First Wave, the first episode of Blazar feels very much like a Kaiju movie (giant monster movie, think Godzilla) compressed into a single 20 minute episode, cutting out the whole is the giant monster real bits and skipping right to the city destruction!
It was a story that in the winter of 1942 would set the printed presses rolling from its beginnings in Orkney, south to Edinburgh and onwards to London.
Ultraman is the second of the Ultra series by Tsubaraya productions and started in 1966.
“The film would later also get a re-edited Americanized release under the name Gigantis, The Fire Monster but we’re focusing on the proper version… not that it makes it any much better.”
“Should we be not more afraid of the embodiment of the insignificance of man than the guy with a hockey mask?”
Tremors was released in 1990 and, if described as a film, it is a monster horror comedy.
Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department is a work place/Tokusatsu spoof comedy series adapted from the manga of the same name
It was a story that in the winter of 1942 would set the printed presses rolling from its beginnings in Orkney, south to Edinburgh and onwards to London.
Yokai are fascinating creatures. But they are also part of the classical culture of Japan ranging from the modern era to the Meiji Era or any other of Japanese history.
“As I sit down and read a book about Yokai, I am intrigued by how anime often uses their classical monsters and myths for horror stories, or even non horror”
