Happy Birthday Gamera [ ガメラ ]

November 27, 1965

Gamera is 58 years old !!! !!!

Earth Defender and friend to all children

From Gamera franchise

GAMERA (2015)

I was able to find the entire short on Youtube, so here you are:

The ghost of Inktober's past (2015 edition), back when I was going by "pulse nuke" (I am old, sorry tumblr)

GAMERA (2015) Short Film

This Gamera's design became the basis for his look in GAMERA -Rebirth-.

Gamera 2015 my beloved

Little doodle of the little guy.

Yes this is because of the Maquette

Kaiju Week in Review (November 20-26, 2022)

Megumi Odaka, best known as psychic Miki Saegusa from the Heisei Godzilla series, retired from acting in 2000 due to health issues and disappeared from the public eye for a decade. The narration she contributed to Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex was her first role since then, and she's finally ready to go back in front of the camera. 3Y Film (The Great Buddha Arrival, Nezura 1964) has a new kaiju movie in the works, Hoshi 35, which Odaka is set to star in. Since it's a 3Y joint, and part of a celebration of the 35 years since her acting debut, expect it to get meta. As usual, Hiroko Yokokawa is directing; another key player is Daisuke Sato (Howl from Beyond the Fog), who will serve as director of special effects, cinematographer, and suitmaker (with Tomoya Ayaki).

3Y productions are known for bringing back veteran kaiju actors, and Hoshi 35 has already cast several besides Odaka, this time focusing on the Heisei era instead of the Showa era. Jun Hashizume played MOGUERA pilot Koji Shindo in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla and Kojiro Inaba in Ultraman Z, Daijiro Harada was Mechagodzilla captain Takuya Sasaki in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, and Akira Ohashi stepped inside Gamera in Gamera 2, Iris in Gamera 3, and King Ghidorah in GMK. He'll be playing another monster in this one, Hoshikuzu. Hiroshi Miyasaka and Yumiko Tanaka will appear as well.

No plot details are currently known. The film is aiming for a October 2023 release date.

Gridman Universe, the crossover film for SSSS.GRIDMAN and SSSS.DYANZENON, has a new pair of posters and a teaser trailer. It'll hit theaters in Japan on March 24 (and hopefully arrive in the West before the year is out). Excessive fanservice aside, I really enjoyed GRIDMAN, but haven't gotten around to DYNAZENON yet... it aired in Spring 2021, which was a pretty chaotic time to be a Wikizilla editor, and I think I was under the impression it was all mecha, no kaiju. Guess I have to now!

Veteran Ultra Series director Takeshi Yagi debuted a proof-of-concept short at Tokyo Comic Con called AKARI, which you can also watch online. The story is simple—a giant heroine (Akari) battles a rampaging cyborg kaiju (Pythagodon) in a futuristic, neon city—but Yagi and company have far greater ambitions for it. They created it as part of a course on tokusatsu techniques, and hope to turn it into a feature or series with the funds from that course, as well as other crowdfunding efforts. The story they've drawn up is pretty intriguing: a 2076 Japan where corporations run amok, the AI uprising is at hand, and an alien race who survived their own rogue AI empowers a woman to save the Earth.

Matt Frank designed Akari. Akihiko Iguchi (Mechagodzilla, King Caesar, Titanosaurus) came up with Pythagodon, and boy, you can tell. I hope we haven't seen the last of them.

One more kaiju short for you to watch: Ivalla the Land Mine Monster: Case of Extra. This one is in more dire need of subtitles to get the full experience, but there's still a quality rampage to witness. From the other videos on the channel, Yuki Kurosu has been working on this for 8 years—props for persevering!

Godziban squeezed another episode out of Godzilla Festival 2022, this one focusing on the puppet displays and demonstrations at the event and the upcoming Blu-ray-only episodes which will see Bagan make his debut and many others battling it out.

