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The Millennium body was decent but that head was way too feline.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Oct 18, 2020 23:06
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For me I'm torn- I love Nirasawa's designs. His S.I.C. reimagining of old Showa characters are some of my favorites and I love his drawings. But when he did them for Godzilla kaiju, it put them into an area more like a toku tv show. Instead of clumsy and lumbering beasts, they suddenly felt like modern day Kamen Rider action characters. It simply didn't feel right for me. But that was the oeuvre of Final Wars so 🤷🏻♂️
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Oct 18, 2020 23:25
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I am sorry, but I do not believe that the song that lady sang to wake up King Caesar is actually an ancient Japanese song passed down for generations in the Azumi clan.
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Oct 18, 2020 23:32
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An ancient guardian who lives in a mountain and takes too loving long to wake up? King Caesar, more like doggy Daimajin!
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Oct 18, 2020 23:46
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It does seem pretty sus that they'd name their God "Caesar", come to think of it.
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Oct 19, 2020 00:37
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It’s the name of the Okinawan lion gods that are all over there. Shesar.
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Oct 19, 2020 00:38
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The Millennium body was decent but that head was way too feline. Man, before my cat got sick he was a super huge fat chonk and his face looked exactly like certain Godzilla designs. The fatter and more feline designs always hold a place in my heart because of it.
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Oct 19, 2020 01:07
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The original Millenium one with the purple fins is probably my second favorite design overall, after the Destroyah Burning Godzilla.
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Oct 19, 2020 02:44
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Does gigan have an origin? Is he just hired by other villains? What is he paid with?
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Oct 19, 2020 10:13
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Bootleg Trunks posted:Does gigan have an origin? Is he just hired by other villains? What is he paid with? "Hey Gigan, we're gonna go gently caress with Godzilla. You in?" "HELL YEAH"
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Oct 19, 2020 11:21
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I think the GMK Godzilla is my favorite Godzilla, I like a Godzilla with a bigass dome on him and I like the wide face.
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Oct 19, 2020 16:45
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Watched Gamera: Guardian of the Universe for the first time in ages and it's a sick film. One thing I do miss though is the techno. The UK VHS in which I first experienced the film swapped out a lot of the score with techno for reasons that remain mysterious. Although that's not a good creative choice, it's certainly an interesting one and part of me will always find watching scenes of it not as cool without the techno. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-J8QSjHerA&t=187s
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Oct 20, 2020 03:13
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Karloff posted:Watched Gamera: Guardian of the Universe for the first time in ages and it's a sick film. One thing I do miss though is the techno. The UK VHS in which I first experienced the film swapped out a lot of the score with techno for reasons that remain mysterious. Although that's not a good creative choice, it's certainly an interesting one and part of me will always find watching scenes of it not as cool without the techno. what on earth 
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Oct 20, 2020 05:41
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I rented that movie all the time as a kid. I thought it was badass.
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Oct 20, 2020 05:47
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Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten into Kaiju stuff, because then I wouldn't know about all the amazing merchandise that it would be prohibitively expensive or complicated to buy https://twitter.com/godzilla_jp/status/1318727322468458497?s=20
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Oct 21, 2020 03:00
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Bootleg Trunks posted:Does gigan have an origin? Is he just hired by other villains? What is he paid with? He's a WMD and/or totem spirit of some weirdo group of aliens. In Godzilla vs. Megalon, the Seatopians ring them up to ask if they can borrow their giant space monster to handle the combined threat of Godzilla and Jet Jaguar and they're like "sure okay."
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Oct 21, 2020 04:34
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He's also supposed to be a cyborg but I forget if this is ever explicitly stated
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Oct 21, 2020 04:41
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It looks like Godzilla is trying to gently caress that octopus.
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Oct 21, 2020 16:49
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The Criterion Godzilla set completely reignited my childhood love of kaiju and now I'm watching all the Godzilla I have immediate access to. I know that the Netflix anime movies are supposed to be bad but is there at least some decent giant monster action? I hated KOTM but still really liked whenever a fight happened
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Oct 22, 2020 15:20
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Dangerous Person posted:The Criterion Godzilla set completely reignited my childhood love of kaiju and now I'm watching all the Godzilla I have immediate access to. I know that the Netflix anime movies are supposed to be bad but is there at least some decent giant monster action? I hated KOTM but still really liked whenever a fight happened I think a lot of the negative reaction to the anime trilogy was because people went in expecting monster action. There is almost no monster action.
