Girls face banishment from Nerima as new shorts premiere on May 20

On Thursday, Toei began streaming a teaser for Robot Girls Z+ , the new series of six monthly Robot Girls Z anime shorts that will debut on May 20. The video teases the enemies, both old and new, that the Robot Girls will face this time:

Voice: 2015: A new project launches!

Text: Teaser

Voice: Its name: Robot Girls Z+ !

Voice and Text: Team Z

Voice and Text: Reformed Team G

Voice and Text: Team LOD

Voice and Text: Team Gō

Voice and Text: New characters who first appeared in the online game will also make their grand entrance one after another!

Voice: A plight looms over Nerima again!

Text: A new crisis threatens the Robot Girls!?

Voice: The Revival of the Underground Empire!?

Text: The Underground Empire!?

Voice: A new enemy appears!?

Text: A new enemy!?

Voice: A chaotic battle against the threat that suddenly appeared!

Text: Team Z vs. Reformed Team G!?

Voice & Text: Amid these dire developments, the countdown begins for Robot Girls finally being banished from Nerima!

Voice and Text: Robot Girls Z+ runs every month on the 20th!



The protagonists of Team Z will appear in the new shorts, along with the reformed Team G, Team LOD with new members, Team Gō, and characters who first appeared in the franchise's online game. The new shorts' story will be based on two classic "Toei Manga Matsuri" films, Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo (Great Mazinger Vs. Getter Robo) and Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo G - Kuuchuu Dai-Gekitotsu (Great Mazinger Vs. Getter Robo G - The Great Space Encounter).

The returning and new cast members include:

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 Ōzora as Bal-chan

Emi Hirayama as Shō-chan

Shiori Mikami as Gō-chan

Ari Ozawa as Gai no Jō

Ayana Taketatsu as Bossborokko

The returning staff include:

Producer: Yoshihide Moriyama

Line Producer: Takahiko Sakagami

Original creator: Go Nagai

Series Composition: Kazuho Hyodo

Script: Kazuho Hyodo

Character Design: Tetsuya Kawakami

Director: Hiroshi Ikehata

Co-Production: LandQ studio's

Animation Production: Toei Animation

Production: Toei Animation/Toei Video/Toei Channel

The Robot Girls Z anime is the current incarnation of Toei Robot Girls, the project that turns Dynamic Planning and Toei Animation's "legendary super robots into beautiful girls!!"

The stars of Robot Girls Z series are Z-chan, Gre-chan, and Grenda-san. Together they (try to) defend Photon Power Town from "the enemy, the mechanical beast girls of the underground empire." The villains are led by Baron Ashura, the underground emperor "bent on world domination(?)" — or at least, town domination.

Crunchyroll streamed the first series as it aired in Japan last year. The television anime spawned a compilation movie last May.