tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71062858794151793662024-03-13T04:45:17.271-07:00Enshohma's CornerThe Official Internet Blog of Artist and Giant Monster Semi-Historian Raf Gonzalez, Better Known As 'Enshohma' Elsewhere Online.Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-35099527806666928972023-03-15T17:31:00.002-07:002023-03-15T17:31:43.991-07:00Baron Sting Loves Us All<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Baron String</b> (Young Boy, Gorma, and giant form) - <i>Gosei Sentai Dairanger</i> EP 1 "<i>Let's Tenshin!</i>" Japan 2/19/1993</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/vj4Xr94.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="800" height="296" src="https://i.imgur.com/vj4Xr94.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/sElBhsy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="800" height="295" src="https://i.imgur.com/sElBhsy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Baron String (紐男爵)</b> is a golden string-themed <a href="https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Gorma_Tribe" target="_blank">Gorma Minion</a> and the first of his villainous kind to be seen in the series with his human form looking like a young boy wearing comically thick (and equally questionable by today's sensibilities) glasses.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Bi8cf3e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="366" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/Bi8cf3e.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An ancient Chinese sorcerer recently awakened after six thousand years of sleep, Baron String, went around Tokyo and captured various children with his rather nasty snake-like tentacles, temporarily devouring his prisoners, while also attempting to assassinate <b>Ryo</b>, the soon-to-be red leader of the mystical <b>Dairangers</b>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite his efforts, the newly revealed Dairangers get the upper hand over Baron String, forcing him to regurgitate his hostages, all of whom run to safety as their gold captor then uses an <a href="https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Growth_Bombs_(Dairanger)" target="_blank">Growth Bomb</a> (a common device of The Gorma Tribe) to grow gigantic. Soon afterwards, Baron String was defeated by the dragon-based robotic warrior <b>RyuseiOh</b>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/2dGn7Ns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/2dGn7Ns.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/5iAbwPA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://i.imgur.com/5iAbwPA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you're all wondering what's up with this article's bizarre title, that's because Baron String has a gimmick where he sings a lullaby, something to the effect that he earnestly loves his soon-to-be-slain victims.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While I'm not aware of any cultural significance behind Baron String's song, it gives him an interesting character quirk similar to ones given to colorful assassins seen in certain anime shows.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/JGWaQG6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/JGWaQG6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Zw0ggeP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/Zw0ggeP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Baron String was among a team of returning Gorma Minions in the theatrically released <i><b>Gosei Sentai Dairanger: The Movie</b></i><b> (4/17/1993)</b>, resurrected from the dead by a </span><span style="font-family: arial;">deck of card-themed villain named </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Duke of Trump (トランプ公爵)</b>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Baron String was later adapted into the second season of <i><b>Mighty Morphin Power Rangers</b></i> as <b>Pipebrain</b>, a monster created from <b>The Golden Pipe Trophy</b> thru Lord Zedd's evil magic. Pipebrain's single appearance was in episode 74, <b>"Missing Green" (10/3/1994)</b>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>MORE IMAGES:</u></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/6fKJlCk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/6fKJlCk.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Ypq4h2X.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/Ypq4h2X.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/PeWJBFh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/PeWJBFh.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/CjgIk7A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="545" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/CjgIk7A.jpg" width="437" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/GyTBC8f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="541" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/GyTBC8f.jpg" width="433" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/qIiHB7p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="534" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/qIiHB7p.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/N4jw8m1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="537" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/N4jw8m1.jpg" width="430" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lastly, here's some concept art and magazine scans I found throughout Twitter: apologizes to those who originally uploaded these for I failed to save the source links.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/jFN0lAb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/jFN0lAb.jpg" width="437" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/YVH6ml6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="492" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/YVH6ml6.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/MvoyNwm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="346" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/MvoyNwm.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><br />Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-66508267471693381252023-03-09T23:49:00.003-08:002023-03-15T12:19:19.075-07:00Raijin God = Mecha-Daimajin?!<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/7Cok6Fi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="455" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/7Cok6Fi.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><b style="font-family: arial;"><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Raijin God - <i>Sazer X</i> EP 25 "A Recreated History<i>"</i> Japan 3/25/2006</span></b></p></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Super Fleet Sazer-X</i> (2005-2006)</b> was a Toho production aping the Super Sentai and Metal Hero genres, though with a bigger emphasis on giant robot action whenever possible, likely due to <b>Koichi Kawakita</b> as the show's special effects director.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Raijin God</b> (雷神ゴード) was the guardian deity of the descendants of the ancient <b>Lighting Clan</b> and was summoned by <b>Lightning Shogun Thundera</b>, the last living modern member of said clan (the cute alien gal in the tight blue pants), from the bottom of a lake.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/BMH1xXa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/BMH1xXa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The robotic giant was a fierce combatant, holding its own in a four-way battle with three other mecha opponents, until Thundera saw reason and sends God Raijin back into the lake, never to be seen again in the series, unfortunately.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As you can tell by God Raijin's appearance, choice of weaponry (<b>The Divine Sword Godius</b> [ </span><span style="font-family: arial;">神剣ゴーディウス </span><span style="font-family: arial;">]</span><span style="font-family: arial;">), and overall iconography (the parting of the waves), he is a direct homage to </span><b style="font-family: arial;">Daimajin</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> and his 1966 trilogy of fantasy films. If you're a fan of Daimajin, be happy to know God Raijin represents the demonic status of divine retribution quite well as, again, he was a real bruiser in the fight and could have won without a scratch had he not been returned to his aquatic sleep.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/vcHhlDu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/vcHhlDu.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/faTMUKI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/faTMUKI.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The character was played by television suit actor Shinya Iwasaki who mostly does work in the 2000s Ultraman franchise based on what I could find.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>MORE IMAGES:</u></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/zv94QLr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/zv94QLr.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/FcIhlsq.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="301" src="https://i.imgur.com/FcIhlsq.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/2uahca5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="301" src="https://i.imgur.com/2uahca5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/1INgPwV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://i.imgur.com/1INgPwV.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/amGY8qu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="800" height="301" src="https://i.imgur.com/amGY8qu.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/MMWPBfc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/MMWPBfc.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/2EmFW7O.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://i.imgur.com/2EmFW7O.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/KKmhHQI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/KKmhHQI.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/zEQvrmB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/zEQvrmB.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/EKDwczO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/EKDwczO.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/HRCHi39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://i.imgur.com/HRCHi39.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/J0ifUFH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://i.imgur.com/J0ifUFH.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-32523509734716961932023-03-08T12:19:00.000-08:002023-03-08T12:19:20.296-08:00Mad Monster Party Commentary?<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Today's date, March 8th, was the original release date for </span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>MAD MONSTER PARTY?</i> (1967)</b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">, an animated horror-comedy from Rankin-Bass productions which also features </span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">IT</b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">, a giant King Kong-inspired gorilla monster who appears in full in the third act.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Unlike the film's other supernatural weirdos, IT was not deliberately villainous, even showing moments of kindness and mercy, but was a destructive menace who ultimately doomed Dr. Frankenstein's Island and almost every soul living there.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/5w8hA4l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="800" height="432" src="https://i.imgur.com/5w8hA4l.jpg" width="465" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>While on the subject of <i>Mad Monster Party?</i>:</b> several years ago, me and my friends <b>Wyn</b>, <b>Brayton</b>, and <b>KaijuNoir</b> did a live-watch and <i>Mystery Science Theater 3000</i>-style commentary track for the film, which can be viewed on the following link:</span></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/livewatch-mad-monster-party" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">https://archive.org/details/livewatch-mad-monster-party</a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Enjoy!</b></span></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-20469307302334942842022-08-22T07:14:00.002-07:002022-08-22T10:58:29.527-07:00Voyage to the Bottom of the Promotional Paintings!