Shin Mazinger Zero is a manga that was released at nearly the same time as the anime [[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]] in the magazine Champion Red. Despite the similar titles, it has no connection to the anime. However, it does have a connection to the original Mazinger Z anime, as Minerva X is shown to be a Reincarnation of the robot with the same name from that show.

• Arc Words: remember when kabuto's gramps says that mazinger has the power to become a demon and destroy the world? he wasn't kidding.
• After the End: The manga starts this way.
• Apocalypse How:
• Breather Episode: after the actual chapters are more lighter and comedic.
• Broken Bird : Minerva X.
• Call Back : Tons of the flashbacks . Also, The first chapter where the Gamia sisters are killed are a direct call back to the original manga.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Sayaka. Even more than in the original series. Get her jealous -and mad- enough, and she is able to tear three Mechanical Beasts apart. At once.
• Combat Tentacles: Professor Juuzo Kabuto
• Composite Character :
• Darker and Edgier : Might or might not be for every other continuity. And HOW !
• Despair Event Horizon :
•  : This manga as a whole serve as one for original anime and manga continuity.
• Eldritch Abomination - apparently, has potential to become one.
• Fan Service: It's Mazinger, what can you expect?
• Fan Disservice:
• Flat What: In a chapter Kouji and Minerva-X are together inside the cockpit. During the battle Minerva lands on Kouji on a very awkward and embarassing position. Sayaka -who has just arrived and destroyed three Mechanical beasts in a fit of jealous rage- sees him, and they -after displayin a tremendously comical Oh Crap stares- try to explain it is not what it seems, and Minerva is not human but she actually is a Super Robo created by The Professor Dr. Kabuto to be Mazinger-Z's partner. Sayaka's reaction?

• Fun with Acronyms: Multidimensional Automaton Zillion Infinity Neural Generative Exterminate Reverter, it surprisingly It Makes Sense in Context
• Groundhog Peggy Sue
• Hot-Blooded: maybe even more than the original!
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In one of the first chapters Later, Toros D7 tries to impale Mazinger and Aphrodite.
• Innocent Innuendo: Minerva X makes "interesting" sound after finally reunited with Mazinger Z(its complicated) inside the Pilder while sitting on Kouji's lap in a suggestive pose, much to Sayaka's chagrin.
• Laughing Mad :
• My Hero Zero: Awfully subverted. Mazinger Zero is
• Offing the Offspring:
• Ridiculously Human Robot Girls: Minerva X and the Gamia Q's
• Reincarnation : Everyone, but most notably Kouji, before the start of the manga.
• Shout-Out: In Chapter 6, Sayaka, after hearing the words "Gangan Gangan" says that it's not Getter Robo.
• The Immodest Orgasm : Minerva X's reaction while the Pilder docked with Mazinger Z.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Subverted when Dr. Hell -the seventy-years-old, Obviously Evil Big Bad- has one scene of him walking without shirt. Can you tell Fan Disservice?
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: oh dear god...hehe, god.

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