Chogokin toys were major hits as well. Mazinger Z established giant-robot anime as a genre and marked the first step toward an anime boom that replaced the transformation-hero craze. The beautiful negative-scan HD remaster is also a must-see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Aegean island of Bardos, the evil genius scientist Dr. Hell discovers giant robots left behind by the ancient Mycenaeans and sets his sights on world conquest. To kill Dr. Juzo Kabuto, who knows his secret, he sends Baron Ashura and the Iron Mask Corps to Japan. But Kabuto has completed Mazinger Z, an astonishing super robot armored in the strongest metal, Super Alloy Z, and equipped with photon-powered weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKabuto's grandson Koji, a high-school student, pilots the Hover Pilder that forms the robot's cockpit and takes up his grandfather's mission. Staying at the Photon Power Laboratory, led by Kabuto's former student Professor Gennosuke Yumi, Koji resolves to fight Dr. Hell's mechanical beasts alongside Aphrodite A, piloted by the professor's daughter Sayaka.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first box contains episodes one through thirty on five dual-layer Blu-rays. Disc one contains episodes one through six, disc two contains seven through twelve, disc three contains thirteen through eighteen, disc four contains nineteen through twenty-four and disc five contains twenty-five through thirty. The main program runs 755 minutes. The jacket features artwork newly drawn by Kazuhiro Ochi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisc one also includes an audio-only promotional spot and a commercial collection. Disc two includes the Toei 8 mm Movie Theater Collection. Bonus video footage is upconverted from standard-definition material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cast features Hiroya Ishimaru as Koji Kabuto, Tomoko Matsushima as Sayaka Yumi in episodes one through thirteen and Minori Matsushima in episodes fourteen through thirty, Kazuko Sawada as Shiro Kabuto, Joji Yanami as Professor Yumi, Hiroshi Otake as Boss, Isamu Tanonaka as Mucha, Kosei Tomita as Dr. Hell, Hidekatsu Shibata and Haruko Kitahama as Baron Ashura, and Koji Yada as the narrator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toei Animation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67610873594221,"sku":"HT-BD-4988101220922","price":202.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/9700\/8749\/files\/hobbytiger-media-mazinger-z-blu-ray-box-vol-1-budget-edition-01.jpg?v=1791052301","url":"https:\/\/www.hobbytiger.net\/products\/mazinger-z-blu-ray-box-vol-1-budget-edition","provider":"HobbyTiger.net","version":"1.0","type":"link"}