LA GUERRE DES SOUCOUPES VOLANTES - UCHU ENBAN DAÏ SENSO - GATTAIGER

[Monsieur Vilak]

Issus de la Mazinger Bible :

La Toei veut travailler seule mais comme déjà dit ne s'en sort pas terrible. On note que le robot se nomme Robotter-X.
Dynamic est appelé à la rescousse mais ne travaille pas sur les mécha-design.

[Ozu]

Issus de la Mazinger Bible :

La Toei veut travailler seule mais comme déjà dit ne s'en sort pas terrible. On note que le robot se nomme Robotter-X.
Dynamic est appelé à la rescousse et livre l'un de ses premiers Roboïzer. On notera que Nagai et ses collègues ne tentent en aucun cas de faire du simili-Mazinger.

I think these are all sketches by Dan Kobayashi of Toei, not from Dynamic. The final "settei" for the movie was realized by Tadanao Tsuji.

[Monsieur Vilak]

Including the "Big horn" robot? It has the "Dynamic touch".

[Ozu]

Including the "Big horn" robot? It has the "Dynamic touch".

Yes, it may look "Dynamic-ish" but it's by Kobayashi. From Letter A to W they're all made by him. Mazinger Bible and Mazinger Daizenshu agree on this.

[Monsieur Vilak]

Ok so it looks the problem is the spazer, not the robot, and that's why Dynamic was called back isn't it?

[Ozu]

Ok so it looks the problem is the spazer, not the robot, and that's why Dynamic was called back isn't it?

My understanding is that Dynamic was called back for the story and the characters, not for the mecha.

Toei had an initial idea presented to them by people from Tatsunoko who disguised their name as "Sakūru Bān", but then they weren't able to develop further the subject. So they called back Dynamic. There is an interview on M. Bible by Tadaaki Kikuchi or Takashi Nagai, I don't remember exactly, on this.

[Monsieur Vilak]

Oh, it changes a lot of things!
Thank you, I'll try to retrieve the page of this interview.

[Ozu]

Oh, it changes a lot of things!
Thank you, I'll try to retrieve the page of this interview.

There are two interviews actually, on p. 350.
It says they needed help with the design and so they called Dynamic, but then Dynamic decided to change everything and rewrite the story

[Monsieur Vilak]

Thank you for the number of the page!

Dynamic has that much power? The company is called just to do the mecha-design and says" Na, na, we'll take over the whole thing"?????

This movie is of little importance, it's just fan-service for a summer festival, I guess Dynamic would not try to revamp the thing.
But when Toei decides Gattaiger will also be a séries, wich may happens very very early after Dynamic being onboard, yes, I can understand, with all the possible money to make, that Nagai's team pushes to get involved a lot more. And when Koji is forced into, Dynamic gets de facto full power.

In the Mazinger bible or other artbooks, for the definitive design of the Gattaiger of the movie, is the name of the finalizer artist written?

[Ozu]

Thank you for the number of the page!

Dynamic has that much power? The company is called just to do the mecha-design and says" Na, na, we'll take over the whole thing"?????

This movie is of little importance, it's just fan-service for a summer festival, I guess Dynamic would not try to revamp the thing.
But when Toei decides Gattaiger will also be a séries, wich may happens very very early after Dynamic being onboard, yes, I can understand, with all the possible money to make, that Nagai's team pushes to get involved a lot more. And when Koji is forced into, Dynamic gets de facto full power.

In the Mazinger bible or other artbooks, for the definitive design of the Gattaiger of the movie, is the name of the finalizer artist written?

Yes, it's Tadanao Tsuji. P. 356 on Mazinger Bible and p. 147 on マジンガーシリーズ 40周年記念公式図録

[Monsieur Vilak]

OK, but I deeply think that Dynamic has no reason to takeover before Fuji TV order the return of Koji.
I think that things went very quick after Toei refused God Mazinger. But it's not the place to talk about it, it concerns the series, not the movie.
I see you there!

[Monsieur Vilak]

Ca we imagine that the very first idea aout UEDS is in 1974 rather than in 1975?

[LVD]

Ca me parait un poil tot.

[Monsieur Vilak]

Kore Ga UFO Da! Sora Tobu Enban est sorti le 21 mars 1975.
Pour toi l'idée de faire UEDS vient forcément après sa sortie, de part son succès critique, pas lors de sa conception?

[LVD]

C'est vraiment limite, ca pourrait pencher d'un cote ou de l'autre de la balance... Ca se joue vraiment en semaines je pense.