<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nothing major for today but I wanted to share the promotional artwork (possibly concept art) done for the television version of <b><i>VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA</i> (1964-1968)</b>, featuring four giant sea monsters that never made it into the series proper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like my previous post on <a href="https://enshohmacorner.blogspot.com/2022/06/pachimon-kaiju-showcase-tabby-imago.html" target="_blank"><b>Tabby-Imago</b></a>, I'm using self-created nicknames for the following creatures to simplify the descriptions and because I just want to (if every other Godzilla and Power Ranger fan gets to name the unnamed, why not me?).</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/08do5IF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="610" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/08do5IF.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The first creature, which I'm nicknaming </span><b style="font-family: arial;">The Clawed Chimera</b><span style="font-family: arial;">, appears to be a combination of several sea animals, but the prominent claws give the initial impression that it's a simple giant crab before noticing the rest of the aforementioned bodily features. To my knowledge, there are at least two crustacean-based monsters in </span><i style="font-family: arial;"><b>Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea:</b></i><span style="font-family: arial;"> a giant aquatic spider-like creature in </span><b style="font-family: arial;">"The Monster's Web"</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> (February 27, 1966), and the titular human-sized antagonist of </span><b style="font-family: arial;">"The Lobster Man"</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> (January 21, 1968).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Confusingly, the main villain behind <b>"The Deadly Dolls"</b> (October 1, 1967) is mockingly dubbed <b>'The Hermit Crab'</b> by the show's heroes, even though the being itself is a highly advanced, energy-like machine intelligence from the distant future seeking to possess <b>The Seaview</b> (the show's iconic submarine) for its new physical form.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As for the second monster featured: I've always had a preference for plesiosaur-like kaiju and characters, so you know which one I like between these two otherwise nifty critters. However, the lack of two-out-of-four pictorial fins gives me hesitation about nicknaming him <b>The Abyssal Plesiosaur</b>, with the vague alternative of <b>Abyssal Sea Serpent</b> matching the odd design better.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Beyond that, the art itself is very good, especially the luminous backlighting, but I will admit the serpent's eerily calm face might turn off most monster and horror fans.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/eESCbNP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="518" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/eESCbNP.jpg" width="449" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My least favorite monster in these paintings, <b>Pink-Tooth the Sea Beast</b> (if you can think of something better, <u>please</u> share), is probably my least favorite of the four, but the mudskipper-like shape and long grasping arm-like front fins positively reminds me of the <b>Ichthyosaurus Mercurius</b> from <i><b>The Outer Limits</b></i> episode <b>"Tourist Trap"</b> (December 23, 1963).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Last but not least is <b>The Black Devil Dragon</b>, who is probably the coolest-looking monster of the promotional paintings and the one that I would loved to have seen in a completed episode, possibly as some ancient and terrifying menace that The Seaview accidently awakens from an undersea volcano. Or an aboveground volcano, seeing how that's <b>The Flying Sub</b> firing beams at the opposing giant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I rediscovered these paintings in my personal archives and combined the small files into slightly larger and more presentable collages above. I tried to re-locate the old <i>Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea</i> site I collected (stole) these from but to no avail. If I rediscover said website or stumble upon the real official names of the featured monsters, I'll gladly update this article in the future.</span></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-63543771293142167842022-06-01T04:56:00.001-07:002022-06-01T04:56:39.034-07:00Pachimon Kaiju Showcase: Tabby-Imago<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>The Pachimon Kaiju Showcase</b> series returns with a vengeance! And this time, with kitties!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/UHpTn0i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="552" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/UHpTn0i.jpg" width="445" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Pachimon</b> is a modern slang term used to describe bootlegged and stolen versions of more famous kaiju, notably in regards to bromide cards and similar prints from the 1970s that reused and repurposed elements of pre-existing kaiju characters to create quote — unquote "NEW" monsters.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While the mainstream movie kaiju are the most recognizable examples (Godzilla, Gamera, Gappa, ect), the pachimon phenomenon is taken from multiple sources including-but-not-limited to: Ultraman and other tokusatsu characters, American movie and television creatures, vintage paleo-based artwork, real-life photography of animals and locations, science fiction illustrations, and lesser known manga and other foreign comic books.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pachimon has garnered a cult following with modern Japanese otaku, toy collectors, independent filmmakers, and artists, often leading to limited edition and expensive vinyl figures based on these suspiciously familiar faces. FAR LESS so here in America, but obscure kaiju loving weirdos like myself try our best.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the past, I've shared Pachimon who had an official name (as official as these illegal cons can muster), but there's also a larger number of these characters lacking such titles and it's about time I started highlighting them, starting with this adorable abomination.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/DW0scH2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="529" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/DW0scH2.png" width="450" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Again, the monster lacks an official name (or a previous fan-made one), but I personally like to refer to this one as <b>Tabby-Imago</b> due to it being a young tabby cat spliced with colorful butterfly wings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sure, <i><b>Tabbyra</b></i>, like the moth monster <b>Mothra</b>, would have been the more obvious fan-moniker to adopt, BUT that would have been the obvious way out and Tabby-Imago has a better ring to it in my opinion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to the Japanese web-site <a href="http://maruwoo.web.fc2.com/pachi_4.htm" target="_blank"><b>Room103</b> and its Pachimon subsections</a> (the site's very old, so <b><u>beware its lack of security</u></b>), today's feature was the first in the <i>Iwata Pro Large Monster Edition</i>, one of the latter-era series published and sold on the cheap (5 yen a piece, apparently).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/FNpzJZL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="564" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/FNpzJZL.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As for the real-world location shown within the card image, that's the Nishinomaru-enokida gate of <a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Nagoya_Castle" target="_blank">Nagoya Castle in Nagoya, Japan</a>. The gate is probably most recognizable to American kaiju fans as one of Larva Battra's targets from <b><i>Godzilla and Mothra: Battle for the Earth</i> (1992)</b>, ripping its roof to shreds in a less-than-convincing composite shot.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'll have another menace of Nagoya next week.</span></p><p><br /></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-17285380378869672342021-08-28T19:43:00.083-07:002021-09-29T17:36:27.332-07:00Barizogon: Hey! That's Not King Caesar!<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was originally going to add today’s entry into my <b><a href="https://enshohmacorner.blogspot.com/search/label/Pachimon%20Kaiju%20Showcase" target="_blank">Pachimon Kaiju Showcase</a> </b>series but, considering the long-after-the-fact-parody nature of this article's titular feature, I decided to keep it relatively separated.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Plus, there isn't much to say on the character beyond its origins and obvious appearance.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/d1Xyndm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://i.imgur.com/d1Xyndm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Amapro</b> is a ridiculously small (seriously, there’s like two or three people running it) independent Japanese toy company that specializes in limited edition vinyl figures based on overlooked and obscure kaiju. In addition to those, Amapro also creates arguably weirder and sillier original characters.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sitting between these two extremes are figures inspired by the aforementioned Pachimon, taking different elements from more famous movie and television kaiju, haphazardly birthing supposedly new (rip-off) monsters in turn.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That said, <b>Barizogon</b> is basically <b>King Caesar</b> from <b><i>Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla</i> (1974)</b> but with condor-like wings and a third eye in place of Caesar's forehead jewel.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/5qQlAS9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="363" src="https://i.imgur.com/5qQlAS9.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Based on what little I could find online (again, these guys are S-M-A-L-L), Amapro will often repurpose their toy molds to make variations by reincorporating different body parts from different figures like an interchangeable jigsaw. Barizogon seems to be their own King Caesar figure reworked with a pair of wings taken from their numerous other bird-based ones.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There's also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/SailorFightOfficial/videos" target="_blank">the official Sailor Fight channel</a>, based around the robotic heroine from a series of short films that also showcases these same oddball vinyl toys. This channel may-or-may-not have ties to Amapro, seeing how one of its two public faces hosts the aforementioned content.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/yVFlcfN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/yVFlcfN.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/k1ZBWkA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/k1ZBWkA.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-80158348354965889462021-08-22T04:48:00.004-07:002021-09-29T16:21:55.016-07:00Kaiju Videos for August 22nd 2021<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We're back again (well, just me and me alone...F*****g typical) to present a huge listing of </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">interesting giant monster-related and adjacent videos from YouTube.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from Brandon Tenold Cult Movie Reviews:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Last time he took on King Kong, now Godzilla faces his toughest foe yet: An adorable butterfly monster. It's the 1964 kaiju film "Mothra Vs. Godzilla", AKA "Godzilla Vs. The Thing"!</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/MQptUjV-cbo">https://youtu.be/MQptUjV-cbo</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="348" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MQptUjV-cbo" width="470" youtube-src-id="MQptUjV-cbo"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>TitanGoji</b> takes a quick look at 10 unmade live action manga and anime adaptations.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/kC1_HZtu93U">https://youtu.be/kC1_HZtu93U</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="351" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kC1_HZtu93U" width="483" youtube-src-id="kC1_HZtu93U"></iframe></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from PBS's Monstrum:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Swooping down from the heavens on a fire ball, the Kasha drags the bodies of the dead to the underworld for a life of damnation. Most frequently depicted as a demonic, flaming cat, the kanji for ‘Kasha’ actually translates to “Fire Cart”—so why did this malevolent yōkai take on a feline appearance? Featuring the author of numerous yōkai books, Hiroko Yoda, this episode explores the religious and artistic history of the Kasha and takes a look at the significant role of cats in Japanese culture.