After the first season aired early in 2014, we were given the news in December 2014 that there would be a sequel season for Toei’s Robot Girls Z. It was set for a spring 2015 debut under the title of Robot Girls Z+. Most of the spring season has come and gone and little has been said about the show in general. Now news has come that the series is going to begin its run on May 20th, 2015 on Niconico and YouTube, similar to the first series. Crunchyroll did stream the first series, but after it was largely done and with the episodes combined into larger chunks. The plan is for one episode per month to be released for six episodes total that run about eight minutes each. Suffice to say, there’s a long window for this series.
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’ll be directed by Hiroshi Ikehata based on scripts by Kazuho Hyodo with Tetsuya Kawakami doing the character designs at Toei Animation. It stars Kazusa Aranami as Grenda-san, Inori Minase as Gre-chan, Mariko Honda as Z-chan, Sayuri Yahagi as Liga-sama, Maaya Uchida as Gecchan Dragon, Misaki Kuno as Pon-chan, Minami Tsuda as Jeeg-san, Natsumi Koike as Paan-san, Emi Nitta as Raicchi, Kaori Takaoka as Triple Gai-chan, Naomi Ozora as Bal-chan, Emi Hirayama as Shoo-chan, Shiori Mikami as Go-chan, Ari Ozawa as Gai no Jo and Ayana Taketatsu as Bossborokko.
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!
[Source: Crunchyroll]
