Shin Mazinger - The countdown

It's only five more days until Shin Mazinger's DVD and Blu-ray go on sale, and the merchandising machinery is now in full swing.
The official site is being updated constantly with the advertisement of new products; be it figures, t-shirts or mangas and with the updating of the site contents (character profiles, episode guide, etc.).
During the next few days I'll try to keep you up to date with all the new information through several entries in the blog dedicated to all those items.
For now, and to celebrate the first DVD and Blu-ray of the series going on sale, the ORICON STYLE website is giving away (through a lottery) a copy of the commemorative promotional poster for the series signed by 4 members of SKE48, whose debut single is the new ending song 強き者よ (Tsuyokimonoyo) that substituted Natsuko Aso's one a few weeks ago.

This is the promotional single for the song, uploaded to Youtube by SuperAKB48withSKE48. If you like it, you can buy it on the links provided under the video.



強き者よ at Amazon Japan
強き者よ at Cd Japan

Shin Mazinger - Brand New World, the second single

The second single for the Shin Mazinger series went on sale on May 27. This is the song that, week after week and in a very different style from that of the opening theme, brings closure to the show while the credits roll. The title of the song is Brand New World (originally in English) and is performed by Natsuko Aso (麻生夏子). As I said, the style of the song is way different from the one in 感じてナイト(Kanjite Knight) and at first, it was kind of shocking to listen to this type of music associated with an epic robot series like the new Mazinger one. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the song is catchy and is starting to get into some people's subconscience.

The price of this new CD single is 1200 yens.

Brand New World at Amazon Japan
Brand New World at CD Japan