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/LRNMa65cuEo">https://youtu.be/LRNMa65cuEo</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LRNMa65cuEo" width="479" youtube-src-id="LRNMa65cuEo"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from Toy Galaxy:</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Mobile Suit Gundam ( 機動戦士ガンダム, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu, also known as First Gundam, Gundam 0079 or simply Gundam '79) was a ratings failure causing the episode count to be reduced and the story cut short. But it did introduce the world to RX-78-2. Then Bandai stepped in with their model kits and created what would eventually be known around the world as Gunpla. Mobile Suit Gundam was eventually imported to the US where it was again a ratings failure... twice!</i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/cbZGWJl5-2g">https://youtu.be/cbZGWJl5-2g</a></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="366" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cbZGWJl5-2g" width="480" youtube-src-id="cbZGWJl5-2g"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from Kyoto Video:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>So you think anime was better in the olden days back when we didn't have cute girls doing thing and just had manly men scream and shoot guns from their giant mecha? Not so fast, it turns that even in the days of VCRs did anime centered around cute girls exist. And out of all them, Twinkle Heart might just be the most cloyingly cute!</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/ktju5ObwXbc">https://youtu.be/ktju5ObwXbc</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ktju5ObwXbc" width="480" youtube-src-id="ktju5ObwXbc"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In Japan Hero's latest video, they take a closer look at the history of <i><b>Shiro Jishi Kamen</b></i> ( 白獅子仮面 ). <i>Shiro Jishi Kamen</i> / <i>White Lion Mask</i> is an often overlooked TV series from the golden era of tokusatsu heroes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/4jL35Uzuwbs">https://youtu.be/4jL35Uzuwbs</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="355" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4jL35Uzuwbs" width="449" youtube-src-id="4jL35Uzuwbs"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Good Bad Flicks</b> takes a look at the history of the 1988 remake of <i><b>The Blob</b></i>. Directed by Chuck Russell.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/HL1knEirJXY">https://youtu.be/HL1knEirJXY</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="358" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HL1knEirJXY" width="477" youtube-src-id="HL1knEirJXY"></iframe></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For a second-but-no-less-positive opinion on the </span><i style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Blob</i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> remake, here's Red Letter Media's take on the film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/hBOrprigQu8">https://youtu.be/hBOrprigQu8</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hBOrprigQu8" width="478" youtube-src-id="hBOrprigQu8"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from Vintage Henshin:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>2021 marks the 55th anniversary of Ultraman, and yours truly actually had a hand in the festivities! On this episode of Vintage Henshin EXTRA, we'll take a look at what went into making TokuSHOUTsu's ULTRAMAN DAY ULTRATHON!</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/Y01T6umQegY">https://youtu.be/Y01T6umQegY</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y01T6umQegY" width="479" youtube-src-id="Y01T6umQegY"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mercury Falcon does a retrospective on the often overlooked yokai and swords fantasy drama <i><b>Dororo</b></i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/eZ0qDsbh5nQ">https://youtu.be/eZ0qDsbh5nQ</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="347" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eZ0qDsbh5nQ" width="478" youtube-src-id="eZ0qDsbh5nQ"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from MONSTROSITIES Tokusatsu Vlog:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Take a trip to Seibeun Amusement Park in Japan and jump on GODZILLA THE RIDE: GIANT MONSTERS ULTIMATE BATTLE! Filmmaker and author Norman England reviews the kaiju attraction which was overseen by film director Takashi Yamazaki (RETURNER, ALWAYS: SUNSET ON THIRD STREET).</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/kVIUcv5Rij8">https://youtu.be/kVIUcv5Rij8</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVIUcv5Rij8" width="479" youtube-src-id="kVIUcv5Rij8"></iframe></div>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-22788066988145829012021-08-09T23:06:00.001-07:002021-08-09T23:06:43.263-07:00Kaiju Videos for August 9th 2021<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here's some intriguing kaiju and other giant monster-related videos to for me to share and for you all to enjoy. I will be keeping up this feature as-often-as-possible for the remainder of 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from MONSTROSITIES Tokusatsu Vlog:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>The story of how a tokusatsu technique created for the original MOTHRA (1961) was passed on to the original Kamen Rider and continues to be practiced to this very day.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Y1U2ixUKlMk">https://youtu.be/Y1U2ixUKlMk</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="359" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y1U2ixUKlMk" width="460" youtube-src-id="Y1U2ixUKlMk"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In Japan Hero's latest video, they take a closer look at the history of the <i><b>Robot Detective</b></i> TV series ( ロボット刑事 ) including a brief look at some abandoned giant robot concepts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/jRJwT0JPOEg">https://youtu.be/jRJwT0JPOEg</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="347" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jRJwT0JPOEg" width="487" youtube-src-id="jRJwT0JPOEg"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Linkara's History of Power Rangers returns with a relatively (relatively) short and coherent recap of <i><b>POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS</b></i>, the first of the Hasbro-era of the franchise but produced with creative talents from the previous vanguard. The whole of Beast Morphers is available on Netflix and I might give it a watch as it's a far better alternative to the one-episode-every-rare-blue-moon-year scheduling Nickelodeon was and still is infamous for.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/rh4AwC_3lL0">https://youtu.be/rh4AwC_3lL0</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="324" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rh4AwC_3lL0" width="478" youtube-src-id="rh4AwC_3lL0"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Direct from Toy Galaxy:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Ronin Warriors, known in Japan as Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers (鎧伝サムライトルーパー, Yoroiden Samurai Torūpā), is a Japanese anime series created by Hajime Yatate and animated by Sunrise somewhat riding the popularity of Saint Seiya. Ronin Warriors first aired on American television during the summer of 1995 and subsequently appeared through syndication, as well as the USA Network and later on Cartoon Network as part of Toonami. Besides being known as Ronin Warriors, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers and Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers in some parts of the world it was known as Samurai Warriors.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/alcszGmKcak">https://youtu.be/alcszGmKcak</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="358" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/alcszGmKcak" width="463" youtube-src-id="alcszGmKcak"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>After almost a decade of waiting, the 25-year-old journey finally comes to an end. Here's Yoko Higuchi's review of <i><b>Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time</b></i> in anticipation for its international streaming release on Amazon Prime Video this Friday.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/hGT6F_sWs5s">https://youtu.be/hGT6F_sWs5s</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hGT6F_sWs5s" width="484" youtube-src-id="hGT6F_sWs5s"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from Ben G. Thomas:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Sometimes the fossil record preserves some truly extraordinary glimpses into the past life on our planet, including traces of prehistoric animal behavior. In this video we're exploring 5 examples of such remarkable fossil finds - moments forever frozen in time.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Yru5uzBZOw4">https://youtu.be/Yru5uzBZOw4</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="361" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yru5uzBZOw4" width="476" youtube-src-id="Yru5uzBZOw4"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">TitanGoji takes a look at the 2005 adult oriented Japanese superhero series <i><b>GARO</b></i> which went on to become a successful multimedia franchise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/3Ge9UP67XwE">https://youtu.be/3Ge9UP67XwE</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="358" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Ge9UP67XwE" width="510" youtube-src-id="3Ge9UP67XwE"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And finally, TitanGoji looks at the legacy of <i><b>SHIN GODZILLA</b></i> five years after its debut:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/z42i49mGizU">https://youtu.be/z42i49mGizU</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="352" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z42i49mGizU" width="467" youtube-src-id="z42i49mGizU"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-85584002764097155232021-07-29T15:42:00.001-07:002021-07-29T15:42:06.415-07:00Kaiju Videos for July 29th 2021<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here's some intriguing kaiju and other giant monster-related videos to for me to share and for you all to enjoy. I will be keeping up this feature as-often-as-possible for the remainder of 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from Matt Draper:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>A comprehensive look at <b>The Millennium Era of Toho Godzilla</b>, including a look at the history of <b>Roland Emmerich's Godzilla '98</b>, how Toho returned Godzilla ahead of schedule with G<b>odzilla 2000</b>, and the many reboots and evolutions found within The Millennium Era, covering 6 films made from 1999 through 2004. This is Part 3 of an ongoing Godzilla series.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Direct Link:</b> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://youtu.be/8o-_VPDC4-8">https://youtu.be/8o-_VPDC4-8</a></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="364" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8o-_VPDC4-8" width="484" youtube-src-id="8o-_VPDC4-8"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from MONSTROSITIES Tokusatsu Vlog:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>A look at GODZILLA SINGULAR POINT's beautiful yet briefly seen version of <b>Mothra</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/NhyLpqHXBxs">https://youtu.be/NhyLpqHXBxs</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="364" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NhyLpqHXBxs" width="478" youtube-src-id="NhyLpqHXBxs"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">In his latest video essay </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;">"<i>How Toei Changed Sunday Mornings</i>"</b><span style="font-family: arial;">, MercuryFalcon takes an extensive look at <b>The Toei Fushigi Comedy Series:</b> a loosely connected franchise of lighthearted fantasy adventures and mystery comedies that had major influences on the creation of <i><b>SAILOR MOON</b></i> and how it all came to an unlikely but satisfyingly end in a kaiju-filled crossover with the one and only <i><b>ULTRAMAN</b></i>.