Baron Ashura is the main henchman of Dr. Hell, the antagonist of Mazinger Z. In most adaptions, he/she is depicted as a disturbing half-man, half-woman combination who speaks with both a male and female voice (often depending on which face is shown on screen). In the original series, he/she was created by Dr. Hell from the remains of two mummified lovers, who had half their bodies crushed when their tomb collapsed.

In one of their epic battles, the Mazinger Team suffers a crushing defeat at the hands of Dr. Hell and his minions after Mazinger Z is stolen and its pilot, the legendary Kouji Kabuto, is rendered missing in action. Just when Dr. Hell's second-in-command Baron Ashura uses Mazinger Z against our heroes, Kouji makes a surprise return in Mazinkaiser - an all-new Mazinger with heavier armor and deadlier attacks.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

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**Non anime roles:**
- Jark Shougun - Kamen Rider Black RX (TV Series)
- Engine Jumbowale - Engine Sentai Go-Onger (TV Series)

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Robert Ashker Kraft graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, with a degree in English and a minor in French.

He promptly began work as an actor and a voice talent, and he never looked back. His on-camera work runs the gamut from national commercials and network TV shows, to gritty indie film roles. His work as a voice talent can be heard in every format from radio, TV, internet, games and film, to the world of Anime, where he performs in numerous English-dub Features for ADV Films. 

He currently writes, produces and voices audio for Radio, TV, and Film in his VoiceKraft studio in Paige, TX. 

(Source: VoiceKraft.com)

__Birthplace:__ Bexar County, Texas, USA
__Height:__ 157 cm
__Weight:__ 59 kg

From the island of Bardos in the Aegean Sea comes a new threat to humanity in the form of Doctor Hell and his army of mechanical beasts. However, a new hero stands in his way: Mazinger Z, a giant robot built out of the indestructible metal chogokin and equipped with an arsenal of advanced weaponry. Piloting Mazinger Z is hotheaded teenager Kouji Kabuto, who strives to avenge the death of his grandfather and protect Japan from Doctor Hell's forces.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Danièle Hazan dubbed for movies, TV series, video games and animes for more than 40 years. She was also Artistic Director on localization projects, including many Lupin III movies.

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Vágner Santos is a Brazilian actor, voice actor, and dubbing director.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- RuPaul (1st-2nd season; Rupaul's Drag Race UK)
- Manny Taur (Monster High franchise)
- Aleksei Sytsevich / Rhino (Marvel's Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales)
- Bruce Banner / Hulk (Hulk Vs. and Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow)
- Shaun Gilmore (The Legend of Vox Machina)
- Argyle Starshine (My Little Pony: A New Generation)
- Jeffries (Bridgerton)
!~

Various characters from Go Nagai works including Devil Man, Mazinger, and Violence Jack, become trapped in a parody world where they all be come super deformed. They get trapped in this mishmash, fighting each other and are trying to figure a way back to their own world.

__Height:__ 176cm (5'9)

A Japanese actor, voice actor, singer and narrator from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school and is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment.

He was the manager of the Tagajou Senior High School basketball team before he made a name for himself. His voice acting debut was the OVA [Megazone 23](https://anilist.co/anime/1935/) as the motorcycle-riding [Shinji Nakagawa](https://anilist.co/character/56633/), while his television debut was the anime [Bosco Adventure](https://anilist.co/anime/3460/) as the cowardly Otter. His break-out role, however, was in the anime [Ranma ½](https://anilist.co/anime/210/), in which he played the dual role of [Hibiki Ryoga](https://anilist.co/character/2369/) and the [Jusenkyo Guide](https://anilist.co/character/58321/). In 1991, Yamadera joined forces with [Toshihiko Seki](https://anilist.co/staff/95129/) and [Noriko Hidaka](https://anilist.co/staff/95181/) to form the acting unit Banana Fritters, which disbanded in 1995. In October 1997, Yamadera became a host on the TV Tokyo children's variety show Oha Suta. In March 2016, after almost two decades, he announced his retirement from it.

