Mazinger Z: Infinity (劇場版 マジンガーZ ／ INFINITY) is a 2017 Japanese animated super robot film directed by Junji Shimizu. It serves as a sequel to the Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger anime series. The film takes place 10 years after the events of the original series. The film was produced to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the original Mazinger Z.[1] It premiered worldwide in on October 28, 2017 at the 12th Rome Film Festival, and in Japan on January 13, 2018.[2]
Plot
Ten years after the end of the war against Dr. Hell and his Mechanical Beasts, the world lives in an era of peace thanks to the development of photonic energy for peaceful purposes. Mazinger Z's pilot Koji Kabuto has become a distinguished scientist, after his father and grandfather, while Sayaka Yumi is now the director of the Photon Research Institute, after her father, Dr. Yumi, became the Prime Minister of Japan. Great Mazinger's pilot Tetsuya Tsurugi is still in the military and married to Jun Hono, who is expecting their first child. Koji's younger brother Shiro is also a military mecha pilot.
While constructing the institute's new building, they find an enormous robot buried beneath Mt. Fuji, which they codename Infinity. When Koji comes to investigate, a girl emerges from the inside.