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#ON VIOLENCE JACK'S IRON CASTLE ARC:

This is a complete self-parody (laughs). The series has been going on for a while, and I wanted a change. I thought I wanted something a little funnier. That's how Jim Mazinga was born. In "Mazinger Z," Koji Kabuto rides on its head, so I thought I'd give him a piggyback ride. I wondered how to make the piggyback ride look natural, so I decided to use it as eyes. The Machine Way Karate is completely original. It seems like a lot of people like it, and they even released a T-shirt with the Machine Way Karate logo on it the other day.

I was thinking of using Jack as a narrator to introduce all sorts of enemies, and at first I introduced an original character called Slum King, but after Saotome Mondo appeared, I thought it would be easier to just bring in characters from past works (laughs). I'm just having fun with the manga, you know. But I think that's what makes it fun for the readers too. –Go Nagai