#sandae

[gradexmovies]

[alphamecha-mkii]

Omni January 1993 Cover Art by Tsuneo Sanda

[masterhandss]

Really enjoying the new enstars characters they are all insane in their own ways we love to see it

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[yume-fanfare]

handshake event <3

[collectorcookie]

More arni reaction gifs. Will you guys pls perceive him. I love him.

[rhera]

UNE FEMME DOUCE | A GENTLE WOMAN — 1969, dir. Robert Bresson

[m1kas0ra]

Have you nice arneb thundered today… . . . .

[eclown4hire]

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[beastarstrike]

by Paru Itagaki

[downtofragglerock]

So Godzilla, being film franchise that dates back to the 20th century, understandably lacks a large female cast, I wanted to see how many female kaiju the series actually has, but while thinking this over an interesting thought occurred

Japanese, as a language, has some differences regarding pronouns compared to English, and a lot of Kaiju get referred to in much more gender neutral language in original Japanese than they do in English, this has resulted in some interesting fan interpretations over the years regarding the genders of kaiju, and you bet I'm going to catalogue the ones I've encountered

Starting off, the explicitly canon female kaiju of the Godzilla cast:

Mothra

Biollante

Zilla (I think the movie tried to deny it, but the cartoon confirmed it, although final wars zilla is another question)

Megaguirus

Monsterverse actually brings a number of explicitly female kaiju into the fold including:

The female Muto from 2k14

Barb, the other female Muto

Scylla

Tiamat

Na Kika (formerly Kraken)

Shimo

Phosphera

Some of the other unseen titans from King of the Monsters might also be ladies, but given as they are still unseen, that's just blind speculation

Now we get to the interesting part, the fan interpretations

Manda, Kumonga, and Destoroyah all being female is a pretty common and old fan interpretation, I know from firsthand experience that it at least dates back to the 2000s, but it could even be older

Baragon by comparison is far more recent, and I know for a fact this interpretation can be sourced primarily to the fact that in GMK, Baragon's performer was Rie Ota, and a behind the scenes clip of her doing the roars in the suit made waves around the fandom and even outside it in the 2010s

Hedorah is another more recent one, but interestingly enough I've also seen enby, bigender, and genderfluid interpretations of Hedorah as well. I guess there's something about the smog monster that screams gender to fans

Titanosaurus is again a newer interpretation, but fascinatingly a even newer idea has popped up in the past couple years that Titanosaurus is the kaiju equivalent of a femboy twink

Rodan being female is a very interesting case, both in origin and mainly due to the fact it only really applies to the Showa continuity and various fan continuities that desire. Basically the origin of this is that in the original 1956 film Rodan, there are two Rodans, a mating pair. At the end they both fall into Mt. Aso. When Rodan reemerges from Mt. Aso in Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, there's only one. There's been speculation for years as to the origin of this Rodan, but for the longest time it was either assumed to be the male or somehow the child of the pair from the original movie. But in 2010s a new idea rose to greater prominence: What if the Rodan that survived and subsequently appeared in the rest of the Showa films was the female of the pair?

Battra is an uncommon interpretation, but I have observed it

@lydiathespiderqueen did some fanart of a female version of Toho's Frankenstein, as well as the Gargantuas, and it's really good

and @thesilkenlair did a compelling analysis of Spacegodzilla being female due to possessing physical characteristics of Biollante, as well as their behavior in the movie lining up disturbingly well with a phenomenon in nature where an animal will kill or try to kill the extant children of a prospective mate so undivided attention can be given to it and any potential offspring it may have

And that's all I've encountered, please do tell if I've missed some

[allegedly-human]

"Hm, I only slept for 4 hours and I'm kinda out of it today. I should read a manga to relax :)"

Itagaki Paru doing a line of coke on a mursuiter's strap: this manga is about a kid who can turn into santa when wearing red or bleeding, and he must fight fascism and ageism for the sake of children in a dystopian Japan. He is immune to fire and has razor-sharp skis coming out of his feet when kids believe in him hard enough. His sidekicks are a bisexual possibly intersex/genderfluid teenage terrorist who attempts on his life multiple times in the first two chapters and a guy with the gayest eyelashes known to man. The antagonists are fascist santa hunters and Patrick Bateman. Did you ever see a grandma breakdance someone's kneecaps off?

[tokujenny]

My extremely oversimplified theory of Kaiju is that they can all be categorized into one of four categories: Lizard, Monkey, Robot and Minor Eldritch Horror (Meh, for short)

Examples:

[kungfuwushuworld]

Wolf fighting club (children’s education franchise)

@群狼格斗

[sebbyyyn]

i wonder what they're talking about😳🤫

[uwanosorade]

People on my twitter fyp are discovering o-fuyu god bless

[rhera]

THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS 1970 | dir. Vittorio De Sica