there's something so relatably tragic about kaiju. imagine you're big, so big that you become a danger to people just by existing. it's not your fault you're this big, and maybe even it's humans' fault you're this big. maybe you're even in pain.
you have special abilities that no one else has, but they only ever seem to destroy things and hurt people. and maybe you want to hurt people. maybe people hurt you, and you're lashing out against them. but then again, maybe you don't want to hurt them. maybe you just want to live. maybe you even want to be the hero. but even when you get your chance to be the hero, the people you save still try to hurt you.
no matter what you do, you're still big. too big for people. and you scare people. you scare people, so they hurt you. but it's not your fault you're so big. and you can't seem to escape them, the people. they're everywhere, and in more places every day. all the humans that are so very small but hurt you all the same. usually not enough to kill you or even seriously injure you, but enough that you feel it. and they won't stop at anything until you're dead.
and you're the only one quite like you. maybe the first of your kind, maybe the last. and it's amazing, but so very lonely. you might find others as big as you, but they never seem to be the same as you. and usually you just fight them, because you're both too big and this world is too small. you might make some friends, but even still, they'll never fully understand what it's like to be you. but then again, maybe it's enough that they understand what it's like to be too big.
Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp will be published on August 12 via IDW. The 128-page graphic novel features reunites Godzilla Rivals II: Vs. Battra writer Rosie Knight and artist Oliver Ono.
Aimed at readers 9-12, the story follows a young, aspiring cartoonist to Monster Island, where she makes a connection with the son of Godzilla, Minilla.
As an aspiring cartoonist, Zelda has always dreamed of attending an art summer camp, and this year she finally gets to go! But when she arrives to Make It Summer Camp, she’s horrified to see the easels and sketchboards have been replaced with dodgeball and calisthenics. The camp is under new, suspicious management that’s turned it into an extreme sports nightmare.
Determined to salvage her summer, Zelda escapes to a secluded corner of the island. Here she can finally draw in peace. At least until she stumbles into a portal to a fantastic world. Welcome to Monster Island!
There she makes a connection with baby kaiju Minilla and discovers the beauty of these legendary creatures. However, all is not well on Monster Island. Great evils are stirring and if Zelda can’t protect their home, the kaiju will unleash their wrath on the world!
Godzilla's first roar would have heralded the birth and death of a thousand human religions, and one of the things the Monsterverse gets right is that we humans with our tiny monkey brains would absolutely worship these things.
Within a year of Godzilla's emergence to battle the Mutos, news outlets would be reporting on small cults dedicated to He Who Rises, the Wavebringer, the Lord of the Deep, the Beast from the Sea (for the biblically inclined), and the Thunderer.
The fact that this remains unexplored is deeply depressing.
Meant to attach this video to an ask response but used the wrong one on accident, so here’s the MUTOs kissing just for you. One of my favourite clips in the entire series. I love you creature and sound designers.
Mothra - the giant divine moth kaiju that made its first appearance in Toho's 1961 film, "Mothra". Although benevolent in nature, she laid waste to Tokyo in her quest to recover two priestesses called the Shobijin.