Continuing directly from the previous arc, we find Mondo and Tatsuma wandering the wasteland until they find a village. Unfortunately it’s the source of the gangsters they beat previously and they get beaten up for their troubles. The gangsters’ boss ends up recruiting them and when the village is attacked by tanks, they all flee to their gangster’s HQ/bath house.

For those watching Shin Mazinger, you may find the combination of gangsters + bath house rather familiar. Well that’ll be because Imagawa has borrowed them from Violence Jack. The leader, Tsubasa Nishikori, the bath house and her henchmen all come straight out of the Golden City arc of Violence Jack.
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Hey you! You know who you are. You’re the person who loved “Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still”!

Well I have some good news for you, Yasuhiro Imagawa’s take on Go Nagai’s Mazinger franchise, is shaping up to be just as good. Remember when he started Change!! Getter Robo, before being dumped/leaving the series, well this may give us what remained unrealised there.

Much like his Giant Robo, rather than throwing plot and exposition at you in the first episode, Imagawa throws characters and battles at you instead, with little to no explanation. And it is AWESOME~!

I’ve watched this episode three times already. It’s that good.

http://giapet.net/2008/06/13/yasuhiro-imagawa-to-direct-new-mazinger-anime/

Now, I thought he was done with directing, so I’m going take this with a pinch of salt, but if this all turns out to be correct, then yay!!! Very yay!!!