Mazinger Z
Mazinger Z is a giant manga robot who had his own anime show in the early 70s, and according to Wikipedia had a great influence on the Super Robot genre. In this satellite photograph we can see a giant statue of Mazinger, standing proudly in a Spanish field. Nope that wasn’t a typo (‘Japanese’ being quite a few keystrokes away) – this really is in Spain! But who built him there and why? I’d never heard of Mazinger Z, but the show was a surprise hit in Spain, despite being edited down from the original violent Japanese version.…