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Gamera (Japanese: ガメラ, Hepburn: Gamera) is a fictional monster, or kaiju, originating from a series of Japanese films.Debuting in the 1965 film Gamera, the Giant Monster, the character and the first film were intended to compete with the success of Toho's Godzilla film series.
The visual effects in King Kong, created by Willis O'Brien, inspired future monster film effects artists such as Ray Harryhausen and Dennis Muren. [2] Early giant-monster films often had themes of adventure and exploration of unknown regions, and incorporated fights with giant monsters as a climactic element.
Poster for Godzilla (1954), widely considered the first kaiju film. Kaiju (Japanese: 怪獣 （ かいじゅう ）, Hepburn: kaijū, lit. ' strange beast '; Japanese pronunciation: [ka̠iʑɨː]) is a Japanese term that is commonly associated with media involving giant monsters.
The inception of the Kyodai hero genre initially began with Godzilla in the film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster.Godzilla is portrayed as a personified natural disaster at first but over the course of the film franchise's many monster battles, he is gradually put into the position of protector of the human race, a key trope of the Kyodai Hero genre.
Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Giant Robo: OVA: 1992: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Afterglow of Zeon: Gundam: Film: Compilation 1992–93: Matchless Raijin-Oh: Eldran series: OVA: 1992–93: D-1 Devastator — OVA: 1993–94: The Brave Express Might Gaine: Brave series: TV series: 1993: Moldiver — OVA: 1993–94: Nekketsu Saikyō ...
Gauma is a Kaiju User (怪獣使い, Kaijū Tsukai) whose power to manipulate monsters diminished, forcing him to instead pilot the titular mecha, Dynazenon. Gauma is later revealed to be a former member of the Kaiju Eugenicists in their previous incarnation from five millennia prior, who died fighting against the others when they betrayed the ...
Kaiju No. 8 (Japanese: 怪獣8号, Hepburn: Kaijū Hachigō), also known in English as Monster #8, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoya Matsumoto.It has been serialized on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ online platform since July 2020, with its chapters collected in 14 tankōbon volumes as of November 2024.
While living peacefully on Earth, Takashi attends a kung-fu school in Japan, and has four friends, but they have no idea that he is from another planet, a secret only his martial arts teacher Takamine knowaa But when Captain Dagger initiates an attack on Earth using his army of giant monsters, Rosemary (who also goes by the civilian name "Mari ...