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct Link:</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/PecckVgJvSE">https://youtu.be/PecckVgJvSE</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="373" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PecckVgJvSE" width="482" youtube-src-id="PecckVgJvSE"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Direct from Supervoid Cinema:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>After Sam Riami's 'Spider-Man 4' never happened the character was rebooted with 'The Amazing Spider-Man'. There were ambitious plans for a whole slew of movies set in that universe. Drew Goddard was at one point time attached to write and direct a 'Sinister Six' movie for Sony, as part of 'The Amazing Spider-man' and when that fell apart he would be offered a potential 'The Spectacular Spider-Man' reboot (Which later became Spider-Man: Homecoming). Here's the story of why complete with dinosaurs and giant monsters attacking New York.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Direct Link:</b> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://youtu.be/vS42hyhnMSc">https://youtu.be/vS42hyhnMSc</a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="365" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vS42hyhnMSc" width="490" youtube-src-id="vS42hyhnMSc"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-68148497543726374332021-06-17T16:50:00.001-07:002021-06-17T18:52:13.757-07:00Pachimon Kaiju Showcase: Doilar<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://enshohmacorner.blogspot.com/search/label/Pachimon%20Kaiju%20Showcase" target="_blank">The Pachimon Kaiju Showcase</a></b><span style="font-family: arial;"> returns with today's subject, </span><b style="font-family: arial;">Doilar!</b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/LzMbbWJ.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://i.imgur.com/LzMbbWJ.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cleaned-up and enlarged version of Doilar's bromide by your truly</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For the uninitiated, the</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> so-called </span><b style="font-family: arial;">Pachimon</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> phenomena were cheap bromides (collectible postcards) created by </span><b style="font-family: arial;">Yokopro</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> in the 1970's, around the time when movie monsters and television superheroes were very popular among children within Japan, all apart of <b>The Henshin Boom</b> or <b>The Second Kaiju Boom</b> as some pop culture scholars have dubbed it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These bromide cards consists of 'new monsters' created from altered or touched up images of pre-existing characters, ranging from icons like <b>Godzilla</b>, <b>Gamera</b>, or <b>the many opponents of Ultraman</b>, to unorthodox sources like illustrated dinosaur books, real-world animal photography, foreign comic books, and lesser-known television monsters.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Pachimon" itself is an unofficial</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> and relatively </span><span style="font-family: arial;">recent fan-made term meaning 'stolen monster' which gives you a clear sign</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> how suspect if not shoddy Yokopro's otherwise successful attempt was.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Although still quite obscure, <b>The Pachimon Kaiju</b> have garnered something of a cult following among modern-day collectors and otaku, which have resulted in vinyl figures (both official products and custom-built independents), fan-made video games, artwork, direct-to-video films, comedy spoofs, and other inspired extrapolations.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/zQzj6Ue.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="760" height="348" src="https://i.imgur.com/zQzj6Ue.jpg" width="509" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unaltered version of the original Doilar bromide</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Originally presented in <i><b>Yamapro Edition</b></i> set, <b>Doilar</b> is a thinly disguised <a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Gorosaurus" target="_blank"><b>Gorosaurus</b></a>, a fictional descendant of Allosaurus who first appeared in <b><i>King Kong Escapes</i> (1967)</b> as one of the dangerous beasts who roamed the equally fictional <b>Mondo island</b>.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gorosaurus was meant as a one-time only homage to <b>The Meat-Eater</b> from the original <i><b><a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/King_Kong_(1933_film)" target="_blank">King Kong</a></b></i> but, due to a fortunate stroke of luck via quality prop storage over at Toho Studios, Gorosaurs was re-used in the 1968 multiple-monster-romp <i><b>Destroy All Monsters</b></i> where the former antagonist joined the heroic Kaiju of Earth to battle against the evil space dragon <b>King Ghidorah</b>, delivering a memorably fearsome kangaroo kick to the three-headed villain's back.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Pyl0KPj.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="385" height="1026" src="https://i.imgur.com/Pyl0KPj.jpg" width="495" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Doilar vs. Gorosaurus: Compare and Contrast</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The image source used for Doilar's creation isn't a publicity photo of the Toho dinosaur but a beautifully rendered illustration taken from </span><i style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Ultra_Books:_Destroy_All_Monsters" target="_blank">Ultra Books: Destroy All Monsters</a></b></i><span style="font-family: arial;">, a tie-in book and record album combo based around said film.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Upon retrospect, I believe a lot of the Pachimon based on the more famous movie monsters used secondhand materials, perhaps in a half-hearted attempt to avoid lawsuits or copyright infringement. it obviously worked considering how many of these oddball cards that there was.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/dAK8AD1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="800" height="302" src="https://i.imgur.com/dAK8AD1.jpg" width="541" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">LIES! The freeways in downtown Los Angeles are never this nice or vacant!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Speaking of things that makes ones heart sinks:</b> I couldn't find the background of an urban highway used in Doilar's card though I'm tempted to say it's downtown Los Angeles due to how it reminds me so much of the area, particularly the road bridges overhead, having driven through it myself many times before, trapped in way worse traffic than what's falsely presented above (Rainbows? Bull!).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In typical Pachimon fashion, not a single driver seems phased by the giant Doilar creeping towards them.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/K5WKlNg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="571" height="659" src="https://i.imgur.com/K5WKlNg.jpg" width="471" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Doilar's Arctic Holiday</i> (1967...NOT)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While I usually don't do corresponding artwork for my <b>Pachimon Kaiju Showcase</b> articles (cannot afford the time and related stress), I did manage to whip up this photo-manipulated mock-up, taking a publicity photo from Gorosaurus' debut and added some rhinoceros horns and stegosaurs back-plates, all to give you <i><b>Doilar's Arctic Holiday:</b></i> a not-at-all-real production where the monstrous reptile saves a struggling ski resort and science station from a nefarious land developer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Again, in true Pachimon fashion, I threw in some indifferent, un-phased, non-reactive vacationers (familial in-jokes) into the picture, like the indifferent, un-phased, non-reactive Londoners surrounding </span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://enshohmacorner.blogspot.com/2014/08/pachimon-kaiju-showcase-danopura.html" target="_blank">Danopura</a></b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/z20TVCU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="571" height="640" src="https://i.imgur.com/z20TVCU.jpg" width="457" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lastly, here's an alternate version with just Doilar all by himself.</span></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-86904117054731767172021-04-04T15:39:00.002-07:002021-04-04T15:42:14.927-07:00Happy Easter, Rabbit, The Giant Rabbit!<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/K9uUOc1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="370" src="https://i.imgur.com/K9uUOc1.jpg" width="476" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My horrible timing once again ruins me as I completely oblivious that today is Easter Sunday and should have posted something Easter related for this group, whether it be original artwork or a rabbit-based kaiju like <a href="https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Lunaticks" target="_blank"><b>Lunaticks</b></a> from <i>Ultraman Ace</i> or <a href="https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Hiso" target="_blank"><b>Hiso</b> from <i>Gekiranger</i></a> (there's also <a href="https://youtu.be/FAUcOm8Vj4U" target="_blank">the enlarged killer rabbits from <b><i>Night of The Lepus</i></b></a> but that would have been the easy way out).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thankfully, l have a backlog of older commissions and thus I present to you a separate gallery featuring <b>Rabbit:</b> an enlarged rabbit kaiju I drew for the now obscure tabletop RPG <i><b>Smash Monster Rampage</b></i>, published by 5th Street Games back in 2010. The product didn't make any significant waves upon its release that same year but I was paid handsomely for the gig and deeply appreciate the assignment and its producers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While not my design nor original character concept, I came to love the playful, strangely innocent, but no-less destructive <b>Rabbit</b> while illustrating this pieces.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Extra thanks to my friend <b>Luis Calderon</b> for assistants on the fittingly cartoony background inks.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/ApdxKug.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="800" height="291" src="https://i.imgur.com/ApdxKug.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/y6OtCCL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="800" height="334" src="https://i.imgur.com/y6OtCCL.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/J1aHOcz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://i.imgur.com/J1aHOcz.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/pRU8shF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://i.imgur.com/pRU8shF.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yes, that's supposed to be <a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Daisuke_Serizawa" target="_blank">Dr. Serizawa from original Godzilla '54</a> below.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/n0bky0S.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://i.imgur.com/n0bky0S.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/TcLIUqy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://i.imgur.com/TcLIUqy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/drfy7ls.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://i.imgur.com/drfy7ls.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/crXwEfW.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="542" height="571" src="https://i.imgur.com/crXwEfW.jpg" width="387" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Battered and bruise, surrounded by hostile humans on all sides, Rabbit retreats in sorrow.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/ADhwFL0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://i.imgur.com/ADhwFL0.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-44256976478820414852021-03-28T20:58:00.000-07:002021-03-28T20:58:33.190-07:00Mystery Science Theater 3000 vs. Gamera: Round 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/18DnXHe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="705" height="571" src="https://i.imgur.com/18DnXHe.