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Oct 22, 2020 15:29
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Yikes. Guess I'll pass
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Oct 22, 2020 15:31
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Dangerous Person posted:Yikes. Guess I'll pass Yeah, it starts with some guy blowing his brains out after describing how bleak everything is thanks to Godzilla.
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Oct 22, 2020 17:46
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Yeah Godzilla's presented more as a massive, slow-moving disaster, like a walking mountain. It'd be okay if there were interesting characters or a good plot but alas.
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Oct 22, 2020 17:51
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I'll watch it, and probably enjoy it, but I'm not going to be all "THIS WAS THE BEST/WORST THING EVER" about it like some fans
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Oct 22, 2020 17:58
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Vinylshadow posted:I'll watch it, and probably enjoy it, but I'm not going to be all "THIS WAS THE BEST/WORST THING EVER" about it like some fans Good luck to you. It truly is v.bad.
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Oct 22, 2020 19:39
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Vintersorg posted:Good luck to you. It truly is v.bad. I've already seen the anime trilogy twice, funnily enough It's yet another flavor/style of kaiju flicks, where the monsters are the backdrop for inter-personal drama, which obviously ain't for everyone I do wish the novels had been animated though
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Oct 22, 2020 19:45
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Vinylshadow posted:I've already seen the anime trilogy twice, funnily enough Im throughly okay with inter-personal drama, i just want it to be interesting
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Oct 22, 2020 19:53
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Like looking back, hate is a bit too strong of a word for me, I can sorta see what they were going for? But there's just no emotional impact. And it really suffers from proximity to Shin Godzilla, which also really departs from formula and gives us this radical reinterpretation of Godzilla, and is scary and funny and sad and gripping.
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Oct 22, 2020 19:57
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the anime trilogy is frankly a lot of why I cut KotM so much slack because, like both of them are way too heavy on really bullshit human stuff that I don't care about... but at least the KotM human bullshit has some funny lines and the movie has legit, no-bullshit, gorgeous monster action, whereas the anime movies had basically loving nothing
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and the weirdest part is, i ordinarily actually really like urobuchi, you'd think he'd have done really, really well with this like, two of his biggest and most famous series (fate/zero and madoka magica) have loving amazing squishy-human vs. kaiju action sequences (Saber and Lancer vs. Caster's monster in FZ, Homura vs Walpurgisnacht in Madoka) despite neither of those series actually being kaiju poo poo. given he very clearly has a giant loving boner for humans beating the poo poo out of/shooting/sword-lasering 50-foot-tall abominations the most reasonable outcome for "Urobuchi does Godzilla" is "Shadow of the Colossus but insanely gory and with Toho monsters." and instead we got that. and that really, really annoys me.
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The trilogy is the kind of boring sci-fi that just doesn't get made anymore, so I'd be fond of them just for that. But I also quite like that it's just about a guy who has one goal and how he deals with the string of events that suggest that goal is impossible. Vinylshadow posted:I do wish the novels had been animated though I really wish they'd at least translate the novels.
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You know how Anno said Toho wanted to basically just use Anno as a figurehead, they'll make the movie, and he was like 'No no, I'm making this loving movie how I want to make it?" The anime Godzilla trilogy is basically what if Anno just let Toho make whatever and cashed a check.
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Oct 22, 2020 20:32
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My toy of the anime Godzilla is very cool and I will never watch the likely bad movies to avoid attaching bad memories of it. Best of all worlds.
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The sad part of the anime trilogy is that they have some really good ideas. Unfortunately, it's like half an hour of good stuff over the 4.5 hour runtime. I thought they were mostly fine, but was pissed that they teased Mechagodzilla and Mothra and completely failed to deliver.
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fenix down posted:I thought they were mostly fine, but was pissed that they teased Mechagodzilla and Mothra and completely failed to deliver. I was kind of disappointed that they showed the egg. It worked better when "Mothra" was the whole culture and the adaptations that let people live in the Godzilla world. Showing the actual egg was just fanservice
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Looks like Arrow is releasing the Gamera films in separate “era” box sets so if you missed out on the big boxset you can still get the films
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A bunch of listings for Godzilla vs Kong listings went up on Bigbadtoystore. There's three options. Either BBTS made a mistake and these toys aren't part of the Godzilla vs Kong line, the Godzilla vs Kong line will include monsters not in Godzilla vs Kong, or Godzilla vs Kong is going to be a very different movie from what I'm expecting https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/140406 https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/140407 https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/140405
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Gaz2k21 posted:Looks like Arrow is releasing the Gamera films in separate “era” box sets so if you missed out on the big boxset you can still get the films Oh good. Here's hoping they release them in the States. Looks like they're just region 2 preorders on their website.
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