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[pramod]

This might be a weird request, but I've been trying to identify a certain robot monster I saw in a manga/comic from my childhood, all I remember distinctly what it looked like, but not what manga/comic it was from.

I attached a crude drawing of it. Sorry I'm not really an artist but I used to draw this thing so much as a kid that I can still draw it till this day. It basically looks like a domed UFO with windows and tentacles, and beaks at the end of the tentacles which can shoot out lasers.

Here are some more info that might help identify it:

I'm almost 100% sure if was from a manga (ie Japanese)
It might be Astroboy, but I tried looking up all the robots from Astroboy and could not identify it.
It was from the 1970's or even earlier.
It was a robot that the main villain piloted.

Also, there seemed to have been several references to it in video games, such as the Super-8 robot from Cyberbots:


And the final boss from Metal Slug XX:


So I was thinking these designs must have been inspired by the original robot...I just don't know what it is. Can anyone help?

 

[e0n]

Maybe something from Mazinger? Daldal?

 

[Foamy]

 

[Elcid]

I don’t see the drawing?

 

[pramod]

Maybe something from Mazinger? Daldal?

Nah it's not a saucer it more like an octopus, in fact the Super-8 from Cyberbots is almost identical to it except for the colors.

 

[pramod]

I don’t see the drawing?

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

 

[Rentahamster]

Giraginga

Giraginga is an aquatic Warrior Beast that along with Iscaron served as the monster of the week for episode 29 of the Great Mazinger anime. Giraginga resembles the popular images of characters from the Cthulhu Mythos including the cephalopod-like head that features four tentacles dangling from...

mazinger.fandom.com

?

 

[jason10mm]

These guys?

 

[DESTROYA]

 

[bender]

Hentei