Yamadera's also known for his versatile range, as shown in the video game Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony where he voiced all five Monokuma Kubs, including Monophanie (female). According to the Danganronpa V3 official blog, Yamadera is the first person who came to mind as "the same person voicing multiple characters at the same time". No one has as much "multiple characters" experience as him. He was able to take the individual quirks of each of the Monokuma Kubs and make all of them unique.

Other notable examples of multiple voice acting include the Kingdom Hearts series where he voiced Donald Duck, Genie (Aladdin), Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), Beast (Beauty and the Beast), Mushu (Mulan), Jaq (Cinderella) and Stitch (Lilo and Stitch), and the [Japan Animator Expo](https://anilist.co/anime/20947/) series of 35 short films where Yamadera and [Megumi Hayashibara](https://anilist.co/staff/95014/) voiced all characters.

Yamadera was married to fellow voice actresses [Mika Kanai](https://anilist.co/staff/95029/) from 1993 to 2006, and to [Rie Tanaka](https://anilist.co/staff/95060/) from 2012 to 2018. On June 14, 2021, his marriage to singer and idol Robin Shoko Okada was announced.

__Trivia:__
- His nickname is Yama-chan.
- The official dub-over voice for Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey and Disney's Donald Duck.
- He didn't consider to do voice acting at first and was more interested in being either a live-action actor or a salesman.
- He is known as "the man with the seven-colored voice".
- In 2011 and 2017, TV Asahi conducted a poll among Japanese voice actors and actresses on "who they thought was really the most amazing person in their profession". Yamadera ranked first both times.

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The heroes of the series Mazinger Z and Devilman fighting against the evil Demon Clan.

Set in the near future, humanity enters another energy revolution following the discovery of Photon Power. Derived from the ore discovered under the foothills of Mt. Fuji, its intended use was to solve the world's energy problems with its unimaginable power. Seeking this energy is Dr. Hell, a madman craving world domination who with his subordinates Baron Ashura, Count Brocken and Viscount Pygman, commands an army of mechanical beasts excavated from the ruins of ancient Greece to seize the Photon Power Lab for himself. Meeting the attack head on is the hot-blooded teenager Kabuto Kouji, who pilots the Photon Powered robot built by his grandfather, Mazinger Z. But in this battle between Dr. Hell and the Kabuto family, many legends surrounding the Mycenaean Civilization and Bardos Island, as well as the secrets of Mazinger Z remain shrouded in mystery. 
A new series based on the mecha show that started it all, Mazinger Z. Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-Hen starts over from the beginning with a new cast, to tell a new story unrelated to the original show. 
(Source: shin-mazinger.com)

She is married to fellow voice actor [Keisuke Ishida](https://anilist.co/staff/104822). 

Italian voice actor who is also known for having voiced Dominic Santiago in the video game series Gears of War  and Nathan Drake in Uncharted.

One of the first Super Robot manga and the one that introduced most of the traits of the Mecha genre. Constructed with the Super-Alloy Z, Mazinger was built by Professor Juzo Kabuto as a weapon against the Mechanical Beasts of the evil Dr. Hell. Koji Kabuto, the grandson of Professor Kabuto, becomes the pilot of Mazinger Z when his grandfather is killed, and battles from there on against Dr. Hell and his allies. This is the first series that introduced the concept of a pilot inside a Mecha, which all series from then on have followed.


Mazinger Angels chronicles the adventures of four women who pilot giant robots in the Mazinger vein. The concept is a spoof on the late 70's and early 80's popular TV series Charlie's Angels. 
Three of the robots, Aphrodite A, Diana A and Minerva X are from the original Mazinger Z series, while Venus A is from the Great Mazinger series. 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. 
The style of the manga highlights the sex appeal of both the characters and the mechas, sometimes similarly to the way Aika's female characters are shown. 
(Source: Wikipedia)

MazinSaga is a manga written and produced by Go Nagai between 1990 and 1998; currently on going again, it's the summa of Nagai's works, for the complexity of the plot and the treated thematic content. 
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.

An alternative take on Mazinger Z, in the future, the world was destroyed by the demon know as Mazinger Z and the only human that is left on earth is Kouji Kabuto, he is given the chances to save humanity, by sending him back in time by a mysterious Minerva X, in this take the history is for adults, with nudity and blood that may be too much for some fans of the original version.