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p>While we all eagerly await for <i><b>Godzilla vs Kong</b></i> this coming Wednesday, I would like to share something humorous and offbeat in a turtle shell to help ease your kaiju cravings if at all possible.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Back in 2019, me and my friends wrote, filmed, preformed, and produced a fan-made series entitled <i><b><a href="https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/MST3K_vs._Gamera:_Round_2" target="_blank">MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER VS GAMERA: ROUND II</a></b></i>, featuring the two-of-three older era Gamera films that were never featured on the cult comedy series. Here's the very first entry featuring <b><i>GAMERA vs. VIRAS</i> (1968)</b>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="326" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ayze2ujb5Vk" width="470" youtube-src-id="ayze2ujb5Vk"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here is the second episode, featuring </span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>GAMERA vs. JIGER</i> (1970)</b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">, my personal favorite of the two produced thus far.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="384" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/txlACvbck_U" width="463" youtube-src-id="txlACvbck_U"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the wake of the 2020 pandemic, production for episode three centered around <b><i>GAMERA: SUPER MONSTER</i> (1981)</b> has been slow-downed: the safety and well-being of the crew (my friends and I) is the absolute priority and, in the interest of social distancing, at this time we're unable to begin filming.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">However pre-production has wrapped and we will continue as scheduled as soon as it is deemed safest for all to do so later in 2021. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We're all putting this time to use, sets and costumes have been retrofitted, several new physical models and props are being constructed, and higher quality filming/lighting equipment has been invested in to make the presentation of our <i><b>Super Monster</b></i> fan-episode (and potentially future ones) much better.</span></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-91930320996011264932021-03-27T16:27:00.003-07:002021-03-27T16:27:32.006-07:00The Bizarre and Tragic World of Fake Psychics<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One of the true benefits of being a skeptic against the so-called paranormal is to call out opportunistic crooks, grifters, and villains on their cruel con jobs. Sadly, the psychic industry continues to benefit upon the gullible and often with disastrous, sometimes tragic, results.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This informative video from the channel Super Eyepatch Wolf goes into greater detail.</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="295" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qFyCJU3AFSA" width="509" youtube-src-id="qFyCJU3AFSA"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Direct Link: <a href="https://youtu.be/qFyCJU3AFSA">https://youtu.be/qFyCJU3AFSA</a></span><p></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-16298920173925719212021-03-25T14:55:00.000-07:002021-03-25T14:55:05.894-07:00Kaiju Gallery: Lygon from Giant Robo<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nothing too spectacular for today, just another image gallery based around one of my many, many, MANY favorite giant monsters from Japanese fiction. <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/enshohma/art/Lygon-of-The-Gargoyle-Gang-December-2019-825396434" target="_blank">The header illustration</a>, by-the-by, was drawn by yours truly.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/WN95ewk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="800" height="471" src="https://i.imgur.com/WN95ewk.jpg" width="481" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From the 1967-1968 series <i><b>Giant Robo</b></i> comes <b>Lygon</b>, a giant Egyptian-style android statue monster built and operated by the intergalactic criminal organization known as <b>Big Fire</b>, or <b>The Gargoyle Gang</b> as they were renamed in The American International Pictures dubbed version, <i><b>Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot</b></i>.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Similarly, Lygon was renamed <b>Ligon-Tyrox</b> for said American broadcast. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lygon appears in episodes 4 (<b><i>Monster Ligon-Tyrox, A Strange Monster</i></b>) and 10 (</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Transformed Humans</i></b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">) and is probably my top favorite monster from the whole series as Egyptian-themed monsters are always cool which Japanese fiction seems to have an abundance of while android monsters, giant robots made to look like living breathing beasts as opposed to more obvious machine-based ones and temporary disguises (see <a href="https://youtu.be/6byXMAwyZ-k" target="_blank">Fake Godzilla</a>), are a rare sub-genre that's barley been played around with.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lygon perfectly captures the fun aspects of both creature motifs / sub-genres in-my-opinion while also being a real bruiser when in combat against the titular <b>Giant Robo</b> despite his virtually thin and tall feline frame.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Plus, the guy fights with an optional drill horn and a gold metal chain! How ridiculously cool is that!?!?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/gndNgha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="394" height="1008" src="https://i.imgur.com/gndNgha.jpg" width="503" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/9gGiBQx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="454" height="714" src="https://i.imgur.com/9gGiBQx.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/jy2CRFG.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="557" height="751" src="https://i.imgur.com/jy2CRFG.png" width="523" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The following set of screenshots were taken from a very old Angelfire (Tripod?) web-site and slightly cleaned up by yours truly, again. Unfortunately, I've long lost the link and cannot give adequate credit to the screen-captures' originator. Apologizes in advance to you, good sir.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/e0dPl48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://i.imgur.com/e0dPl48.jpg" width="533" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/d3iypyF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="398" src="https://i.imgur.com/d3iypyF.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/B5eOE54.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="800" height="385" src="https://i.imgur.com/B5eOE54.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/V5eKUUo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="800" height="395" src="https://i.imgur.com/V5eKUUo.jpg" width="531" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/PKu3cNG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="395" src="https://i.imgur.com/PKu3cNG.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/asMKp7W.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="800" height="382" src="https://i.imgur.com/asMKp7W.jpg" width="527" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>RELATED LINK:</b> <a href="https://tokusatsu.fandom.com/wiki/Lygon" target="_blank">Lygon's Page on Tokupedia</a></span></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-17575401760505139092021-03-24T20:59:00.003-07:002021-03-24T20:59:48.705-07:00Godzilla: Singular Point, First Episode Impressions<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/ghS2U8y.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="800" height="297" src="https://i.imgur.com/ghS2U8y.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thanks to the magic of the mighty Surfing Shark of V.P.N., I was able to view the first episode of <i><b>GODZILLA: SINGULAR POINT</b></i> which is being released on Netflix Japan on a weekly basis instead of a full season drop (still no word of an international release date though one is still coming this year).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Similar to the first act of <b>"<i>Gamera: Guardian of the Universe</i>" (1995)</b>, the first episode is a slow burn building up the mystery behind a missing scientist and a haunting 1930s love song that's somehow being used to summon and/or resurrect the ancient monsters, with the 'Rodan the First' only appearing in the closing minutes to menace our heroes (as seen in the Toho Animation video clip released recently online).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'd go more into the plot but, unfortunately, no English subtitles were available to me. However, unlike other untranslated kaiju media heavy on dialog, the human cast instantly made an impression with their appealing character designs alongside quirky personality moments and related visual gags, all of which kept my interest. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In addition to the previously mentioned <i><b>"Gamera"</b></i> comparisons, the first episode's atmospheres and the near future world presented within was also reminiscent of <i><b>"Ultra Q"</b></i> and early Showa-era science fiction films like<b><i> "The Mysterians"</i> (1957)</b>, <b><i>"The H-Man" </i>(1958)</b>, and <b><i>"Rodan"</i> (1956)</b>: a virtually quiet, normal world on the eve of a monstrous cataclysm or an otherworldly event.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/AYfYYPS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="800" height="259" src="https://i.imgur.com/AYfYYPS.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/9CYAmbE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="800" height="259" src="https://i.imgur.com/9CYAmbE.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/PeZVJzF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="258" src="https://i.imgur.com/PeZVJzF.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/ZM5ZPHF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" height="282" src="https://i.imgur.com/ZM5ZPHF.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The twist was that Godzilla was dead all along!</span></p><p><br /></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-42209960172084275562021-02-06T16:52:00.007-08:002021-02-06T16:52:52.440-08:00First Look at Pacific Rim: The Black<p><span style="font-family: arial;">First full trailer for <i><b>PACIFIC RIM: THE BLACK</b></i> recently dropped and... It actually looks good for a CGI anime show! That or I'll take anything after <i><b>Pacific Rim: Uprising</b></i> but that's a totally different story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The appearance of tangible human antagonist gives me pause for concern: like most anime series, it will begin with a fantastical otherworldly threat that will disappear several episodes in while a 'normal human' (cheaper to animate) one takes over as the main focus.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, it would be cool to see equal amounts of human and non-human antagonists which this trailer also hints at with the smaller dog-like kaiju, a rogue hybrid Kaiju Yeager, and a strange mystery child.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="358" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/umtOGzti-XQ" width="499" youtube-src-id="umtOGzti-XQ"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Direct Text Link: https://youtu.be/umtOGzti-XQ</span><p></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-71425400728202931562021-01-28T19:44:00.001-08:002021-02-06T17:56:50.625-08:00First Look at Shin Ultraman<p><span style="font-family: arial;">The teaser trailer for <b><i>SHIN ULTRAMAN</i></b> dropped earlier today: a co-production between Tsuburaya Productions, Toho Company and Khara inc. stated as a movie adaptation of the original Ultraman series as well as an indirect follow-up to <i><b>Shin Godzilla</b></i> on Toho, Shinji Higuchi, and Hideaki Anno's parts (Good!, Never make a <i>Shin Godzilla II</i> and fly free like the bearded angels that you are).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While its intriguing, the CGI is a little simple to state it lightly even if, apparently, that's the filmmakers' intent to echo the original Ultraman's unrealistic effects and fantastical fairy tale nature.