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You should probably expect this from me every once in a while — that is, in this post I am going to trace some of the Gothic tropes in Shin Mazinger Z . The Gothic is sort-of my thing — or it’s becoming so . Seriously, though, it all makes sense. Trust me. Really defining “the Gothic” is kind of a rough job. It started in 1764 when Horace Walpole published a novel called Castle of Otranto . The entire novel supposedly came from a dream Walpole had, in which he saw a giant, armored ha |