Robot Girls Z
Toei Animation had a pretty fun run with the short form episodes of Robot Girls Z and they’ve got them lined up as a series of DVD and Blu-ray releases that are landing in June. But before the series will find its way there, Toei is bringing the nine compiled episodes of shorts together for a theatrical run in ten theaters on May 31st, 2014 in Japan for fans to enjoy and they’ve cut a new ninety-second trailer for it to highlight the event.
The series takes characters from Toei and Dynamic Planning and changes the various giant robots into cute girls for wacky and silly adventures that will delight many and infuriate others. It was directed by Hiroshi Ikehata based on scripts by Kazuho Hyodo with Tetsuya Kawakami doing the character designs. It stars Mariko Honda as Z-chan, Inori Minase as Gre-chan, Kazusa Aranami as Grenda-san, Aya Hisakawa as Ashura, Yukiko Morishita as Garada-chan (Garada K7), Nao Tōyama as Doublas-chan (Doublas M2) and Sota Arai as a shopkeeper.
Plot concept: Robot Girls Z centers around three girls based on Toei’s famed Mazinger Z franchise: Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and UFO Robot Grendizer. The girls go around Tokyo raising awareness about the promising new energy source “Photon Power.” However, when the enemy Mechanical Beast girls appear and attempt to steal the energy, the girls, collectively called “Team Z”, must battle them in order to prevent the Photon Power from being stolen!