List of Mazinger characters

This is a list of characters from the anime and manga series Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, Grendizer and Mazinkaiser. It lists the main players of the plots as well as minor characters or others that did not appear in more than one chapter.

From Mazinger Z

Kouji Kabuto

Kouji was the pilot of Mazinger Z and Mazinkaiser. He was appointed as a mecha pilot by his grandfather, Juzo Kabuto, who built both robots. After Juzo's death Kabuto is the only one to take care of his little brother Shiro Kabuto.

Sayaka Yumi

Sayaka was the pilot of female mechas Aphrodite A and Diana A, and also of Venus A in Mazinkaiser. She's the daughter of Dr. Genosuke Yumi.

In love with Koji, brave and bad tempered, she often provides help in battle.

Shiro Kabuto

Shiro is Kouji's younger brother. Most of the time, Shiro's role is to add some comic relief to the plot. He remains in Japan when Kouji departs at the beginning of Great Mazinger. His character acquires a bit more depth in Great Mazinger, as he becomes acquainted with his father Kenzo, who was previously thought to be dead. Toward the end of the series, Shiro finally bonds with Kenzo, who died shortly thereafter.

He even gets to pilot his own robot in Great Mazinger, Robot Junior.

In the American dub of "Mazinger Z", "TranZor Z", Shiro's name was changed to "Toad." Shiro is voiced by Kazuko Sawada in the original version and by Mona Marshall in English (he is one of the few Mazinger characters whose English voice actor in "TranZor Z" has been confirmed).

Boss

Boss was an overweight, comical fellow who resented Kouji and tried to outdo him, even forcing scientists at the photon lab to build him a giant robot so he could compete with Mazinger Z, Boss Borot. Despite being silly comic relief, Boss occasionally managed to provide help for Mazinger Z and was even included in their battleplans to assault Dr. Hell's island base at the end of the series. He continued to pilot Boss Borot and serve as the comic relief in Great Mazinger and a guest spot in Grendizer.

Mucha & Nuke

Mucha and Nuke are Boss's sidekicks who follow him around, help in his schemes and ride with him in Boss Borot.

Misato

Misato is Boss' cousin, who comes to the Photon Power Laboratory to work as a maid of sorts somewhat after halfway through the series. She is somewhat resented by Sayaka for the attention Kouji gives her. Misato proves herself in combat on multiple occasions, but most of the time she stays at the laboratory.

Dr. Yumi

Yumi was a colleague of Juzo Kabuto and ran the laboratory where Mazinger Z was headquartered. He is the father of Sayaka Yumi, Koji's best friend and love interest. Measured and wise, he is the stabilizing force behind Koji's foolhardiness in battle. Many times he anticipates to Hell's plans and under his guidance many battles are won.

Yumi is not particularly demonstrative nor with his daughter or his fellow scientists, but he seems to care a lot for them. In a couple of occasions, when defeat seems inevitable, he is ready to commit suicide before leaving his Institute, like a captain ready to sink with his ship.

Because of his years working with Dr. Kabuto, he is aware of many of his secrets, such as the plans for Minerva X and the existence of the Mikene Empire. He built Aphrodite A, based on Dr. Kabuto's work, and hence both she and Mazinger share a similar internal structure. His background before his work for Dr. Kabuto and the Institute and the identity of Sayaka's mother are unknown.

Juzo Kabuto

Juzo Kabuto was a previous colleague of Dr. Hell and created Mazinger Z in order to oppose Hell's plans for world domination. Hell sent Baron Ashura to kill Juzo before he could present a threat, and he was fatally injured in the attack, but survived long enough to tell Kouji about Mazinger Z and how it must be used to defeat Dr. Hell.

In Mazinkaiser OVA, Juzo Kabuto was retconned into surviving without Kouji or anyone's knowledge, and worked in another secret underground laboratory where he finished the final and more powerful version of Great Mazinger and then his ultimate creation, Mazinkaiser. He later appeared to Kouji via hologram, telling him about Mazinkaiser. Whether he was still alive, and if so, where he currently was, is unknown.

Note that, in the original manga and the Mazinkaiser OVA, Juzo Kabuto presents several physical scars (more exactly, half his face is burned) and is more hot-tempered and even slightly megalomaniac. His TV series rendition is lots more calmer and stable, and also has a rather normal outlook.

Professors Sewashi, Nossori & Mori Mori

Three scientists who work around the laboratory and help Professor Yumi, and sometimes provide comic relief. Within the storyline, Mori Mori seems doomed to die; in the Mazinger Z series he dies in an explosion caused by a landmine placed by Dr. Hell's minions that blows up his jeep while trying to rescue Koji; in Mazinkaiser he sacrifices himself manually launching nuclear missiles aimed at General Rigarn and his Warrior Beasts so that Koji and Sayaka can get to Japan in a jet.

In some incarnations of the show they are known as Iz, Biz and Diz.

Dr. Hell

Dr. Hell was the main villain of the fictional robot anime Mazinger Z. He was a brilliant, cunning and evil scientist, obsessed with world domination through his creations, the armies of Mechanical Beasts.

