I'm trying to prove that I can draw people. Here's Evil-Lyn doing that pose women always do. She's a mish-mash of the cartoon Evil-Lyn and the action figure.
I suppose so. Her name seems to be a pun on the name Evelyn. And I just remembered that "Deviline", the name I used to call her, was actually the English name for a character known as Barron Ashura, one of the villains from Go Nagai's famous Mazinger series.
Mazinger Z is an old anime TV series from the early 1970s. It originally aired on Japanese television in 1972, and was created by Toei Animation; the same company behind many other anime cartoons and feature films. In the 1980s, they gave us Lion Voltron, Vehicle Voltron, Dragon Ball, Transformers: The Movie (1986), Fist of the North Star, and lots more. Anyway, Mazinger Z is one of the many anime cartoons that revolves around the giant robot genre, and was one of the earliest shows that made the genre popular. The robot, Mazinger Z, was created by a Japanese scientist named Dr. Juzo Kabuto for his grandson Koji Kabuto to pilot. Before Dr. Kabuto's death, he bestows his grandson with the responsibility to pilot Mazinger Z to fight against evil robots created by Dr. Hell, the show's main antagonist. The series was popular not just in its native country, but also in other places around the world like in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America. However, the show didn't come to the United States until 1985 under the name "Tranzor Z", which sounds suspiciously like "Transformers". Upon its arrival to the US, it was heavily edited and censored to be suitable for American TV. Today, 40 years after its debut, it's still a popular franchise.
I think so two. In fact, I always suspected that that was the case. They may have gotten the title from Transformers when they edited it and dubbed it to English. Which is why nowadays, I refer to the series by its original name, Mazinger Z.