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Shin_Ultraman" target="_blank">SHIN ULTRAMAN</a></i> also has a way a better chance of widespread exposure here in American than more recent Ultraman content, hopefully with a similar theatrical roll out that <i>Shin Godzilla</i> received back in 2016.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Listen, I'm happy for the success Tsuburaya Productions have found through online streaming and the Mill Creek box sets but it's all still relatively quint by mainstream American standards.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There also the <a href="https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rise_of_Ultraman" target="_blank">Marvel Comics' ULTRAMAN series</a> but... That series is purely American in many regards and isn't really advertising its Japanese origins very well: the sheer number of major news outlets assuming that Ultraman is an original 2020 Marvel creation proves that. Plus, the Marvel Comics' story is rather lame (seriously? 5 issues to barely battle Bemular? Pointless even by slow burn story logic).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="365" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AnYP1yzSe5E" width="541" youtube-src-id="AnYP1yzSe5E"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Direct Text Link: https://youtu.be/AnYP1yzSe5E</span></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-49181000010100782342020-12-02T16:46:00.001-08:002020-12-02T16:46:21.242-08:00This Watchalong is Cursed: The Monster Squad Live-Stream<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm going back to many of my past live-streams and adding some much-needed timestamps for my viewers' listening convenience: from this year's Halloween watchalong, me and my spooky guests Andres, Andrew, and Brayton revisit the 1987 cult classic <i><b>THE MONSTER SQUAD</b></i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">You know, the one where Dracula calls a small child a swear word, a werewolf is physically abused in the testicles, and The Mummy comes out of the closet! Oh, what a wholesome fun ride for the coke-out 1980s family!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oROaOdpHjYk" width="320" youtube-src-id="oROaOdpHjYk"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>0:40 - Theme song / introduction</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">4:10 - We don't like Neppo or other cartoon sidekicks for that matter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">8:52 - Contemporary Star Trek is stupid</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">11:29 - Thundercats Roar and the decline of animation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">21:41 - Anything pass 2005 in too old for hipsters</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">22:53 - Sexy animation background extras</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">28:45 - Batman's open house-cave of fun!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">29:59 - The Beast Wars for Cybertron</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">34:01 - That sicko Bruce Timm answers to no one!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">35:09 - Transformers voice actor controversy</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">41:38 - KaijuNoir's Halloween memories</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">48:27 - Andrew Batman enters the show</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:08:45 - Brayton and The Munsters / Addams Family gang wars</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:12:03 - The failings of The Universal Monsters</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:14:56 - James Rolfe stops by</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:15:50 - Closing out the pre-show</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:20:00 - Extreme technical difficulties with The Monster Squad</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:23:30 - Andrew recommends Night of The Creeps</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:25:21 - Dear Audience: Bring your own copies</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:30:30 - Savage Honesty, starring Cameron Mitchell</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:33:53 - Verbal proof that this live-watch is cursed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:40:20 - The hosts go mad with insanity</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1:44:00 - OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION (Finally!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">3:06:06 - Post-show thoughts and regrets</span></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-41387254072803995182020-08-19T14:03:00.001-07:002020-08-19T14:07:39.410-07:00Superman vs The Prehistoric Pterodactyls<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/SBXYKf9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="800" height="376" src="https://i.imgur.com/SBXYKf9.png" width="500" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Today, we're looking at the titular winged menaces from the second episode segment of <b>"<i>The New Adventures of Superman</i>"</b>, "<i>The Prehistoric Pterodactyls</i>" (Filmation, September 17th 1966).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Playfully nicknamed by <b>Superman</b> as <b>Terry #1 and Terry #2</b>, they're a pair of gigantic pterodactyls awakened from suspended animation deep within some arctic icebergs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Soon after awakening, the flying beasts began a brief reign of mayhem by attacking jet bombers, naval ships, and threatening <b>Louis Lane</b> (of course) in San Francisco before Superman battled and ultimately subdues the winged giants.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/sar3GhV.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="349" src="https://i.imgur.com/sar3GhV.png" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/pu5aprq.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://i.imgur.com/pu5aprq.png" width="465" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Captured and tied up in nets made of electric cables, Terry #1 and Terry #2 were then flown into space by Superman and safely exiled to an alien world where they can live peacefully.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's likely pure coincidence but the script and its titular pterodactyls share some similarities with the more famous titular monsters of </span><i style="font-family: arial;"><b>"Rodan"</b></i><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> (1956)</b> who were also jumbo-sized pteranodons awakened from a long slumber though in their case it was eggs buried deep underground and revived with super-heated volcanic water.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/RBnJeZE.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="348" src="https://i.imgur.com/RBnJeZE.png" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/DugThbz.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="349" src="https://i.imgur.com/DugThbz.png" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/QtwrfjZ.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://i.imgur.com/QtwrfjZ.png" width="470" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Despite being one of the earliest superheroes known for his incredible strengths and feats, I prefer Superman stories were a giant monster (or monsters) is either a worthy challenge to or equal force against The Last Son of Krypton. This balance of power works great for more energetic adventure stories but way less so for character-driven (talking head) tales. Hence why we see a lot of Superman vs. giant monster entries in older comic books and animated shows while modern media limit said giants to one-hit cameo defeats.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One-hit cameo defeats are highly impressive for Superman's abilities</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> but also exceptionally of lame for us giant monster and action fans.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Two Terrys</b> are definitely among the simpler fair (fare?) coming from a Filmation produced children's cartoon but I honestly don't mind these slim-down Saturday morning shows of the sixties even if Hanna-Barbera were making superior versions of the same material with the likes of <b><a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/alex-toth-and-the-herculoids-helped-define-science-fiction-in-animation" target="_blank">"<i>The Herculoids</i>"</a></b> and <b>"<i>Space Ghost and Dino Boy</i>"</b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u><b>ADDITIONAL IMAGES OF THE PREHISTORIC PTERODACTYLS:</b></u></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/10ZnOuL.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://i.imgur.com/10ZnOuL.png" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/93VgeWm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="349" src="https://i.imgur.com/93VgeWm.png" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/TdNaX8K.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="349" src="https://i.imgur.com/TdNaX8K.png" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/R85W8A2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="349" src="https://i.imgur.com/R85W8A2.png" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/eAHRcca.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://i.imgur.com/eAHRcca.png" width="466" /></a></div><p></p>Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-14915279104075794082020-07-21T23:36:00.000-07:002020-07-23T01:31:04.055-07:00Terror of The Tertiary Titans: July 2020<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So... 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a new series of articles where I showcase three or more minor monsters (giant or otherwise... but usually giant) from fiction who barely had enough screen-time or impact to deserve a full article and presented together with no particular rhythm or reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yeah, that's about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>First Appearance:</b> <i>King Kong</i> (1933).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A large species of scavenger bird native to Skull Island of whom sailor Jack Driscoll encounters as he approached the freshly killed carcass of the Meat-Eater (the official name of the not-quite-a-tyrannosaurus-rex-not-quite-an-allosaurus-either-dinosaur there). Startled by the human, the lone Scavenger Raven flies away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scavenger Ravens also appear in the 2005 novel <i>Kong Reborn</i> but I know nothing significant concerning said book to share here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the longest time, me and many other monster movie fans assumed this odd-duck (pun interned) was a <b>Teratornis:</b> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratornis" target="_blank">once living North American bird of prey</a> whose size is virtually near that of the onscreen Scavenger Raven. While similar, The Scavenger Raven is supposed to be its own fictional bird which adds extra flavor to the relatively little seen fauna of the 1933 classic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>RELATED LINK:</b> <a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Scavenger_Raven" target="_blank">Wikipedia's page on this same character.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>First Appearance:</b> <i><a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Gamera_3:_Revenge_of_Iris" target="_blank">Gamera III: The Revenge of Iris</a></i> (1998).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A terrifying nightmare version of the otherwise benevolent giant turtle, <b>Trauma Gamera</b> briefly appears in the black-and-white nightmares of <b>Ayana Hirasaka</b>, a high school student who blames Gamera for the death of her parents during the latter's battle with <b>Super Gyaos</b> four years prior, tying back to the events of <b><span style="font-style: italic;">Gamera: Guardian of The Universe </span>(1995).