After the first season aired earlier this year, it’s not too much of a surprise to see Robot Girls Z getting more anime material made for it. A new series of shorts have been given the green light with Robot Girls Z+ set to debut next spring and will be bringing back pretty much the same team do provide more of the silly fun with the various gangs involved ni it.
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: MoCa]
