Its A Pretty Cool Design Choice. If Theres A Downside To The Current Kaiju Resurgence Its The Lack Of

Its a pretty cool design choice.  If there’s a downside to the current kaiju resurgence its the lack of suitmation resulting in a dearth of old school kaiju body plans outside of legacy characters.

About the SSSS.Gridman kaiju: It’s interesting to see that, while they can do literally anything kaiju-wise through animation, they’ve opted to include at least some designs that would fit right into a live action tokusatsu show. 

Tweety Bird has a pretty well defined personality: a sadistic sociopath who puts on an innocent facade in order to get away with cold blooded torture.

I feel like Tweety Bird is the Mickey Mouse of Warner Brothers. An icon they’ve made unavoidable, yet nobody can really describe the character’s personality or anything particularly funny about them. How would you even explain Tweety if your goal was to sell Tweety cartoons? A bird who’s just kind of nonchalant about everything?

Usually I would agree, but Dougherty’s previous tweet got me thinking...

Something I wondered about Dougherty’s approach was whether he’d take direct influence from Shin Godzilla since he likes it so much. His “evolution in the flesh” comment seems to confirm that the answer is yes.

It gets better: Mathra is a legit monster from the ClueFinders series of edutainment games.

http://cluefinders.wikia.com/wiki/Mathra

Toho submitted the first ROM movie to the U.S. Copyright Office as MOTHRA II

…along some other titles before settling with the “Rebirth” title in October ‘97

The design feels a bit too Biogoji for the Showa continuity. It would have been cool to see an updated take on one of the Showa suits like Kinggoji or Mosugoji.

You had “Toho returns to the Showa series via escape room” on your 2022 bingo card, right?

Finally...

After years of nigh-unwatchable “public domain” releases by the likes of Alpha Video and Retromedia, Gappa the Triphibian Monster is coming to Blu-ray and DVD via Tokyo Shock on February 25. The company previously issued it on DVD in 2000, but it was non-anamorphic and is long since out of print. Knowing how Tokyo Shock’s recent kaiju releases have gone, however, best to snap this one up fast before it suffers the same fate.