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The MUTOs (acronym for Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) are fictional monsters, or kaiju, in Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse media franchise. The characters first appeared as the antagonists in Godzilla (2014), directed by Gareth Edwards. While the term "MUTO" is mainly used to label the two parasitic monsters, it is intended to flag ...
Toho made the series available worldwide on their official YouTube channel in November 2022. [181] In 2018, GEMSTONE, a web content subsidiary of Toho, held a competition for filmmakers to produce short films based on the Godzilla franchise with finalists receiving a cash prize and the opportunity to work with Toho in an official capacity. [ 182 ]
[8] [9] A reboot of King Kong known as Kong: Skull Island was released in March 2017. [10] Two other Godzilla films were released subsequently, with Godzilla: King of the Monsters releasing in 2019 and Godzilla vs. Kong releasing in 2021. The latest Godzilla film, Godzilla Minus One, was premiered in Japan in 2023.
Subgenres of tokusatsu include kaiju such as the Godzilla and Gamera series; superhero such as the Kamen Rider and Metal Hero series; Kyodai Hero like Ultraman, and Denkou Choujin Gridman; and mecha like Giant Robo and Super Robot Red Baron. Some tokusatsu television programs combine several of these subgenres, for example, the Super Sentai series.
The Monsterverse (also stylized as MonsterVerse) is an American multimedia franchise and shared universe featuring Godzilla, King Kong, and other characters owned and created by Toho Co., Ltd. The franchise consists of five films and two television series that have been produced by Legendary Pictures , with Warner Bros. Pictures distributing ...
In battle, Nero is a skilled melee fighter who wields the Gun Stick (銃器系ステッキ, Jūki-kei Sutekki) cane gun and the Boomerang Top Hat (ブーメラン系トップハット, Būmeran-kei Toppu Hatto), which he can use like a chakram or to fire a dark energy beam. [42] Baron Nero is voiced by Jun Fukuyama (福山 潤, Fukuyama Jun). [37]
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦, Gamera: Daikaijū Kūchū Kessen, lit. ' Gamera: Giant Monster Midair Battle ' ) is a 1995 Japanese kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko and written by Kazunori Itō , with special effects by Shinji Higuchi .
King Ghidorah (キングギドラ, Kingu Gidora) is a fictional monster, or alien, or kaiju, which first appeared in Ishirō Honda's 1964 film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. The creature was initially created by Tomoyuki Tanaka , Eiji Tsuburaya , and Shinichi Sekizawa as an homage to the eight-headed mythological Japanese dragon Yamata no ...