Baron Ashura

Baron Ashura was Dr. Hell's most loyal lieutenant, but always failed to fully accomplish his master's orders. He was a bizarre composite of two mummies, one male and one female. He is notable for being voiced by two simultaneous seiyuu, Hidekatsu Shibata (male) and Haruko Kitahama (female), who were also married. He faces fierce competition for Hell's favor with Count Blocken. He dies towards the end of the series, making a suicide attempt to destroy Mazinger using his fortress Bood.

Count Blocken

Count Blocken was a cyborg whose head was hewn from his body during a car accident. He normally carried it under his arm, but it had the ability to float around on its own. He had a fierce rivalry with Baron Ashura.

Viscount Pigman

Viscount Pigman was a physically bizarre creation with the body of a pygmy shaman atop the body of a large tribal warrior, holding a shield and spear. Unlike Dr. Hell's other lieutenants, Viscount Pigman had little loyalty to his creator, and stole one his robot warriors to destroy Mazinger Z on his own.

Iron Masks

Iron Masks were the foot soldiers in Dr. Hell's army, wearing bell-like helmets that covered the upper halves of their heads with holes for their eyes. They are apparently robotic, and can be self-destructed by remote control. For the most part they served as grunts for Baron Ashura on his operations.

Iron Crosses

Iron Crosses were new soldiers introduced into Dr. Hell's army when Count Blocken was recruited. They resembled Nazi stormtroopers and had large, goggly eyes. They tended to work as grunts exclusively in operations led by Count Blocken.

Dr. Heinrich

Another ex-collaborator of Dr. Hell. After a car accident, Hell turns him into a cyborg, but this time holds back his unfortunate tendency to turn those he brings back to life into total freaks and hence Heinrich "only" has blue skin and is full of stitches all over his body. His head sports a mechanical device, that extends to one of the sides of his face and covers his right eye, which can fire beams. Heinrich had worked for Hell developing a powerful monster, but for reasons unclear he deserts him and takes away the unfinished robot along with him.

After some time Ashura is commended to find him and the robot. Heinrich now lives with his "daughter" Lorelai, and refuses to collaborate with Hell again. Eventually his beast is released, Ryne X1, and moments before his death, he tells Lorelai how to control it to fight Mazinger, since he is sure his creation is superior than Dr. Kabuto's.

Lorelai

A robot who looks like a normal little girl, she befriends Shiro at school. She believes herself to be the real daughter of Dr. Heinrich, until her father tells her the truth with his dying breath and calls her "his best creation ever." Distraught and heartbroken, Lorelai merges with her father's other robot, so Kouji is forced to face and destroy her.

Tetsuya Tsurugi

Tetsuya Tsurugi is an oprhan young man raised by Dr. Kenzo Kabuto along with his friend Jun, and trained to be the pilot of Great Mazinger ever since he was young. At first shown only as a bad-tempered young man with a heart of gold under his hotheadness, he later develops a strong jealousy against his adoptive brother Kouji.

Jun Hono

Jun Hono, an orphan girl raised by Kenzo Kabuto. Because of her origins (half Japanese, half black) she feels rejected as a child and carries these issues as an adult. Just like Tetsuya, with whom she has a love-hate relationship mostly because of his bad temper, she is educated to be a mecha pilot.

Kenzo Kabuto

Kenzo was the son of Juzo Kabuto, the inventor of Mazinger Z, but working in secret he improved upon the original designs to create the more formidable Great Mazinger. After a laboratory experiment that went wrong, he and his wife are thought to be dead. However, he was instead turned into a cyborg by his father in order to keep him alive. To shield them from danger and psychological shock, Kenzo's sons Koji and Shiro are unaware of this and grow believing both of their parents are dead, and were raised by Juzo.

Kenzo reveals the truth to both of them in the Great Mazinger series (first to Shiro, since Kouji was away for a big part of the series), and their relationship would cause conflict with his adopted son Tetsuya, who was raised by Kenzo together with his best friend Jun and comes to feel intensely jealous of Kenzo's actual children, especially so of Kouji. Dr. Kabuto would eventually die in battle at the end of the series and Tetsuya and Kouji fight together to avenge his death.

Bakarasu

Bakarasu is a crow (its name being taken from the Japanese words 'Baka' roughly meaning 'Stupid', and 'Karasu' meaning crow) was a character who appeared in one episode of Mazinger Z but returned and became a semi-regular character in Great Mazinger, appearing in a little over a third of the total series. Theoretically he works for Boss alongside Mucha and Nuke, but he has no real loyalty to the group. Generally Boss either uses him as a lookout (for either Warrior Beasts or Jun) or as a messenger (normally to Jun).

The Emperor of Darkness

The Emperor of Darkness ("Yami no Teiou" 闇の帝王) was a fictional character, a supervillain and warlord from the manga and anime series Great Mazinger. Great Mazinger was the sequel to the wildly popular Mazinger Z.It was depicted as a large flaming entity. As the Emperor of the Mikene Empire, he was the true enemy behind the Great General of Darkness and the Great Marshall of Hell. His defeat marked the end of the Mikene Empire.

