Shin Mazinger Zero vs Ankoku Daishougun

Shin Mazinger Zero vs Ankoku Daishougun the sequel to the regular Shin Mazinger Zero manga is a great part 2 for this Mazinger reimagining work , the art is great as ever , and that final battle too , like before the one major flaw with this manga is that you may need some Mazinger Lore to get the shout outs in this book series , its still a damn good Super Robot manga , Great Cameos at the end that I won't say who they are , this manga gets so meta too , my other problem a lack of anime like before, and the way the final villain was beaten is pretty lame to some

tl;dr: A manga targeted at experienced Mazinger fans with not much to offer those who are not. This is a direct sequel to Shin Mazinger Zero. In fact, the first chapter is essentially an epilogue to the first series, and a pretty good one at that. However, after that the manga overall is vastly different from the first series, or at least that’s how it appears to someone without any prior background with the Mazinger franchise. The first manga was still easy enough to follow, but with this one I don’t think I was really able to appreciate most of what the mangaka was trying todo. The background to the various references seem to be much more important, and the deconstruction seems to be much more specific to Mazinger than the mecha genre overall, and thus I felt like I was missing quite a lot by not being able to understand them. And that’s not even getting into how things get incredibly meta with fourth wall breaks that felt like they were talking to an audience I am not in. The art and action are still well done, but without the necessary context surrounding them I can’t say I was able to enjoy them either.