You know, this wouldn't make sense in ANY language

Okay, yesterday at a Walgreens I bought a Mazinger-Z DVD for a buck, in Spanish. I figured, based on the cover art, that this was just a few cartoon episodes (the ones that became Tranzor Z) dubbed into Spanish...but it's not. It's a live action movie. Not sure which one, IMDB is pretty slim on the Mazinger movie info.

Anyway, after the first big fight (in which Mazinger is almost all red, for some reason), Doctor Infierno (Doctor Hell) sends his assassins to kill Our Hero.

These assassins rush up to him, dressed as...football players. The helmets-and-padding kind. They tie him up and kick exploding footballs at him, until he's saved by the arrival of a police inspector who has attached a child's balloon to his motorscooter so as to fly in to the rescue.

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Picspam: Live-action Mazinger Z

( Photos taken of the TV, so quality isn't good. Then again, you really can't give 'quality' to some of these things.... )