# Your favorite Japanese monsters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017 "2014-04-26T03:23:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/41 "2014-04-28T18:46:45Z")
The three Heisei _Gamera_ films made between 1995 and 1999 are the best monster movies I’ve ever seen. You’ll believe a giant turtle can fly! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/42 "2014-04-28T18:57:52Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Oh I know, I thought we were going through American versions of kaijus. > > (obviously leaving out It-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named) She wasn’t even American. Gorgo was a British film. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/43 "2014-04-28T19:51:12Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > No Gigan or Mechagodzilla fans? Gigan is my favorite “villain” monster followed by Megalon. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/44 "2014-04-28T22:51:12Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > She wasn’t even American. Gorgo was a British film. Gorgo, as has been said, was a British film, and she wasn’t so much an evil monster as a pissed off mother. Her baby had been kidnapped. As soon as she got him back they returned to the sea. No more of London got trashed after that. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/45 "2014-04-28T22:52:40Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Gorgo, as has been said, was a British film, and she wasn’t so much an evil monster as a pissed off mother. Her baby had been kidnapped. As soon as she got him back they returned to the sea. No more of London got trashed after that. Not many monster movies where all monsters live happily ever after. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/46 "2014-04-29T03:36:09Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Not many monster movies where all monsters live happily ever after. Pixar disagrees with you. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/47 "2014-04-29T04:43:29Z")
I’m kind of fond of the Impulse of Humanity to Put Our Strength of Ingenuity Towards Destructive Purposes, from the Godzilla films. A bit…impersonal, to be sure. And of course, like the rest of the Toho monsters, one that would become [more](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Maser_Cannon) and [more](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Super_X) of a [heroic](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/M.O.G.U.E.R.A.) [figure](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Jet_Jaguar) as time went on. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/48 "2014-04-29T04:49:35Z")
It’s Gamera for me. He bypasses ridiculous and enters surreal. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/49 "2014-04-29T13:22:27Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I’m kind of fond of the Impulse of Humanity to Put Our Strength of Ingenuity Towards Destructive Purposes, from the Godzilla films. > > A bit…impersonal, to be sure. And of course, like the rest of the Toho monsters, one that would become [more](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Maser_Cannon) and [more](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Super_X) of a [heroic](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/M.O.G.U.E.R.A.) [figure](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Jet_Jaguar) as time went on. This link reminded me of something that I wanted to ask everyone. The very first link is the Maser cannon, and I always remember that from an oooollllddd Godzilla video game, but I can’t remember it fully and now I’m scared I made it up. It was a game that had Godzilla and AT LEAST Mothra (if not more). I thought you played the monsters, but you could only move on squares, kinda like chess, and had a certain number of squares per turn. The human army was there and I remember this Cannon was devastating to the monsters. It was almost a Final Fantasy based kind of fighting system, or rather closer to Shining Force if anyone remembers that. Is this a real game or am I going crazy? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/50 "2014-04-29T13:43:55Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I’m kind of fond of the Impulse of Humanity to Put Our Strength of Ingenuity Towards Destructive Purposes, from the Godzilla films… History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of Man. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/51 "2014-04-29T15:10:05Z")
_Shirime_, of course. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/52 "2014-04-29T17:16:39Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > It’s Gamera for me. He bypasses ridiculous and enters surreal. Remember when two kids had to take a mini-sub into Gamera to remove some kind of infection? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/53 "2014-04-30T18:56:31Z")
Of course, my all time favourite is _Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot._ ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/54 "2014-05-01T00:24:24Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Remember when two kids had to take a mini-sub into Gamera to remove some kind of infection? Reminded me of Fantastic Voyage, but without Raquel Welch in a snug fitting white diving suit. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/55 "2014-05-01T01:49:45Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > This link reminded me of something that I wanted to ask everyone. > > The very first link is the Maser cannon, and I always remember that from an oooollllddd Godzilla video game, but I can’t remember it fully and now I’m scared I made it up. > > It was a game that had Godzilla and AT LEAST Mothra (if not more). I thought you played the monsters, but you could only move on squares, kinda like chess, and had a certain number of squares per turn. The human army was there and I remember this Cannon was devastating to the monsters. The NES’ [Godzilla](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla:_Monster_of_Monsters) game, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/56 "2014-05-01T01:59:39Z")
Yet another vote for Gamera! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/57 "2014-05-01T16:28:42Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > The NES’ [Godzilla](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla:_Monster_of_Monsters) game, maybe? No it’s not, but your link sent me to a place where I could find it. It’s not as good as I remember, but I’m sure that’s pretty run-of-the-mill for childhood stuff ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/58 "2014-05-01T16:32:20Z")
Super sentai, period. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/59 "2014-05-01T16:51:48Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > The NES’ [Godzilla](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla:_Monster_of_Monsters) game, maybe? I loved that game so much as kid. It’s weird to me that so few of the monster opponents are actually Godzilla-centered monsters. It’s basically Hedorah, Gigan, MechaG and Ghidorah–the rest are from unrelated and largely obscure movies. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/60 "2014-05-02T04:03:36Z")
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