The Forsaken giant robots, called "Quimeras" (chimera), are admittedly inspired by exotic mecha of Go Nagai in his various super robot series.
Yadamon is also famous for its manga adaptation, which was the second professional work of Go Nagai.
Hans' artistic talents have been influenced by Japanese artists, such as Go Nagai and Akira Toriyama and a passion for music such as heavy metal and goth, his musical idol being Yngwie Malmsteen.
LEED Publishing, a Japanese publishing company of works including work by Go Nagai
Go Nagai makes a cameo appearance and the film is also the debut of actor/martial artist Michael Jai White and musician/composer/performance artist Phoebe Legere.
It was created by manga master Go Nagai, and produced by Cosmo Productions and Jin Productions.
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He's known for directing anime based on the works of Go Nagai, Ken Ishikawa and once, Shotaro Ishinomori.
Beginning with Devilman in 1972, Komatsubara moved on to work on other important 1970s anime shows including Getter Robo (1974), Getter Robo G (1975), UFO Robo Grendizer (1975), and Magne Robo Gakeen (1976), working closely with and succeeding Go Nagai on character designs for many of these shows.
It is a beat em'up/versus fighting game based on the MazinSaga manga by Go Nagai, which was in turn a spin-off of Nagai's original Mazinger Z.
Their pilots are also traditional characters from Go Nagai's universe, Sayaka Yumi and Jun Hono from Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger respectively, and Hikaru Makiba and Maria Fleed from Grendizer.
Go Nagai's Mazinger related mechas and characters have many different toy lines, developed since Mazinger first appeared in the 70's.
It's the sequel of the film Nagai Go no Kowai Zone: Kaiki and just like the first film, it was also directed Go Nagai and Hikari Hayakawa.
A leading director at the Toei Animation studio during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Katsumata worked as a director on several of Toei's anime TV adaptations of manga by Go Nagai, including Devilman (1972), Mazinger Z (1972), Cutey Honey (1973), Great Mazinger (1974), UFO Robo Grendizer (1975) and Gaiking (1976) (both Grendizer and Gaiking became later part of Jim Terry's Force Five package on U.S. television).
It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, and Keisuke Itagaki.
Two direct-to-video live-action films based in the manga have been created, Bishōjo Tantei Maboroshi Panty (美少女探偵 まぼろしパンティ) in 1991 and Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider in 2004 which was also based in another manga of Go Nagai, Henchin Pokoider.
In the last episode she possesses a demonic body that heavily resembles Demon Lord Dante, one of Go Nagai's earliest works.
Another Super Robot show which was shown in America but had a more significant impact in Europe and the Middle East was another Go Nagai creation, UFO Robo Grendizer.