is a

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company owned by manga artist

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. It was established in 1974 as a sister company of Dynamic Productions. Dynamic Planning is credited in all of

's animated works since 1974 as the "planner" and/or "producer". Since the '70s, Toei exported their anime collaborations with Dynamic Planning without their permission (Go Nagai was unaware of that fact) to

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and

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Mazinger Z is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later was reissued in Kodansha ''TV Magazi ...

is extremely popular in

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and throughout

UFO Robot Grendizer , known as '' Grandizer'' in the United States, is a Japanese Super Robot anime television series and manga created by manga artist Go Nagai. It is the third entry in the ''Mazinger'' series, however it is non-canon due to '' Mazinger Z: ...

(aka Goldorak and

Goldrake , known as '' Grandizer'' in the United States, is a Japanese Super Robot anime television series and manga created by manga artist Go Nagai. It is the third entry in the ''Mazinger'' series, however it is non-canon due to '' Mazinger Z: ...

between 1976 and 1980 was a huge hit in Italy and France;

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(aka O Pirata do Espaço ) was a '80s hit in

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. The popular

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's console game features most of Dynamic Planning's giant robot characters. In 1994 Dynamic Planning established an International Division, directed by

's brother Kenji Nagai (永井謙次) and Federico Colpi, which soon established a network of associated companies throughout

and

called The Dynamic Group of Companies. In March 2001, the International Division was incorporated as d/world, a joint-venture between Dynamic Planning and

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's subsidiary

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. Following

's exit from the

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business in 2001, d/world was liquidated. The 2014 anime television series ''

Robot Girls Z is an anime television series produced by Dynamic Planning and animated by Toei Animation. The series is a comedic parody of various mecha series produced by Toei, anthropomorphizing robots from those series into magical girls. The series a ...

'' is based on

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s by Dynamic Planning.

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