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gamera's current form in the 1998 film is not that dissimilar to Ayana's traumatic visions and the turtle's unintended but no-less-callous destruction of Shibuya while battling a pair of <b>Hyper Gyaos</b> only fuels Ayana's hatred, leading her into awakening the villainous monster <b>Iris</b> to ultimately battle Gamera to the death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While this monster technically doesn't exist within the film's reality, Trauma Gamera has been given a secondary life through model kits and similarly rare merchandise (not to mention <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/mooncalfe/art/Nightmare-Gamera-156297003" target="_blank">unofficial fan art</a> and fan fiction). Trauma Gamera was created via a refurbished suit leftover from the aforementioned 1995 film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interestingly, an early concept for <i>Gamera III</i> was to have the trilogy's titular turtle go up against a pure evil variant of his own species before the creative crew opted for a more unique newer monster instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another villainous clone of Gamera was featured as the surprise final boss in <a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Gamera:_Guardian_of_the_Universe_(Game_Boy)" target="_blank">the 1995 video game adaptation</a> of <i>Gamera: Guardian of The Universe</i> for the Japanese Game Boy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>First Appearance:</b> <i>Godzilla In Hell</i>, issue 1, variant cover by <a href="https://zmbd.storenvy.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Zornow</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Bezazelshun</b> is a large Hell-spawn demon who appears only on the EC Comics inspired variant cover for <a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla_in_Hell_Issue_1" target="_blank">the first issue</a> of <b><i>Godzilla In Hell</i> (July 15th 2015)</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">While meant as a homage to EC Comics (the publisher famous for <i>Tales From The Crypt</i> and other 1950s horror comics), artist Jeff Zornow took a more imaginative and admittedly more awesome heavy metal route with the Hellish landscape it presents.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The winged humanoid goat demon who appears to be casting judgement on Godzilla has no finalized / official name but a helpful Facebook chat with Jeff Zornow himself </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">christened his creation as Bezazelshun - an obvious play on </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub" target="_blank"><b>Beelzebub</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>First Appearance:</b> Emerald City Comicon 2008 advert by <a href="https://www.nocturnals.com/" target="_blank">Dan Brereton</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One-off postcard advert for the <b>2008 Emerald City Comicon</b>, illustrated by comic creator <b>Dan Brereton</b> and featuring his genetically engineered hero <b>Giantkiller</b> up against two monsters while straddling <b>The Seattle Space Needle</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Giantkiller himself (or <b>Yochu</b> as his scientist creator calls him) was the titular star of Brereton's 1999 comic book miniseries who hunts giant monsters that have crossed over from a paralleled universe, having taken over and settling in San Francisco, California, during their initial invasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the miniseries featured a nice variety of monsters (heavily inspired by Japanese kaiju films and the pre-Spiderman-era monsters of Marvel Comics), the two featured above are wholly exclusive to this standalone advert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>First Appearance:</b> American adverts for <i>Godzilla vs The Thing</i> (1964).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In one of the most blatant examples of misleading Hollywood ballyhoo, the North American release of <b><i>Mothra vs. Godzilla</i> (1964)</b> not only renamed the film <i><b>Godzilla vs The Thing</b></i> but also had the official poster (beautifully illustrated by poster artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_Brown" target="_blank"><b>Reynold Brown</b></a>) pitting Godzilla against a </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">tentacled</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> eldritch horror hidden behind a censored sign, giving an ominous mystery to who The King of The Monsters could be fighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Of course, if my previous paragraph didn't give it all away, The Thing's true identity within the movie itself isn't some mind-blowing mass of horrific feelers but the more comprehensible form of <b>Mothra</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">While Mothra is a beloved figure in pop culture today whose popularity has garnered her multiple film appearances (something the more edgy giant monster fans regret, similar to hardcore Batman fans' resistance towards Robin), she was relatively new and untested in 1964 with this film being only her second appearance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>American International Pictures (AIP)</b> who distributed <i>Mothra vs. Godzilla</i> under the new title, felt audience wouldn't go for a monster movie where one of the titular beasts was basically a fuzzy butterfly and decided to hide that</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> fact behind an admittedly cleaver mystery to what '<i>THE THING</i>' might actually be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I don't know how disappointed or pleasantly bemused American audiences were with Mothra's reveal but I can state that the hidden identity ploy extended into the US theatrical trailers as well, minus a few brief glimpses of Mothra's twin larvae babies and the brightly colored egg they both hatched from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Italy released a steady steam of Kaiju EIga throughout the 1960s and the 1970s and, while that's commendable compared to other European countries that had less luck with the genre (SEE Britain and Russia), the Italian releases were a little infamous for their wildly misleading titles and wildly more misleading posters however beautifully painted many of them are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Re-titled <i style="font-weight: bold;">Watang! Nel favoloso impero dei mostri</i> (literally means <i style="font-weight: bold;">Watang! In the Fabulous Monster Empire</i> in English), the Italian release of <i>Mothra vs Godzilla</i> took the original Reynold Brown ad art and reworked it to feature more dramatic background mayhem and an uncovered Thing itself, now an otherworldly starfish-like weirdo over a plant-like mass.</span></div>
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Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-44492791054544532422020-07-15T14:36:00.001-07:002020-07-15T16:59:37.856-07:00Daimajin and the Nerds Who Love Him<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />After the surprised success they had with the very first Gamera film, <b>Daiei Films</b> continued dipping their toes into the giant monster genre by producing AND releasing three films all within 1966 featuring <b><a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Daimajin">Daimajin</a></b>, a giant stone idol and supernatural deity who comes to life to brutally punish mortal villains in feudal Japan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Daimajin trilogy joined the popular giant monster boom of the 1960s with the highly praised samurai period dramas of the same decade, resulting in a unique if brief series of dark fantasy films.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The channel <b>Up From the Depths</b> recently finished up their trio of video reviews on Daimajin presented here because why not (I felt like it, okay).</span><br />
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Enshohmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404305444997782788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106285879415179366.post-62795648283330562072020-07-09T16:03:00.000-07:002020-07-09T19:34:30.765-07:00Up Mill Creek: The Ape<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the suspect tradition of Fractured Flickers, Mad Movies, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Rifftrax, blah, blah, blah, comes the first episode of a new comedy-commentary series entitled <i><b>UP MILL CREEK (WITHOUT A PADDLE)</b></i>, staring <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAI-dPyGhck5LTXwu2dNVpg/featured" target="_blank">Brayton Conner</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/KaijuNoir" target="_blank">Andres Perez</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Enshohma/featured">Raf Enshohma</a> (hey, that's me).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this inaugural pilot, the three jerks talk over the 1940 Boris Karloff vehicle <b><i>THE APE</i></b> with humorous results. Mockery aside, we're very happy with how this pilot turned out and I'm pleased to share that there's more episodes coming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the full uncut recording session for the episode complete with an unused pre-show segment based around the Gumby short <i>Lion Around</i>. Unlike the completed episode, this unlisted extra is something I'm less proud of but sharing it here for posterity sake (plus future blackmail).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NAME:</b> Zelmkethou (pronounced Zelm-Keth-Thoo)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ALTERNATE NAMES:</b> The Abyssal God; Great Zelmkethou</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>LENGTH:</b> 299 meters (roughly 980 feet)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>WEIGHT:</b> 100,000 metric tons (estimated)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Zelmkethou</b> is a gigantic sea </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dwelling </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">monster who originated beyond our known universe and possesses a unique feature to its biology: housed within its orb-shaped shell lies a fully stable dimensional wormhole that reacts to the willing mental desires of anyone who enters it, hence making Zelmkethou a living gateway to anywhere within The Whole of Existence</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that anyone can wish to be transported to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While this sounds like a living miracle, there are several key issues with this gateway, the first being that it's on the back of a giant monster and one that's particularly hostile towards anything outside of itself. Many attempts to reach Zelmkethou's shell via spaceship, submarine, and massive-sized robot have almost all but failed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secondly, smaller scale attempts such as single individuals simply swimming up to the beast is as dangerous for Zelmkethou is ignorant if not unresponsive to anything too small for its notice and thus many have been accidentally killed by beast during such attempts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thirdly, <b>The Zelmkethou Gateway,</b> the orb-like shell itself, is a one-way trip as those who have made it to the portal have never returned. This is simply the nature of The Zelmkethou Gateway much like how most time travel methods are highly limited to one temporal direction. There have been evidence confirming the lucky few have survived after entering the dimensional orb but this has still led to widespread conspiracies across the universe theorizing that there is no portal and Zelmkethough is simply using a giant deception to lure in smaller-sized prey - The Zelmkethou Gateway being nothing more than a illusion-sporting digestive organ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, the fourth reason why it's nearly impossible to reach The Zelmkethou Gateway... No one agrees what planet the great monster resides upon or within. It's fully agreed that Zelmkethou lives in a water-heavy environment to support its great weight but the exact identity of said world's been lost over time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The gorgeous water world of <b>Jumo-Umo</b>, the dying oily seas of <b>Ranagader Ex-Prime</b>, the vapory gas giant of <b>Vinhea</b>, the weather chaotic world of <b>Barley Open</b>, the silver seas of <b>Dahmeia Third</b>, the water-ammonia oceans of <b>Neptune</b>, and the briny seas of <b>Earth</b>, all have been believed in being the home-world of Zelmkethou but no positive identification been made on the matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Great Zelmkethou</b> is a living miracle, a colossal hazard, and a frustrating mystery all wrapped up into one gigantic monstrous package.