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Jun 4, 2015 1:16 PM
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Now I see why ANN is wetting their pants over Mazinger Z with Koji's actions haha. Kouji was such an idiot the entire episode.

The town should be completely leveled by now with all these attacks and on screen destruction. This episode's mechabeast Abdora reminds me of Giant Robo.

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Aug 1, 2015 8:39 AM
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Why is there a statue of a robot in the park?

I'm curious as to why Dr. Yumi voted against modifying Aphrodite A for combat. I could speculate he doesn't want his daughter to fight and possibly die but she'll fight anyway and this also contradicts what he said in the previous episode about not only caring about their own lives. It's odd that the episode offers no insight into his motivations.
FronzelAug 1, 2015 11:53 AM
Aug 9, 2016 12:07 PM
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This episode had kinda reused animations/scene even from the last episode but this is from the early 70s so it's not surprising me. Kinda funny seeing Kouji "being in a mood" as his brother puts it and just let how much destruction and death probably pass by for his mood... Kouji pls lol.

Also the misogyny in the 70s continue to be hilarious.
Aug 31, 2016 5:27 AM
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Bye, bye Abdora U6!!!!
Jan 1, 2017 12:25 AM
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Wow...the male chauvinism of decades gone by was really apparent in this episode. They wouldn't upgrade Aphrodite A because it's being piloted by a woman. Like it's supposed to be her job to just kind of walk along behind Kouji and bask in the glory of his maleness or something. I'm glad times have changed since then...but we still have a ways to go!

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Nov 13, 2017 11:34 AM
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I would say that here is a good opportunity to evolve the status quo with regard to the part devoted to the fighting. We could say that this episode is a mirror image of the condition experienced by women in the seventies, where we see how I am forced and stupid the reasons for rejecting an evolution of Aphrodite A. Thinking well, being in the fight to two, is better than be one. I also noticed here, but not only here, the great indifference that the characters show, when a catastrophic event happens, almost as if for them, was a common, shocking thing.
Jul 24, 2019 5:19 PM
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I feel everyone in this episode were really dumb. Koji was an idiot the entire episode and Dr. Yumi made no sense in his actions as Fronzel said 4 years ago (little late haha). But not only that, Sayaka gets beaten by another mechanical monster (as usual) and Koji rescue her (as usual). What I can't stand about this is that Koji saving Sayaka was the reason she decided she was wrong for wanting to help Mazinger and instead support him, giving the idea that she was the one acting against everyone. It's really interesting to see how anime in the 70's showed male chauvinism with such normality. As Talon said, it's great this behaviour is slowly being rejected by most cultures, however, with a lot of progress to be done.
Sep 29, 2019 10:38 AM
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um.. i watched #deimos h3 as episode 8!

lol, deimos chewing mazinger leg. koji should used the melting light in the first place :P

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Jun 29, 2020 8:44 AM
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Another episode where the show learns the wrong lesson. I might just not be remembering something from the first two episodes, but there's no reason for Koji to be piloting Mazinger Z rather than Sayaka. She's the better pilot, she should be using the more powerful robot. And why on earth would you not want a second powerful robot for defense? (there are good reasons irl because escalation etc, but not in show's world) This show is so goddamn sexist, it's pissing me off. I know it was the 70s, but jeez
alaharon123Jun 29, 2020 8:47 AM
Mar 26, 2022 9:47 AM

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Mazinger is mysogenist confirmed.
Aug 22, 2022 6:41 AM

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Jesus - Kouji really has his head up his ass when it comes to being the MC - he can be a bit annoying sometimes due to it

Mar 8, 2023 7:46 AM
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Lol, this episode was really hard to watch
Mar 11, 2023 10:53 PM

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I was browsing the internet while watching this episode.

I don't really mind jerks (I like Joe Yabuki after all), but the protagonst here is the kind of jerk I don't like. Plus, the show is getting stale already.
Definitely can't be marathoned. Will watch in doses like 4 episodes every 3 days.
Dec 8, 2024 8:06 AM
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I thought koji won't help sayaka like the last episode until the very end but surprisingly he quickly got into the hover pilder. Also, I can sense the misogyny of the 70s here lol, like why can't she have Aphrodite A upgraded, that would've made her even more helpful, so I get why sayaka was mad. Also lol, this mechanical beast is named Abdullah U6, an Arabic name.

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