Shin Mazinger Zero

Shin Mazinger Zero is a manga that was released at nearly the same time as the anime Shin Mazinger in the magazine Champion Red. Despite the similar titles, it has no connection to the anime. However,

Provides examples of:
"Sayaka:... What."
 * Arc Words: remember when kabuto's gramps says that mazinger has the power to become a demon and destroy the world? he wasn't kidding.
 * After the End: The manga starts this way.
 * Apocalypse How:
 * Breather Episode: after  the actual chapters are more lighter and comedic.
 * Broken Bird : Minerva X.
 * Call Back : Tons of the flashbacks . Also, The first chapter where the Gamia sisters are killed are a direct call back to the original manga.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Sayaka. Even more than in the original series. Get her jealous -and mad- enough, and she is able to tear three Mechanical Beasts apart. At once.
 * Combat Tentacles: Professor Juuzo Kabuto
 * Composite Character :
 * Darker and Edgier : Might or might not be for every other continuity. And HOW !
 * Despair Event Horizon :
 * : This manga as a whole serve as one for original anime and manga continuity.
 * Eldritch Abomination - apparently,  has potential to become one.
 * Fan Service: It's Mazinger, what can you expect?
 * Fan Disservice:
 * Flat What: In a chapter Kouji and Minerva-X are together inside the cockpit. During the battle Minerva lands on Kouji on a very awkward and embarassing position. Sayaka -who has just arrived and destroyed three Mechanical beasts in a fit of jealous rage- sees him, and they -after displayin a tremendously comical Oh Crap stares- try to explain it is not what it seems, and Minerva is not human but she actually is a Super Robo created by The Professor Dr. Kabuto to be Mazinger-Z's partner. Sayaka's reaction?


 * Fun with Acronyms: Multidimensional Automaton Zillion Infinity Neural Generative Exterminate Reverter, it surprisingly It Makes Sense in Context
 * Groundhog Peggy Sue
 * Hot-Blooded: maybe even more than the original!
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In one of the first chapters Later, Toros D7 tries to impale Mazinger and Aphrodite.
 * Innocent Innuendo: Minerva X makes "interesting" sound after finally reunited with Mazinger Z(its complicated) inside the Pilder while sitting on Kouji's lap in a suggestive pose, much to Sayaka's chagrin.
 * Laughing Mad :
 * My Hero Zero: Awfully subverted. Mazinger Zero is
 * Offing the Offspring:
 * Ridiculously Human Robot Girls: Minerva X and the Gamia Q's
 * Reincarnation : Everyone, but most notably Kouji, before the start of the manga.
 * Shout-Out: In Chapter 6, Sayaka, after hearing the words "Gangan Gangan" says that its not Getter Robo.
 * The Immodest Orgasm : Minerva X's reaction while the Pilder docked with Mazinger Z.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: Subverted when Dr. Hell -the seventy-years-old, Obviously Evil Big Bad- has one scene of him walking without shirt. Can you tell Fan Disservice?
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: oh dear god...hehe, god