Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen (真マジンガー 衝撃！ Ｚ編) is a new Mazinger anime TV series announced officially in 2009. Several rumors had been running before that since 2007. Most of the rumors pointed out that this series would be an adaptation of the manga Z Mazinger, a derivative of the original Mazinger Z which takes Greek mythologies. The series was expected in 2008, but problems with the original studio, Palm Studio, which was dissolved, caused a long delay the series. On February 22 2009, some Japanese sites released scans of an advance copy of the magazine Figure-O #133 that showed several images of the new series. Prior to that Nagai had said in several conferences that he was working in a new Mazinger series, but it was not until the publishing of those pictures that the official announce