Just saw the first episode of Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Z Hen. I get it, sometimes "in medias res" is cool. Maybe the author went a bit overboard with the concept though. Even for non linear japanese narrative style where much is left unsaid, unexplained, or plain contradictory and one just has to suck it up, this must be the most confusing beginning of a series I have ever seen. Maybe it s the transaltion....