# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**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 2, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/61 "2014-05-02T04:50:28Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Yoko Ono. The topic is favorite, not most frightening. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/62 "2014-05-02T22:10:57Z")
Envy me, tonight and tomorrow. I’m gonna get my Godzilla AND my Gamera fix at this film festival. > **[Godzilla & Friends Festival returns to Washburn campus](https://www.cjonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2014/04/30/godzilla-friends-festival-returns-washburn-campus/16671163007/)** > > With a Hollywood reboot of the Godzilla film franchise ready to open May 16 at theaters nationwide, organizers of Washburn University Godzilla & Friends Festival have revived that event. > Movies abo… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/63 "2014-05-03T02:42:02Z")
Woo-hoo!! After the movie they were having prize drawings and I won a poster for the new Godzilla film! Yay! And my friend, who was sitting next to me, won a DVD set of the first eleven Gamera films. That collection lacks only the one I have on DVD, 2007’s Gamera the Brave. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/64 "2014-05-08T20:37:00Z")
> [@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. A little model company named Monarch has just brought out a new kit of Gorgo (well, actually, Gorgo’s mother–but I guess they thought they’d have trouble selling a kit called “Gorgo’s Mom” 😃 ). The fit is nice, and the price is reasonable–available at your local hobby shop! ---
**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 9, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/65 "2014-05-09T02:33:16Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Envy me, tonight and tomorrow. I’m gonna get my Godzilla AND my Gamera fix at this film festival. > > [Godzilla & Friends Festival returns to Washburn campus](http://cjonline.com/life/arts-entertainment/2014-04-30/godzilla-friends-festival-returns-washburn-campus) I hate you. I hate you with the fire of a thousand burning Tokyos. You will learn to fear the fury of my wrath! If you were my cat I’d trade you for a goldfish and flush it. :mad: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/66 "2014-05-09T11:33:36Z")
Tojo. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/67 "2016-04-17T22:29:44Z")
I’m bumping my old thread to say I’m looking forward to the next Godzilla film festival here in NE Kansas. If you love kaiju I can PM you the details. I still love Gamera, and my favorite Gamera film will be shown. Also the incredibly cheesy\* King Kong vs Godzilla\*, amongst others. My Death Pool list this year is all actors and actresses that have appeared in kaiju films, or, in two cases, inside the monster suits. Some of them had fine careers outside of those movies. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/68 "2016-04-18T13:26:50Z")
The Japanese have monsters? 😕 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/69 "2016-04-18T16:13:02Z")
I can see the appeal of the others mentioned here, but you just can’t beat the original! Go, go, go, go-go-go Godzilla! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/70 "2016-04-18T17:43:20Z")
Raymond Burr. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/71 "2016-04-18T18:16:19Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > The Japanese have monsters? 😕 > > 😃 Monsters!! Monsters from the Id!! (sorry couldn’t resist) But yeah, Godzilla in all his manifest forms (save the US-directed one, which wouldn’t have been a half-bad monster movie by some other name) is the best. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/72 "2016-04-18T18:27:47Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > The Japanese have monsters? 😕 Sure, and to fight them, [we’ll create monsters of our own!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=696359) I never got to see _Godzilla vs. Biollante_. I may still have the old VHS tape that had a couple of Japanese adverts immediately before the main (anime) feature, including that one and also one for a _Mobile Suit Gundam_ feature. When I was a kid, I couldn’t get enough of the old kaiju movies. That’s what made _Pacific Rim_ such a magical experience for me. It was like Guillermo del Toro had been waiting all that time to make the movie I had always wanted to see; he just needed the cinematic technology to become sufficiently advanced to do so (I’ve heard a similar story about James Cameron and _Avatar_ …). I enjoyed the anime _Super Atragon_… looks like I need to check out _Final Wars_. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/73 "2016-04-18T20:06:58Z")
Godzilla. As a matter of fact, Godzilla goes well with music! First play clip one… and then immediately play clip two… 😉 [Clip 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCAiVB86CX8) [Clip 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU) ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017/74 "2016-04-18T20:34:22Z")
Godzilla is my favorite, with Gamera coming in second. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-japanese-monsters/687017.md?page=3)