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite my love for the works of cosmic horror author <b>H.P. Lovecraft</b> and his various contemporaries, I have an admittedly tertiary knowledge of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" target="_blank">The Cthuhlu Mythos</a> as a whole. Because of this, Zelmkethou is something of a repurposed blunder since its design started out as my misinformed (and misnamed) rendition on the titular monster from <b><i>The Dweller in The Gulf</i></b>, a </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1932 </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">short story written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" target="_blank">Clark Ashton Smith</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also known as <b>The Eidolon of the Blind</b>, The Dweller is is an ancient, possibly immortal subterranean creature that dwells deep within the planet <b>Aihai</b> (known to us humans as <b>Mars</b>). It is served and worshiped by a cult of Martians who have been captured and blinded by the beast as its equipped with two proboscises</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for the extraction of eyes (how charming, Clark).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While The Dweller in the Gulf resembled a tortoise, albeit one of gargantuan proportions, its more alien or at least chimeric in overall form and, despite its connections to The Cthuhlu Mythos, is a relatively tangible animal instead of the reality warping cosmic entity I had originally imagined based on a scantly read character description.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I returned to revisit this design and compared it to its source inspiration, I realized it wouldn't work as an adaptation of The Dweller in The Gulf and revised it as my own </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">loosely inspired </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">creature, hence <b>Zelmkethou </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Living Threshold</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My friend <b>Jesse Alonso</b> helped with the monster's name which is a play on the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Czech phrase for globe, <i>zeměkoule</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Dweller in the Gulf at Monster Wiki:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Dweller in the Gulf at H.P. Lovecraft Wiki:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dweller_in_the_Gulf">https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dweller_in_the_Gulf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The toy is roughly called <i><b>"Rocket Car Against Gamess"</b></i> with the titular monster being a giant tortoise as </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Gamess</b> (<b>ガメス</b>, or the English alternative <b>'Games'</b>) is a play on the Japanese word for turtle, kame.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Titanollante</b>, one of the web-masters of <a href="https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank"><b>Wikizilla</b></a>, helped me with the description apparently offered by the box art though he noted that the following its a rough translation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Inhabiting the deep waters of the Mariana Trench, its energy source is a kind of heavy liquid that flows out from the seams of the seabed strata, one supply powering it for 450 days. Its personality is "ferocious". Spraying viscous body fluids from its mouth, Gamess will eat anything.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also love the concept that you get a smaller but no less powerful super vehicle to combat against / play along with the larger monster figure, but the option to fit the car in its mouth doesn't come off too well in my opinion - I know Gamess will eat anything but that's still an unintentionally off-putting visual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once more, massive thanks to Titanollante of Wikizilla for the translations and a grateful salute to the late great Tsutomu Blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NAME:</b> Buuu (pronounced 'Boo')</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ALSO KNOWN AS:</b> The Boyish Wonder; The Gray Guardian; The Telepathic Terror of Tiny Town</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>AGE:</b> 19 (145 in Earth years)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>SPECIES:</b> Zetaculian (extraterrestrial)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>GENDER:</b> Female</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BIRTHPLACE:</b> Zeta-5500 (massive space colony)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>HEIGHT:</b> 2 ft, 5 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>WEIGHT:</b> Variable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>EYES:</b> Marble black with bright blue pupils</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>HAIR:</b> Non... Like at all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>SKIN:</b> Purplish gray</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>KNOWN RELATIVES:</b> Dood (father)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>LIKES:</b> Jake Tanaka, breakfast, animals, upbeat music, good friends, happy people, sunny days, slapstick comedies, telepathic flight, barbecues, horse riding, the great outdoors, wood carvings, camping, county fairs, barn raising, Jake's marijuana cookies, empathy, hiking, Baltimore, and benevolent clowns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>DISLIKES:</b> Jack Hogson, urban decay, cloudy days, politicians, cages, insincere superheroes, government agents, Areas 51-56, inter-dimensional police officers, chocolate, Z-Men, bullies in general, mentally projected walls, shopping for clothes, apathy, hive minds, and evil clowns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During her teenage years in <b>Intergalactic Community Collage</b>, Buuu stumbled upon an illegally imported copy of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Comics_1" target="_blank"><i>Action Comics </i>#1</a></b> and, inspired by the tales of heroism found within, soon dropped out of her studies and headed for Earth in 1948 to become a superhero much to her father Dood's disapproval.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, her career as a superhero was far from ideal, starting out as a sidekick to the corporate-mascot-turned-crime-fighter <b>Waffleman</b> (secretly <b>Bruce Mansly, the CEO of Mansly Bakery Goods Incorporated</b>) and later, long after <a href="https://youtu.be/QsntH0a6yQM" target="_blank">cutting ties with Waffleman</a>, tried the hero game solo as <b>The Gray Guardian</b> of whom her current outfit was originally tailored made for though it was a single bright gray color back then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Being a space alien, however, kept Buuu from enjoying any long-term success as an independent heroine as the governments of the world showed great contempt for all benevolent extraterrestrials - all this while truly malevolent otherworldly beings were treated far better, both out of hypocritical fear and for selfish ulterior motives on the humans' parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1978, Buuu retired as a private citizen and moved to upstate California where she purchased some farm land and a woodland cabin. She quickly came to love the country life, making many local human friends along the way. Life was peaceful until 1986 when Buuu ran afoul of the newly formed super-villain organization known as <b>The Global Lords United Endeavor</b>, or simply <b>G.L.U.E.</b> for short.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">G.L.U.E.'s founding leaders, <b>The Head Representative</b> and<b> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/enshohma/art/Queen-Noleena-January-2020-827729780" target="_blank">Queen Noleena The Oversexed</a></b>, tried to illegally buyout California's government before Buuu put an end to their operation... Only to then have her heroic actions met with hostility as xenophobic US authorities arrested her right after, banishing Buuu to a military prison for five long months before breaking herself out via embarrassing means that are best not mentioned here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With her superhero career seemingly in ruins, an abashed Buuu had no other choice but to become a super-villain and with the only evil society equally desperate enough to hire her also being the same one she had recently vanquished: G.L.U.E.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn’t an ideal working relationship at first, especially with the more nefarious G.L.U.E. members constantly keeping a watchful murderous eye on her, but Buuu eventually proved herself by helping G.L.U.E. win many small victories against the clandestine governmental forces, often the same ones that caused Buuu to join the proverbial dark side in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What truly took the tiny alien aback during her first few months in G.L.U.E., however, was just how amazingly inept her partners-in-crime were, constantly endangering themselves when left to their own devices, vices, and corresponding stupidity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because of this, the G.L.U.E. members came to value Buuu’s positive presence serving as the group’s quasi-conscience, which has kept them from going overboard in their self-destructive villainy...At least most of the time as some of their own madness has long since rubbed off on poor Buuu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">*Buuu has a romantic longing and sexual lusting for her fellow G.L.U.E. teammate </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/enshohma/art/Jake-Orange-Coat-Tanaka-January-2020-828265028" target="_blank">Jake ‘Orange Coat’ Tanaka</a></b><span style="font-family: arial;">, whose good mental vibes and handsome human looks makes him irresistible to the diminutive alien. Despite caring for her as a friend and coworker, Jake, unfortunately, finds Buuu disturbing looking and compares a possible relationship with her to ‘trying to do it with a baby sea-lion or a spooky-looking Muppet’.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">*Buuu's large hat holds an ember-like head jewel that heightens her Mind Bullets: a laser-like percussion ability that's Buuu's main form of attack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">*While on Earth, Buuu has lived among friendly and good nature country folks that her extraterrestrial people would usually prey upon for suspicious scientific reasons. Because of which, Buuu considers herself a country girl at heart, living in a comfortable cabin in the woods far beyond city limits. This trait also explains Buuu’s love for westerns, farms, pony rides, county fairs, and pie-eating competitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Buuu has come to befriend and form strong bonds with most of the members of G.L.U.E. with the two major exceptions being <b><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/enshohma/art/Jack-Hogson-March-2020-833618733" target="_blank">Jack Hogson</a></b>, the violent and childish scientific officer, and <b>Johnny Laser-Fin</b>, the treasurer and sleazy cyborg business person, both of whom she openly states of being total jerks that radiate bad mental vibes all the time. Needless to say, hilarity ensues when Buuu is forcefully paired up with either of them if not both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/enshohma" target="_blank">DeviantART</a> done gone and funk itself all sorts of messed up!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The art sharing web-site that I had once called home, my main online port of call, was bought out by the web-design company Wix and, like all new owners taking over established businesses, had to give everything their own face lift / urine soaked marking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">While I have seen far worse online, DeviantART's new design and interface still sucks, turning a once simple straight line of user friendliness into a vague maze of time-sucking confusion. I still plan to keep my DeviantART account but will <u>also</u> be using my other online outlets as coherent alternatives when sharing my artwork and original characters, with little Buuu here being the first of many.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a lot to say about Buuu's creation BUT I will save most of my thoughts for later this month through a second article and a series videos that also features little Buuu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I will note, however, that Buuu’s based off the famous Grays of modern extraterrestrial lore though her pointy ears and a yellow-colored carapace covering her cranium (all hidden by her hat) was from older movie alien influences like “<i>This Island Earth</i>” and "<i>Invasion of The Saucer Men</i>".</span></span><br />
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