MazinSaga is a manga written and produced by Go Nagai between 1990 and 1998; currently incomplete and up to the sixth volume, it's the summa of Nagai's works, for the complexity of the plot and the treated thematic content.... more>>

Mazinsaga tells the story of the young Koji Kabuto, university student who finds himself having to collect the fruit of the researches of his father, physicist of world-wide reputation who died in mysterious circumstances.

The boy is thus given a powerful artefact, Mazinger Z, the Armor of God. <<less

Sayoko was just reading peacefully in her backyard, waiting for her relative Iyahaya Nantomo to arrive, when some homeless kid in a large overcoat suddenly... more>> comes in and says he's Iyahaya Nantomo (?) and runs off. The guards catch him and bring him in, but then it's revealed they've made a mistake and technically kidnapped him! So to save face the boy has to pose as Iyahaya Nantomo...or else! <<less

Murdered by criminals, Detective Yokoda's body is retrieved by Professor Tani and taken to his laboratory. There, Tani performs an experiment that has failed seven... more>> times; Yokoda is the latest subject to have his life force transferred into an android body. For the first time, the experiment succeeds. Yokoda is reborn as the armor-skinned android 8 Man, able to dash at impossible speeds, as well as shape-shift into other people. He shifts himself into Yokoda, this time christening himself as "Hachiro Azuma". He keeps this identity a secret, known only to Tani and his police boss Chief Tanaka. Even his girlfriend Sachiko and friend Ichiro do not know he is an android. As 8-Man, Hachiro fights crime (even bringing his murderers to justice). <<less