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Toei's Robot Girls Z Episode 0 Promo Streamed

posted on by Egan Loo
Grendizer re-imagined as girls defending Photon Power Town

Toei opened the website for its Toei Animation's robots into beautiful girls.

The stars of the new Robot Girls Z series are Z-chan (a girl reimagining of UFO Robo Grendizer). Together they (try to) defend Photon Power Town from the mechanical beast girls Doublas-chan and Garada-chan. The villains are led by Baron Ashura, the underground emperor bent on world domination — or at least, town domination.

The cast includes Gō Nagai's original Mazinger Z manga and anime.)

Shigofumi - Letters from the Departed, Toei Robot Girls) designed the characters.

The nine 10-minute shorts will have the dual themes of slice-of-life gag humor and violence. The Toei Channel will run the shorts this January.

The earlier Toei Robot Girls project eventually spawned a pilot film in 2011. The project had launched two years earlier to promote the various works in Toei's anime catalog.

Image © Dynamic Planning, Toei Animation © Robot Girls Laboratory


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