Shin Mazinger Shogeki! H Hen  is a special one-shot sexy gag  comedy done by Go Nagai and published in the October 2009 issue of Champion Red magazine (released on 19th August).

After finally defeating Dr. Hell, Kabuto Kouji has to battle the forces of the Mikene Empire. Against an enemy unknown even to Minerva X, who has seen countless alternate timelines, Mazinger Z faces his most desperate moments!

The film is commemorating the 45th anniversary of the original Mazinger Z series.

It has been 10 years since then. Humanity awaits a new fate.

Once humanity was on the verge of destruction at the hands of the evil scientist Dr. Hell and his underground empire. Kouji Kabuto, his Mazinger Z super robot, and his friends at the photon power laboratory put an end to Dr. Hell's evil ambitions, and returned peace to the world.

It has been 10 years since then. Kouji has followed his father and grandfather and now walks the path of a scientist. He encounters a mysterious life form buried in a giant structure buried deep below Mt. Fuji. A new encounter, a new threat, and a new fate await humanity. And Kouji, who was once a hero, makes a decision for the future.

It can be a god or a demon.

Once again the future is entrusted to Mazinger Z.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

__Height:__ 169 cm

 Miyasako Hiroyuki is one half of the comedy duo Ameagari Kesshitai (his partner is Hotohara Toru). 

__Height:__ 161 cm 
__Hobbies:__ piano, Shaolin Kempo, swimming 
__Abilities:__ speaks fluent Korean

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She announced her marriage to fellow voice actor [Kazuhiro Yamaji](https://anilist.co/staff/101755) on January 22, 2020.

Many fans have mistaken photos of Romi Park as photos of [Hiromu Arakawa](https://anilist.co/staff/96874), the mangaka of Fullmetal Alchemist, because of one particular image in which Park poses as a mangaka. Park is also known for representing Arakawa in public events Arakawa is not able to attend.

Marc Thompson is an American voice actor who has worked for 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post and DuArt Film and Video. Some of his major roles include Kevin Thompson, Anthony DeMartino, Timothy O'Neill in Daria. He is notable for voicing the titular character in Robocar Poli. He voices Casey Jones in the 2003 version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons and video games. He is the narrator of numerous Star Wars audio books including The Thrawn Trilogy, Hand of Thrawn, Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi series. He earned his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1997. He is a Christian and a father of two.

(Source: Wikipedia)

A Mexican voice actress. She is best known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Lois Griffin in _Family Guy_, Lindsay Monroe in _CSI: New York_, Cersei Lannister in _Game of Thrones_, and Cynthia in _Pokémon_. 

She's also the recurring dub voice of Laura Dern and Amy Ryan.

Mazinger Z is an alternate telling manga made in collaboration with Gosaku Ōta and Go Nagai, compared to the original and TV Magazine manga by Nagai, this manga was made more in tune with the anime while adding its own original elements.
 
The manga focuses on a plot more similar to the anime starting with Koji checking on his grandfather after Baron Ashura had activated a bomb. With his dying breath, Dr. Kabuto gives Koji the Super Robot Mazinger Z. With the threat of Dr. Hell looming, Koji fights against his Mechanical Beasts and lieutenants with help from Sayaka Yumi and to some degree Boss.

September 11, 197x, In the whole Kantou region a magnitude 8-9 violent earthquake occurred. Scholars called it the great destruction of the Showa Era, but the people called it the earthquake from hell! Volcanoes erupted, buildings crumbled, Tokyo became decimated in a single day. The government, after failing to recover the city, abandons Tokyo and moves the capital. The survivors form a society with no laws. In this harsh lawless world emerges Jack, a 10 foot giant who annihilates anyone and anything in his path. The manga details his journey. 
Note: This was the serialization in the magazine Weekly Manga Goraku.

After being warped from their universe to that of Mazinger, the Transformers join the fight between Mazinger Z and Dr. Hell's army of mechanical beasts. 

A crossover between Mazinger Z and the Transformers series, with each chapter drawn by a different artist.

Collects an extended version of the 2009 "Shin Mazinger Shogeki! H-hen" oneshot and the two-part crossover story "Cutie Honey vs Abashiri Ikka"