Kadokawa released a fine video tribute to Gamera for his 57th birthday, which naturally ends by teasing the Netflix project. Interesting that they skipped over the 2015 short though.

Your reading assignment for the week is Patrick Galvan's excellent tribute to Kazuki Omori for Toho Kingdom, a well-researched overview of his career and analysis of the two Godzilla films he directed.

My favourite kaiju designs:

Garegoji (Godzilla 2014)

The Crackler (Godzilla: The Series)

Gabora (Shin Ultraman, 2022)

Zeruel (NGE)

Raijin (Pacific Rim: Uprising)

Zegga (SSSS.GRIDMAN)

Evangelion Unit 01 (Evangelion series)

'Unnamed tentacle monster' (Gamera 2015 short film)

Continuing on the Gamera talk. Like... why haven't we gotten a new movie. Godzilla has been getting some for the past few years. Meanwhile you wanna know what Gamera got? A 5 minute "short film" for his 50th anniversary back in 2015 and nothing else. That could've been a whole new movie but nope. My only hope at this point is if Toho or Legendary Pictures get in contact with the current owners of Gamera and ask if he can appear. I swear it's as if there is no love for our friend of the children turtle friend.

Now with a graphic that hopefully illustrates that the title is clever, and not, in fact, the least creative thing I could’ve called it.

...for the people who’ve even seen the movie it’s referencing.

...and liked it enough to not immediately purge it from their memories.

...

Anyways, the subject of today’s inaugural GAMERA MARCH post is...

Why?

...

...okay, valid.

I guess I bring up Gamera primarily because fandom-wise, I tend to be drawn to sci-fi/urban fantasy stories with interesting (and preferably wlw shippable) female characters, and the Gamera franchise is one that fills that particular niche. Out of a total of twelve, the five most recent Gamera films (released 1980-2006), all have women as either primary or secondary protagonists, sometimes with multiple plot-important characters in the cast and with two films giving female cast members top billing. Add to that, three and sometimes four of those particular five movies are regarded as some of the best in the Kaiju genre, outclassing some far bigger-name monsters you’re probably familiar with.

As a franchise, Gamera occupies a strange place in the popular consciousness. While running concurrently with the other heavy-hitters in the genre during the peak of classic Kaiju cinema, the big turtle has been largely left out of a recent phenomenon called the Kaiju Renaissance, a resurgence in the popularity of giant monsters that’s been taking place throughout the last decade (after a drought of content in the late 2000s and early 2010s). The most attention Gamera has recieved since the last film Gamera the Brave in 2006 was a short proof-of-concept teaser in 2015 and the upcoming Gamera: Rebirth mini-series on Netflix. It’s entirely possible the latter project may renew some fandom interest, and if that is in fact the case, allow me take a month-long break from being a Battra apologist and toss my two cents in the pile of why the Gamera films are, in fact, worth revisiting.

Upcoming this month:

A personal writing goal of at least one Gamera-related fic chapter or one-shot per week, including the final chapters and epilogue of my Gamera/TMNT crossover

Discussion/review of the seven Gamera films released in March, on their release dates - starting March 6th with Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)

Discussion/review of the five Gamera films not released in March, dates TBA and likely following the the last of March ones

...whatever else I have time for, as the writing and chapter artwork is going to take up the bulk of the time I have to spend on this

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ガメラ 2015 GAMERA 2015 Trailer

Happy Birthday Gamera [ ガメラ ]

November 27, 1965

Gamera is 57 years old !!! !!!!

Earth Defender and friend to all children

From Gamera franchise

HAPPY GAMERA DAY!

The 2015 trailer to a Gamera film we all hoped would manifest, but never did.

Before you get too excited, this is from back in like 2016 I believe. Seems to be the latest word (AFAIK) on this project. The poster says the idea for this Gamera is an earth guardian deity (reportedly 65 meters), and the film was to have kaiju as metaphors for the 3.11 disasters. [x]

Pieces I made in October of 2015. (pt.1)

Kaiju Cinema - a selection