Great General of Darkness

The supreme commander of the Mikene Empire, the Great General of Darkness leads the seven Mikene armies in their conquest of the surface world.

Great Marshall of Hell

The Great Marshall of Hell was one of the chief officers of the evil Mycene Empire. He was actually the villain of the previous series, Dr. Hell, who had been used as a pawn by the Mycene to weaken Earth's defenses before they made their bid for domination of the surface of the world. He replaces the General of Darkness after his demise.

Minister Argos

Archduke Gorgon

Archduke Gorgon was a villain who was seen primarily in Great Mazinger, but appeared several times in Mazinger Z as well. He resembles a centaur somewhat, as from the waist up he is a green-skinned man, but below the waist has the body of a saber-toothed tiger. However, his human half is attached to the rear part of the tiger, so it still has its own head.

Marquis Yanus

General Julius Caesar

Superhuman General Julius Caesar was commander of the Superhuman Battle Beasts, one of the Seven Armies of the Mikene Empire. He resembles a gigantic human warrior with purple skin and dressed in Roman-style armour, with a flaming circular crest on his head. His army is the largest of the Seven Armies and he is considered by many to be the Great General of Darkness' right-hand man.

General Birdler

General Ardias

Evil Spirit General Ardias was commander of the Spectral Battle Beasts, one of the Seven Armies of the Mikene Empire. He resembles a gigantic skeleton wearing a ragged cloak with a flaming skull for a head.

General Angoras

General Angoras was a fictional character, a supervillain and warrior from the anime and manga series Great Mazinger. He was commander of the Aquatic Battle Beasts, one of the Seven Armies of the Mikene Empire. He resembles a humanoid angler fish, with his true face mounted on the tip of his antennae.

General Rigarn

Wild Beast General Rigarn was commander of the Mammalian Battle Beasts, one of the Seven Armies of the Mikene Empire. Rigarn is the most vile of the Seven Generals and is unpopular even among his fellow Generals.

General Scarabeth

Giant Insect General Scarabeth was commander of the Insect Battle Beasts, one of the Seven Armies of the Mikene Empire. He resembles a gigantic rhinoceros beetle, with his true face mounted on his chest.

General Draydou

General Juuma

This character only appeared in the Mazinger Z Vs. The Great General of Darkness OVA. His body was composed from parts that identify him with each of the seven Mikene armies, reptilian, superhuman, aerial, insect, aquatic, mammalian and spectral. His position in the Mikene structure is unclear; whereas The Seven Generals, who are not included in the OVA, had each an army under their command, Juuma is apparently appointed ad hoc by The General of Darkness to take seven beasts of his choice and annihilate Mazinger Z after the destruction of many of his favorite monsters by Koji and his robot. Juuma almost succeeds, but Great Mazinger destroys his robots and finishes him off together with Mazinger Z.

The Catloo Corps

The Catloo Corps was Marquis Yanus' personal army of robotic cat ninja. They could give off electric shocks with their tails and had small missile launchers on their arms, as well as hand-to-hand skills, and were generally used for tasks a typical warrior beast would be too large/obtrusive. For example, in one episode the Catloo infiltrated the Fortress of Science in a cargo of crates. In other they commandeered Boss Borot and had it block off the launch tube for Great Mazinger. As with all the villains' foot soldiers, though, they were no match for the Great Mazinger and the other robots.

Duke Fleed

Hikaru Makiba

Maria Grace Fleed

King Vega

Gandal

Blaki

Zuril

Lori & Loru

Two voluptuous twin sisters who begin working at the institute as lab assistants. Sayaka once jealously dumps Mazinkaiser headfirst in the ocean when she thinks Kouji is paying too much attention to them. They're sexy and fanservicey, yet in the time of need they're also smart and brave; they're vital in episode 5, where Lori helps an injured Dr. Yumi to reach the facility in time to fight Ashura, and Loru temporarily takes leadership over to help fend Ashura away until her sister and Dr. Yumi return.

The twin sisters pilot the robot Million Alpha in the Mazinkaiser manga and sequel movie, in which they die in battle. They're horribly crushed to death in Paris as they attempt to fight Mikeros and General Birdler; with her dying breath, Loru activates Million Alpha's self-destruction mode and causes an explosion that destroys their enemies.

Lori, the younger of the sisters, usually wore light blue clothes, and her older sister Loru usually dressed in pink; their hair color was slightly different, in two shades of blonde, with Lori having lighter hair.

Voice actresses: Akiko Hiramatsu (Loru), Shiho Kikuchi (Lori)

Gamia Q

The Gamia Sisters are three identical young women who are vicious and formidable martial artists who are sent by Ashura to assassinate Kouji so that his robot can't stop their next attack. Apart from their agility and strength in hand-to-hand combat, they can use their hair as a cutting weapon. They are commonly referred to as Ashura's daughters, but given their mechanical construction it is likely that they are either cyborgs or androids.

Voice actor (for the three sisters): Ryoka Yuzuki