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Happy New Year from Godzilla and Gamera!

Happy Birthday Gamera!
Here’s a redesign I did a few years ago.

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Worked extra hard on this bad boy. Iris is my favorite kaiju outside of Godzilla, and Gamera 3 was a transformative kaiju film for me when I was growing up. Hail the dark god

“Gamera’s monsters lineup for #kaijumonstermarch on twitter”

Guiron!

Shunsuke Kikuchi, who composed the scores for Gamera vs. Guiron,Gamera vs. Jiger,Gamera vs. Zigra, and Gamera: Super Monster, is an incredibly prolific composer whose other work includes Kamen Rider,Doraemon, and even Dragon Ball Z.

Yumi Kameyama became the first known woman to wear a kaiju suit onscreen in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, in which she portrayed the Super Gyaos. According to Shinji Higuchi, he cast Kameyama because  “the shape of a woman’s body is different from that of a man’s” and “since virtually all of the people who work in the special effects field are men, I thought that I could make it a little easier for women to enter the field by having one play Gyaos.”^[

Takateru Manabe and Jun Suzuki both served as Gamera’s suit actors in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. They were chosen for their short stature as, according to special effects director Shinji Higuchi, “I wanted to shoot a large amount of low angle footage of Gamera and Gyaos, and the only way to avoid having the ceiling of the set be seen in the footage was to have short actors play the monsters” and  “If the monster actors are tall, the miniature sets must be large, but if the monster actors are short, smaller sets can be used. We saved money by using small sets because it costs more to construct and maintain larger sets than smaller ones. In addition, if the monster actors are short, only two people are needed to help them get in and out of their costumes.”

The monster suit actors in the Showa Gamera films are notoriously uncredited, however we know two of the actors who played Gamera himself. Teruo Aragaki played the character in Gamera vs. Barugon,Gamera vs. Gyaos, and Gamera vs. Viras. Aragaki is best known as one of the primary monster suit actors in the original Ultraman and as Rodan in Destroy All Monsters.

Umenosuke Izumi played Gamera in Gamera vs. GuironandGamera vs. Jiger. Izumi played Antlar in the pilot episode of Ultraman and also played Ragon and Magular later in the series.

Unfortunately, none of the suit actors for Gamera’s many foes are currently identified.

The original Gamera suit was so heavy and hard to move in that Daiei recruited weightlifters from a local weightlifting school to wear the suit. None of them were able to last more than a day of filming. Members of the filmmaking staff then took turns wearing the suit during the rest of filming.

Behind the scenes of Gamera flying. 

THREE MEANINGS OF THE RED SHOES IN PACIFIC RIM – & A FOURTH UNSUSPECTED

the first & oldest is the dance of the doomed orphan
who wished to be a princess
in all its versions from the first grim moralizing fairy-tale (x)
to the movie made a century later about a ballet about the story (x)

the second & most obvious is the sign of the witch victrix

the third is something you can onlysee
if you know old Japanese children’s songs at all –
but it is not at all unimportant (x)
& this is a fixfic or a happy AU of “Akai Kutsu”
(which may itself be a legend or true or partly true)
yes it matters that he speaks her language

& the fourth if you watched the first Japanese kaiju movie
not directed by one of the two artists this movie was dedicated to

& here is the oracular connection made plain
& how the turtle & the turtledove became one
& no longer the nemesis of the phoenix
& how Atlantis got into the story
& why the impetuous boy photographer
must also show respect for The Lady he admires
& why it is a (p)rebuttal to MAN OF STEEL
bc the foolish fanboy who dismissed the Tokyo sequence
as a ripoff of GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS
was on to something
even if he had no idea why
bc the evolution of the modern myths is entangled w the old stories

but in the G3 reboot trilogy finale we see what wld really happen
if an all-powerful planetary guardian takes no care whatsoever
for the individuals supposedly being protected
in the course of battling the ancient foes of earth
the remaining survivors of “friendly smash” may not appreciate
the fanboy philosophy of eggs & omelettes & “the few” outweighed

G3 is what wld happen in BATMAN VS SUPERMAN
if the elder Waynes were killed in the battle with Zod
& their child joined forces w Lex Luthor
to find other alien superbeings in hiding
to take revenge on Kal-el & end him
bc the cure = the disease

& so the world ends in multiple bangs
as the ancient feud
between the rival Guardians of the Four Directions
leaves the planet open to invasion
as the retconned Guardian of the North realizes too late
that individual human lives mattertoo

(there is more of course - lighthouse symbolism & apocalyptic cults &  environmental catastrophe leading to the decline of the fisheries & the archetypal eccentric paleontologist & the boy who thinks the monster will be his friend while the rest of the world puts aside its Cold War rivalries to fight it - but the imagery of the first 1965 GAMERA (x)

& so the circle is made complete on yet another level
as rivals & opponents & nemeses are reconciled
all the fixfics ever

(but there is more going on too…)

Titanotober day 25: Baby Iris

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New webcomic page, bad jokes galore

Titanotober day 11: Zigra

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Titanotober day 8: Guiron

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Did a fun lil art idea, Destroyah and Gamera… Combined!

Quarantine Kaiju Commission!

-for a limited time get some original art!
-Any kaiju
-Up to three figures
-5x8 pencil 20usd

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