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Post by krimpov on Oct 24, 2016 11:11:42 GMT -5
I remember something like that! but if so then it is God mazinger who was trying to borrow cues from grendi there was also a mazinger in the 80s planned with a more modern 80s look , what was the name of that? another God mazinger ?! Dai Mazinger, which I heard eventually became Dangaioh. The book only mentions when the God Mazinger movie was supposed to be released. Nothing about when the development started, but the way they present it in that book, it does look like Grendizer was created first. So I suppose they started working on it during Grendizer's TV run, but that's just a guess. Nagai could have started working on that God Mazinger movie before or in parallel with Grendizer and shared some concepts between the two. Gattaiger did the saucer combination thing before both of them, after all - though differently (head on the top of the saucer).
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Post by S_Gokin on Oct 24, 2016 16:38:18 GMT -5
interesting topic to talk about here is what i know, there was three robots that hold the name of God Mazinger, one make it to the production and the other two didn't the one who make it, is this one (the statue) and it was the latest God Mazinger concept the 2nd one was the very first concept for God Mazinger concept chogokinabdul notice the forearms bro they looks very close to Grendizer screw crusher punch and the hands have whats looks like the hand beam attack, from what i know Nagai was working on this one in the middle of Great Mazinger run even before Gattaiger, this project however was canceled the 3rd one which krimpov mentioned was the 2nd concept of God Mazinger im very sure that Ive read that this design used later for the creation of Grendizer, but that's about it no other details was giving about it
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Post by krimpov on Oct 24, 2016 18:47:16 GMT -5
That's the one. But the book (Go Nagai Design Sketch of Super Robots) says it was to be released after Grendizer. No idea when Nagai actually started working on it, though. He must have file cabinets full of unused concept art and sketches.
A quick & rough translation of what the book says about it, including a synopsis :
Note : I don't read japanese. The book is bilingual French & Japanese. I didn't know that when I had someone buy it for me in the USA. A nice surprise.
I just noticed there's also some sketches of a "Dai Mazinger" by Go Nagai in there too, which looks more like an early Mazinkaiser concept art than what we saw of Obari's Dai Mazinger.
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Post by krimpov on Oct 24, 2016 19:58:14 GMT -5
Another sketch of this God Mazinger, from the cancelled movie : Attachment DeletedGo Nagai's Dai Mazinger sketches : They say it's a " fictive version of Mazinger". Fictive, or maybe fictional or fictitious. Not sure what they mean by that. The whole paragraph is strangely phrased. Maybe they meant that it was just a few sketches; a project that never even made it to pre-production. In other words, it never really "existed". Anyway, besides the obvious "Mazinger" characteristics, Nagai's take differs quite a bit from Obari's design. It does have an "early Mazinkaiser design" look.
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Post by chogokinabdul on Oct 24, 2016 22:04:19 GMT -5
yup , I remember that narration in my mind ! S_Gokin I noticed the forarms similar design and the hand beam but again it doesn't say that it was before grendizer or not. BTW (if they went with the greenish looking God mazinger that would be just horrible since it just look like a doctor hell's monster of the day ! ) Krimpov those were the designs that I was talking about
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Post by S_Gokin on Oct 24, 2016 22:54:29 GMT -5
well bro from what I've read, im sure the original concept was designed way before Grendizer, the 2nd design was also before Grendizer but im not $100 sure is it before or after Gattaiger lol, as for the first concept design you know how Nagai brain storming work lol, im sure he was going to give it the original colors
worth to mention, that there is ton of different Mazingers sketches with different names and different stories but they didn't get the green light, to be honest im glad they didn't, because look at Getter robo way to many Getters out there its hard to keep up with them all
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Post by faelon on Oct 25, 2016 6:41:43 GMT -5
Another sketch of this God Mazinger, from the cancelled movie : Go Nagai's Dai Mazinger sketches : They say it's a " fictive version of Mazinger". Fictive, or maybe fictional or fictitious. Not sure what they mean by that. The whole paragraph is strangely phrased. Maybe they meant that it was just a few sketches; a project that never even made it to pre-production. In other words, it never really "existed". Anyway, besides the obvious "Mazinger" characteristics, Nagai's take differs quite a bit from Obari's design. It does have an "early Mazinkaiser design" look. "Fictive" in context might be better translated as "speculative" or as we clearly know "unused concept"
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Post by krimpov on Oct 25, 2016 10:29:39 GMT -5
well bro from what I've read, im sure the original concept was designed way before Grendizer Maybe. I don't know. I'd like to see the source, though. to be honest im glad they didn't, because look at Getter robo way to many Getters out there its hard to keep up with them all Eh, one of the prototypes for Roboizer (Gattaiger) looks like a weird Getter 1. You would have loved that one.
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